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A Short Story About Positivity...

Tribbles Foxfolk·10/25/2016, 1:23:27 PM·5 votes·500 views

So, I just got done playing a match of League of Legends. This match was one of the best worst matches I'd ever played.

The queue times are too long for me to get ADC in Draft Norms (well over 8 minutes), so I queue up for a game of Blind Pick. Champion select comes and I get ADC with no contest or arguing. Things look great...Until our Fizz has Smite after Rengar calls jungle. He lanes for a bit, but quickly gives up and goes into the jungle. We're actually winning quite well at this point, I picked Ezreal and had a wonderful Nami support.

Mid-game comes. Our Rengar died once or twice and began to throw a tantrum, eventually just giving up and leaving the game. Fizz "helps" by "split-pushing", but dies about 6 times in <20 minutes. At this point, Nasus is also extremely farmed (not fed, farmed) and could probably 1v2. We decide to group up, but Fizz remains in the jungle (and only the jungle) after the 20-minute mark, constantly flaming all of us because "you're not diamond, don't talk to me," which all of us pointed out as bullshit, but whatever. We thought about surrendering, but me and Nasus (all of us solo-queue) agreed that we can easily beat their team (Teemo, Kindred, Soraka, Ezreal, Yasuo) in the late-game if we're smart and refuse the surrender. Nami continues playing (thanks <3) and we pull off an astonishing 3v5 win after 3 solid teamfights of 0-4'ing them.

The reason we won in the face of 2 lost teammates is because we never gave up. I kept reminding my mates that our late-game is far superior on the back of Nasus alone, not even factoring in the fact me and Nami decimated laning phase. Even with 1 leaver and 1 troll, we won what should have been an easy loss or even an instant-surrender.

tl;dr: Never be ready to give up quicker than you are to press on. Your odds of winning might be slim, but odds are still just numbers, not set-in-stone fact. You can pull off some crazy comebacks with a couple good mates and a concise strategy.

Thanks for reading my super-compressed short story. Hope it at least made someone else a bit happier.

7 Comments

The Whamboozler10/25/2016, 4:11:55 PM4 votes

I've been there too. Was playing a game with my friend and we like to play off-meta goofy shit. We had an adc top so we lock in Swain bot with support Fiddlesticks. (Because bird is the word, yo) This is in a blind pick, of course... where the game's supposed to be FUN. Despite our trolly picks we win lane pretty hard, as the enemy has NO IDEA how to play against us and we end up with a 3/0 Swain and an 0/0/3 Fiddle as tower falls.

Our top lane Vayne dies and IMMEDIATELY starts blaming us, as if our presence bot made the jungler come top for her. She comes back from spawn, is immediately ganked again... and then afk's. Things seem grim, but the rest of us are doing well, so we keep playing anyways. No one else rages. No one else talks smack or blames. Not even as they take both our nexus turrets and we shove them back with it at 1/3 of it's health. We lurk in base for the inevitable backdoor attempt and kill the enemy fizz when he tries. Twice. Our Inhibs respawn, and the enemy has no real way to kill us in a teamfight anymore. Swain and our mid Katarina are fed powerhouses that can almost 2v5, while Fiddle and Lee bring the CC and some damage as well. They start stacking MR far too late.

Leaving a ward to tele to if they bum rush our base, we press down mid like a tidal wave. No one can stand up to the massive AoE death that our team has and we plow through their base tower and their inhib with ease. We base to kill the wannabe xPeke Fizz AGAIN and then catch them trying baron. A fiddle ult into the baron pit signs their death Warrant. While we can't steal it, we ace them clean and then just power up the still open mid and take the nexus. It was glorious.

It came about because no one raged or flamed. No one gave up. Everyone pulled through and tried their hardest to win and to support each other. Mad props out to that Lee Sin and Katarina for sticking with a game most would have ragequit like babies.

N Pelosi10/25/2016, 1:29:51 PM1 votes

But is the comeback worth the effort? Some say yes, some say no. There is no wrong answer to that question.

ShinkoMinori10/25/2016, 3:45:28 PM1 votes

Good for you!

Azure Hamster10/25/2016, 5:43:10 PM1 votes

You guys need an ADC or Support? I love playing with positive-attitude people.

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