I have been playing pvp normals for a while now, and i reached level 30 not too long ago so i've played two ranked games so far (wood division) but i've rarely met anyone as toxic as you people exclaim in a lot of your posts. Either you guys get too offended from the most basic shit and exaggerate everything, or i just haven't reached the elo hell everyone complains about. Bring on the downvotes!
Feathermane5 votesMost of the 'toxicity' (terrible concept) is a response to verbal or non-verbal provocation. If you are an annoying player who types everything that comes to mind in chat, prepare for a lot of insult trading. If you don't comment on someone else's play except for praise, you will have a good time. A lot of people seem to think "stop feeding", "look at your cs", "not ganking mid anymore", "play safe until my 6", "omg no wards" are welcome opening remarks and are surprised when people react negatively. In reality, they are a good way to distract and enrage your teammates. On the other hand, if you receive these comments, treat them as the nonsense they are and ignore them, it rarely goes beyond that.
Ben Sharpio2 votesYeah i think this game is actually really fun, and i just don't understand how people take people's comments so seriously. I haven't encountered the REAL toxic side of league yet apparently.
GundayMonday1 votesKeep playing you'll find it!
But seriously, Lyte and team have done a lot of kick ass work to make everyone play nice. Big fan of this kind of design work.
Check out these vids if you're curious: http://gdcvault.com/play/1017940/The-Science-Behind-Shaping-Player http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020389/Enhancing-Sportsmanship-in-Online http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022160/More-Science-Behind-Shaping-Player
Ben Sharpio1 votesBy the way, i always wonder, why do people play ranked if they know it is more toxic than normals? Whats the point if you know what to expect? wouldnt the best choice be just to play at a "less competitive level (as a lot of people would put it)" and just play normal games and have fun? If you're going to play ranked, you should expect the toxic community because they want to win. Now i kinda dont really know how i feel about it.
GundayMonday3 votesIt's really not that toxic anymore. Most of the people complaining on the forums are probably the <1% of toxic players that everyone hates. Out of my last 100 games, ~10 or so have had someone blatantly trying to ruin my day in it. And most of those I can just mute and ignore.
I have more fun personally when the game is played at a high level. Pulling off crazy combos with/against the top of the playerbase is WAY more fun than learning champs in normals. I never see stuff like this in normals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CulN2R41Hjs&list=PLrunrUlBGmpxJjBvskcpkyr6XLCXGFjlX&index=92
Playing alongside players that know and understand the game at a deeper level is a lot more fun for me. Also, badges and rewards and gamification operant conditioning pumping out the dopamine. Mix of those things (at least for me).
Ben Sharpio1 votesI love normals man i dont know why. The biggest wombo combo i've participated in was when i malphite ulti'd into 3 people and yasuo ulted them it was really suck but yeah, i figure the wombo combo stuff has to be really coordinated. I've been practicing as bard top lane, i think he has some really good potential. but i kind of get scared when im thinking of trying to "master" him because i've been performing OKAY on normals but i never actually know if i can pull half of the stuff i do on normals in ranked.
GundayMonday1 votesNever know until you try. My experience is that most people don't know what they're doing in normals, or are just half-assing it. When you get to ranked, 9/10 players are try-harding (at least at the higher levels) and the games get way more intense. Worth a try if you really want to see how good your skills are.
DrCyanide2 votesI don't know. I run into one bad apple every few games, but in general things are fine.
Ben Sharpio1 votesPeople say the community is catastrophic but it honestly isn't THAT BAD at all, honestly. I don't even consider a lot of the people in this game toxic because a lot of the times, if we get in an argument during the game, doesn't mean "omfg i quit, this community is trash rito plz" and a majority of the time people dont mean any of the crap they say, but instead, they just dont sugar coat everything for you when youre performing terribly. Some people just have a different way of communicating things in my opinion and as long as there are no reports sent after the argument (A LOT OF PEOPLE DONT EVEN END UP REPORTING AT ALL AFTER THE ARGUMENT) the community that i experienced is just fine..
Gwellaouen2 votesYeah me too. I don't encounter theses toxics people a lot.
Yesterday, I got one that made me laugh behind my computer. An Ezreal who thrash talk everyone and afk at a moment to thrash talk even more. He changes all of his items too trolling. That's a rager. It can happen.
But you are right, I encounter more good and neutral peoples than bad ones.
P.S: Sorry about mistakes in english.
Ben Sharpio1 votesYeah, i agree. A lot of the time its more funny than offensive!
BastionKross2 votesThe vast majority of the community are decent people, some are actually NICE. (I know, right?)
But the the way the game is changes the perception of how much of a problem toxic players are. For example if you look at CoD, another team game with an infamously toxic community that's not a MOBA, it's not as big of a deal to get someone toxic on your team for several reasons:
So even though CoD more than likely has a significantly higher amount of toxic players than League, CoD has several ways of minimizing the impact of their toxic behavior. League has one: The report button, only available after they've destroyed your fun and wasted 20+ minutes of your time. The mute button is a grey area; it stops some forms of toxicity, but not all of them like AFKs or feeding.
ShuffledPancake1 votesElo hell id any elo you feel is hell -
Radnar the bold1 votesI never met toxic people when I was in my promos, then after my promos got promoted to silver 2 and bam the toxic began.........sometimes its nothing then late game they rage, sometimes it the whole game, and sometimes its in the pst game que.
Ben Sharpio1 votesSame situation happens in normals too though, some people start cool but then lose their shit it happens everywhere but it isnt THAT bad to beg rito to whisper in your ear that everything is going to be ok. Im going to try and get out of wood division and see how it goes for me
Radnar the bold1 votesSame situation happens in normals too though, some people start cool but then lose their shit it happens everywhere but it isnt THAT bad to beg rito to whisper in your ear that everything is going to be ok. Im going to try and get out of wood division and see how it goes for me
Idk the rage in normals is diffrent than ranked, in normals its just a game and either way I still have fun, yet in ranked it losing because of a rager affects you alot more.
Pupel1 votesjust wait till you go on tilt or someone feeds
Ben Sharpio1 votesWell i've played a lot of normals and there has been feeding (unintentional and intentional) but a majority of the time junglers try to help the lane that has the most deaths and a lot of people dont flame, but instead recommend playing bots if they see that someone isnt performing well in pvp
JustMyBassCannon1 votesI haven't really encountered any toxic players in the few Ranked games I've played, either. The worst I get is when I queue with less than 5 friends, and one of the other players is high, drunk or trolling, but it only happens to me in blind/unranked queues.
Bring on the downvotes!
That's a dumb thing to say.
I Know De Wey1 votesCLICK - The toxic woodies made me do this!