Faith in community: lost.
My sunday gaming opens up with a fail game, destroying my already fragile good mood. (One of my friends calls it "
the Red Days of Public Destruction". Could be a good title for some metal album.)
On my first game this sunday evening I cannot support 'cause there's a premade duo that asks for bot, telling us (almost cit):
"
OMG let us support I'm on smurf 100% win bot 99% win games let us premade OMG FFS BBQ"
...of course [spoiler] they failed hard bot :V
No problem, I sigh: I pick Maokai and go jungle. And I did a really good job early, I took FB from enemy Ryze diving our Cassio (no assist from her btw, so it was not a steal ^^) and gave both mid and top a couple of kills in the first 10'. Bot was too pushed to gank and lane brush was warded, so I left the guys alone for a while :-/ just warding now and then when I was passing by.
...and still top and bot were dying because enemy Shaco was ganking and that they could do nothing about that. (
Woooo! Shaco is ganking! Who would've imagined that??)
I told them to ward properly and also warded for them most of the times, but still no result.
Our mid to late game play was terribly bad, everyone was running alone around the map, couldn't focus in team fights (were there teamfights ever? I can't remember well). Long story short, we were outplayed and lost in the most annoying way: team mates not being a team.
It was a well deserved fail, tbh. Well, I think I played pretty well early and mid game :-( but still coudln't do a thing in late, so its my fault too. I was
really nervous due to this Taric and Graves spamming and complaining all the game long (caps lock power unleashed, obviously).
I was so nervous that I even forgot to check my rating :-/ I should've lost around 33 ELO, though. So I guess I was around 1230.
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I won't give up. I'm still angry from before, and decide to go support no matter what others say. If I can pick support, I do it.
Stop.
I write in chat I'm going to go support, and someone else tells me "no I go support I can only play this role". I feel my already compromised calm breaking, and answer that "
if you can manage to play only one role, you shouldn't queue up for ranked". And since I was before him in champion select, I pick support.
Here's the dialogue that followed (cut&paste'd):
S1: let her go support plz
S2:
i'm a girl and i just know to play support :(
S1: its the only possition she can play
Me:
I am a girl too and have no pity for other girls
S2: ahah
Me: again dont play ranked if u dont know other roles :)
...well, wanting to play a role and begging others to let you
'cause you're a girl? Wrong move. I hate this kind of behaviour. I'm a girl too and I play LoL, but I NEVER - not even once - did want others to do something for me just because I've got boobs. And believe me, I do. Whoa!! Anger level rising to 120%! The last thing I want to meet is a girlie girl who uses this "
wohooo I'm a female" thing to justify the fact that she can't play well.
GROAR!
Besides that... looks like she finally chose Teemo and went top. Later on, we discovered that it was a boy who was playing Teemo. He was playing on his Aunt's account, 'cause she only could play Sona.
Again, this just made me more angry about the whole thing. You
can only play one character (not just only one role, but
one damned single char) and
you still want to play ranked games? No. Just no.
As I could imagine, Teemo top had only support mastery/runes too, and the boy fed enemy's top early. Still he was complaining in chat that it was my fault (sure, I was the one who forced you into ranked queue... sigh. Couldn't you just leave instead? -.-) and I was answering that he shouldn't play ranked then. Team spirit: disrupted, even before the game actually started.
BUT.
I was bot with this Corki. We managed to hold the lane but weren't really shining either. He played a decent Corki, I was a bit rusty with Leona (I picked almost only ranged supports recently). However it wasn't his gameplay, but
his attitude that really impressed me.
I didn't notice it at first, but he was only writing nice things in chat, trying to cheer up the entire team and encouraging us to do our best and not to give up.
At first I wasn't paying attention to him: I was too busy "chatting" with our top (it wasn't a real flame, but almost became one). I thought he was one of these
honour-seeking addicts who just writes something nice to receive others' positive votes after game. But he wasn't one of them.
This guy kept our morale raised the whole time, giving tactic suggestions, not blaming anyone for a team fight loss and cheering for our wins.
Without him, we would've certainly lost this match. He surely was playing a good ADc, but without him keeping up our team spirit we would've surely loss due to flaming and nervousness. He kept us focused and we gradually forgot about our complaints and rage. We've turned the situation around, and
changed a sure loss into a well deserved win.
After the game, he added me to his friend list, and I gladly played another match with him. Infected by his good mood, I started acting like him and we both were raising our team's morale.
We won that game too. Besides, we were a good match in bot lane, quite on the same wavelenght. It was a pleasure to play with him and I hope to repeat this experience soon!
2 matches, current rating: 1294.
Faith in community: restored!
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This positive experience made me change my mind about a lot of things, and I understood the real meaning of the "supporting" role.
I can't win games alone by playing a support.
However,
I can help my team win by being actively supportive.
I think I am almost ready to climb this ELO Hell ladder now :-)
