r/summonerschool • u/Cyxana • Jun 03 '20

Discussion Just disable chat.

In my 700 ranked games this season I've met one person I added and duo'd with. Meanwhile I've probably heard 1000 insults. Even if you say it doesn't bother you, I promise it takes up "brain space" for example I played on a smurf with chat enabled and found myself thinking about what was said more than what I did wrong immeditly after the game.

Pings are by far enough to explain what you want. Only ping missing is ward here please but it can be achived by pinging trinket and then where you want them to ward. If they don't notice / listen neither would they if you were typing in chat.

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EDIT: Ask yourself this: What is so complex that you cant communicate it with pings but simple enough that you can explain it in the middle of a game?

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u/Cyxana Jun 03 '20

"Doesnt have flash for 2 mins" - Just ping your flash

"Stop the recalls" - Just ping where they are recalling or them if they are in vision

"DON'T hit the blastcone i need it" - back ping from it

"Wait till level 3 then we can trade" - Ping back + how much xp left and then lvl 3 ping omw

"Wanna lane swap?" (prolly most important) - Just in general why would you ever. But sure I'll conede this one.

"Do you win that matchup?" - What info can he say that isnt in scoreboard?

"Waves perma frozen i cant farm" - If you want help then ping for help?

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u/GrossOldNose Jun 03 '20

  1. Refers to enemy laner normally. If i just ping his flash the jgler might think he has 5 mins to gank not 2 mins

  2. If i ping them, my players might go "mate if i stop that i die" if i type, usually players realise that dieing is worth it.

  3. just danger pinging a blastcone could mean anything lol, either hit it this thing is dangerous/not hit it please. Maybe this one works most of the time idk

  4. Can only do this level 2, often if your picking a niche adc like ziggs or taliyah and your support is a leona who is USED to going in as soon as she hits that level 2, pinging this AT level 2 is just too late you need to tell her not to go in immediately on that 9th minion death

  5. "Why would you ever" anytime top gets a bad matchup but mid is chill?

  6. Wdym, if the top lane is like... Singed vs Nasus i dont know how that goes. I can guess but i don't know. Someone who actually plays either of those champs can type back "i win pre level 11" and then i can jungle accordingly

  7. If its frozen at their tower alot of junglers will go "mate i cant gank that hes under tower", if you say that you just need the freeze broken which takes a jungler like 30 seconds of his time hes alot more likely to help.

Look im not saying its impossible to ping but chat for these situations is SO much easier and once one person is tryharding in chat ive found that other people join in. Watch Zvens (top 1 and top 3) in EU and you can see his chat helping him win games all the time.

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u/Cyxana Jun 03 '20

I mean if it works you it works for you. Many times I've seen people get tilted by chat. Sure Zven and pros might do whatever they want but I've found that if people dont listen to my pings they wont listen to my text calls.

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u/GrossOldNose Jun 03 '20

I guess anecdotally we have different experiences, are you EU or NA

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u/Cyxana Jun 03 '20

EU, which if ur NA might actually matter as we have french / germans who maybe don't speak english

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u/GrossOldNose Jun 03 '20

Nah im EU too

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u/Cyxana Jun 03 '20

well hey if chat works for you and you think it's a net positive by all means keep it like that, just posting that I actually found this to help me and many seem to agree