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Making up for a bad player in a team?

LoveMeSomePenis··1 votes·620 views

I've recently run into a pretty bad losing streak. Before, I'd play as a 5 man team and we'd win often, like 8 out of 10 games often winning. Over the past week or so we haven't all had matching schedules so most games are played right now as 2 man or 3 man groups, with 2 or 3 random people we're playing with.

I really don't like blaming teammates on a loss game, I think that's not fair in a team game, but a lot of games fall down from lack of proper plays or lack in communication in general. We all ping enemies missing, dangers, tell when we are starting a team fight or strategy, but with the lack of voice communication it feels like it doesn't always go through. The last game I played we had no jungler and an Annie top who fed and did nothing, and an mid Ezreal who refused to pick jungle when he saw Annie already locked in, who also never pinged missings or really do anything helpful, besides complain that their Nunu jungler had complete realm over the entire map because only us in the voice chat were buying wards.

I'm at a loss, and I feel like I'm coming off as a dick, but I'm really at a loss on how to make up for a lack of a team member. I assume the best bet would be playing as a hyper-carry, but even then I'm not too sure if that's even the issue, and not something wrong with me and the group I play with.

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arcinex1 votes

If you have bad teammate(s) it's really hopeless. UNLESS the other team is really really bad.

I've won more 4v5's due to dc or afk than I have playing with a bad teammate.

The chances of having players like those you mentioned are so ridiculously high...

Then you have people on youtube who talk out of their arses saying there is an equal probability that the other team has a bad teammate and what not, but it will always seem like Riot trolls your team with a bad teammate, especially when it matters (promos)

LoveMeSomePenis1 votes

The thing is, I've seen those bad teammates. I've had games where everyone is incompetent on the enemy team and we push all towers etc. but then they have a MasterYi who if we don't target in a team fight, we lose. Somehow this one Yi can push the game to 45 minutes just from straight skill with the other 4 dicking around, but having 3 semi competent people can't deal with 1 or 2 feeding teammates doesn't make sense to me.

arcinex1 votes

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The thing is, I've seen those bad teammates. I've had games where everyone is incompetent on the enemy team and we push all towers etc. but then they have a MasterYi who if we don't target in a team fight, we lose. Somehow this one Yi can push the game to 45 minutes just from straight skill with the other 4 dicking around, but having 3 semi competent people can't deal with 1 or 2 feeding teammates doesn't make sense to me.

Master Yi and Nasus are the bane of low elo. Thornmail for Master Yi. Shutting down Nasus early and often.

I've had games where both teams were all competent and it will be a super close game. If one person on either team made the slightest error it would cost the game. That type of game. I've had games like this last 1 hour+.

But yeah a majority of league players are really bad. You just kind of have to mentally tell yourself that sometimes it is impossible to win games because a majority of league players are really bad and the odds of you getting one or more bad players on your team is due to the former.

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