PSA: Do not encourage feeding

VulcanIsHere·9/26/2015, 1:06:18 AM·2 votes·690 views

Basically, if a player on the enemy team purposely starts feeding and sitting under your turret telling you to kill them, PLEASE ignore them. Sure, the KDA looks juicy, but by killing him you encourage him to continue doing it. And please, don't be that guy that gets fed one game because of a feeder then complains the next game about someone purposely feeding. You are the scum of the earth, you double-standard bastard.

5 Comments

Shikigami9/26/2015, 1:16:19 AM3 votes

I disagree. Considering wins and losses from trolls would both cancel each other out, the best idea is to just get fed from the troll and end the game as quickly as possible, then report him after the game. Showing compassion is fine, if you've got LP to spend.

ValyrianBlade9/26/2015, 1:16:56 AM3 votes

Well, to be fair, if you're going to lose a game because someone on your team is feeding, why shouldn't you win games when an enemy is feeding? If you don't take the freebies, it won't be balanced and you'll have an expected win rate of under 50%.

Win the game as fast as possible (should be easy to kill the nexus around 20minutes if someone is intentionally feeding), apologize to his allies for their bad luck, report the feeder, and move on.

For the most part, I've only seen people start feeding after a game is pretty much a lost cause, or at least his lane is. Which still isn't acceptable, but you're not exactly getting fed because he's feeding. You earned being fed, and then just got extremely fed because he decided to start feeding to try to play it off as if he intentionally sucked instead of just got outplayed. i.e. if I start out 4/0 in 7 minutes, he wasn't intentionally feeding me. He could have given me a lot more kills in 7 minutes if he was trying to. I earned a really early kill, then a second, then possibly forced a 3rd and 4th with the lead I developed. At some point it stopped being me having a lead and executing it and turned in to him intentionally feeding (when I'm now 15/0 at 15 minutes), but I still 'earned' that lead. Likewise, when I cheese the enemy jungler for first blood at his first buff then he chooses to go feed another lane - it wasn't because he came in to the game planning to feed, it's because my play made him decide to feed. Again, not acceptable, and I don't understand at all why people do this, but if you make plays that make your opponents feed, I don't see why you shouldn't take advantage of that.

Not sure if that was understandable? Basically, take advantage of it and hope they get perma-banned.

AwesomeChad9/26/2015, 4:30:14 AM3 votes

But, these are ranked games. You can't simply ignore the guy constantly dying under turret if you need the gold from the kill.

Maru th Undrtkr9/26/2015, 9:19:00 AM1 votes

yeah but hes on ur team next game and ur like why r u killing him hes a troll gg fk the tribunal system

Nova Skye9/26/2015, 9:11:25 PM1 votes

I have a system for this, because I've been on the receiving and giving end of this. You always remember the truly intentional feeders - like the enemy Soraka I played against a month ago that literally followed our jungle around and autoed him while he cleared his camps without even attempting to use a spell, heal, or steal the camp. This happened after I, as ADC, got first blood on her ADC while she backed.

I agree with you - it really doesn't feel good to kill the intentional feeders. It feels like cheating to me, and I pity the other team that they have to deal with it. But I also have seen where a player "intentionally fed" in order to make us ignore them and then attempted to make a comeback - you can guess that it didn't work, but we did lose a few team fights before we realized his sudden involvement. I've also considered the possibility that the Soraka mentioned above essentially became a moving ward on our jungler - whether intentionally or not.

Feeder or not, the enemy team cannot have these advantages - it takes one mistake for a team to win 4v5.

At first I took the stance of "I won't kill them if they don't get into the fray", but quickly realized that I didn't need the distraction trying to keep track of a wayward player that I didn't always know the whereabouts of.

Then I started realizing that if you don't kill the feeder, then the "Intentional Feeding" report can be quickly counted as bogus. How can you prove that a 0/5/5 Soraka was feeding if she doesn't die?

So I've started keeping track of the feeders's KDA. I will kill the feeder enough to trigger the reality of Intentional Feeding and then just walk away from them when they show up - or farm around them. Usually by this point even if they try to antagonize me into killing them by attacking me while I farm, they are 1) completely alone because their team hates them, or 2) so stinkin' far behind that their full combo literally does nothing.