"Inting"

JeaneGreene·11/21/2018, 7:32:15 AM·2 votes·1,371 views

Can we stop saying this phrase? It used to have a serious meaning in which a player intentionally went and ruined your game, but now it has picked up the connotation of dying in general, usually by accident. We are humans. Humans make mistakes. By pushing forward a toxic and unfriendly community that assumes that, because of a mistake, you want to ruin their game, Riot is losing a player base, and makes the game less fun. If Riot did a quick little vid on what "inting" truly is, and how the word should really be used, I think the game and the community could benefit as a whole.

And yes I do know the mute button exists, but having a bad game shouldn't be basis for a reporting or ban.

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Zéychin11/21/2018, 7:54:03 PM2 votes

The slang version of "inting" you are talking about does still exist, but it's a relative definition that is based on the MMR of the current game.

If you are doing something that you know better than to be doing, and you die, you are "inting", but you are not inting.

So as to not name and shame anyone, let's just say there's a notorious top-laner, even a super top, who is known for "ragesplitting" and having extremely... unfortunate scores. Given the MMR of the games he is in, it is reasonable to assert that he knows that what he is doing will cause him to die and to put his team at a disadvantage, but he does it anyway. This is "inting".

If a Bronze player does this though, it would be reasonable to assert that the Bronze player may not know that he will cause a deficit to his team and so this would neither be "inting" nor inting for the Bronze player.

Yes, people are saying it for any death at all, and that should go away, but there's still a valid secondary definition here. If you're reasonably expected to know that what you are doing will cause a deficit to your team and you do it anyway, you are "inting".