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x Theta x·1/27/2014, 2:55:11 AM·2 votes·692 views

I love after a game, when your team loses, and your team rages at you for having a bad score (as if no one has ever had a bad game) and then their reasoning for never helping you was, "You were losing your lane, why would i gank for you!?"

Am i the only one finding this incredibly ironic? lol

If someone is losing their lane, shouldn't that be the EXACT reason to gank for them and help them out?

19 Comments

hawkman58791/27/2014, 3:05:01 AM1 votes

A feeding lane typically means a free death for the jungler and another death for you. Only good time to gank a feeding lane is when the enemy is pushed right up to the tower or they have 0 escapes and/or are low on mana. Typically you want to gank a winning lane to set them farther ahead so they can carry the lanes that are losing. While bad games do happen, there are ways even when you are playing poorly to lessen the consequences of your poor gameplay. For example, hugging the turret if for example, you gave first blood. By the way, I am a jungle main. I was silver 1 and going up last season then had a major drop due to playing on tilt, just in case you wanted to know my qualifications :).

BigfootNamedYeti1/27/2014, 3:06:12 AM1 votes

Dude i feel you lately its "oh the adc cant carry us are we too fat for your role is called AD CARRY"

Roaranor1/27/2014, 4:48:53 AM1 votes

I'll just put everything into one comment.

As for ADCs, it has become the least desired roles simply because, despite being a carry role, it is also the most team-reliant role. Yes, the ADC relies on the team even more than the support to do their job properly. Being glass-cannon, sustained damage, they rely on their team to keep them alive long enough to effectively serve as your team's main source of attack damage. Between the APC and ADC, APCs generally have better kits in terms of "solo" play.

Hawkman6879 is right in that, a lot of times, attempting to gank a fed enemy can simply make the situation worse unless it's guaranteed to go in your favor. However, adding a bit of jungle presence here and there is always a nice thing.

I think what OP is getting at is the tendency of many players to look to blame their team for their own individual shortcomings rather simply accepting their share of responsibility for the loss (ie. Players who lose lane blaming jungler for not camping, ADC blaming support and vice versa. junglers blaming lanes for losing highly unfavorable matchups with little jungle presence to compensate). In this case, your best bet is to ignore them and focus on self-improvement. The ragers will rage even if you finish the game 14-3-14 186 cs. Let them. Just make sure you don't stoop so low as to become one yourself, and focus more so on your own mistakes instead of what your team could've done better (Chances are, you won't ever play with them again anyway).

Noam Braumsky1/27/2014, 3:28:16 PM1 votes

I know right? I was being Fizz mid, and this Aatrox was jungling. I died once, and he got angry and wouldn't gank, saying I was a noob and he was gold 3, and that I deserve to lose. He wouldn't gank bot either, even when they needed help. I eventually got a bunch of kills, and he still wouldn't acknowledge me.

We won, thanks to a great platinum 3 Ezreal in bot, but I was greatly disappointed that jerks like him are still in the system, even as high as gold 3.

Tsiddique1/27/2014, 6:25:13 PM1 votes

Get used to it. It doesn't get any better. Even if you have a positive score and you lose, they will just say you focused on kills and not objectives etc.

It is usually beneficial to gank a fed enemy laner if you are certain you can get a kill. Otherwise, the enemy laner could possible get a double or even a triple kill furthering their snowballing. In that case, the jungler should gank the two other lanes more often in an attempt to snowball those. Two lanes > One

I Main Swain1/28/2014, 2:00:05 AM1 votes

it depends. you should definitely try, but if it gets to the point where every time they just ruin the gank, its better really to just focus on getting other lanes fed.

for example, I had a match last season with an annie who I would tell I was going to gank in a min, and, while im halfway across the map, she says "ok" and all-ins immediately. then dies and lets theyr ahri get away.