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I am Not Your Baby Sitter

Oldwisepotato·7/14/2016, 2:50:51 PM·5 votes·1,503 views

Is there any elo where players stop saying "if you don't gank my lane I will go afk". I was really hoping that was something that was only seen in silver and bronze, but I realize now I am probably mistaken.

I had a top lane vs a yesterday. Yea I get it... this is a crappy match up for your mr. . I was farming my jungle when I would continue get "come assist me" pings from jax or him in chat "free gank top". I would look at to be honest there was probably some open opportunities to gank top. But the thought of ganking teemo especially after he was 6 was a big turnoff. I kept watching top lane but opportunities presented themselves mid and bot so I focused those lanes. Jax started feeding top and the pings started increasing. Eventually Jax said "if you don't gank top I will afk".

Now look..... I am no pro. I know that, but I don't take kind to that sort of behavior. That shit is some bs that I will just not tolerate. i basically called him boosted, told him to stfu and muted him. I also decided that I am definitely not ganking top now. Now you are probably thinking "damn dude your a dick" but hear me out. Teemo was now 4-0 and the only ap champion on the enemy team. I was somewhat fed, along with my mid and bot lane getting ahead. As long as teemo was not pushing too hard on our turrets then figured I would just avoid top lane and continue to farm and help the others and focus dragons. I also thought "well if jax afks then we might lose but w/e he's boosted and needs this win more than I do and maybe with all of the reports he will get banned". Anyways I called his bluff and guess what..... scrub lord didn't leave and we ended up winning the game fairly easily.

My personally philosophy is not to give into these noob bluff tactics. Maybe one day the kid realizes if he just stfus, plays safer and waits for mid to late game he can still easily win the game.

Not sure how other people handle players like this. But It would be nice to know there is a elo somewhere this crap stops, although with dynamic queue now it probably even happens in diamond.

20 Comments

ZT Xperimentor7/14/2016, 3:08:24 PM2 votes

The lack of patience in general, from riot & the community, is disheartening and frustrating.

Blue Collar Bear7/14/2016, 2:55:58 PM1 votes

Yeah, it happens in Diamond elo.

However, consider this: if Jax doesn't get ahead early, he will be irrelevant all game. Some champions need some baby sitting to do their job properly. In this case, Teemo can split push and Jax can't match it. He was probably frustrated that he needed the baby sitting to do his job properly, but without it, he's useless all game. The Teemo is going to be pushing up, making it an easy gank. You guys could have probably beat him in a 2v1. After that, Jax is snowballed. He got the baby sitting he needed.

Or, you know, he could've been a tool, and he just wanted the jungler to win his lane for him.

61939590DEL17/14/2016, 3:04:03 PM1 votes

The Majority of players are kids that need assistance every-time. Here's an example myself Jhin with Morgana dealt with aggressive bot lane Caitlyn Leona yet our JG was Fiddlesticks Opposing Jg Nocturne (Great Counter), yet we got no Ganks @ All, first tower to go down when was 0-4. Pretty pathetic game when i buying the wards & our Jg if so fucked.

KillerB12067/14/2016, 3:53:53 PM1 votes

Similar thing happened to me once aatrox top vs teemo I was vi so can't do much against teemo early as aatrox don't even had demage at that time so decided to tell him farm safe nice and easy under turrets but he decided to hide in jungle I mean wtf dude teemo got 3 lvl above you by 12 minutes but our soraka was kinda helping person so she decided to switch with him as we have snowballed bot outta control along with mid and we had a fed veigar and caitlyn, soraka kept teemo there engaged while we pushed mid and bot with subsequent victory so you can ask a ranged champ to switch as it's better to get less gold rather than getting no gold neither xp and on top of that feeding (btw aatrox went 0/9 end of game)

Hoi Im Temmo7/14/2016, 4:07:17 PM1 votes

You probably could have handled the example situation a bit better - but I get where you are coming from.

What it basically comes down to is that Jungler is a position with an unreasonable amount of demand on the player. You have to be sure to farm the jungle or fall incredibly behind, you need to help winning lanes to keep them ahead, and try and pick up the slack for the player who is behind or has a bad match up.

You seem to know this, but the issue comes down to -

If a player is losing and not getting help from Jungle, no matter how justified you are in your priorities, they will only see their rising death score and blame you. Its just the nature of frustration. If you can spare the time, try to simply respond (so they know you see them) with something like "bot needs help too, and I can't do both right now" "Kind of behind, need to farm up" "your lane is really ahead, if I attempt a gank, will likely feed them worse" and follow up with encouragement or suggestion, "Play safe, I will be there as soon as I can" "Go ahead and take a couple camps, you cant farm safely right now" etc.

True, you can't always babysit, and especially cant type all that out at your leisure, but some level of communication usually helps to lower tensions.

Kei1437/14/2016, 6:14:30 PM1 votes

i just say "bye" and rather have him out of the game.

disregardable7/14/2016, 2:53:24 PM1 votes

It doesn't matter how high elo the person is, only how mature.

Kim Chi Vendor7/14/2016, 6:19:43 PM1 votes

Just /mute all if you are playing supp or jungle in ranked, it's never worth it. Think about it, the game is all 11 year olds and weird virgins, not anyone worth talking to anyway.