I feel like "mental boom" loses more games than "feeders".

Disembark·2/16/2019, 4:02:26 PM·48 votes·15,658 views

This has been the story of my ranked solo games. I feel like in 90% of my ranked games this season. Someone starts flaming and the whole game devolves into a flame war and people are no longer focused on win conditions, the minimap, enemy's next play etc etc, they are just focused on typing.

Some games we are behind as fuck like last game 3 losing lanes and 0/2 jg. 2 drakes behind. No one says shit. We keep our head in the game. Play around win conditions and make sure we hold towers. Set up vision around neutral objectives and get some easy picks and win.

I feel like your team mates, even the "feeders", are often better than you give them credit for. But flaming them makes them go more mental boom and just play worse and worse. I went like 3-9 at the start of the season because I played with full fucking tilt.

24 Comments

FastBreakProdigy2/17/2019, 8:13:03 PM7 votes

I'm in silver so, once someone start typing, they never stop typing.

Abramagician2/16/2019, 4:38:53 PM4 votes

Its true, sad but true. I try to keep flaming out of my games, and try to encourage my team as well. Here's a tip: if You are carrying your team, keep telling them good job and whatnot, and keep friendly, that will help them listen to more pings and improve team morale, making your team a better unit than the enemies. All it takes is some good fights, and then you morale your troops to victory.

NoDiscussion2/17/2019, 6:07:36 AM3 votes

People honestly need to take more breaks.

Studies have shown that when you reach the breaking point and you're about to dissolve into mediocrity because people have been flaming, insulting and throwing hissy fits at you, that it takes at minimum 20 minutes for you to move past it.

FSRER2/17/2019, 8:40:09 AM2 votes

You know what is a menta boom? The toplane meta

Piki Pico2/17/2019, 9:04:21 AM2 votes

It’s so hard to keep mental, when your team is spoon feeding a hyper carry. Feed the lane bullies not there late game champs. I have high honor, I do rage myself:(

Kaisha2/17/2019, 9:23:18 AM1 votes

This game is designed to promote toxic behavior. That's the point of it.

Sodeb Lacudomite2/17/2019, 4:17:01 PM1 votes

This topic is very true, and part of climbing is being able (as much as possible) to keep a good atmosphere in the team. Things like saying "wp" or "good job" after a good play. Communicating, joking around, reassuring as well "don't worry it's okay, you're against a strong champion. You got ganked 3 times you're doing well" "sorry I didn't help more". "We can still win this =)" etc.

Also, when people do flame, tell them what you explained, I do it all the time "blame me all you want, if you think I suck, fine, but please now focus on the game rather than on the chat. Thanks" And then, stop answering and mute if necessary.

These simple things, while they have nothing to do with the actual game, skill, macro.... will improve your winrate a lot and help you climb.

Nevrankroaton2/17/2019, 7:49:29 PM1 votes

I know that in my case it is true.

If you begin to shittalk or be an asshole in tchat, it make me loose focus and motivation. Which lead me to be basically "Okay so I won't give a fuck since you don't give any about just being polite or not being a douche". I feel it is even worse because it reinforce in me a bad attitude about wanting to surrender quickly/give up because I expect people to just use bad results to flame and not like... just try.

I can tell you that when I throw a FF at 15 by pure salt, the moment the game would end well wasn't because my top riven was stomping or shit, but because no one would talk and would continu to play. And since I am half decent in my head, I try to continu follow the game and if my teammate try hard, I try hard with them and it make me be better which allow them to be better.

And sometime it fail. And some it work.

But honestly, people should really shut the fuck up.

Aseraan2/17/2019, 11:25:49 PM1 votes

Im not into talking sht all day rly but hell im not gona stand idle and take the blame for something im not at fault when im in a ranked and you can tell me that mute is an option but it doesnt work 90% of the time cuz itdoesnt prevent the blamers from being trash and wont stop the feeders and basically only promotes behavior im sick of to my very being.

Game is toxic will always be and riot will not do anything about it expect the 1% beyond that its too much manpower and money that they would never spend on it. And sure there are comebacks rare but sometimes i prefer not to be in the position need for a comeback its irritating to give my all and try my best all the time while im matched whit monkeys escaped from the nearest zoo who incapable of playing on besic level and the same goes on every elo i ever played before you are held hostage by trash or toxic players hell i will stand on the later side than.

Illabethe2/17/2019, 11:41:06 PM1 votes

I think it's both.

You really can't blame the "Mental Boom" by itself, because the team is legitimately inting/feeding/afking/already ignoring every objective in the game. If they aren't at 4-8 minutes when the slowest yet most important decisions are made, then they aren't going to pay attention when the game is moving 3 times as fast either.

Likewise, "Mental Boom" does have its place as a culprit. I'm VERY "Mental Boom," because I'm probably Ausbergers, and my brain processes and predicts everything around me better than my peers. I see every death before it happens...... 30 seconds before it happens. I'm calculating the gold advantages a feeder is giving a hyper carry. How many minutes those deaths shave off the time to get a Shojin's Spear, or a Sterak's. How to still gain gold when a support is outright csing.

So yeah. I do point out mistakes that are serious. But it's near impossible to teach someone how to play on the fly if they don't already know (A 0/6 Nami who is full building her support item, takes 16 minutes to complete Quest, and then starts building full mage probably doesn't know how to play, Especially if she face tanks a Warwick), and any advice you DO give is taken as toxicity. Everyone you are talking to is purely innocent, never fed, and somehow it's your fault they fed.

But yeah. I have seen the results of my own "Mental Boom." Result:

1 in 10 teams will outright troll you, figuring they were going to lose anyways.

2 in 10 teams will passively farm the game away, opting not to troll entirely.

4 in 10 teams will actually take it constructive, but report you anyways.

3 in 10 teams are indifferent to it.

Imo, it leads to more wins, but also more reports. Eventually the wins will stop because of the reports, chat bans, and later bans.

rayzo2/18/2019, 5:08:08 AM1 votes

This post is underrated. I totally agree with everything here.

AceBangtanHoseok12/31/2019, 8:30:44 PM1 votes

I feel like they should quit league, and stop themselves from killing their mental stability, cause at this point, their about to really have a mental break down or worse, a stroke. I say this as a person who doesn't want to ever fight with flamers more than just mute them or try my best to ignore and hope they talk more "in-game tacts" rather than spewing bullshit.

Sleep On Stream2/16/2019, 5:06:02 PM1 votes

dude same here and in gold 4 i have 3 accounts in its hell dude this is legit the worse place to be about to level up a 4th account. i just play to get as far as possible feels like matchmaking is forcing my accounts to lock at gold 4 cause in prseason i was out of it in a day

Sucction2/16/2019, 8:24:45 PM1 votes

Actually there's one more thing that loses games at a high rate.

Hint: It's the reason we call it "Mental boom" and not something that actually makes sense grammatically.

Bionic Avian2/17/2019, 12:50:25 AM1 votes

One of my recent ranked matches reflected how healthy team relationships can help bring you back from a terrible loss.

I went from being 0/4 against a Riven to helping our Corki carry the game as tank Sion because they didn't give up on me. Meanwhile our jungle who started off reasonably well went on to die over and over again because he was making bad decisions and getting ridden on pretty hard for it.

Pressure is already high in ranked matches, it gets even worse when your teammates begin flaming you for a poor start.

Apostle of Light2/17/2019, 6:02:23 AM1 votes

Amen brotha