Silver tier mentality
Issues I see in silver lately:
- I don't need to listen to you even though your call is the most intelligent one -- i'm going to do the opposite because you suggested it. "This isn't the lcs." "Renekton thinks he's lcs." Stupid crap like that is said all the time to me just because I suggest an intelligent play to the team. Ex: suggesting not to facecheck into what would probably be a 3v5 at dragon when the other team's ahead, suggesting team pushes top as 4 so they can pressure a 2nd inhib while I push bot with tp available (I let them know it's up) and enemy team deals with supers mid, stalling at towers when behind instead of engaging on them in a 4v5 while our (mid, bot, sup, fill in the blank) is dead
- I'm going to ignore your good advice until a time when I know it is clearly not good in this situation and you are not asking me to do it now, and then i'm going to do what you told me to do 5 minutes ago and blame you. Ex: tell team to pressure an objective (tower, dragon, baron) because you have a 2 or 3 man advantage (due to killing 2 or 3 people) -- even if you are slightly lower hp than remaining 2 or 3 enemies, you can take it or get another kill and leave. Team instead messes around doing nothing or threatening a tower dive (that will fail because you are too low for it without dying) instead of taking objective. Then when they have 5 people alive again, your team tries to rush it or just leaves and concedes it to enemy team because you are all too low to win 5v5. Or... don't ward map when enemy is clearing waves on their half and you have no vision, then try to ward when enemy is in your jungle and get picked off by them. Of course it is your fault for suggesting warding in the first place -- your teammates knew having no vision was better.
- KDA=success or failure -- nothing else matters I regularly get camped -- because usually it is needed to keep me in check and let the enemy top get decent farm. The exception is when I get counter-picked AND they take ignite while I take tp. I might have a few deaths compared to them, but I'm up in cs. Alternatively, I may be winning in kda AND have better cs. All my allies see is -- who killed who last, who had better kda. If a teammate of yours can pull jungle to their lane all of laning and stay relatively even, they are doing you a huge favor. Don't be an ass to them if they have died 1 or 2 times more than enemy top. Also, make a play elsewhere -- pressure out bot or mid and get a dragon or a tower. Make use of fact you have a 4v3 instead of sitting back trading cs or making stupidly risky plays.
- Don't adjust your play -- ever. If you are getting camped bot or mid, play more passively until you can get some help -- it wastes the enemy jungler's time and frustrates your opponents. If you are feeding, stop trying to 1v1 the person who just killed you for the 3rd time in a 1v1 -- you didn't magically get ahead in items to be able to solo them. Even if it means missing 10 cs over the course of a minute or two, just play safe and you can catch up much faster more reliably by missing those few cs in return for not getting killed. That's my advice. Anyone whose seen a fed darius knows how hard he is to face if you are behind, but by taking my own advice, I got my 2 items to mostly match him and outplayed him 1v1. I shouldn't have stood a chance since we were both full hp and sums, etc. but it worked. If I would have immediately gone back to lane after dying to him and tried to do this, I would have kept feeding. By waiting until the right time in terms of items, lane control, minion waves, champ level, etc. I pulled it back and stomped him rest of game. So please, adjust your play according to how the game is going. That goes for items, pushing vs freezing, passive vs aggressive play, etc.