08-12-2011, 04:00 AM
I should have also said that I 100% agree with trying to spread around assist gold. More team gold = more team advantage = better chance of winning. Winning is awesome. How else are we going to get external validation if we just lose?
The term "kill steal" gets used in a lot of cases where it shouldn't be. The last game I played I was Cait. We had a Kassadin chasing someone down. Kass was almost out of mana (I checked after this, he had 24 MP) and was chasing down one of the enemy teammates. I just barely get in range of my snipe and queue it up. Before the shot goes off, Kass blinks onto the enemy and hits him with a Q and his autoattack (he is then at the aforementioned 24 MP) and my ult goes off and gets the kill. The Kass then whines that I KS'ed him. Kass did the absolute maximum amount of damage he could with the resources available to him and could not kill. At that point it is not a KS. It is me giving him an assist instead of nothing. Yes, he ended up doing most of the work, but, as it turned out, he didn't do enough. I didn't waste time explaining that to him, I just said "sry was trying to help" and went back to my lane.
The other time KS gets misused is when two people are equally (or almost equally) contributing to a fight and one person just gets the killing blow before the other. This is usually when I get annoyed because, say, Taric or Amumu got the kill over my Corki. That's not a KS. That's just unfortunate.
As a point of clarification, when I get annoyed about that, it's not about the other person 90% of the time. I'm annoyed because I misjudged the amount of damage I could do and ended up getting an assist instead of a kill. That's usually annoyance about timing or position or something like that. People shouldn't take that personally. If I feel like the other person did something that caused them to get the kill instead of me, I'll points that out ("Taric: use your shatter at the beginning of the fight so they have less armor instead of when they're almost dead" would be an example).
The term "kill steal" gets used in a lot of cases where it shouldn't be. The last game I played I was Cait. We had a Kassadin chasing someone down. Kass was almost out of mana (I checked after this, he had 24 MP) and was chasing down one of the enemy teammates. I just barely get in range of my snipe and queue it up. Before the shot goes off, Kass blinks onto the enemy and hits him with a Q and his autoattack (he is then at the aforementioned 24 MP) and my ult goes off and gets the kill. The Kass then whines that I KS'ed him. Kass did the absolute maximum amount of damage he could with the resources available to him and could not kill. At that point it is not a KS. It is me giving him an assist instead of nothing. Yes, he ended up doing most of the work, but, as it turned out, he didn't do enough. I didn't waste time explaining that to him, I just said "sry was trying to help" and went back to my lane.
The other time KS gets misused is when two people are equally (or almost equally) contributing to a fight and one person just gets the killing blow before the other. This is usually when I get annoyed because, say, Taric or Amumu got the kill over my Corki. That's not a KS. That's just unfortunate.
As a point of clarification, when I get annoyed about that, it's not about the other person 90% of the time. I'm annoyed because I misjudged the amount of damage I could do and ended up getting an assist instead of a kill. That's usually annoyance about timing or position or something like that. People shouldn't take that personally. If I feel like the other person did something that caused them to get the kill instead of me, I'll points that out ("Taric: use your shatter at the beginning of the fight so they have less armor instead of when they're almost dead" would be an example).
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