Knowing when to take or ignore advice

Lapis·10/6/2015, 6:21:17 PM·1 votes·573 views

This is something I have trouble with. I generally try to take advice when I can, it seems a good way to improve. But sometimes it's difficult to know when something is genuinely helpful, and when people are just trying to blame me for things instead of owning up to mistakes. For example, I was in a game and supporting a Tristana. She kept on getting hooked by Thresh, and whenever it happened she'd call me a bad support for not standing in front of her, asking if I even knew how to support at all. If I was playing someone tanky, like Braum for example, I would have thought that would have been a good idea, but I was playing Nami, and didn't think it would be best to hand them essentially a free kill, rather than Tristana standing behind the minions or something. What should I have done in that situation?

4 Comments

Inphernal10/6/2015, 6:23:20 PM1 votes

Here's that validation you wanted: Tristana was bad

Now, stop listening to players in-game and take advice from credible LoL websites and higher-elo players

Archon X10/6/2015, 6:28:38 PM1 votes

you still need to stand in front of the adc when they are in range of skillshots.

Amelie10/6/2015, 7:08:13 PM1 votes

If YOU were the one getting hooked, you would've been called a feeder and bad support anyway.

If you're really level 18, then I wouldn't listen to much of anybody's advice. It's better to learn things for yourself because people can have a really warped view of the game.

You should never be taking Thresh hooks for the ADC (exception is if you are something like Alistar... even then, you probably don't want to). It's not your job to eat skillshots. Your job is to protect your ADC and harass the enemy. You won't protect anything if you start giving free kills because your ADC can't position to dodge skillshots.

The only way your Tristana's complaint would make any sense is if she meant that you were standing too far away, too far to help her after the hook. Typically after a hook (or any type of engage) as Nami, you would want to bubble the enemy ADC, heal your ADC, apply E on yourself and start hitting the enemy ADC. This will give time for your Tristana to jump away and survive the attack.

Flaherty10/6/2015, 9:54:13 PM1 votes

The Tristana needed to position better if they kept eating skillshots. It's not your job to be a meat shield for them, unless you're playing Braum but even then you don't want to be blocking a Thresh hook or Blitz pull if you can both avoid it.