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Losing matches to TDMers

HavokDash··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 Nocturne1 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.

HavokDash2 votes

Yeah I have lost count how many times I would watch my teammates lather rinse and repeat the SAME method:

-sit in lane -wait for kills to show up -chase kills -get kills -recall to base -return to lane -repeat

and yet when I suggest actually taking towers or objectives, I get told to "stfu, look at your kills" (I usually play as support, so kills are usually close to 0). These same people will brag about how Fed they are, how OP they are. And Yet I am thinking "If you are that fed, why dont you use that OPness to actually TAKE TOWERS. But no, they will sit and just farm kills, then when the enemy catches up to them and is able to take the "fed" player down, the player will go on a rant about how they "cant carry this trash team" or Blame the "useless support" when I am bending over backwards to try and keep the team alive, sitting at 0.5% mana and 15hp as I try and throw out as many heals as I can

Kei1431 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.

HavokDash1 votes

Tried that in the past, all they do is Point to thier Kda, tell me to STFU and brag about how much they are TOTALLY carrying the match despite the fact the enemy has gotten every dragon so far (no one has gone for it) Towers are Untouched. and when I am trying to heal people they run away from me and make me chase them across the map

Kei1431 votes

those don't happen every game, just write it off.

Your goal is not to win every behavior battle.

AJStarhiker1 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.

HavokDash1 votes

I just find it irritating when we have the advantage, we clear a lane. But instead of use the ACE to push the lane and take a tower or two. The team will sit around, go back to base. And just wait for the next enemy to show up on the map, then they will immediately run for the target. And if I DARE suggest to focus the objective? apparently thats me being "toxic cuz u sukk" and told to "stfu"

Meanwhile we lose the match while they are chasing kills because while the team is chasing one person, the rest of the team is steamrolling towers like they are made of paper. And when we lose, I get to hear "Report our useless support" from the same person who shot me down for suggesting we take towers and dragons rather than Padding the KDA. These TDMers dont care if they lose the match, as long as they can point to thier inflated kda and say "obviously I am the best because....Kills" And if I bring up a fair point, as support, I get told "u got no kills, stfu. u dont get to talk u feeder"

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