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What is Intentional Feeding?

xReadyPlayerOnex··3 votes·590 views

Feeding, is when you die multiple times to an enemy so that they get items, xp and objectives quicker.

Intentional: done on purpose

Doing this intentionally is two fold.

A) A player runs into a tower and yells touchdown in all chat and other similar scenarios.

B) When a player DOESN'T change their behavior after dying multiple times.
For example:

  • Trying to 1v1 in lane, while 8 minions hit you and dying, 4 times in a row, is intentional feeding.
  • Running down middle mid game with no help, and two towers missing on your side into 5 enemy players.
  • Running into Dragon Pit 1v5, after dragon has died.
  • Running 1v5 into baron, after it has died.
  • Staying at the enemy base after you get an tower/inhib for them to spawn when EVERYONE on your team has left and is pinging you to leave.

B is very rarely understood in my MMR. People think they're "just having a bad game". You aren't. You're intentionally doing the same things to get yourself killed without any regard for how it effects the rest of your team. You are DYING ON PURPOSE. This happens in many scenarios, not jut the ones I listed.

What to do when you're feeding in scenario B. Accept you're doing something extremely wrong. Ask for help. And if all else fails, stay WELL behind the towers and group so they can carry you and so that you can recover. When you're 3/12, you shouldn't be trying to solo the 17/2 Syndra (like I had in my last game). When you're 1/11 on Vayne, you shouldn't be trying to tank. When behind, you need to find ways to help your team recover and find ways for you to increase your level and gold WITHOUT dying again. When you're 0/8 and I ask you to stay behind me, I'll help you escape and live then don't run up the middle into a 1v5 and die again.

Please help me, help you. It's not intentional feeding to die a few times. Less than 10 a game isn't so bad. Less than 5 is ideal. But it IS intentional feeding to essentially eliminate yourself from the game by dying so much and then continue the same behavior until the end of the game. You HAVE to do something to change and recover or it's intentional feeding.

9 Comments

Tract3 votes

I remember you, your that guy who made that "I dont deserve bronze" post a while back, that we shot down. Trust me, intentional feeding is 0/32 stuff, normal players can have bad scores somtimes. If they fall behind, it is hard to keep up, and they probably will die more and more. If they are having a bad game, they probably feel awful enough without getting flamed for it.

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

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I remember you, your that guy who made that "I dont deserve bronze" post a while back, that we shot down. Trust me, intentional feeding is 0/32 stuff, normal players can have bad scores somtimes. If they fall behind, it is hard to keep up, and they probably will die more and more. If they are having a bad game, they probably feel awful enough without getting flamed for it.

I'm not flaming anyone. I don't deserve bronze. And I've seen a fiddle run str8 into nexus as many times as he possibly could in 20 minutes and not be 0/32. So I think you just made that number up. The problem is that people, even people who aren't 0/16, THINK that these players aren't intentionally feeding. They THINK they're just having a bad game. It's not true. Your actions DELIBERATELY caused the game to be impossible to win. That IS intentional feeding. They died "on purpose" (definition of intetionally) and caused the game repeatedly to be harder and harder to win to the point it was impossible.

Troll me all you want. Seems your good at doing that. But it doesn't change the fact that if you're dying 10+ times a game, more than once every minute, you are feeding and doing it intentionally because you haven't changed your gameplay.

Tract2 votes

Sorry, I said it before and I will say it again, I got placed into Bronze V and had a supremely easy time carrying myself to gold. Bronze was the BEST by far, I LOVED it. Treasure your moments when you carry a game as crit Kassadin, and random shennanagins like that. Only in Bronze wil you pull it off. If your in Bronze, its because you deserve it. That mindset helped me get out. Your team mates who are doing badly, are probably not doing THAT bad, and if you flame them for it, THEY WILL DO WORSE. If you compliment what they do well, you will be out of there in no time. I guarantee you, I did SO much better when I did nothing but compliment and advise people.

Also, I decided to take a peek at your match history to see if the problem is as drastic as you say it is, I haven't been there in a while.

I see a few mess ups, but we all have em

However, I see your point here, ouch. Then again, he was against the midlane monstrosity known as Brand, wielding the OP as hell FQC: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2061823665/217790387?tab=overview

You score is generally ordinary, without many assists especially, I hate to say it, but you arnt doing a ton better than your teammates. HOWEVER: You DID find some genuine trolls, like the TF there, and I think I saw a 1/12 Vayne. And you did manage to carry some games nicely. THere are trolls, but they should be reported and not flamed. Alot of the time, people start to troll when they are ~0/5 and being flamed for messing up. I have played with people who are 0/6, I am super nice, and eventually we come back and win.

Also, your playing alot of jungle and support. As a jungler, you probably end up getting blamed alot, but thats a junglers price to pay for being able to snowball each lane. IGNORE AND INSULTS, mute them, and carry on! As for support, make sure not to flame your ADC if they mess up, and supports get flamed a lot too, so just mute if necessary.

Good luck with the climb!

P.S. Doing bad does NOT mean intentional feeding, if you really think they are, feel free to make a support ticket if you genuinely believe you found a troll! What you said especially makes me sure, "They THINK they are having a bad game" that's not intentional feeding dude, their just having a bad game.... it doesn't matter if it makes you lose, if its not intentional, its not anything wrong as well.

The first game I saw was an Iliaoi game im not posting in here because it might embarrass you. You probably know which one I mean. Where you doing that on purpose? If not, think about that next time you see someone doing poorly, sometimes, they really ARE having a bad game.

Again, best of luck in the next season!

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

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Sorry, I said it before and I will say it again, I got placed into Bronze V and had a supremely easy time carrying myself to gold. Bronze was the BEST by far, I LOVED it. Treasure your moments when you carry a game as crit Kassadin, and random shennanagins like that. Only in Bronze wil you pull it off. If your in Bronze, its because you deserve it. That mindset helped me get out. Your team mates who are doing badly, are probably not doing THAT bad, and if you flame them for it, THEY WILL DO WORSE. If you compliment what they do well, you will be out of there in no time. I guarantee you, I did SO much better when I did nothing but compliment and advise people.

Also, I decided to take a peek at your match history to see if the problem is as drastic as you say it is, I haven't been there in a while.

I see a few mess ups, but we all have em

However, I see your point here, ouch. Then again, he was against the midlane monstrosity known as Brand, wielding the OP as hell FQC: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2061823665/217790387?tab=overview

You score is generally ordinary, without many assists especially, I hate to say it, but you arnt doing a ton better than your teammates. HOWEVER: You DID find some genuine trolls, like the TF there, and I think I saw a 1/12 Vayne. And you did manage to carry some games nicely. THere are trolls, but they should be reported and not flamed. Alot of the time, people start to troll when they are ~0/5 and being flamed for messing up. I have played with people who are 0/6, I am super nice, and eventually we come back and win.

Also, your playing alot of jungle and support. As a jungler, you probably end up getting blamed alot, but thats a junglers price to pay for being able to snowball each lane. IGNORE AND INSULTS, mute them, and carry on! As for support, make sure not to flame your ADC if they mess up, and supports get flamed a lot too, so just mute if necessary.

Good luck with the climb!

P.S. Doing bad does NOT mean intentional feeding, if you really think they are, feel free to make a support ticket if you genuinely believe you found a troll! What you said especially makes me sure, "They THINK they are having a bad game" that's not intentional feeding dude, their just having a bad game.... it doesn't matter if it makes you lose, if its not intentional, its not anything wrong as well.

The first game I saw was an Iliaoi game im not posting in here because it might embarrass you. You probably know which one I mean. Where you doing that on purpose? If not, think about that next time you see someone doing poorly, sometimes, they really ARE having a bad game.

Again, best of luck in the next season!

You don't see the majority of my games as I don't play ranked on this account as often as maybe I should. It's the result of getting hit time after time with terrible teams. You see statistics, not a game. That game as blitz? I died FOUR times under nexus turrets while my team had ran up, 1 at a time to die. Two more were pulling someone into tower and 3 people ganking while they tanked the tower because the other lanes had fed so hard.

The majority of my losses don't look great because instead of just pulling out like I should and just finishing the game 9/1/8 with 400 cs I die multiple times in a completely stupid effort to carry. I DO carry a lot of the wins, most in fact. But I've seen horrible team mates when I need them not to be. Over and over. You say I deserve to be in bronze. I say I deserve a team that doesn't lose the game for me. Maybe both are true. But I don't care about the rank as long as I have real teams. 90% of my losses aren't real. They're absurdity. It's my team giving up over 2 kills per minute... I can't carry that. No on can. If they can. I want videos.

Furthermore, doing bad isn't intentional feeding. But doing the SAME thing that got you killed over and over IS intentional feeding. Running into the same bush to die, running into dragon every time you hear the noise to die, trying to 1v1 your counter over and over to die again and again IS intentional feeding whether you THINK you can win or not. It's like a parking ticket. You can't tell a judge "I know I parked there but I THOUGHT I was parking somewhere else".

Tract2 votes

Nobody else thinks it is besides you, and I dont see how disagreeing with you is trolling.

disregardable2 votes

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752884-Reporting-a-Player

Reportable Behavior

  1. Report a Summoner for purposefully losing the game or empowering the enemy team through deliberate action

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Here are examples of behavior that you should not report players for:

  1. Do not report a Summoner for making mistakes or poor judgment calls during the game

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xReadyPlayerOnex2 votes

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https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752884-Reporting-a-Player

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https://support.riotgames.com/attachments/token/1dqky3sye62gdqr/?name=mistake.jpg

It's not a judgement call to do something over and over. It's dying on purpose.

It's not a mistake to run into 1v5's up middle 5 times in a row.

They are taking "DELIBERATE ACTION" to make the game harder to win. Whether THEY see it that way or not. Perception does not change the fact that what they're doing is against the code of conduct. You can't park in a no parking zone and then tell the judge "I know I was parked there but I didn't think I was parked there at the time...".

Makior722 votes

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It's not a judgement call to do something over and over. It's dying on purpose.

It's not a mistake to run into 1v5's up middle 5 times in a row.

They are taking "DELIBERATE ACTION" to make the game harder to win. Whether THEY see it that way or not. Perception does not change the fact that what they're doing is against the code of conduct. You can't park in a no parking zone and then tell the judge "I know I was parked there but I didn't think I was parked there at the time...".

Some people really are just THAT bad at the game. I know i was when i first started. I routinely underestimated the strength of a full wave of minions at lvl 1 or 2.

xReadyPlayerOnex1 votes

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Some people really are just THAT bad at the game. I know i was when i first started. I routinely underestimated the strength of a full wave of minions at lvl 1 or 2.

Key word, ROUTINELY, means your making a decision to underestimate those minions OVER and OVER. This means you KNOW better, but you DIE anyway. This means you DIE on purpose, or sometimes get lucky.

Some people ARE that bad. But not many. And not many that can't improve.

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