Imagine that: All 5 of the enemy team is alive, and your team pings to do their boss on their side of the map. Now, that’s a bad call. What do you do?
- Join them
- Keep pushing your lane and ignore the bad call.
I see A LOT of people who consider themselves to have good understanding of the game pick #2. And I get it - because the call to do their boss is objectively a needlessly risky one.
But consider the actual consequences of your choices. Let’s say the bad call has 30% chance of success.
- If you join your team - you turn it into a 40% chance of success. You kill boss faster, you may win a team fight if it happens. It’s still not a good move to do! 40% isn’t good! But consider the alternative:
- You don’t join. You turn the potential fight they have in a 4v5. If they lose, the enemy gets boss for free and likely a massive advantage. Meanwhile your team blames you for not joining. Everyone’s mental is ruined. By not coming to the boss you took a 30% decision and made it a 10% decision with a 90% chance of massive losses. Do you really feel that much better that “you knew the right answer” if you still got a lane fully pushed in and a 3 level xp disadvantage?
That’s what I feel a lot of people don’t understand. Your decision not to do boss may be a correct one - IF you could get your team to listen to you. But if they don’t listen - leaving them 4v5 is an objectively worse decision. And I think a lot of people either don’t realize that or are too proud of their Deeper Game Knowledge and want an “I told you so” moment more than they want an actual game win in that instance.
So what is the correct thing to do?
Ping them to retreat. Ping danger in the jungle. Wait 5 seconds.
If your teammates listened - good.
If they didn’t - join them. You’re much better off taking the 40% bad decision than making it a 10% just because you’re stubborn.
I’ve seen multiple games being thrown because one guy decides that “he knows better” and just silently not join.