User blog comment:Zeowolf0/Wolf's Rant - Victory vs Honor/@comment-5194571-20130404133948

For me, it depends. If the lane would snowball hard and then I win the lane straight off of that, then no. I'm bored of easy lane wins for free just because I shold be in gold, but do not play ranked (waiting for duo partner to hit 30, he plays less than me) and therefore, play with bronze players when I do play the very rare ranked game. I want to win my lane, of course, but I want to actually earn it to be able to say "Yup, I beat that person by myself with my own skill and knowlege" rather than "Yup, I beat that person because I had an unfair advantage."

If they were ahead of me because they were a counterpick, or got a gank or outplayed me earlier or something, I probably would. I could make the lane more even and learn more from it. I'd also have more fun if they come back quick enough, as hard lanes are way more fun than free win lanes.

There are times, however, when you kill a dc'd person and don't know. Ever had those moments when someone was last hitting under turret, then they dc, meanwhile, you have been poking at them since before the dc, then go in to finish them off. THEN after that "A summoner has disconnected!" You know those? You find out afterwards? Sadly, not much we can do about them.

On the topic of disconnects, I HATE it when someone disconnects, but the team flame them for AFK. Regardless of the team, I do defend that person, because 90% of the LoL community are ignorant and immediately see an opputortunity to blame their loss on someone else, and so, turn something innocent and uncontrollable into something malicious and intended. I NEVER, EVER flame for disconnects, heck, I never even talk about them in-game unless it's to defend someone from a-hole team mates.

Finally, AFK's aren't always a bad thing. Once I was playing a game and we had a Nasus that had gotten really fed in the early and mid games, and the game itself had reached that late game point. We were in the enemy jungle, Nasus was hiding in the brush right next to red buff. I got caught while my team was coming down from the river. Nasus had gone AFK, (warning us beforehand, and telling us he would only be gone a few seconds as he needed to change his mouse) so I led the enemy team to Nasus who automatically started beating on them with autoattacks. The enemy team, upon seeing Nasus hesitated, but went in. Seconds later, the rest of my team arrived and Nasus came back mid-fight and blew up 3 people pretty quick. We won the game off of that teamfight. My point here is that if someone is AFK (not long enough to be disconnected by the AFK detection system), then use that to your advantage. For all you know, it may just work out. It's better than raging anyhow, which gets you nowhere.