User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Don't Die./@comment-5556439-20131020220905

OP doesnt mean a literal 3x death. Its figurative and metaphorical.

Ping is honeslty the #1 thing that keeps high performance players out of higher leagues. Later on in the match having about 170-200 ping isnt AS big of a deal as it was during the early game, but its still a HUGE barrier and I mean HUGE barrier to your performance and skill ceiling. Having anything worse than 100 ping is honestly awful if your playing competitively at a high level. You want around 60-80 ping.

People really under value responsiveness and dont seem to get how important having great ping is pre-15 minutes.

On deaths, you're totally right. And people talk about "Oh I am not worth anymore than like 3 creeps now lol, I can die as much as I want no probs guys". So? Your still giving XP up and creating an even larger gap between you and the enemy XP wise. Also, even if your level 6 and the entire enemy team is 18, if your someone like Zyra or Lulu that has a great kit and is powerful regardless of situtaiton you need to be alive for AS LONG AS POSSIBLE to make plays and prevent the enemy from making plays. So dying is very very bad. And the higher in MMR you get, the harder it is to stop the snowballing effect. Especially against the top ~10 champ picks at the moment. People dont give up leads very easily at High MMR.