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Your team is your enemy

The5lacker·3/15/2015, 2:59:43 AM·11 votes·1,358 views

There are a lot of people on here who think that your team is your greatest ally, and that a little bit of positive thinking will let you win every game. These people are delusional. Ignoring the fact that every game has to have one winner and one loser, and ideally everyone's win rate should be 50/50, your team is far, far more likely to antagonize you than your opponent.

During champion select, your opponents cannot completely screw over your team from step one by hard countering themselves and autolocking a role that has already been filled...twice. Your team can.

Your opponents cannot steal your CS when you go to clear a minion wave. Your team can.

Your opponents usually isn't the one putting you down for every single mistake. Your team is.

Your opponents, generally, can be expected to be working with a single goal in mind that you can work around: They want to win. Your teammates...well I guess they're having fun dancing in the jungle or something. Good for them.

Your team is quite frequently going to be a ball and chain, refusing to cooperate with reasonable suggestions and taking offense at any sort of comment or criticism...even if they've been ripping you a new one. Your opponents, at the very least, are going to be generous enough to say "gg" at the end of the game, even if it wasn't, under any definition, a good game.

So just remember. The greatest obstacle you will ever have in climbing the ranks is your team, because one bad placement got you stuck with paste eating thirteen year olds who, despite staggering through their ABC's and apparently not having any hands to manipulate the mouse with, managed to install and log in to League of Legends.

See you all in ELO Hell.

15 Comments

ActuallyArrow3/15/2015, 3:31:32 AM6 votes

#LowElo #SoloQue #Hashtag

SrirachaLimes3/15/2015, 1:12:54 PM3 votes

I respectfully disagree. Yes, your team has the ability to make your team lose the game. Of course it does. But with the ability to completely screw yourself over, your team also has the ability to cooperate, pick champions that work well with each other, and win you the game. The enemy team can't do that for you.

The reason people suggest a positive view is because the point of league is to play a game and have fun with other people. If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong, regardless of whether you won or you lost. That, and a positive view will typically lead to better cooperation between teammates, thus allowing you to win anyway. Viewing your teammates as enemies doesn't encourage cooperation, though.

Well, that's my take on it. Hope you get some good teammates in the future!

IcyPepper3/15/2015, 3:04:41 AM2 votes

I'm going to say... no.

Mahautsukai3/15/2015, 4:34:43 AM2 votes

Your opponents, at the very least, are going to be generous enough to say "gg" at the end of the game, even if it wasn't, under any definition, a good game.

I never understood how this trite minimalist effort has evolved to be considered sportsmanlike. After spending 20-90+ minutes and the best you can muster is to flop your finger lazily twice on the same key. At best reeks of a hollow gesture, worse an insult of disdainful laziness. I know this is unpopular, I though would prefer people didn't say anything to this. Better still say something meaningful. Point out a single play, action or person who did well or exceptional.

missou3/15/2015, 11:07:18 AM2 votes

the bronze manifesto

LordCrazyGlue3/15/2015, 7:24:05 PM1 votes

I have to agree with this completely. After just playing 3 normals (draft) having people take lanes you already picked and forcing you into a lane your champion is not designed for. I consistently get borked by team mates in champ select over and over again. Then when you are mid vs a zed and a melee champ the person who took the lane you picked for flames you for 1 death and the rest of the team joins in. But, my personal favorite is when during team fights your whole team focuses the tank and after the fight is lost you simply type "focus adc then mid then rest" and they start flaming the crap out of you even though you said it politely often with a plz at the end. Sadly people will perceive written text as negative or positive depending on their own mood not based on what is written.

Leti the Yeti3/15/2015, 6:05:33 AM1 votes

can't spell allies without lies I hate them so much but you cant ever tell them that

SecretAgentHulk3/15/2015, 3:28:54 PM1 votes

By this logic, you are more likely to antagonize your teammates than the enemy team, so you are your own enemy.

Bad teams may land you in ELO hell. Your skill will keep you there (and I say that as someone who currently plays at high Bronze/low Silver). ELO hell is something you create.

My suggestions? Play normals; no one gives a crap if you screw around there. Find friends to play with because for every friend you play with, there is one less potential toxic feeder you can be matched with. Or, if it's really that bad, find a different game.

DytjeSaurr3/15/2015, 3:59:46 PM1 votes

In my (not so) humble opinion, this is very untrue. Statistically speaking, unless you're a 13 year old paste-eater yourself, the enemy team has a bigger chance to contain those.

There's 5 slots on the enemy team for those and only 4 slots on your team. People end up in the ELO they deserve to be, because they themselves are the only differentiating factor between their own and the enemy team. It is hardly possible to always get a bad team and always face a good team.

TheGrandAlliance3/15/2015, 6:21:24 AM1 votes

Yes... must say this thread is very poetic... and true as well...