"stop trying to kobe in my face; it's toxic" Forum posts

Letting someone struggle or refusing to heal them after they Kobe in your face is harming the team, but Kobeing in someone's face in the first place isn't? When you Kobe in someone's face you wasted your teammate's time, you cost them more BPs than you earned, you denied valuable perk procs, and you destroyed the mutual trust between you and that teammate. This will hurt the team, since you now have to expect that player to play selfishly. When you can no longer trust that player to make the right play for the team you are forced to play sub-optimally. Even making an unsuccessful attempt to Kobe in someone's face does this.

The bloodpoints you deny your teammates by doing this can be really substantial too. I run WGLF in every survivor build. A WGLF stack is usually worth like 5-8k BPs, in addition to the 2-2.5k you get for the unhook and the subsequent heal that you might refuse to do if someone kobes in your face. So, not only are you costing your teammate like 7-10k BPs in exchange for 1.5k points for yourself, you're also causing them to entirely waste all of the time they spent running over to the hook during which they normally would have been helping the team and accumulating more BPs.

This is just the BP side, though. Kobeing in someone's face denies extremely useful in-game perk effects, like 90 seconds of We'll Make It, Borrowed Time, or Deliverance. Your decision to Kobe in someone's face can often be the difference between dying and escaping.

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By all means, Kobe in someone's face for some extra survival BPs or to have fun; you're of course entitled to play the game however you'd like. Still, you have to acknowledge that this is an extremely selfish play that hurts the team. If your teammate doesn't take kindly to it and decides to let you struggle, don't give me a shocked pikachu face and run to the forums. Actions have consequences, and your teammates are also entitled to play the game however they'd like. I know I would personally rather harm the team in one match in order to teach a teammate a lesson that will benefit the team in subsequent matches.

TL;DR making a selfish play in a team game is a dick move

Good players should realize more than bad players how detrimental it is to the team to make a play like this.

"If you disagree with me you're a bad player" lol

Pro tip: whatever you think is "just a dumb millennial zoomer thing" most likely isn't.

Haha, usually when it's some slang that I don't understand, I assume "This is some 'I'm too old and don't get it' sort of thing, right?" I've never seen the term applied anywhere else, but then again I am also mostly very sports-dumb.

I was born in 1980, so I am right on that "Xennial" knife-edge between GenX/millennials, where I can't fully/entirely identify with either cohort.

Point taken!