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Losing matches to TDMers

HavokDash·10/22/2017, 9:50:00 AM·2 votes·303 views

I have been losing more and more matches due to kids thinking this game is a "Team Dethmatch" style game. 40 minute games. Kills in the High 30s and such...and not a SINGLE DAMN TOWER EVEN TOUCHED.

Every single game my team will sit there, clear the lane of kills, go back to base, return to lane...and WAIT for more kills. They wont take objectives, they wont even TRY to take towers. I had an adc Xayah who wouldnt even attack the enemy as they took down our towers, she wanted to spend the first 20 minutes of the match just FARMING. The enemy bot/supp got a free tower because xayah tried farming -around- them while they were busy casually taking down OUR tower. she didnt try and stop them, just moved around and tried to farm what she could till her tower fell.

I swear its pissing me off to no end. People sit in these matches for 40 minutes, wont even touch the enemy tower, wont touch dragon. Yet they are happy to blame thier support or team for "Feeding" or brag about how much they are "carrying this trash team" meanwhile all the enemy towers still stand.

THIS IS NOT TEAM DEATHMATCH THIS IS NOT QUAKE THIS IS NOT CALL OF DUTY YOU DONT WIN BY HAVING MOST KILLS. YOu win by DESTROYING THE NEXUS. you get to the nexus by DESTROYING TOWERS

STOP trying to dumb the game down because you want it simplified to your pre-school level. You cant max out the kill score, the game will automatically label you the winner just because you have more kills than the other team. You STILL have to take down towers. I am sick of losing games because these damn TDM kids want to sit around for 40 minutes and pad thier kda while we lose towers one after another.

Part of the reason as I have seen it is the grading system. Players are happy to screw thier team over and ether prolong the match or screw the team over to "manufacture" an S. Rather than just being rewarded for playing at a S skill naturally, they want to sit and artificially meet the conditions. Stretch the match out so they can get more farm, leave thier team to die because it might negatively impact thier kda, etc.

I just hit 30 for season 8 but I hope riot works to change this god damn "TDM" mentality. I am sick of losing my matches because some spoiled child wants that S+ so is happy to leave the rest of the team out to die because "if I helped you, I might have died" (key word is "Might" as in Possibly, not assuredly)

Just gonna start letting these TDM Adcs Die. If you arent gonna play the game and actually go after towers? I am just gonna stop healing you, stop trying to save you. Maybe then when these kids (who are only after thier "S" anyways) have lost that "perfect game" and get more and more deaths, they will actually try and take towers. Not just running from lane to lane farming kills 30-40 minutes in (or at least untill the enemy team decides to finally destroy our nexus, the team that actually focusses on towers)

7 Comments

Eternum Nocturne10/22/2017, 12:12:04 PM1 votes

When it's 45 min, and your extremely fed Yi jg and Vayne bot are sitting on full builds and are doing nothing other then farming jg and large minion waves and occasionally 1v1ing an enemy who over extends, then it's pretty clear that you got to get ready for the next match cuz no matter how behind the enemy team are they will win and you will get flamed for "why fight without me???????" when the enemy were 5 man pushing mid and all the pings in the world can't pull those 2 out of the jungle.

Kei14310/22/2017, 12:46:49 PM1 votes

Well ... people are bad for those reasons.

So if you want lesser of those, get out of your MMR.

You can also try to ping them to back, ping the objective, or just control the waves so that it will create an obvious play.

AJStarhiker10/23/2017, 1:25:18 AM1 votes

TDMers... I like that description.

Yeah, I've seen them, too. Awhile back, I was playing as first-time Xayah with a TDM talon on my team. I finally got fed up with following everyone else into getting aced, and split pushed a win despite TDM boy.