User blog:Fistful of Force/Do not fight your team.

Riot's put out a lot of good vids over the years, but one particular line in the Teamwork OP one struck me as important. Teammates who are nice generally win 10% more games... but Ragers lose 30% more.

I duo a lot with a pretty good Diamond friend of mine, who definitely has the skills to be challenger. But, as I continued to duo with him, I noticed that he could never get any of his smurfs to diamond too. And so, I wondered why.

It was after a while that I realized that he had a really bad habit. Of fighting his teammates.

All the time.

Bad gank? Rage. Win lane, destroy tower? Refuse to group. Or sometimes he would just call people bad.

I'm not saying that he's a bad person, or a rager. But I also realize that it definitely hurts his performance a ton, sometimes when it really matters. When you compliment someone you have to think about his performance, and work on a the team. In other words, you're using your brainpower on the game. When you Rage, you don't have to be accurate, or even remotely coherent. You just need to hurt someone.

It only hit me after I saw "Teamwork OP", that the reason that Ragers lose way more than Non-Ragers is because you spend so much brain power raging that you lose all that brain power for the game. In other words, Raging has three times the impact on gameplay as being a Saint does because it uses more Brain power.

You know who you are. XD