And again! Had a Joule player decide after just 5 minutes that we were gonna lose and spawned camped the rest of the match. Why? Why ruin the game intentionally for everyone else?

By aggressive builds, I mean, Aftershock, Eve of Harvest, and Clockwork, with Travel/Journey Boots, either a Warhorn, or Contraption and either a Fountain of Renewal, or a Shiversteel. That's a lot of gold! That's gold that has to be taken from one, or typically both of the carries and usually slows both carries from leveling up, as an added bonus. If I KNEW that was the intended build, I would go a true support and happily feed. But encountering this blind is tough to adjust to. It...

If you don't intend to play to end, please don't join a match. I can't tell you how many games I've lost just in the last 2 weeks, due to someone quitting because they died a couple times quickly and quit the match. Pull on your grown up pants. Take your beating. Learn your lesson. Finish matches. It's really that simple. I've played over a thousand matches and have had less than 5 AFKs and all were connection related. Just a week ago, I had 5 AFK losses IN A ROW! Had two already just...

Cry me a river! I've been slaughtered by teams, but I've also dished out a beating on some teams. Also, there are a handful of players I play with regularly. Does that not make us a team? Even if we're not "officially" a team. Some times we chat over Skype. Does it help? Sure. But only in that we can give more clear feedback and coordinate our attacks and builds a little better. That doesn't guarantee a win. No matter what, the game rewards team work. Those that can get it together,...

I'm sorry, but just saying adapt to the new play style is not a good response in my opinion. In my experience, both trying the aggressive builds and playing with people using them, they don't generally go well. At all. I just finished a game with TWO "supports" going for aggressive builds. All they succeeded in doing was starving me of gold (CP Ringo in the lane) which meant I couldn't build quick enough, or level up fast enough. I ended up with the lowest gold total on my team....

I guess the gold stealing part is the part that gets me the most. I happened to have ended up with three games in a row as a jungler (Koshka, or Krul) with s Catherine that did not pick Ironguard Contract and was taking gold off me and the laner when we helped in the lane. Non tank builds on Catherine don't scale quickly so she doesn't really shine until the late game, which is when her support/tank items would be more useful for the team. Most people when they see a soft Catherine pick...

There seems to be move toward non-tank builds on Catherine. They work if you can dominate the match early. If you can't, you're screwed. AND they end up starving the jungle carry :(

So lately I've been trying to learn how to use Krul effectively and I have to say it's a been a frustrating experience thus far. It seems like every time I play against, or with a Krul, they burst down whoever they're and they're sticky as hell from the start. For me? Not so much. More often than, I'm lucky to get a couple of stacks up, then the enemy is off and running and when I execute Spectral Smite, I might get a small sliver of regen/life steal. In the meantime, if there is any other...

I just finished a game as Ringo where I was get flare spammed by Krul and Catherine from like minute 2 on. At the end of the game, I checked their builds. Catherine had Boots and a Contraption. Krul had a Warhorn, Travel Boots and Shiversteel. I was working with a Tension Bow, Breaking Point, Oak heart, Boots and Armor. The breaking point was a miss click on my part, but still has value. I was building into a Sorrow Blade next. We lost this game in 12 minutes and these guys are spamming...

I'm not expecting the problem to go away by posting. But I'm still going to post about it because it does nothing to encourage team mates to rally to your cause. If anything, it does the opposite. I know when someone starts that crap on my I basically ignore all flares from that point forward. I get it if you flare a couple times to show displeasure. I get that. No problem with that. But to spend the rest of the game spamming me, or literally flaring all over the map is flat annoying.