Pogo
4521
I rage at games. I never throw the game. If a surrender vote fails, keep playing.
Then, with all due respect, you’re part of the problem. The correct response is something along the lines of “yeah, I know it can be frustrating, but stick with it” or “hey, you’re not doing that bad”. If you’re an asshole to someone who’s probably just looking for a little sympathy or encouragement, then you deserve the player community you get.
That said, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the LOL community for the most part. I’ve been particularly surprised at how gracious people can be in the post-game chat.
-Tom
I am not ashamed of the money I have spent on LOL, it has been a great deal of fun and I enjoy helping a “small” independent like Riot. I don’t get why people still get a bit angsty about they pay-for elements, 450ip gets you a competitive hero, it is a free game without the devs screwing you if you don’t spend bucks. Love it.
If the game is over, I don’t see much point in beating my head against the wall. I’d rather do more important things (post to qt3/watch cat videos on youtube).
Pogo
4525
This is true. Some people do help out in postgame lobbies, or shoot the shit about great plays or bad mistakes during the game. Usually you can almost always ask what you could have or should have built better on your champion and get a decent response, though perhaps not always the most well-informed since some people are eccentric in item builds.
It’s a team game. Why should I be nice to anyone who wants to run off and fuck over the other 4 people who spent their time playing the game? I mean really, it’s incredibly childish and immature and I simply don’t have time for it.
Thankfully I don’t have to worry about that stuff though, I have a huge group of people with whom I’ve become good friends to play and have fun with.
The Qt3 crowd are great - except I feel bad when I utterfailzsuck and bring down the team :(. Will keep trying to learn more and get better!
bluemax
4528
Lord (Tryndamere) knows I’ve failed the team on my fair share of games. I don’t think anyone here really gets mad at anyone from Qt3 for messing up. We do have some friendly running ribbing that goes on.
The only person I’ve played with through Qt3 that I never wanted to play with again was Ripplez, and only because he/she/it kept actively sabotaging games. If I wanted to play with people who were going to intentionally fuck me over I wouldn’t be queueing up in a 5 man arranged.
And a lot of people felt the same, so Ripplez ended up being banned. We play this game for fun (and not competitively 5v5) and at the end of the day nothing should get in the way of that.
Because people get discouraged? Because sometimes helping someone is a matter of being supportive? Because there’s value in trying to improve the level of interaction instead of sinking to someone’s else’s level? Because it’s really not that hard to take the higher road when it comes to online interaction? Because if you’re an asshole to that guy, it’s just going to make him that much more likely to be an asshole to someone else?
I guess the bottom line is that if you care about the community, telling someone to he sucks and that he should get the fuck out – as you suggested – when he says that he’s getting discouraged is far more destructive than the guy who’s getting discouraged.
-Tom
Agreed - I would far prefer to have a competitive test game against good bots first than what we have at the moment which is you can pretty much try any champion and whether you are good or not you will feel like a god :)
I don’t think he’s talking about people like you Tom, but more like people who act to end the game early by doing nothing or quitting. What you described is totally normal and fine.
copet
4533
I don’t care about the surrenderers as much I care about people who threaten to AFK. I have had that in 3 of my last ranked games, and two of them actually went AFK when we were WINNING just because we wouldn’t do what they said.
Really depends how the guy was acting. Some people you can save by positive reinforcement and some are so far gone that there’s no point in trying. If someone is being intentionally disruptive and they’re in the second group, you should do all you can to get them to ragequit so you can see if you have a chance 4v5.
Lance Hickey. I could give it another go. I’m playing Ashe pretty exclusively. Good character. I feel naked when I can’t play her.
I feel naked when I play her, too squishy for me :p
Some thoughts about trist and corki. I have played both a fair amount now - corki less, but still a dozen games or so. And… I am just not quite feeling the love for corki compared to Trist, another range physical carry.
Let me outline the positives and negatives as I see them.
- corki is slow, really slow. And big and obvious.
- corki’s blind won’t knock someone out of an ultimate like trist’s ultimate does.
- both have a handy escape mechanism.
And the biggest for me is that trist just seems to do more damage. Sitting on a full manamune, Shen, bloodthirster, black cleaver (ie, 280 damage or so) I don’t find Corki eating people the way a similarly fed Trist with her Q on would. Yes, Corki has those really fun long-range rockets, but they aren’t going to win a team fight (other than in run-away pokes). At least, not compared to how I have experienced Trist four-shot enemy carries.
I know I R NuB so I am hoping to hear some perspectives from others.
copet
4538
Don’t get manamune on Corki, for one. Get some mana regen runes and sheen will give you a nice enough mana pool. I’d get sheen, black cleaver, and then trinity force.
Tom, people will literally say “Why did you start with item <X>? Sell it or I AFK!” As in, you haven’t even gotten to your lane yet (>1 minute in) and someone’s threatening to ruin your game. All you can do is report those people and hope that RIOT eventually bands their account.
For Pogo:
Guardsman bob is quite good at lol, and plays a lot of Xin. He streams regularly, and does great commentary.
