Originally Posted by
Hanyuu
I recently started playing ranked to see where I deserved to be (silver 4) and one of the games, we were outscored pretty badly in the laning phase, like maybe 10 kills. The Garen up top was saying it was over since they were out farming us minion wise too, but we all fought on and something clicked in the team phase. We just dominated them again and again. It was probably due to composition; I think we had Sona aoeing stunning and they didn't stick together as well as they should have. We completely turned the game around.
I think people just tend to think oh no, we are down kills, let's surrender. That's just completely the wrong way to win. Yeah, you'll probably lose if you are down, but you do turn them around.
I was on a premade team doing the blind queue for practice, and the enemy team was Alistar, Ad Thresh (both double top), Anivia, Corki and Mundo support. Our team was Riven (myself), Trynamere Jungle, Morganna, Sona, and Caitlyn. We completely got rocked by the two at top early on. They just rolled with their minions and destroyed my tower pretty easy and my jungler wasn't able to stop them. Corki and Mundo lost less dramatically to our carry, but it was still pretty bad. We were down something like 15 kills at one point and they were even taunting us pretty badly, but when the team phase turned around, we forced Corki to die or retreat and then focused Thresh. The other three couldn't do any damage compared to our composition.
The point I am wandering around is, you really just have to keep fighting regardless of the situation. You get more ip and there's a portion of the games that will turn around. As long as you have good spirits yourself, there's one less player on your team that will afk or disconnect or troll your team. If someone flames me, I try to say I am still learning and ask for advice and usually try to disarm the situation. Be the puppet master, and make the others do what you want. I wish I could hotkey, "Wow, that team fight went well. We should stick together and repeat it." The best tip out there is how to herd a bad player. Flaming them will just make them unhappy and make it harder. If you flatter them, even if it is true, then you can coax them into helping you win.