Discussing Tilt Reducing Ideas + Tips (poll included)

FUUUBAAAR·10/11/2019, 5:34:37 AM·3 votes·2,536 views

Hey all, this is just an idea I've been kicking around for a bit so feel free to post your thoughts (no flamewarring/trying to invalidate eachother's opinions please)!

I (sorta) recently started embracing some ideas a friend and I came up with to try and reduce the odds of getting those tilting/generally boring or unfun matches, and it's been working out fairly well. I figured I'd share some of the ideas and see what else people have come up with. There's also going to be a poll for what kinds of situations generally serve as a "turn off" for folks when they run into them mid-game (you know, those scenarios where it doesn't really matter if you won or lost, it was annoying all the same).

Just to clarify; I'm not really hoping to see much discussion about the popular gripes like "oh I get bad teammates too much" or "people are so TOXIC !@*!&#%@!". Those are both issues that are kind of out of the hands of the player who feels offended and there's not too much more anyone can do about it unless the community manages to convince RIOT to try making changes to the game itself. This is more about ideas for what you can do to avoid being stuck in those slogs through the tilted towers of "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!", or ways you can avoid being stuck at the top of said towers.

For the first tip, my friend and I are still discussing the validity of dodging. The game penalizes you, and will outright ban you if you do it too much, but on the other hand there are a lot of situations where taking the 5 minute break or just quitting league and coming back later are the better of your two choices. Some good examples we've found of when to do this are:

  1. When it's pregame lobby and there's already a flamewar going on or you get one of those passionate players that uses 10 lines of chat to say 15 or fewer words, and won't stop talking.

  2. When your connection starts spiking/dropping repeatedly before the match starts (for whatever reason whenever we've stayed the problem will persist for an entire match, but if we dodge it's gone by the time we're allowed to queue up again, probably a file or two loading poorly or something).

  3. This is a big one, it's been around for as long as I've been playing league, and it isn't exactly cheating when it happens: when 3 or more of your opponents lock in as cc heavy champions who have good damage, not even great, just decent overall (this almost always results in a stomp where no matter how badly the cc heavy team gets outmaneuvered; they just group up into their merry party of 5 and run down lane deleting anyone who gets snagged by the cc spam for an easy win).

  4. When you get a nasty response to something nice like "gl all" (50/50 rule seems to apply here, sometimes the guy who says "no f u" to it is just joking around, sometimes they're just so incredibly tilted their brain has ceased functioning aside from auto-play mode and they can't even tell they need to take a chill pill/take a break).

  5. (I hate that this one is true, but data just isn't letting me deny it) When you see two or more champions that are on free to play rotation on your team (roughly 80% of the time they're people who either don't have, or aren't interested in acquiring the champion unless they have a bunch of spare B.E. kicking around, and end up playing the champion... Not exactly well as a result of lack of experience or lack of interest in learning said champion's mechanics, putting extra pressure on you and other teammates to carry).

What happenings do you find tilting? Have you found any tips to avoiding those circumstances/mitigating their impact in (and out) of game? Here's a poll for some of the ones I've heard of already

P.S. Please keep in mind these are NOT iron-clad rules or happenings, they're literally just the experiences of two players, and won't be the same for everyone.

4 Comments

Blue Shift10/11/2019, 6:32:28 AM2 votes

when 3 or more of your opponents lock in as cc heavy champions

I don't know about everyone else, so feel free to reply and let me know, but I main assassins and to be honest, when I see the enemy team lock in a team like Galio, Amumu, and Lissandra, I just instantly want to leave and go play something else. I am not a one trick, but almost all my preferred champions get hard countered by cc and deathball comps.

Woodakoodashooda10/11/2019, 9:05:32 AM2 votes

When an ally is filled into a role they don't want to play and lock in a champion that doesn't fit the role, I know it's time to duck out if no one else will. Because that player is obviously tilted by the fact they were filled and they honestly have no desire to try for the win in spite of the role assigned to them.