Boards›Player Behavior

What's with this trend of people focusing on their scores?

Asterfix·3/25/2018, 7:09:44 AM·3 votes·260 views

I just played a game with a trundle jungle who would avoid teamfights completely so he wouldn't have deaths and the single fact that he didn't have deaths was the sole explanation given as to why he didn't do teamfights. "i'm the only one without deaths you can't criticize me" or something like that. He was chasing a Sejuani into enemy jungle and we spammed the retreat pings on him until he stopped and came back saying "i have no deaths, i know what i'm doing" but we were spamming them because the other 4 were taking dragon and our top fiora got himself killed. Our yasuo was getting picked off so everybody rushed in to help as trundle sat by the sidelines waiting for, i guess, us to win a 4v5 so he could swoop in and do cleanup and not mess up his score. I get that getting an S rank is super important to people but goddamn, do it on your own time the rest of us are playing to win. Even if i'm the ADC, if there's a fight that will end the game in our favor you can bet your ass i'm diving head first into a death. He spent around 5 minutes in base spamming chat about how the rest of us needed to "do better" and win a 4v5. After the obvious counter-point of "that's stupid" he ran it down toplane and they pushed into the base and ended the game easily.

so what the hell? Why would anyone assume your KDA is the scale of how well you play the game? I used to have a bunch of friends that I played with and our ADC was not great, (only played cait but wasn't good at using her abilities, couldn't last hit, etc) but we were friends and I'd play as her support and bump her score up to the point where she could 1v1 by AAing the enemy team. Did I die alot? sure as fuck did. Did her being 36/3 by the end of the match mean that she was the rank one of low elo ADCs? of course not.

11 Comments

zPOOPz3/25/2018, 7:29:16 AM3 votes

1 person a trend does not make

move on with your life

EL HAMSTERO3/25/2018, 7:18:30 AM1 votes

people like to score an S

Cynikul3/25/2018, 7:37:49 AM1 votes

Also to a degree he is right;

35 deaths vs 18 deaths . The reason their team was winning is they literally had 5100+ more gold in kills, were able to farm more because of less champions on map, and take more objectives. By staying alive and potentially not entering a bad teamfight, he denied some of these advantage alone. Had you done the same, it would have been twice has effective. Had the Fiora done the same, it would have been 3x as effective.

Instead you all had 8.75 deaths between your 4 VS 3.5 deaths vs there 5. What did you expect? Die less, win more. Notice how some of the best players die very, very little.

Cynikul3/25/2018, 7:39:32 AM1 votes

You dying a lot as support , despite the mentality that "oh im just the support" is a bad mentality, especially in the current meta. You refresh your gold value so often by getting assists that you're literally feeding their mouths with gold. Try to take more calculated risks.

Cynikul3/25/2018, 8:18:04 AM1 votes

I didn't see the game, I'm making simple assumptions based off the data, you're right. But I'm telling you maybe there's more to it just than the way you're thinking about it, hell I'm not even saying you're right or wrong. Rather I'm looking at the bigger picture and saying, generally speaking, and based off the deaths in the game, dying less = good, dying more = bad. Dying less offers less advantages, again, generally speaking. No more, no less. Seriously though, make it an effort to die genuinely as little as possible and you will see your win rate and ranking change drastically.

BroLane3/25/2018, 1:18:23 PM1 votes

Some fights are unwinnable the second they start do to poor positioning. Maybe he realized that and figured to cut your teams losses in hope of a later recovery?