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NEVER SURRENDER

KyleTheConqueror·8/8/2015, 6:11:22 AM·4 votes·1,429 views

They say you will win 40% of your games, lose 40%, and the remaining 20% is all about your skill and your coordination with the team. Some games you will get players who want to surrender because they lose the early game (my elo has this problem especially). If the game continues with this attitude you will lose; However, you can turn the team's attitude around. If you ever get players who immediate give up, your objective as a teammate is to encourage him to JUST KEEP SWIMMING. Surrendering is like suicide, If you kill yourself now you eliminate the possibilities of it getting better. My **goal **in writing this board discussion is to ask you to _prevent _yourself from surrendering games. Whether it's a normal or ranked, it's never good to surrender because you have a negative attitude. I would make a video on this, but I want to leave it to higher elo since they can explain better sense into the low elo. anyways, i left below some tips for preventing you and your team from surrendering.

TL;DR Some of the tools to prevent surrendering games

  1. Be supportive, but express your distress. If your teammate wants to win, he would reply with assurance of him playing at his best.
  2. Know your role, know your ally's role. Whether you play the champ or not, give them some advice they can agree on.
  3. Team fights > Laning phase. As long as you can stay organized in a team fight, the better the outcome usually is.
  4. NEVER SURRENDER! You cannot try to encourage teammates to do better if aren't encouraging yourself.

25 Comments

sp4418/8/2015, 6:24:04 AM3 votes

Getting real sick of all these "NEVAH SURRENDAH" threads.

Thing is, even if you go in with your happy go-luck attitude, you're still guaranteed a 50% chance to lose. And if your team is taking a beating, like, say, being 18 kills and 3 dragons behind, your odds are probably even lower.

And also, most people value their time on this earth, and do not like to waste it by prolonguing a game that they no longer have the will to continue.

I mean, I get the never surrender attitude in Ranked where losing has actual consequence, but fuck off with that shit in normals. I'm tired, I'm not having fun, just surrender so that I can do anything else other than waste the finite time that I have on this earth clicking on a bunch of polygons.

Lugg8/8/2015, 6:35:35 AM1 votes

I hate to surrender, but if the enemy team is up 20 kills, 3 dragons, 4 towers, and has a better scaling team, it's time to surrender.

7ha7guy7778/8/2015, 7:07:58 PM1 votes

I don't even think a surrender vote was started Sorry for not blocking the names, i don't know how to do that on my phone

LordGeovanni8/8/2015, 8:25:30 PM1 votes

Not will lose but makes it more likely to lose cause you can still be carried but look at this if your champion isnt an early game champions its probbaly a mid or late game one apply the same for your team comp. and remember just thinking we gonna lose makes it 36% more likely that you will and also means you dont even believe in your own ability to turn the game around none the less your team's or any one else on it

Vik4prez9/7/2015, 8:11:48 PM1 votes

There are a lot of instances in which I will not surrender or will try to convince my teammates that we might still be able to win.

But there really are scenarios in which pulling out a win is so unlikely that its just better to surrender and move on.

If the enemy team has a Vayne that gets super fed early and has at least some semblance of how to place, your team stands a very low chance of winning even if your other lanes went even. In a game such as this, where an opposing champion who scales fantastically well into late game and is played well, its best to just surrender at 20 than sit around for 20-30 more minutes struggling against the odds.

In some cases, it really is better for everyone on your team to just surrender and prevent yourselves from tilting from a single game.