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League Psychology: Camps and Tilt

Need Gold 4 Tent·10/12/2015, 1:50:19 PM·7 votes·1,721 views

It was an observation I made, I got ganked early in one game as a top laner. No biggie. Then I attempted another fight with a somewhat still even enemy, and got ganked again. It reached a point where I started to become hyperaggressive to the point of hard feeding, by then I was worth only minimal gold. Then I was told by one team mate: "STOP FEEDING!". And another teammate (probably a premade with him) said: "She's on tilt".

It was then I took a step back and reflected on myself, I normally don't play like this. I'm behind and shouldn't be fighting anymore but I just... want, no...HAVE to kill that fker . I regained my composure after that but we lost, not that it matters. After that game though, I thought long and hard. I think, I was reacting badly to the ganks. I don't know how to explain it but it felt... frustrating.

Then I thought to myself, if I reacted this way, maybe there may be other players who would as well? Camp (an arbitrary lane) past the point of winning it for your laner, to make him snap and start making bad plays out of frustration? Would that count as bullying? But most importantly of all, would it work, on a consistent basis?

10 Comments

BluePolarizer10/12/2015, 4:02:55 PM2 votes

If you are being camped and your champ has any teamfight potential whatsoever, just leave lane and gank. It's alot better than being permazoned, worthless and poor. If you are being permazoned, at least use the time where your base stats are useful and get that to snowball your team.

I can't tell you the amount of times I've been bullied by Pantheon as a Maokai or something due to being camped, so I just let Pantheon freefarm top while I get double kills bot and snowball the lane that actually matters.

EmittingXs10/12/2015, 3:09:45 PM2 votes

For camps, I personally see it as a way to either shut an opponent down hard or push a lane in an effort to win it back (after having lost it or having my ally die a lot).

Given the game you described, it doesn't sound like you were initially giving that Teemo a hard time. Maybe the enemy jungler saw you as a huge threat for mid/late-game so they camped you in order to put you behind. That's what I do anyway.

In one game I had an Irelia who was up against a Darius. Darius barely loses to anyone in lane so I ganked top. A lot. I helped Irelia get 3 kills and after that it was easier for her to play against Darius and the entire enemy team.

If you do find yourself getting camped though, call out to your jungler. It isn't enough to farm under your turret sometimes. That extra force at your side really helps. Also, if you do get camped then tell your allies to push hard because they won't see any sort of hindrance from the enemy jungler ;)

DaHawtMage10/12/2015, 4:00:04 PM1 votes

This does help though.. Camped a Yasuo not only put him on tilt but he was so deprived that he just turned into freelo for the team ;P

Raemnant10/12/2015, 2:59:54 PM1 votes

Pretty much everybody hates getting camped, but the funny thing is with this game if you camp someones lane as a jungler, the enemy team sees YOU as a bad player. I dont get the logic, but its odd. "GG you need 2v1 to beat me you r teh sux lolz" Things to that extent.

If you keep showing up to an enemy who is getting smashed, I'm sure they will lose all hope, but really I think the attention should be focused elsewhere. For the sake of the discussion though, yea I would just shut down and stay near tower/steal my junglers camps if I kept getting ganked and I'm ALREADY losing hard

lofi n chillhop10/12/2015, 9:27:51 PM1 votes

it's sad but it's true. if I know an enemy is behind, it's almost a joke to beat up on them... it's high school all over again...

Pelkrock10/12/2015, 11:07:32 PM1 votes

Any good player who is feeling camped will ward the jungle. I never go on tilt when I get camped and most of the time it just nets my team less pressure. I have had teams send 3 people top to kill me at the tower and we gained dragon I felt like it was more of a win. In fact most of the time I would rather have the pressure on me because I can directly control how I react to and what benefits I give the team. If bot lane is getting camped and I have no tp and they don't ward and feed the Vayne till shes scary I have much less control over that then if I can spot out the jungler and just end up losing cs or even if I give up a kill at least it's something I can work on. But to answer your question I think in lower elo's and with people who only know how to win when they have the advantage camping one lane can definitely put someone on tilt. Especially when they "Counter" pick you with a champ they've never really played with.

Truly Prideful10/12/2015, 11:16:10 PM1 votes

That's what I generally do in those semi-rare occasions I jungle. Just repeat gank the same lane over and over. You essentially turn the game into a 5v4 in favor of your team as long as your other two lanes go even. Bonus points if the champion you're pummeling is something like Yasuo / Vayne / Azir because the longer it takes them to get rolling, the better your chances of winning become.

Now if I'm on the end getting camped, I generally don't get too upset. I stay pretty zen at all times and usually in top I'm playing something with high impact even at low gold so I just ward up and farm at my turret while I watch for teleport plays. The more time their jungler wastes on me, the more I tell mine to dump on their botlane.