I had to report a player in Champ 2... | RTSSL 2024 #18 

Whats the reason why they do that though? On a high ranked game, they just get deranked just to farm items they already have?? Whats the purpose?

​@@JDMricistassuming you're talking about smurfs, it's all about trolling and boosting their egos by humiliating lower ranked opponents

Hes doing the same thing and so are others. Although not as harsh, leths game sense is so much better than these guys that they dont stand a chance

@@Mithrandir0397 I am GC and have a couple diamond 1 friends I like to play with. Everyone says smurfing is wrong but it is unavoidable for me. When I play on my main with my diamond friend I de-rank down to c1-c2 ish and everyone just calls me a shit gc. Then when I solo q and go back up to GC everyone calls me an ego stroking smurf. Like the only option for me to avoid smurfing is to not play with my friends. All of us higher ranked players are not going to stop queueing with friends just because people have a problem with it. If I want to play with my friend I will play with my friend

@enigma5195 There's a gamemode for that ya know? (Casual)

fr lol

SO MANY people like this. it makes the game not so fun.

@@Tenacious_Legend This is why I play with QC only and immediately mute anyone who What a save! 's me toxically. Keeps my mental up lol.

Dude I saved a replay the other day of a 2v2 game where, 3 minutes into OT, I had space and was dribbling the ball and my tm8 came and slammed me out of the way. I was like “ight🤷🏻‍♂️” and drove away, and then watched as he immediately whiffed the ball as it was rolling with nobody challenging it. Opponent drove up uncontested and scored an open net and I got spammed with “What a Save!” To be fair I left for boost after he bumped me instead of staying close so definitely a mistake on my part, but like.. if he made the touch I would’ve had plenty of time. It was a total face palm, last game of the day kinda moment.

@@kpDiDDy Problem is that, it's not really a mistake, if you were higher ranked, it's just a mistake since your teammate is a buffoon. Not going for the boost could just as well be a mistake if you are stuck on the ground while the enemy is air dribbling and you can't contest the ball since you stayed and didn't go for the boost when your teammate obviously had the ball. It's only a mistake in hindsight, which is no mistake really since it really is all on your teammate. But obviously to rank up you have to know how to beat the enemies at the rank you are at and you have to work around the flaws of your teammates. I'm only d2 rn just so you know, so perhaps I'm wrong but as of now I don't think I am :D Lately though when I have tried just playing faster and ball hogging more (technically a mistake) and just being more selfish overall, and it has actually gone better for me since I'm winning more often. I just figured that there is no point in trying to make complicated passes or plays, or waiting for a pass from your teammate that will eventually just pass the ball perfectly to the opponent instead. A lot of teammates in diamond just doesn't seem to want to, or know how to pass well or position in a way were it is possible. Even in diamond 1 (mostly plat though) people just double commit in the opponents corner, especially if the play slows down were lets say I'm patiently trying to get the ball around the opponent or make it awkward for them, suddenly my teammate rams into the ball with supersonic speed straight into the corner making it bounce to midfield where the opponent can slowly drive forward with the ball and score an open net... AND to add onto that, imagine being up like 2 goals, wasting time is a great idea in that case since there is no need to risk going for goals, but people just don't think that deep and they will panic and get mad at you for taking your time with the ball and just steal it from you (probably just launch the ball to the opponents side, giving away possession (instead of a controlled dribble or whatever). Which reminds me of yesterday, a dude kept just shooting the ball away from both of us towards the opponent, so I started playing more selfishly and hogging the ball more since he just kept giving up possession, and the guy said "we need to pass" like I haven't been waiting the whole game for the dude to pass me and not just launch the ball away because he doesn't know what to do. We were losing 0-2 or something at the time with like 1 minute left.

I just had a game today where my teammate got toxic with me because I had the AUDACITY to take the ball away from the center of our own goal and bring it towards our corner and boost. He started spamming Okay, What a save, Nice Shot, etc. on everything. This was like you said, before and after I had multiple games of 500+ score wins.

Mystic is the kind of guy that has "good" control and speed but refuses to look at positioning. It worked until Champ and now they're stuck there.

Whats the purpose to derank? Just make a new account right?

@@JDMricist i actually find it harder to derank then to rank to where i am, i find it surprising they can not end up playing at some point they are afk watching something or are a bot for sure.

Bots have feelings now. Disney is gonna make a movie about it with wokeness

@@luismora9121 ROFL!!! So true.

@@luismora9121ok boomer

Every RLeaguer experiences this every time they play.

AYOO WHAT actually insane

“De-ranked Smurf” ? That’s a lot of baseless assumption lmao. Seems to me like he’s your every day cocky C2 who touched GC and now thinks he’s him.

>> "That's a lot of baseless assumption!" >> Makes baseless assumption Stay classy, internet.

@@Pico52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn’t 5 minutes of evidence that he was trying. Hilarious that you think you had the gotcha card, when really you’re just a pseudo intellectual halfwit 😂

@@Pico52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn't 5 minutes of evidence supporting otherwise. Hilarious, you thought you had the gotcha card😂 Stay stupid, internet

@@Pico52 It would be baseless assumption IF there wasn't 5 minutes of gameplay to support otherwise lmao. Hilarious, you actually thought you had the gotcha card XD

Me too dude, I miss cookies

@@quoththekraven5911 I've fallen for the 'FF for cookie' scam hundreds of times. Trust me... you'll never see that cookie.

When did you play with carballtubeman?

You played so ep1c bro!

damn, i'd kill for a free replay analysis like this

S3 GC was notorious for smurfs and people buying accounts at that rank

​@@MikeBeardythat was the first season 3.

thats clearly red not yellow/orange @@alexdavis9324

@@alexdavis9324 Nope, pre-Epic GC tags are gold, after Epic bought Psyonics they made GC tags red. So it's the second season 3

@@ImThe5thKing bro, actually the first season 3 with the golden letters was ACTUALLY the scuffed season where many people managed to get the gc title, get your facts straight

We're doing them at the end now!

Pin this. I preach no mercy rules all the time. But Leth is Canadian. AFK is unacceptable behavior and shows disrespect to the very concept of time and competition.

Being the arbiter of whether it's a 2v2 or if an own goal should happen is bad manners, imo. It's not common in your experience? Are we playing the same game? US-E is full of intentional idlers. I nearly can't play a single session without finding one on one of the teams - or people surrendering while winning at the very least.

​@@Pico52also in USE servers, and it sounds like you are being incredibly dramatic. Every game? Lol what rank?

​@@steelerfaninperusometimes maybe just something urgent came up IRL that you need to handle.

@@steelerfaninperu I do it if a guy loses connection cause that's not on them and usually do it until another person comes. If its a rage quit or afk and we're up I still do it to a degree cause running up the score just makes it take longer since it stops the clock. Do it enough to make sure we're up a goal and then just mess around.

I've learned that trying to control the ball below gc is almost impossible. Start a dribble and your teammate comes flying in like an ICBM to hit the ball off your car. Bounce dribble to start an air dribble and your teammate will bang it into the sidewall. I don't get mad when people try and make a play and fail, I get mad when people hit the ball just to hit it, with no real plan other than making contact. It annoys the fuck out of me.

@@demiseduke8000 exactly. You'd think by this rank they'd be over just chasing the shiney shiney.

@@demiseduke8000 In diamond it's so rare to get both teammates that understand what possession and control is. But when I do get paired with two players that respect each other's play style and pacing, we almost always win via a FF from the other team because we're just blowing them out of the water. It's so easy to tell when a game is flowing vs. when you get a chaser that's just causing confusion and chaos for everybody on the field.

How DARE you try to play intelligently while on my team! Surrender vote. Noob can't even boom the ball to the opponent.

@@demiseduke8000 I've noticed that if a ballchaser teammate rage quits, often the game becomes easier to play as a 2v3 because the bad teammate doesn't make terrible touches, like bang the ball to bad positions so the opponent can score. Also, taking control and possession of the ball often becomes easier. And maybe the enemy team relaxes thinking it should be an easy win and they're not used to playing against controlled plays. Talking about C1 though

Right I’m like why didn’t he go for that, playing passive asf😂

Why go through the trouble deranking so many games from GC than just making a new account and playing a few?

Maybe, but I think it’s more that ranked is broken. A lot of players are well under their normal ranks from previous seasons. So many GCs are in champ right now still.

You get the ones that paid for the boost and went back down and you get the ones boosting someone (probably what that guy is preparing that account for).

@@jbone6979 I also think a lot of people got carried to champ and start solo-qing and go down. and then the season reset puts them down into P3/D1. Even with the big rank resets, i've still maintained D3 in 2s through the last few seasons without any trouble.

@@Kaaarrrrlllll they for sure have. I play late at night and it’s nothing but GC1+ and diamond 1-. I’m talking like 95% of the games, every single night. It’s so infuriating having to find something that works against both at the same time. I’d rather play against two higher ranks than this crap.

with the nightmare goal explosion

See, that’s what I focus on more than mechs. The MAIN fundamentals REQUIRED for you to rank up. If my team8 pushes with me I back off. I’d rather be back for a save than get scored on with an open net. I’d rather rotate and be consistent in my shot taking than be able to hit a double flip reset.

im a diamond 2v2 player and i cant do anything in the air but i always try and have my fundamentals down first in every game

@@theroaringfelix8758 Lethamyr showcases this perfectly. Not to say he isn't mechanical but in majority of his videos, he's playing off his teammate and just making smart touches, putting the ball in places where he or his teammate can follow. He isn't constantly trying to ceiling shot or musty every single shot attempt. and then you see champs and diamonds who constantly trying to play faster than is even needed for the rank and when they miss or fall short, they get scored on by someone who just sat back and waited. It's the reason that it's a lot harder to play in lower ranks these days because you constantly get teammates who are holding boost 24/7 and cutting you off for awkward touches just because they think you're too slow, and it usually concedes a goal.

@@TheVibe671 and that’s the main issue I have with most of the playerbase. If you can’t trust me to make a play, then don’t play with randoms. My friends and I all trust each other. Not saying I don’t solo q nor am I not to blame for half of my losses, but still. Patience is a virtue. 72% of my goals, come from my team8 taking the ball and me following up with their bad touch and bad play

@@theroaringfelix8758 Based off this I can already tell you cut your teammate off a lot Lol. It's not about trusting your teammate to make a play. People constantly think that just because they CAN touch the ball then they SHOULD, and thats not how it works. Sure you can get to the ball faster than your teammate can but you're not gonna be able to touch the ball into a place that is advantageous to you or your teamate in any way and will mostly likely just spill back to the enemy team. So many people will make a bad touch and blame their teammate for not following up when they literally can't, and they think that they were making a play when they were really just putting their teammate in a "Save it or get scored on" situation. Even in champ, people still don't think about making good touches and only about making fast touches. Almost everyone in these ranks thinks that getting somewhere fast by using all their boost and winning a 50 that they're the better player, and that is defnintely not the case. It's the same reason using the scoreboard as a way to measure skill should not be a thing. Someone who is constantly on the ball will obviously have more poins than their teammate but that same person is also making multiple bad touches that slowly put your team in more and more awkward situations only to inevitably lead to a goal for the opponent. That same person is then gonna call his teammate bad for having less points and not being able to save an incredibly awkward shot that was probably given to them by the person who is constantly chasing the ball instead of playing patient. Lethamyr also demonstrates this perfectly at 19:19 . He is in a better position to put the ball in a good place for a follow up, but instead his teeammates cuts it into the side wall even though there is so much space downfield that he can use to control the ball.

I got 8 seconds old👍

How do you know it’s a banger when you haven’t watched it yet

I’ve never seen a leth vid that ain’t a banger

Thank you!

Exactly, the egotrip of some people is actually insane. Once you start using your brain and wait for the weak spot in the opponents play its the moment it clicks in your teammates brain to have to backpack you unnecessarily making the game hard for no reason. Then blaming it obviously on you.

Snitch

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​@imnotareptilian6489 Snitch is wild 💀

@@imnotareptilian6489 if you're gonna queue ranked, play the game instead of sitting there doing nothing.

@@imnotareptilian6489 Clown

Yeah, Leth also intentionally own-goaled during that match which is griefing/match-throwing. Unacceptable during competitive play.

would do that if i didn’t have to deal with tragic ping as i’m an oce player

😂