The Bully Syndrome

Lost R··3 votes·533 views

I'm starting to question the fighting spirit gestalt of the League community, if it ever existed, and most importantly where the hell it went.

As I've posted in the previous thread, this game has recently turned into a grumping party where it's a race to see who can surrender first; it's more depressing than an 8-hour expose on heroin addicts. As I've said before, it's gotten to the point where I'm starting to rally the ENEMY just to get them to continue to play. I should start maining Aatrox, because that's basically what I'm starting to turn into.

Based on a few comments I received in the previous thread, I've come up with a conclusion about the current state of the community, something that I call the Bully Syndrome. Basically, people will only fight against an assuredly weak, inept and incompetent enemy. Anything more than that and they turn into a lump, too scared to leave the fountain and eager to surrender even if you're still in the champion select screen. If you're steamrolling the enemy, they'll act like hot shit in a champagne glass and trash talk for HOURS in the all chat, even if they were crying defeat for the past 10-15 minutes before the tables were drastically turned.

It's not a fighting spirit. It's being a bully, only fighting if the enemy is so incompetent they could barely find the lanes and cowering in the corner if they show even the slightest display of strength. And yes, I don't like to call surrenders and I'll fight with every last ounce of ferocity I have no matter the role or champion or current state of the game until it ends one way or the other. I'm a remarkably fierce support even in the most dire of circumstances because dammit all, that's what this game is about! It's not a game about pissing yourself stupid in the corner crying because you're just the ever so slightest bit behind! If something goes wrong in your lane, ask for help! If you see a lane going south quickly, go and help them! You're here to play the game, so play it! Now get out of here!

4 Comments

AtheosisX2 votes

It's all built into the game due to the snowball mechanics...

Xonra1 votes

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It's all built into the game due to the snowball mechanics...

The snowball mechanics they supposedly removed 50 times, yet keep adding 51 more on top of it.

  • Make turrets weaker
  • Buff turrets because killing turrets too fast
  • Nerf turrets again because games lasting too long
  • Make turret changes to buff turrets on new Summoner's Rift to slow snowballing
  • Nerf nearly every tower in the game again

They can't seem to make up their minds, and the above is not even touching all the snowball items and snowball champions, and snowball changes with reworks ,etc.

But they really hate snowballing <_<

Flying Buntcake2 votes

HEY. There is nothing wrong with knowing when you're beat. Also that "Bully syndrome" must be paper V thing, because even where I'm at in normals, people fight until they know they're absurdly beat. It seems like you have been in a couple of bad games with some cocky people, and that shouldn't make you base your view of the_ entire game community_.

Xonra1 votes

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HEY. There is nothing wrong with knowing when you're beat. Also that "Bully syndrome" must be paper V thing, because even where I'm at in normals, people fight until they know they're absurdly beat. It seems like you have been in a couple of bad games with some cocky people, and that shouldn't make you base your view of the_ entire game community_.

It is a pretty regular thing in ranked. No one cares in normals, but people tend to get frustrated in ranked. There is nothing on the line in any way in a normal game (you aren't losing LP point for losing a normal game, so try harding about is whatever, and if you lose you lose.)

It is a completely different pitch in normals than in ranked, even going from normals to Bronze 5, regardless of how much flak people give bronze players.

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