Statute of Limitations on calling lane MIAs?

The game stars and you all head off to your respective lanes. Standard courtesy is to call out in chat when an enemy hero disappears from your lane or you don't know where they are. Preferably soon so it's not too late. This is common practice.

...however at what point in the game does this stop becoming common practice? Usually at some point it devolves a bit and people switch lanes, defend others, etc. and no one really "has a lane" anymore, and everyone SHOULD be watching the minimap to get an idea of which enemies are accounted for.

Question:
At what point is it okay to stop calling lane MIAs, do you think?

Sometimes I find myself at the end of the bitchstick 20 minutes in even though everyone is level 7 and shifting around. There has to be some kind of limit or point where we can retort that you need to take it upon yourself to minimap watch from now on...

I think after most of the enemy team is past level 6, you should start playing even more passively.

When teamfights start happening.

Because in bot games, MIAs only happen after 15 min or after one of the enemy towers is destroyed.

When you're in the lane in question, you can usually tell when the laning phase is ending there. Timing varies a lot depending on team strategies and champions, and one lane tends to break a couple minutes before the rest do, I always call out one final MIA when my lane crumbles, something like "care for Shaco and Derpgot, they're not tied to a lane anymore" or "top tower's toast, care for Soraka and Windamere". Then nobody can complain I didn't call anything.

quote GhostMember

Because in bot games, MIAs only happen after 15 min or after one of the enemy towers is destroyed.

I understand the reasoning behind it, but I've had a few people rage at me for not calling mia's when they get ganked by annie-bot. I feel like going "duh". It's sort of a case of "damned if I do, damned if I don't".

If you aren't watching your minimap, or having wards and knowing the locations of your enemy, then it's a great deal your fault you got ganked. Calling MIA's is more of a treat than a requirement, at least that's how it is seen in ~1600 elo play.

Always better safe then sorry though, buy wards. At very early game save flash or an escape ability for ganks, and if you are constantly harassed in lane, either call for a gank yourself or go back early and buy a ward.

MIA is a waste of time

Look at the mini map, count the enemies, any one not visible is MIA.


typing will get you killed.

Never call mia.