“I totally carried that game, it’s just these feeding teammates that made me lose!” This is a common refrain that a lot of League of Legends players will say after a particularly frustrating game of solo queue.
I get the impulse to try and rationalize what caused your team to lose and looking at baseline stats like KDA, damage, and the like tend to be the easiest ways to justify whether you were the cause of (or victim of) your team’s demise. But how much do those numbers justify claiming that you or your teammate carried or fed your game?
Over the past two years, I’ve charted every single statistic available across my three main roles – jungle, top, and support –
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