How do you suggest to your team to build against a certain play?

Mister Punches·3/4/2015, 3:14:24 AM·1 votes·475 views

I recently played a game where my team and I lost badly. I blame myself for parts of it because I was playing Xin and didn't gank until around level 5. However, around 5 minutes into the game, I noticed that my teammates were struggling against the enemy team. The enemy team was a 4 man AP team with one AD Jungle. I suggested at 5 minutes in, "hey guys, we should build mr against them". No one even replied to me. In the entire game, I suggested to build MR many times, but each time, everyone ignored me.

I am pretty sure that in the span of 40 minutes, I suggested to build MR against the enemy team around 15 times. It wasn't until around 35 minutes in that another person on the team decided to build the basic MR item, but at that point, we had 2 inhibitors down and the nexus turrets were down. We held off as much as we could, but we lost 5 minutes later.

How do I deal with a team that refuses to acknowledge another teammate's comments? I just said a variation of the sentence "we need to build mr" over and over. I wasn't being a jerk either, but no one seemed to listen. They raged after the game that the enemy team was OP (Which wasn't the case, the enemy team didn't even build armor, so I countered them easily in 1v1 battles or 1v2 battles, at 1v3 and more, I lost, and I blame myself for getting caught out of place for those and not warding enough). I noticed that the entire enemy team built purely AP, while my team built armor and AD/AP.

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Mister Punches3/4/2015, 3:54:51 AM1 votes

Update: Second game I had that just happened was with Warwick. This time, I saw the enemy team had three AP champs, and I told my team in the first 5 seconds, "we need to build mr against this team". I was aptly ignored by my entire team until near the end of the game. My team decided to build mr around 25 minutes in, and the game ended in a loss on my side around 29 minutes in.

This time, however, rather than suggesting it 15 times, I suggested we build mr about 5 times. I was ignored at all times. Any tips on how to communicate with teammates? I've considered asking my friends to play with me, but a majority of them are celebrating National Pancake Day right now.