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behavior/toxicity has nothing to do with skill or winning games

Jeemangee·6/25/2015, 5:33:33 AM·2 votes·840 views

I get tired of the players who feed and ruin the game rather than toxic players just getting mad occasionally because they lost their promos. The league community is just soft and looking for a reason to blame their lack of skill on the player who didn't feed but it cursing out his teammates for feeding. I dont know how many times I've done good and some guy feeds the shit out of a lane, like none of the players are good enough to understand where I am coming from because they are always the players who feed constantly. I am in Diamond so I dont think we should be blaming toxic players for a feeders ego. Feeders are always positive players because they always feed are the problem for losing games not toxic players get that through your head. There is no way to mask toxicity, it does not change anything. Riot just brainwashes bad players into thinking thats why they suck at the game. Like why should the players who are actually good at the game not be able to say anything to someone who is feeding the game away.

2 Comments

Nytemaric6/25/2015, 6:12:30 AM1 votes

Some if not most people that feed are unskilled but that doesn't mean it's the case for everyone. You have to take into account that some people have off days. In most cases a mistake or two doesn't mean much but some people tilt easily. It can be brought on by something simple as missing a few CS or getting camped. Having someone constantly on your case over mistakes does affect your game slightly. I will agree with you that actual bad players get babied into believing that it completely shuts out your ability to play the way you know you're supposed to play.

Raging isn't really a solution though, it doesn't really solve anything on either side. The feeder is going to start making worse mistakes and the rager, in most cases, focuses on the feeder's mistakes more. You also have to take the other 3 players on the team into account. People arguing on the team brings down morale which is important for a team to work well together.

permadanned6/25/2015, 6:21:49 AM1 votes

While I get where you're coming from, people lose track of one fact during their league experience. You used one word a lot during your post and that is "game". At the end of the day league is a game, and games are meant to be fun. I will admit I've lost my temper throughout playing league, but one thing is usually certain I won't ever flame a teammate. At the end of the day this behavior is counterproductive to 2 aspects of the game: 1) you're here to have fun and 2) you're here to win.

Yelling at a teammate usually makes the odds of you winning less likely. As much as you aren't having fun in a game where someone else feeds, look at it from their perspective, they just got abused in lane and then abused by you and the other players on your team. We aren't playing in the LCS the results of our games are relatively inconsequential to our daily lives. We aren't playing for playoff spots or to stay out of relegation. At the end of the day we're all playing to have fun.

The only thing that person did wrong was play a ranked game and got matched up to someone in lane that countered them or was just more skilled. It's sort of bullshit to say you have the right to get mad at someone for playing a game and just not being as skilled as the other person. Toxicity is definitely a problem in league, I don't think another person has any right to verbally abuse someone over the internet without having to see the reaction that elicits from the person face to face. It's too easy for someone to totally unload on someone using their keyboard and not see the repercussions it has on that person. I think the better argument to take in this debate is to try and crack down on the large variability in skill that occurs in leagues and divisions in ranked games and in general MMR.