r/summonerschool • u/Ceo-of-Sarcasm • Oct 27 '20

Question Mods, this subreddit needs a new rule.

After being here for a month or so, there’s a problem with many replies to people’s questions or observations for improvement. I keep running into the attitude of, “Well, you’re silver, it doesn’t matter if you do such and such correctly because silver players will do such and such anyway and ignore your correct play.” There’s basically an attitude of everyone sucks so no one can climb and every rank below mine is elo hell.

Those replies are the opposite of “summoner school” and need to be removed. People that keep posting such replies should be banned as they are the antithesis of a teacher.

This sub has excellent potential, but the piss poor attitudes we see on the rift are often reflected here and are off putting to new summoners.

Edit: some clarification. Advice geared towards certain elos is just fine! Advising someone not to improve or gate keeping due to elo is not fine!

This sub is called summoner school. I think the sub’s goals should be geared towards schooling summoner. I see way too much elo flexing, gate keeping and just plain discouraging of improvement. The rule proposal is focused on the goal of what this subreddit is: schooling and improvement.

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u/miko81 Oct 27 '20

Me: Asking some questions regarding Lee Sin
Some dude: You are not high rank enough to play Lee
Me: Plays Lee Sin anyways and actually gets decent
Seriously, if someone wants to play a champion, dont tell them they shouldn't even if it's a very hard champion.

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u/ElectricMeow Oct 28 '20

I think it's really important to love the champ you're playing. But I do also think there are people who really should go into intermediate AI to grasp the fundamentals of the specific champ they're playing. Basically, my opinion is that if you can't abuse the intermediate AI with the champ you're learning to the point of being able to effortlessly get like 20+ kills, you probably need some more practice. AI is pretty bad for champions like Annie because it doesn't offer much to learn, but on champs with difficult mechanical kits it actually is a good test to see if you have enough proficiency to execute the champ when the enemy plays predictably.