If you are bronze - gold, you gotta remember some of these people literally have just played 10 placement games and are probably no happier being at their current elo feeding than you are with them being there. But it's the way placements work - some people get shafted and others get boosted. Takes a whole season to sort things out, then you repeat with new placement games next season.
The big issues I see are a reflection of the dumb mentality in our larger society. When I was a kid, I'd get punched in the face for mouthing off to an older kid and they would be let off the hook since I was being a donkey. Now, that older kid would get suspension and the mouthy little brat would get rewarded and praised. When I started ranked season 2, I sucked and fed a lot. People told me what to do and what NOT to do - a few did it nicely, many with salt or flame. But they got the message across. I listened and got to be damn good for my elo by end of first ranked season. Why? Because unlike today's people who cry "reported" "toxic" "muted" I LISTENED and LEARNED. You can give advice in the nicest manner and ask people to do something as simple as WARD before they shove out and get threatened with toxic reports, etc. And people think kda means everything -- take a look at Darien from Gambit/M5 days - he might have had low kda, but he was 1v2 all game, applying pressure, even or ahead in farm, and still able to kick the shit out of the enemy toplaner whenever the jungle left him to 1v1 instead of 1v2. Low kda is no excuse to ignore a person if they are making a valid point. Finally, people need to stop taking the side of inting players -- if you ask someone nicely 3 damn times to not do something utterly stupid that is easily fixed (pushing w/o ward, etc.) and they still ignore, there is no need to be nice anymore; the inting player is being a toxic donkey to your whole team and you ARE justified to tell them such in a less friendly manner. But I guess most people think inting is not toxic and hurting someone's feelings is toxic -- even if your feelings are hurt by the idiot inting and ignoring solid simple advice they should already know for themselves in the first place if they are at the same rank as you.
Like legit had a team where we all fell behind or fed and finally got one good fight to stall things out. Then our sona runs solo to enemy jungle to ward it when we are all in base healing and have 0 wards on the entire map. You don't do that when there are 3+ enemies you know gotta be around their jungle and baron right where she's trying to ward alone. I tell her that, and she actually listened -- I was honestly amazed for 2 reason:
- Expected her to be toxic and whiny about me asking her not to go there alone -- most people are these days
- How do you NOT know this already? I shouldn't have to tell you this unless you are bronze 3 or lower -- and even plenty of them would be smart enough not to do this.
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