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"Games are won before they had even started"

Pestering Jester·7/1/2015, 3:06:23 PM·4 votes·1,310 views

It is sad to see many players try too hard to win a game. Let's play some mind games in this post and think that if nobody ever lost, would there be any winners? Can you accept that you make mistakes, lose or can have tilt have sends you to spiral someday?

Usually games are won before they have even started? How and why?

Here is why, YOU decide to play that role what you only play and YOU can't accept that there is also 1 000 000 playes like you that does the same. Think if you have 5 players that says everything you say and picks same role that you do? What does happen in that game? Everybody loses.

Most common problem in these games are that they embrace idea called: "Protagonist Syndrome." That makes you think that you are the only one who aint having fun with the game and all other players are trolling just to annoy you. But is that the case, think if everybody thinks like that and wants to be the Main Character of that game?

TOP! x5 are shouted during Champion Select and YOU can't possibly play any other roles? Why is it? Why can't you learn them and accept that you aren't that Anime Hero that you are inside your head. You need to think what others also want to play. Agree with yourself that you can't play everytime that Singed Top lane that you play everytime in league. Accept the fact that Support is also a fun role, if you know what to do. Accept that and you might improve yourself someday. Think, Ponder and try out new things. And most importantly. Have fun and act kindly towards others. Help those who has bad days and don't get your anger and frustration get in your way. That leads you more losing streaks what makes you tilt. Have a break after you have lost and can't think straight.

Someday. Sometimes. You realise what I have. And you raise from your Bronze 5 to your first step, which is Bronze 4 and there you get Silver 5 by nothing thinking anything. Just embrace who you are and play that everybody else. YOU INCLUDED has fun. Play some bot games if you have to urges to play LoL.

So? Do YOU want to Win or Have Fun?

12 Comments

s LessThanThree7/1/2015, 3:34:05 PM4 votes

My friend says that when he plays jungle he checks the match history of everyone on the enemy team, and when he sees someone who is on tilt and has a losing streak he just camps them the entire laning phase and it's an easy win most of the time lol because they start flaming or RQ

BlackHorizon387/1/2015, 3:28:12 PM2 votes

You're so right.

I have to admit, When I play against a team where one of their team mates says over all chat ' report so and so for da da da'

Or where two enemies begin fighting in all chat. I KNOW that this game is now probably going to be a win for me.

Because the enemy team has already had their first team fight in the beginning lobby, so their minds are not focused on the game and as an opponent I take advantage of their in-focus.

Lost R7/1/2015, 5:53:02 PM2 votes

Careful with that kind of talk. People have been run through with a glaive over less.

In all seriousness, though, this is what I've been saying since the assassin meta began and people who couldn't get a Hexakill when that first debuted lost their minds. I'm almost always the support because most people would rather drink a gallon of bleach than be a support for even a second. In fact, the reason why I became support was because more games than I want to count were thrown, in RANKED, because people who didn't want to be the support were delegated to that role. Because being banned for 2 weeks (or longer!) is better than being the support for one game.

It also baffles me that some players think they're always going to be able to Yasuo mid, or try to enforce the idea that to be as good as an LCS player, you have to play one role, one champion EXCLUSIVELY. Unless you're in a 5-player premade, that is basically impossible to do. And yeah, it's largely a lack of both hindsight and foresight or awareness of anything but yourself (barely) that you get the Protagonist Syndrome. I'd say it also ties in with the idea of Custer's Syndrome, or victory disease, where someone can get it into their head that they will automatically win every fight because "Yasuo can't be countered" or because of some anecdotal evidence that barely applies to the current scenario, and their delusions of grandeur come crashing down on top of them when they get demolished.

It's important to know not just your own role in the team, but the role of everyone else, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as that of the enemy's. It requires you to be a Renaissance Man of the League, a quality that is rare, that you only may see in higher tiers of players, and one that is an illusion and heresy in the lower realms. If everyone is an assassin, the main damage dealer, the guy who is going to get all the kills, then the team as a whole is weak and suffers from overspecializing. I've witnessed this first hand as both an enemy and an ally, and it almost never goes down well, even as people step on this rake time and again. As an enemy, I've learned to take advantage of this, and as an ally, I've learned to adapt to compensate for it.

KalkiKrosah7/1/2015, 3:14:36 PM2 votes

Both?

I usually fill anyway. I am best at supporting but experienced enough that I can adapt and take over the other roles when needed.

Midder Scray7/1/2015, 7:08:30 PM1 votes

The only role I can't play is support. Not necessarily because I can't do it, because I've been successful at it before, but I've also done terribly at it, like all the other roles I play, but it just isn't fun for me. It's just so boring, especially early game because all you do is just walk around, poke the enemy a little if you can, heal your adc, and try to stop them from getting killed. It just isn't fun to me

Also I'm pretty shitty at supporting if the enemy is actually really aggressive. Defensive is no problem because I don't have to do as much, but when they're aggressive then I've got to do a shit load of stuff to try and keep my adc and myself safe, and normally I can't do that because I'm good with assassins and fighters, not tanks, which is usually what I have to go as since I barely even have any good supps, since I never do it

So I'll play any role besides support, and if I'm forced to support I'll either dodge or do it and probably end up feeding on accident, which happens a lot. I always warn my team though I'm really bad at it, and if they don't listen to me, then that's their fault

JAGMAG7/1/2015, 3:26:28 PM1 votes

signed top or feed kappa

Makior727/1/2015, 3:46:10 PM1 votes

On the subject of only being able to play x role... Wanna pick your brains on something real quick. Had a game a few weeks ago where in champ select i was last pick and informed everyone at the start that im a bad adc. Well i got adc anyway and then the team flamed me in game for not being good in all 5 roles in ranked. From your point of view, how many roles SHOULD someone know before going into ranked? I can play top support and jungle well and can mid with 2 champs if needed (probly wont carry) the only role i am total garbage with is adc. Should i practice adc before doing anymore ranked or is knowing 4/5 roles enough and i just had a team of toxic dickheads?

Lynxonyx7/1/2015, 3:47:46 PM1 votes

I have never been wrong when predicting a win or loss in the character selection screen.