What do you do when you miss a 50/50 smite?

Lirb·5/2/2018, 6:14:18 PM·2 votes·2,902 views

How do you handle the toxicity of teammates who go off on you after missing a 50/50 smite as a jungler?

It's not uncommon for the jungler to be flamed in team chat, be spam pinged by their teammates, or have their smite spell linked over and over in team chat.

We get it... we lost the smite war. As a jungle main, I'm used to being blamed for my teammates' deaths or completely losing the game in general. But losing a 50/50 smite war seems to cause toxicity beyond anything else. I have thick skin, so I'm not worried about what they say to me, but what I know is that their play is going to suffer because they are now fixated on flaming me instead of continuing to try to win. It also, undoubtedly, has a negative impact on the attitudes of other players.

How have you attempted to resolve these conflicts in your games, or is it even possible?

7 Comments

Bıogen5/2/2018, 7:49:30 PM3 votes

Blame your support, obviously. [sg-kiko]

On a serious note, just mute them lol. Arguing with them isn't gonna change a thing.

Digital Daddy5/2/2018, 6:18:08 PM1 votes

I quit jungle 1 day into starting it, Yeaaaaaaaaaaa

Randomonium5/2/2018, 6:19:11 PM1 votes

You can't control people's actions or reponses. All you can do is make sure you drop a vision ward before starting drake/baron so the jungler doesn't have vision of the pit (which should put the odds in your favor.) I never start drake/baron if the enemy jungler is nearby and I don't have a vision ward down.

GeminiRune5/2/2018, 7:30:32 PM1 votes

My options to losing a 50/50 Smite War:

  1. Shrug it off and give myself a laugh. The "HOW UNFORTUNATE" treatment...

  2. Think back to the time I played Top Taric with Smite (pre-reforged) and just walked into the pit blind, smote, ulted and walked away

  3. If spam pinged over it (cause god forbid any toxic players I may come across actually use the chat to express that), I just mute the pings and refer to the first point.

  4. ...........Lag?

LuluTopSionMid5/3/2018, 5:36:32 PM1 votes

Just do your best. :)

remakoro5/4/2018, 10:29:27 AM1 votes

Act as if nothing happened :D