Misleading Players

Dankstin··1 votes·456 views

A Ziggs in my game went top against Garen, didn't even get camped by Tryndamere, and went 0/9 within 20 mins. I'm not sure how to tell if someone's actually having a bad game, or intentionally feeding, but I'm under the impression that there is more than one form of intentionally feeding, aside from rushing down mid to die to a turret or don't retaliate in skirmishes. From 0/9 in 20 mins, he ende dup 2/11/11. After he used the lane phase to feed 100% of the duration of it, having rushed Hextech Protobelt for some reason (This is Bronze/Silver 3) He finally became useful after two of our inhibitors were down as well as a fight to save our nexus because the enemy team had already destroyed the towers that protect it. It took about 3 teamfights for this guy to get 2 kills and around 6 assists, STILL dying an additional two times during these fights. He said "You couldn't have won without me. I still helped." I told him "You need to keep your Ziggs in normals because you seem to have an exact 0% grasp on how to use his kit. Like you have no grasp on your own actions with Ziggs." After this I told him if he feeds more I'm reporting him for intentional feeding. He just kept being the FRONTLINER as Ziggs, not keeping any sort of distance in the back line with me, playing Ezreal. He replied with "You're being toxic flaming me and I'm not gonna report you for it." Like what a Jesus-Christ-on-the-Cross complex. What a martyr. Pfft. In the postgame lobby after we won, I said "Ziggs, why did you do so poorly, what happened? Why did you die so much?" To which he replied: "I wanted to make it interesting." "Stop being jelly." -exits

So in reading this, was he sincerely having just a bad game, or was he actually feeding? I counted the time and it seemed like he didn't stay alive for over two minutes or around that. He literally couldn't stay alive for 2 entire minutes after dying and respawning. What is up here?

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Dankstin1 votes

TL;DR:


How do you tell the difference between someone intentionally feeding, and someone sincerely having a bad game?

Sadistic Xayah1 votes

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TL;DR:


How do you tell the difference between someone intentionally feeding, and someone sincerely having a bad game?

It normally becomes evident the minute you can tell they are trying to be productive or proactive regardless of having a bad laning phase...

In this case though, Ziggs stating they "wanted to make things interesting" in response to your question, makes it rather apparent they were trying to feed intentionally.

Dankstin1 votes

He said two more peculiar things: "You just ksed me" (In game) "I usually go 20/0" (Post game lobby)

Sadistic Xayah1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Salt Harvest,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=iVgMbEdz,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2016-06-01T18:47:16.413+0000)

He said two more peculiar things: "You just ksed me" (In game) "I usually go 20/0" (Post game lobby)

Have you looked at his match history? I would recommend looking and seeing if it is a common trend or not.

ShinkoMinori1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Doki Doki,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=iVgMbEdz,comment-id=0000000000000000,timestamp=2016-06-01T18:51:30.569+0000)

Have you looked at his match history? I would recommend looking and seeing if it is a common trend or not.

Normally people only do it once to annoy everyone and then never again or in a month difference so it goes under the radar. Some people never type anything and still do it.

Sadistic Xayah1 votes

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Normally people only do it once to annoy everyone and then never again or in a month difference so it goes under the radar. Some people never type anything and still do it.

Well... you're right and wrong.

There are a few situations that could be possible:

  1. The player is bored and instead of doing the norm, they decided to go against the grain and feed to see if they could still win.

  2. The player is bored and trying to annoy his team, once he noticed he didn't succeed he went back to playing normally.

  3. False positive, he instead just is bad at the fundamentals of the game and is using it as an excuse.

This is why I'm asking if it is a common trend.

archerno11 votes

Intentional feeding is simple: Person enters game with sole intention to feed. Its about his intention, not his failed actions and reactions. Intentional feeding is obvious, person just lets opponent kill him without trying to : Escape, Fight, Defend himself.

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