2012-04-23, 07:17 AM
ElectricSix Wrote:If you don't have the time/can't mention it immediately cause you're last hitting, you can still ping the back button (defaulted to v). If i see someone like TF run towards top, or bot, I immediately do that, tying ss, or care bot/top, can take too long for someone like TF, but even for other champs, that back ping can alert someone to the danger better than tying in chat would. People won't always listen to you, and you might make them miss some cs/exp, but it's better than them feeding the enemy team kills. And if it saves them even once, I generally consider it a success, assuming you're solo queued of course.
[COLOR="#cc8899"]I use the general ping to proxy an mia call, not the back ping - the back ping is alerting your team to stay away from something or to retreat, the general ping is to draw focus or attention.
Something to stay away from, though, is spamming pings - the one that bugs the pomegranate outta me is getting 3 or 4 pings within a second from the same person. A single ping gets my attention, multiple pings distract and annoy me. Pinging to retreat when someone is being cc'd or ambushed by the enemy is also irritating - no pomegranate I need to retreat from a 1v3 fight, I'm TRYING to do that but I've got 2 stuns, a snare, and a perma slow on me (I tend to focus on split pushing mid/late game as Skarner if my ult is on cooldown or we're having a tough time pushing a tower. I figure either I'll get the tower while my ranged teammates harass and force them to defend or I'll force someone to react to me, helping my teammates push again. Occasionally this does result in most of the enemy team showing up to kill me).
Point being, a warning is only useful before a problem occurs, not after. [/COLOR]