The league experience from a college kid 2 years playing

MrPoopyButthoIle··19 votes·10,503 views

I got into league a couple years ago instantly falling in love with the game and playing with my friends. League has been getting more and more involved in my life since. I started watching lcs and following 100T because they were new to the scene when I was. I'm not one of the best, but I do enjoy playing ranked to test my skills and try to get better. Over the last couple months this has been very difficult. I have been falling slowly from plat 2 to 3 to 4. When I go into games I always have a fresh mindset and don't hold any actions good or bad against my team from the start. I mean I jungler has to help everyone and I like to do what I can to assist in times of need or help extend any leaders my laners get. With that being said, I have been in to many games where there is one person that seems to be frustrated or thrown off their game by the last team that they played with that if anything happens to upset them this unstable person will easily be thrown off the edge of tilting till the games over and everyone suffers. With this victim mind set of having to go into a game walking on egg shells, not knowing if everyone on your team wants to try, or has something else they're upset about that they want to take out on other people in an online game has me fearing for the future of league and society. Living in a world that gives all the power to the person that in manipulating the rules to not get banned or have their account suspended because riot can't watch every game (obviously) is not a virtual world I want to live in. I am just constantly hoping riot does something to address this problem or 1 person dictating the game more than the other 9 can. The truth is if 1 person is actively fighting against your team (10 minutes ago ex. my mid laner leaves lane at 5 minutes blaming me for loosing the game [I'm 1/1 the game just started] then proceed to take my camps so I couldn't get xp) this is 1 example of someone that won't get any punishment for their actions because taking the jungle camps as a mid laner even if you do it for all of them no rotation isn't against any rules. I would hate to give up a game that I enjoy so much and have for the last couple years because riot doesn't punish trolling in ranked. People can about lp even if it isn't a real thing. Maybe that's my bad for caring to much and I just need to find a different game that doesn't put up with 1 person getting to terrorize 4-9 people for 20 minutes not letting them surrender and getting away with it.

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xelaker23 votes

Formatting saves lives

MrPoopyButthoIle3 votes

lol my bad just was wanting to get a little off my chest didn't think anyone would even look at it

Eedat9 votes

I gotchu

I got into league a couple years ago instantly falling in love with the game and playing with my friends. League has been getting more and more involved in my life since. I started watching lcs and following 100T because they were new to the scene when I was. I'm not one of the best, but I do enjoy playing ranked to test my skills and try to get better.

Over the last couple months this has been very difficult. I have been falling slowly from plat 2 to 3 to 4. When I go into games I always have a fresh mindset and don't hold any actions good or bad against my team from the start. I mean I jungler has to help everyone and I like to do what I can to assist in times of need or help extend any leaders my laners get.

With that being said, I have been in to many games where there is one person that seems to be frustrated or thrown off their game by the last team that they played with that if anything happens to upset them this unstable person will easily be thrown off the edge of tilting till the games over and everyone suffers. With this victim mind set of having to go into a game walking on egg shells, not knowing if everyone on your team wants to try, or has something else they're upset about that they want to take out on other people in an online game has me fearing for the future of league and society.

Living in a world that gives all the power to the person that in manipulating the rules to not get banned or have their account suspended because riot can't watch every game (obviously) is not a virtual world I want to live in. I am just constantly hoping riot does something to address this problem or 1 person dictating the game more than the other 9 can.

The truth is if 1 person is actively fighting against your team (10 minutes ago ex. my mid laner leaves lane at 5 minutes blaming me for loosing the game [I'm 1/1 the game just started] then proceed to take my camps so I couldn't get xp) this is 1 example of someone that won't get any punishment for their actions because taking the jungle camps as a mid laner even if you do it for all of them no rotation isn't against any rules.

I would hate to give up a game that I enjoy so much and have for the last couple years because riot doesn't punish trolling in ranked. People can about lp even if it isn't a real thing. Maybe that's my bad for caring to much and I just need to find a different game that doesn't put up with 1 person getting to terrorize 4-9 people for 20 minutes not letting them surrender and getting away with it.

DOUBLE TAPPED E2 votes

Maybe that's my bad for caring to much and I just need to find a different game that doesn't put up with 1 person getting to terrorize 4-9 people for 20 minutes not letting them surrender and getting away with it.

No. It's a competitive mode in a naturally competitive game, caring has always been, and will always be allowed. I agree with you 100% on this. The current punishment system is simply not enough to deal with this kind of thing. If I'm putting in 4-6 hours every single day practicing this game just to get better, sacrificing other opportunities I might have to focus on this, I should be rewarded for doing so by seeing some kind of progress, but a single person who thinks it's "pathetic" or "just a game bro lmao" can turn all that effort into not just wasted time and energy, but also wasted opportunity to improve in some other area.

It's a vicious cycle as well. I know for a fact that some people will get trolled enough to the point where they think "hey screw it! I'm gonna troll too since they do it to me all the time! take that!" and so it keeps growing like tumor.

You don't put a bandage on a tumor, you have a doctor cut it out, or you die.

Eedat5 votes

Why are you responding to me? All I did was format the OP

DOUBLE TAPPED E5 votes

Because, as a derivative work that is transformative in nature, and not-for-profit, your reformat of the OP falls under fair use, and is technically your work, despite his holding the original copyright.

I... may have some issues.

WeaselRune1 votes

IKR, I was going to ask if they teach what paragraphs are at that college.

I feel sorry for OP, but... yeah... what you said.

ethereal dream4 votes

i totally agree. i'm p4 and i mainly play kindred jungle. i get flamed for picking "off meta", and if i do poorly or make one mistake, they will steal jungle camps from me as i'm taking them, steal buffs as i'm taking them, and just be very toxic til the point of no return

making it so i can't get back into the game, while getting ping spammed consistently when i can't defend when a laner invades (or just sits in my jungle waiting for me)

it's extremely frustrating & all i've been playing for weeks are norms .. ^^;

i just want to play my favorite champion for fun but ppl make it so hard

and i know reporting someone for harassing me until i catch on fire will do absolutely nothing

DOUBLE TAPPED E2 votes

If it's possible I'd suggest playing between 2 and 5 AM Central time. It's mostly EU / KR smurfs who are... well pretty damn good at the game in my experience. And if you make a mistake they don't troll you, they just play even better to try to make up for it. Yes they will steal your farm and your camps, but they know how to use the gold and XP at least.

The only downside is sometimes you get the Bronze EU / KR smurfs and the enemy team gets the Grandmaster EU / KR smurfs. But hey, them's the breaks, as they say.

5050BS1 votes

Thats is why you dont play off Meta

ethereal dream1 votes

silver 4 trying to tell me how to play [sg-miss-fortune]

CervixGrappler1 votes

I feel this

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