Talk:Feed/@comment-108.67.189.243-20120422225751

Feeders do not necessarily assist the enemy team intentionally. Players who are new to the game and thereby lack experience tend to die more often and more easily to skilled players. Feeding is also a vicious circle. By being killed, the killer gets stronger and is thereby even harder to defeat next time. This may result in a spiral downwards where the gap between the champion levels and equipments becomes wider with each kill, and thereby diminishes the chances of the killed champion to get back on the level of the other champions.

Besides non-intentional feeders are Griefers. Griefers are intentional feeders who die on purpose in order to actively feed the enemy team. They either do it in order to speed up the game's process if they do not see any chance to win anymore and the surrender vote failed, or simply to ruin other player's games. Since griefers usually lead their team into sure defeat, griefers are more likely to be found in very low level matches and become more rare on the higher level matches. Griefing is reportable.

Destructive criticism towards new players is against the summoner's code, but still a very common way to react to any kind of feeding. Though it surely is frustrating to have a new player who feeds the enemy team, ranting at him is considered bad manner.