Out of environment, I have to form a rule overriding summoner's code as it's insufficient.

Jay Squar3d·May 10, 2015·2 votes·418 views

Respect your teammates according to their skills, knowledge, and gameplays. That's my number one rule in ranked only. In anything else like normal or aram, I just have fun and even die fun laughing at my hilarious blunders and others. However, lately, there is a slew of players who are performing subpar or got misplaced far above where they are supposed to be. Any wins I got is because the enemy team is much inferior, not from outplaying. It rankles my mentality pretty hard as I want consistent matches against good enemies, playing our best without losing to pure weakness, and learning much as possible to improve in later matches. It's hard to even have good mentality in this kind of set up. All it comes down to is matchmaking... Matchmaking itself is a source of all toxicity. Before ranked, toxicity wasn't even known. After first season, toxicity became rampant...

A game last 30 to an hour and you can afford only several hours of it. That's about five games max. Now, almost four of those five games, you get ridiculously unbalanced matchup. Not good day at all. Now imagine this persisting almost every fucking day! Riot still focusing on story or anything else. Hell, ninety percent of their brainstorming got shelved instead of going forward to help improve the game.

3 Comments

Sightless66May 10, 20151 votes

Before ranked, toxicity wasn't even known

Sure there was. There was a ton of toxicity before ranked came around. Hell, Dota 2 only got ranked about a year ago and it was still toxic as fuck before that came around. You're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses.

Respect your teammates according to their skills, knowledge, and gameplays.

And in practical terms, this means what? That if someone is bad it's ok to get snippy at them? Is that what you're trying to say?

Jay Squar3dMay 12, 20151 votes

Nope. It's all according to my experience. I saw practically zero toxicity in games before ranked. After ranked, toxicity started going up as everybody started expecting better out of everyone. It worsen when matchmaking doesn't perform well ever since.

And yeah to that second. It's pretty clear. Well, I almost got evicted for yelling instead of typing so I considered it more healthy to just let it all out on those who deserve it by performing subpar of their own volition than those who doesn't such as my neighbors. If those players quit playing, good one less mistake in ranked. I consider that non-toxic as long as they deserve it. I had been performing consistently and a lot of those people really don't or just got mistakenly placed higher than they are.

Sightless66May 12, 20151 votes

I remember games being plenty toxic before ranked. Ranked matchmaking hasn't caused this.

Well, I almost got evicted for yelling instead of typing so I considered it more healthy to just let it all out on those who deserve it

Dude, really? You're yelling at a game so loud you almost got evicted? Why do you even want to do that? I don't understand. It's a game. How can it possibly inspire this kind of anger? By what standard could this be healthy? Engaging in anger constantly isn't going to make you less angry. You're clearly still pissed at them a lot. Healthy is when you aren't getting angry at a video game. Healthy is when you don't need to fabricate justifications for your actions. You don't meet that criteria yet.

consider that non-toxic as long as they deserve it.

They deserve it only in your mind. So they aren't doing as well as you? So what? Why does that mean they should get snapped at? You're the one getting angry. That's on you, not them.

I mean, think about it for a second. You say that matchmaking is screwing up and putting them with you when they shouldn't be with you, right? How is that their fault? How is that player responsible for being placed higher than their skill level?

It is toxic when you take an action intentionally meant to worsen another player's experience. Other players aren't trying to do poorly in their games. Their skill is just lower. In the short-term, they can't help that. You however, choose to rage at people. You choose to take an action meant to make them unhappy just because it makes you feel better, and you justify it by saying they deserve it. That's toxic. That is literally the definition of toxicity.

I had been performing consistently and a lot of those people really don't or just got mistakenly placed higher than they are.

And how is that their fault? How does that justify them getting yelled at?

If those players quit playing, good one less mistake in ranked.

Seriously man? You want other players to be unhappy enough that they quit just because they aren't as good as you? How is that not toxic? How is wanting to make other players miserable because you're not getting the game you want not toxic?

Don't even bother trying to justify your actions here. Be a man, examine your behavior, and seriously think about whether or not a video game should be making you so pissed that you want to yell loud enough to get you evicted.