Talk:Surrendering/@comment-27954102-20160311100532

Granted I'm not up to ranked yet (I'm only at level 20) but a lot of people really seem to hold onto that "if it's not a guarunteed win, it's a waste of time" mentality. I was recently in a game where I was playing Tryndamere top lane and the Volibear jungle started wreaking havoc. A couple of people pretty much gave up and started spamming the surrender at the 20 minute mark. I tried to help, but I'm terrible in team fights with trynd. I decided to push lanes to take off the pressure. Eventually, I pushed one lane back...then another...all while the enemy team was soaking up the kills. The Call of Duty mentality seems to be strong in the game, or at least in the lower levels of the community. With the enemy holding over twice the kills as us, one player willing to change strategies managed to take advantage of a weakness and push back. One enemy nexus tower was destroyed by the time the enemy took our nexus, but I was the bad guy for holding back the surrender vote. Again, I'm very early in the game, but one thing I've found that I absolutely love about this game is that it is NOT call of duty. It is not kill-based, but objective-based. Kills are nice, but if you are willing to come up with new strategies and think outside the box you can fight the odds and try to win. At the very least, holding off the surrender vote can lead one to practice a bit and learn from the situation. How do you fight back when outnumbered and outleveled? Players are all too quick to pull the plug on a game for simply being outplayed because they want to be in a game where they are outplaying others. It may sound cheesy, but I think a lot can be learned from being defeated by a better team and learning from your mistakes instead of ignoring the mistakes and jumping into another match. Of course, you have to put up with a bigger loss on your match history, but again if you are losing anyway, why not try to outplay them by trying something new? You have very little to lose.