The Good, The Bad and the Tilting of player behavior.

WerewolfSlash·2/8/2018, 8:15:13 AM·2 votes·323 views

Along the 2-3 years I have been playing this game (I started when Poppy was updated) I have seen many good and bad highlights of this community. I'd say there's far more positive people in here than the negative, and overall everything has been fun! [slayer-jinx-catface]

However, as many had experienced there's that ugly bad side of things that often happen in games, those times were we need to keep our minds avoid tilt.

Today I had the most awkward match of the season for the moment, everything started with an ADC banning the support champ deliberately, then throwing the blame to our jungle for some reason. When the game started, everything seemed to go well anyways, all our lanes were doing well, with the exception of a bad play here and there, the normal stuff of a match. There was no flamming, no cursing or anything. BUT, at some point of the game, our ADC Sivir began to push alone, running it down a lane and most of the time getting picked. Our support Sona , jungle Warwick and me Diana (MID) started to do the logical thing and began to group, trying to focus and pick the enemy targets. Our Top Aatrox was perma farming and actually pulling off some heavy damage, so the ones grouping were able to win teamfights. Unfortunately, at some point the ADC was going 5v1. It's true that the permanent split push of the top was getting us objectives, after all, the final CS for top was 483 lol. But the other team finally began to go 5v3, realizing the attitude of top and ADC. With a baron, they broke down lanes and inhibitors and almost get the nexus by 1 hit. At that point, the universe aligned and ADC defended and actually won, TOP reached the nexus and the rest kept the nexus safe and won.

I would let this pass without any issue but there were a few factors that really bugged me:

  1. The support ban from our own ADC.
  2. /FF every now and then (By our ADC) which gave me the hint that TOP and ADC were a duo, since it always ended 3/2
  3. Obvious inting at some point, 22 deaths don't come that easy.
  4. We (Support, Jungle, Mid) started to follow Top, who began to go into jungle and claiming that we were giving him claustrophobia lol.
  5. Mentally tiring and tilting plays, that kind of stuff starts getting to you.

I know I could have played better, but I want to state that our Jungle and Support kept a cool head and somehow the three of us managed to keep the game up enough to win. Aatrox was good, but the trolling was starting to get clear, along with Sivir. (Checked it, they were a duo)

TL;DR Very good teammates like Sona and Warwick work as a team to win a game, which is a good example of nice people, while duos like Aatrox and Sivir are an example of trolls, and not the Trundle kind.

My only question here is: What should anyone, as a player, do on that situation? [sg-zephyr]

3 Comments

No Excuse2/8/2018, 5:22:37 PM1 votes

[slayer-jinx-wink] Unlucky teammates may happen sometimes, but I find it best to just group with the afk split pushing adc and instead of getting picked, that fight is now a 4 v 5 and hopefully top can take an objective. Keeping positive mindset really helps ^_^

sleepysithlord2/8/2018, 6:32:52 PM1 votes

I looked them up and they were duo. Unlucky

HalcyonDweller2/8/2018, 6:58:01 PM1 votes

That bites, people who pull crap like that duo did are the worst.

Banning a teammate's pick just to keep them from playing it is horrible. The support player should listen to and talk with teammates if those teammates don't want them to play a particular champion, but at the end of the day two wrongs don't make a right. If the person wants to play that champion then it is their right to do so, forcibly making them play something else is just so shitty.

Submit a heartfelt support ticket (maybe just copy paste the text from your post). Riot Support will likely pass it along to the player behavior team to investigate that duo.