Why are provisionals so toxic?

Colorro·1/20/2016, 6:43:13 PM·7 votes·1,137 views

Has anyone else noticed how much more toxic provisionals are then ordinary ranked games? In my 4 provisionals every game has been incredibly toxic. Now, this could be understandable if it were 1 game, but 4 in a row??? Guess it must be all the stress of provisionals. People need to just relax, it's just a game after all. And I know ranked is competitive, but you shouldn't be fighting with your teammates when there are 5 other people trying to kill you.item 3070

18 Comments

Goosetard1/20/2016, 6:44:12 PM2 votes

I played three at like... 6AM EST last night and everyone was very well mannered and showed great sportsmanship. Even when I 1 v 3'd as Illaoi

disregardable1/20/2016, 6:52:55 PM2 votes

A summary of my 7 provisional games thus far:

  • My team fed hard
  • Their team fed hard
  • My team fed hard
  • Their team fed hard
  • My team fed hard
  • My team fed hard (and we had an AFK)
  • My team fed hard

I'm being so toxic in my games. I can't deal with this shit. I'm used to more even games man. Not EVERY SINGLE GAME having a 10+ kill deficit at the fucking 20 minute mark. There's just too much feeding. I think matchmaking might be too lenient in placements, not matching equally skilled players together.

Who Fed Ahri1/20/2016, 6:51:55 PM1 votes

This is the time when things get very interesting. Each match counts for a lot of "elo".

MunchCrunchLunch1/20/2016, 7:18:27 PM1 votes

i had a really friendly team my first ranked game. but mostly people are toxic. its so much fun to have a team that are good. i ended up winning. our riven kinda carried. i did well. though the other 3 kinda fed but they tried and weren't toxic which is all i want people to be. try and not be toxic. now we all get toxic sometimes because others spread their toxicity through multiple bad games for one. but you know we try not to be toxic am never toxic against someone who is minding his own business. sometimes like two matches ago the whole team was toxic to me and all my responds were like "k".

Spoofghoul1/20/2016, 8:39:15 PM1 votes

this is why i wait a while b4 i do placements

Abyssphere1/20/2016, 8:45:16 PM1 votes

I've noticed this. Each game seems to start out with one person taking things very seriously and advising people in champ select. If the game starts to go badly, that person WILL tilt extremely hard and likely become toxic. Had a 1/9 Anivia in my first promo - she ended the game by calling me a cocksucker because I said "Stop tilting".

You have to really put the effort in to encourage everyone on your team to make sure nobody cracks.

Sythriel Draken1/20/2016, 11:03:27 PM1 votes

People were toxic last season in ranked. this new dynamic que is only bringing out the worst people because you can have a smurf account carry you through your provisional and help you falsely report anyone you feel like it. It doesn't matter that it'd be thrown out, what matters is that enough reports bring a pop up that scares the person.

ARequestOfDeath1/20/2016, 11:48:42 PM1 votes

don`t use the word toxic it is apparently banned now and you can only say salty

stealthfox941/20/2016, 11:50:02 PM1 votes

IDK I think I'm going to give it a try and see if they are toxic.

LatetotheRace1/20/2016, 11:51:38 PM1 votes

Don't play ranked for a couple of weeks. Everyone and their grandma is trying to get out of bronze.

HEAljvLykd1/20/2016, 6:43:43 PM1 votes

Everyone's always toxic mate.

DREADN0UGHT1/21/2016, 6:35:58 PM1 votes

Because everyone is on tilt.

Mimy1/20/2016, 6:45:09 PM1 votes

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