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How do i stop lanes from feeding when i know the enemies have a better player?

Kasten4·9/19/2017, 7:33:17 PM·2 votes·320 views

Literally every ranked game I play, I check the enemies elo and their mastery lvl on their champ. I then inform my laner if he should be precautious about the enemy, as they might play a good (lux or something). They either say "so?" or "ok I'll be careful" and 90% of the time i hear " First blood" and when i look who died, its always the lane I told, not to be careless about. I dont know why something as obvious as "care mid, enemy is smurfing" cant be processed by some people. I keep losing rankeds because of this behaviour, since the jngl either doesnt shut the good enemy player down soon enough or they try and solo kill them when they are 2 levels under. This tilts be beyond compare, since the outcome of these situations is so easily avoided. Just play safe goddammit! I am so frustrated, because i have no idea how to help these people. any solution or help would be very appreciated.

thank you for reading my little rant, leave a comment for any tipps on the matter or just ranked in general.

4 Comments

Telephone Booth9/19/2017, 9:33:30 PM2 votes

I used to look my lane opponent up before the match starts... it doesn't help. I would see the player is good and play worse because I'm trying not to make any mistakes. Or I wouldn't go for certain plays because I know they're good and because of that "it won't work". But in reality, why not? He's still in my ELO.

It causes a paranoia that changes how people play. A lot like getting raged at and ragged on by your allies, you start to second guess plays which usually means you miss opportunities. Instead of just muscle memory reactions, youre in your own head wondering "is this the right move?".

Just the other day I had a guy on my team say "gank top, this guy only wins with j4" ...he looked him up, and it clearly didn't help as he fed the j4 over and over again. Even with our jungler going top numerous times. So now their top laner is fed, and our jungle is behind becausw he's been giving special attention to top lane, wasting time, out of a paranoia that our player caused by announcing that j4 is good. I mean, who knows how it would have gone if he didnt say anything, but it clearly didn't help.

But anyways, I digress. All you can do really is tell them to play safe. But shit happens. I would recommend not saying anything, though. You're probably making them play worse by telling them just because it creates scenarios in their mind that don't exist. Like while laning, they might be thinking about what you said and go "well I'll show him", and go for a kill, fuck up, get killed. Even if I'm wrong, you can see from your experience that it doesn't help. Experience is the best learning tool, way better than just philosphizing about it. So from your experience, it doesn't help at all, so maybe you should just stop doing it. It probably causes even more tilt than just someone getting outplayed. And if you ever say something like "I told you to play safe" you're probably tilting that ally off the face of the earth as well as yourself.

OnlyYouCanHearMe9/19/2017, 7:44:58 PM1 votes

Hmm, well, one quick question for starters... what role do you play? Looks like you've been playing a lot of Yorick lately, so I'm guessing top, but is that the only lane, or do you play others?

Teriyaki Bukkake9/19/2017, 10:38:47 PM1 votes

Just try your best to convince them, tell them that if they play safer you will stay more to their lane or around their lane, ward, put pressure ect. This might coax them into playing safer!

If all else fails and they don't want to heed your advice then sadly you should just not help them as much :/ which does sound like a toxic thing to do, but if they are going to play recklessly, and you get them a kill while they're two or three kills behind, chances are he/she is going to end up funnelling more gold to the enemy by resetting his bounty and then dying to the smurf :/ Your time would be better spent helping the other lanes and trying to get them fed so you can at least have some chance of competing with the smurf and their team, or, if you're playing a carry champ, work as hard as possible to get fed yourself and maybe try to carry the game out.

Good luck!