I'm going to get this off my chest. I'm sure someone it classify this as "should be in rant thread" but I wanna make sure ppl will see it. Anjd I know someone will come in this thread to insult me, so don't bother. I'm posting this then forgetting it.
To the point:
PINGING DOES NOT SAVE SOMEONE IN A FIGHT
I just played a game as GP top like I always do. Like usual the enemy top chooses Rumble. I have never lost against Rumble until now. Why? Cause my jungler pinged me. The ping caused me to look at my map to see if he was gankiing, which caused the Rumble to hit me with his slow. Someone I dodged for 10 mins until that ping. The result was Rumble killing me, getting first blood, and me not being able to regain control of my lane, and him zoning me.
Ofc the team blames me for the loss we had, and reports me. Even though they all would run in 1v3+ against the enemy team and die.
Since the new ping system was implemented I have seen an increase in people who think pings are magical. You run into a bush, 3 enemies are there. Suddenly someone on your team floods the screen with pings like a magical Ping Fairy will swoop down and save you. IT DOESNT! It just distracts the person youre pinging.
And another point I would like to mention. The MIA ping is not calling MIA. This game has had an infestation of people over pinging, or pinging for the hell of it. Resulting in most players ignoring pings until a certain time. It's easier and safer for someone to see you said MIA or SS in chat, it's easier to discern from the short sentence, and in a generalized spot easier to see at a glance. If someone doesn't look at the minimap right as you ping(i.e dodging skill shots, or getting cs) then they will miss it and have to read the long sentence in chat of the pinger, and what he pinged. This will result in missed cs, or being hit by skillshots.
Ok..I'm done. AS I said, I know some of you will come in here, read just to the sentence of my last game, then insult me. So I won't be returning to this thread.
Infracted. Don't just create a thread to rant then leave it. We already have a thread for that. - Axethor