User blog comment:Nidhogg101/A Treatise on an Extinct Facet of League/@comment-14802729-20140127170111

So I'm going over these new comments made, and it makes me reconsider the state of education of today's youth because of the lack of reading comprehension implied by some of these posts. Now this doesn't apply to all the new posts, just some which should be evident.

So first thing that needs to be made clear: deviation from the norm =/= trolling or intentionally losing.

If you can't understand the above statement, then there's no use to even bother posting a comment because there's no common ground to establish a critical and thoughtful discussion.

If you are still reading, then good, we can now start a discussion on the merits and follies of both following FotM-Professionally established-current meta-games and using unorthodox builds/champs/set-ups/whatnot. What works, what doesn't work, what's game changing, what's an utter failure, etc. Game on.

As a side note, for those who claim that winning is fun for some players, then I would speculate that said players tend to be short-tempered and prone to emotional outbursts before listening to reason. Now, before someone wants to get up in my grill, here's a personal experience that I want to share.

I went into a ranked game duoing with a new player who friended me. We both went bot lane, she went Zyra, I went as Ashe. For the first 10 minutes of the game, we did horrible. I couldn't get farm, Zyra was leaving herself open, and we probably fed at least 9 kills to the other team and lost our outer turret. Needless to say, the rest of our team were nerd-raging at us and calling to have us reported, as though we intentionally wanted to lose. Well, my duo partner got fed up and left the game, after she couldn't take whatever criticism I gave her on our failure in lane. I apologized to my team, and said that I'm usually not this bad, but my support was really not supporting. Of course, the team didn't believe me and still wanted my head. By then, I was something like 1/4/1 and seriously outfarmed. But I knew I wasn't that bad, so I continued to play in our now 4v5 match. Eventually, I was able to set-up some nice kills with my "R" and rack up a few assists, and I stopped dying once we were 4v5. I even got a few kills to achieve a positive KDA for that game. I was warding the map, pushing lanes, and setting up kills for my team, and we eventually managed to win. At that point, the team totally forgot that I was a trolling-feeder-noob and even seemed to have fun by the end. Of course, the support was reported and the bitch unfriended me, but hey, a bitch is a bitch. So what's the moral of the story? Shut up and hold your criticism until the end of the game. Genuine griefers will make themselves obviously known, either by explicitly stating such, or being totally silent without communicating with his team. Bad players will still be bad players. And if winning is fun for you, then don't piss off your own teammates because your ego got bruised.