My biggest concern with ranked isn't feeders, AFKers, or trolls

djjomon·7/21/2015, 1:38:44 AM·3 votes·630 views

It's the blamers. They're much more common. I'm Silver, so it's probably even more common by me (though I hear Plat gets bad too). While it's not every game, when I do get a toxic player, he or she is blaming myself, or another teammate for something. I'm a jungler, so I get the "why u no gank top" a lot. Well, you feed 3 kills in under 10 minutes. If I go top, we both die. "no u suck no ganks vi ganked 3x already"

Or, our ADC gives up ONE kill bot, and the mid laner is bitching for the rest of the game.

C'mon guys, you all know blaming doesn't win games. Worry about your own ass, not theirs. They can come back much more easily if you let off the insults.

10 Comments

MohawkBird7/21/2015, 1:39:09 AM4 votes

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Posui Gart7/21/2015, 4:54:05 AM2 votes

You can mute all flame with a single button/chat command. You can't mute feed, AFK or trolling.

Pretty Dhizi7/21/2015, 2:07:54 AM1 votes

Definitely more concerned about trolls and AFK players. I've experienced blamers though -- and done it myself, and it's definitely more common in higher rank gameplay where people know mistakes when they see em'. But its usually negated (or it SHOULD be) by muting the individual, or ignoring them. Those playing the blame-game are only seeking to piss you off, and if you let em', you've technically let them win.

Ignore flamers, focus on your own play and you'll do fine. AFKs are the worst since you can't do anything to prevent being a man down. As far as trolls..Ignore them, let them do their thing. Just don't bash them, just report them end-game and ask the opposing team to report them also for refusing to communicate.

rebow20027/21/2015, 2:19:02 AM1 votes

way more concerned off afk or trolls atlest the toxic player can play the game right in most cases and also if hes B****** and he dies he cna be quite or just rage more at the team for feaeding any way i prefer a toxic player more thne a afk that one man down can cost alot of team fights a troll that just feeds all day is worst in a way and in the end toxic is my last concern out of all cuse he still plays the game

UltraSceptile7/21/2015, 3:55:14 AM1 votes

It honestly depends sometimes. If your adc is consistently shoving to their outer tier turret and never grouping when you have a 8k gold lead and continuously dying until 35 minutes in they've caught up, got baron and 4 dragons because it's practically literally a 4 v 5, I think telling this guy he needs to stop doing this shit. Especially when all of us have told him "group man, we can easily force baron and then maybe shove for an inhib, they don't have much waveclear" and the fucker still just goes bot lane to suicide.

If people blame you because you didn't "gank" or anything, just mute them, they're retarded. I guess one exception would be if your mid laner was melee and the enemy picked heimerdinger, and shoved the lane to tower and sat in lane afk, they could blame you for never ganking if they're vastly behind.

People say silver is the most toxic tier, and I have to say that's true, but the blame game is not exactly why people lose games. A lot of people will vent in chat, but they still put a lot of effort into the game and stuff. The reason silver is so painful is because of all these little kids who don't give a damn about their own LP or their teammates'. If the person who starts blaming is at least seems like a person venting some frustration, just tell them you made a mistake and they'll generally quiet down. A lot of times people are afrad their teammates do a bunch of dumb shit while thinking they're still right in every aspect and continue to do it, but if you admit your mistakes they'll (hopefully rightfully) assume that you'll try your best to not make that same mistake again.