From: AlphaRayAllen | #299
A loss is a loss and the people are still all the f***ing same. You're the biggest piece of s*** if you lose, and every win comes so easy to them. Every fight is your fault.
I've had 2k+ players tell me I'm a s***** player who will never amount to anything. For the sake of argument lets say there are only two ways to take this.
I could listen to them and just quit trying to improve. (lol that)
Or I could not and try and play better the next time and the next time and the next time.
If your BIGGEST problem with LoL is that "people in the community make you feel badly about yourself" then you simply do not have what it takes to play competitively in any game ever because that kind of attitude will not foster any kind of drive to improve. (hint: a drive to improve is NECESSARY. Innate skill will only carry you so far)
So no, I really don't care how much Zazi learned about playing Fiddlesticks in that game
Zazi is improving at his level and that is EXACTLY what he should be doing. Let me say that again. Improving at his level of play, even if that just means going from a "completely inept" jungler to a "somewhat inept" jungler is EXACTLY what he needs to be doing.
He made strides and knows more specific information about buffs, counter jungling and other important things to consider when you are in the position of jungler. I am glad he gave it a shot and I had fun playing games with him. We lost a lot, sure, but a few things happened.
1) We joked and had fun pretty much throughout. ("dat flash ult, err I mean ult flash")
2) He actually made a few "real" fiddle ults. Zazi normally plays support which is a very reactionary role. Supports do general things in a passive way to counteract things being done by allies and opponents alike. Something happens which cause the support to do something in response. But Fiddle is a horse of a different color. You don't wait for something important to happen because YOU are the important thing that is going to happen. You read the situation, you start your channel and then you CAW CAW CAW. Being able to do this well (even if only a handful of times) involves a very different set of skills than he has previously honed while playing LoL.
There is absolutely no reason to demean this and absolutely no reason to feel badly about losing games in which things as good as this are occurring.
And I think that is all I have left to say on the matter. I'll still play with you in the future if you want because I'm pretty relaxed about who I play with. When it's a ranked game I turn on my serious face, naturally, but for the most part I just want to see people improve and have fun while doing it.
Ah, and a quality post from red while I was typing this up. ^^what he said.
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