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What’s the best way a player can help the team?

Riot··4 votes·14,871 views

The Baron Pit is ALL Chat’s discussion segment where we roundtable a question and then kick it to you for your opinions. This episode’s question: what’s the best way a solo player can contribute to the team?

Whether you’re solo climbing the ladder or learning top with your teammates, the ALL Chat hosts weigh in with their own thoughts on the best way you can help get the win. Let us know what you think in the comments below, and if you’ve got any questions you want answered in the Baron Pit, let us know!

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75 Comments

ArmiPagan37 votes

#Communication!!! And don't be negative! Help each other out even if someone is losing lane. One team, one dream.

Crovax II7 votes

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Aeszarck5 votes

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RedCater1 votes

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Thunderspam9 votes

If your playing mid and bot lane is losing hard and getting pushed out, coordinate with your jungler for a 2 man gank bot and destroy them A 4v2 bot may also bait out the TP from top or mid as well as give you dragon control if its alive

chatria2 votes

[slayer-jinx-catface]

Thunderspam18 votes

Don't ban the champs that your team mates want to play That helps out a lot.

tumbledEnamel1 votes

Hear Hear.

Zekromancer12 votes

For top laners - Pick a tank with great engage and learn when to engage. Mid lane - Try to make sure the other mid lane doesn't become fed and never be an easy target for a gank. Jungle - Ignore whiny players. You know yourself and how you play and trying to gank because a player is losing to his/her lane opponent often means two kills for the opponent. Learn the best opportunities to gank. Marksman - The best champions for ADC are ones that have an engage/disengage that you save for critical moments. Lucien, Ezreal and Caitlyn are good examples. Support - People will beg you to play tanks with CC like Braum and Leona, but I have always been a firm believer in utility as support. Shields, heals and using Maokai's seedlings as temporary wards are what I like.

Mech hi1 votes

also for supports dont ks at all

DaddyAvo1 votes

Which is so easy when your adc dies, and you get a kill on their support and jungler, and get red buff. I got 2 kills off that damn buff...

Hako On The Move1 votes

i think tahm is the best support/tank right now that i play, i can save carries in team fights if they get too aggresive

Tayu7 votes

Don't be negative and put others down. Be encouraging and constructive.

Also, if you have gotten ahead, and you're starting to get immediately focused and destroyed in teamfights because you're the biggest threat, hold off on engaging and let your team go in first so the enemy team either holds off on their ults/CC for you, or uses it, allowing you to go in and clean up.

Epic rekit5 votes

best way to help my team: Bard I'm bard, I'm helping [:^}

RUNAAANS HYDRAA5 votes

Hands down the BEST CONTENT out of /All Chat.

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Busty Lopunny4 votes

If you know that a lane is busy fighting instead of farming due to a variety of factors and your lane mate is MIA ping more than once. Chances are pings are flying off the wall in games like that so give a better heads up. It all boils down to communication and being positive. The best advice I got is that if you ever feel like typing something toxic just say it out loud instead. That way you get it out and nobody gets booty bothered.

RUNAAANS HYDRAA2 votes

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Sødium King1 votes

Completely agree. Especially about the venting aloud as opposed to being toxic bit, it really helps.

Cradar4 votes

If COMMUNICATION is the number one priority of winning a solo q game by coordinating with YOUR TEAM!! Then why is VOICE CHAT not an available option for summoners to be using instead of wasting time trying to type/ping when i can press ONE BUTTON use my microphone and say "hey man, im playing support for you right now and i don't think this a very good time to engage, my ultimate is ready but i do not see anyone mid or in the jungle i think we are about to get 4 manned". THIS is the biggest fault of league of legends and teamwork. I have played multiple over competitive games for years and nothing can compare to having a quick chat with your teammate over a headset. There is no excuses to be made as to why voice chat should not be implemented. "But the community is toxic and everyone will be yelling and swearing over the headset." There is a mute button available so you can choose to use it if people do not wish to cooperate with one another. If you seriously want to improve COMMUNICATION THIS IS THE BEST WAY

Cradar1 votes

TL;DR Voice chat = best method of communication

Embertine1 votes

Riot thought about implementing voice chat, however decided against it due to the amount of toxic behavior that would be broadcasted.

It's one thing to see toxic chat, it's another thing entirely to have someone shouting it in your ear.

Embertine1 votes

Also remembered this just now, but after some experiences I've had using Curse voice chat, I honestly prefer to have simple text chat in game.

Cradar1 votes

you prefer this because you have never played anyother game at a really high level with callouts before. clearly just one persons opinion. imagine them trying to do lcs without a headset? imagine cs:go without a headset? there is a reason these top level TEAM games use it

Cradar1 votes

there is a mute button for a reason. if someone is engaging in toxic behavior whether being typed or not. this is a sad excuse for not having voice chat since you all agree COMMUNICATION IS THE BEST WAY. you are hypocritical rito in your assessment of what needs to be done. clearly this games toxicity lies not within the community itself but maybe the company

skrilljet1 votes

right and if someone is toxic you can still report them and it would help even more weed out those toxic people to keep them off the game

Captain Tinymeat3 votes

How to help your team: Spam Hecarim Spam Gnar Spam Ashe

Treylucid3 votes

I love to hear from Dash about what I think is the biggest problem in league, people need to focus on what impact you can/should have on your team. 60% of games should be determined by your fellow teammates, half of that people are intentionally losing and the other half you should be getting carried. Focus on the 40% of games where you are the deciding factor between winning and losing, half of those games you will be ahead in lane and can snowball for the win, the other half you are behind in lane but teamfight and control objectives well to close out the win

BringItOn213 votes

1.Invite Faker to a game 2.ggwp u get free lp*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

Deweyh3 votes

carry your team by being a support main :D Taric Alistar Nami Bard

Master Mage2 votes

As an "I'll-do-everything-but-jungle" main, and a solo player, I would say that something helpful is to try to fill a role that your team needs, or set one in champ select. If the team needs engage, pick your best that can do that. If you need insane burst, pick a champ to fit that role. it could even be as simple as seeing your support pick Ali, and go Yasuo in mid or top to complement that.

Tobi0072 votes

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RHC Itami 1 votes

how

Tobi0071 votes

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Stempay2 votes

dont play ranked

Thunderbird3301 votes

So can we see Dash's guide on How to Get Carried?

In all seriousness though, I get SO frustrated when I fall really behind and feel like I can't contribute anything, so I'd love some pointers on how I can still help my team.

Shadowatom1 votes

Usually it's just not dying in lane... Sounds obvious, but like Dash said, players usually go on tilt and try to fight their enemy laner 1v1/2v2 just to die again... and again... and again... Obviously don't be a complete wimp, but ideally you want to take fights you know you can win (when your jungler ganks for example).

As for contributing late game, it depends on the champion, sometimes you'll have to be careful about how you handle things if you're a tank since you're behind, but if you manage to catch back up in gold by farming as a bruiser/carry, then you can probably start dominating people decently (maybe not what you're used to when you're ahead obviously, so you'll still need to be careful, but you wouldn't be useless).

I'm a support main so I'm used to getting carried (:3 and indirectly carrying), but I'm starting the switch to ADC so I can actually get some practice trading and csing and such. I can't tell you how many times I've had my ADC's/supports go super aggressive while we're behind and I just want them (or myself) to farm to catch up. Obviously trading is fine (unless you're super far behind), but trying to set up kills on even grounds is probably not ideal unless they really screwed up in positioning.

DaddyAvo1 votes

I feel like support carries the adc, way more than the adc carries the support Even as a TERRIBLE adc, if my support is good, then I am good. And if I am support, if I do well, then the adc almost certainly does well

Shadowatom1 votes

It's mutual. I've had games as a support where I definitely wouldn't have done as well as I did if my ADC was shitty, and likewise there have been games where I've managed to keep my ADC alive long enough to kill both the enemy laners (usually as raka, because she's stupid proof for the most part). But if we both fall behind, then we're sorta screwed as far as carrying goes at least until late game.

blazeingman1 votes

why is it impossible to climb out of bronz?

forresto1 votes

I'd love to let you know what I think, but the video is set to private so i cant really form an objective opinion.

ethany0o1 votes

feed

blazeingman1 votes

there is no point in playing ranked its so imbalanced that you cant get anywhere if you solo que you get feeders of the afkers in u team play everyone is using a chat app this game is so frustrating

Freakles1 votes

Learn at least one tank champion in case your team-mates decide to play squish squish :)

IBlitzcrankz1 votes

##dont die

Machancy1 votes

What you say in the game is very important for this game. Of course low Elo players blame a lot that because they are bad. One thing I know that can make you better at the game is to focus on the game and blame yourself, I know it's harsh but it will literally make you a batter player. Sometimes things don't go your way and you can't fix it but that is how this game works you just have to deal with it and make as little mistakes as possible.

FourfunFour1 votes

I think having an option to negate the possibility of chatting can be good for certain players. I was watching my brother play Splatoon 2 and I like it in that you can't communicate to the other players. You just do your own thing. I feel as if it takes the tension off of things.

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