In this post, I would like to talk about a relatively new way of playing singed that has popped up. This way is known as proxy, or suicide singed.
For those of you who may not know, let me explain to you the basics of how this works. First of all, you always take teleport for a summoner spell. Next, you take either ghost or flash as your other. Now for gameplay, you spend the entire game ignoring enemies and turrets and just farming behind your enemies turrets.
Now at first this may sound like a bad idea because it makes you an easy kill a lot, but keep in mind, you are singed, and you have teleport. This means two things. 1: when you get a minions wave with any amount of ap gear at all, that wave will die if you try to kill it, stopping your enemies from pushing, and 2: you can get back to lane fast.
So, you may die a lot, but you are constantly getting a lot of farm, and pushing turrets. You also decrease your own worth each time you die, eventually making yourself be worth less than a minion so long as you don't get kills and assists, which you are not trying to get. So then your opponent has a choice, let you run rampant on their minions and eventually turrets, or go try to kill you again for almost no gold. Neither of these is a good choice, and since you are still getting farm, you will be hard for them to kill alone. If you drag the jungler or mid along to kill you too, that just means your team can do more elsewhere. This is a win win for you, and there is hardly any counterplay.
So now on to why this is toxic.
First of all, this is one of the most unfun things to play against I have ever heard of, second on to release stealth champions in my opinion. It just puts you in a place where you feel like there is no right decision, because no matter what you do, singed accomplishes something he wants to, even if you do everything right!
Secondly, there is no counterplay. You can chase singed around and kill him, but he is still getting farm, and is a very hard champion to kill 1v1. Bringing teammates along just allows singed's team to have more freedom at other places on the map. Your only real hope at this point is for your team to do so well, that it doesn't matter what happens top lane, you are going to win anyways; and let's face it, how often does that happen?
Lastly, a strategy that involves you dying over and over, while still gaining gold and giving none to your opponents is just plain stupid. League of Legends is meant to be a risk reward game, and playing singed in this way makes the opponent takes risks for pretty much no reward, while you and your team are easily rewarded. The opponent has to risk missing farm and taking turret damage, for the reward of a decreasing gold pool from this singed. Worst case scenario you actually die to this singed and then he just get's even more free reign over your turrets and minions unless someone else can come in and stop him.
So basically, because this type of gameplay has no real counterplay, and makes it to where your opponent cannot earn any rewards, it is a strategy that is extremely toxic to the game, and hopefully Riot will soon make this unviable, because it is detremental to the game, and needs to be stopped before it ruins more and more games, and frustrates more and more players.
Hope you all enjoyed this one!
Until next time!
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-Rikukun
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