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Your rank Actually reflects your ability to handle hopelessness

µªµ·2/4/2018, 7:34:33 PM·1 votes·347 views

You can be totally focused in ranked, playing safe, pinging for your team, talking supportively in chat, giving advice, trying to be there for laners (as a jungler), but then still, somehow, people refuse to listen, repeat mistakes, and eventually begin griefing, by running around taking your jungle camps as your killing them, or bursting down wave minions for the last hit as you are killing them, because they are 0/10 and you obviously did nothing to help them. And by that, apparently by trying to be supportive and helpful, you are actually a negative person, and attacked their ego. I don't understand, and I even feel bad for the enemy team when I see it on that side. I play 3v3 ranked, and I often notice of the 3 on each team, there are 2 derps and 1 carry player, while the carry player is going 4/0 let's say, but the other 2 are going 0/5 playing with the elements matched above. Idk if it's an attitude thing, or a queue thing, or what, but how do you win in that situation? And then there are champ select situations, where you have done your homework and studied the tiers and what works, then people lock in extremely poor unsafe picks and play with the elements stated above, then when your recommend they do not play that way, they get mad at you, tell you to STFU, and lock it in anyway, then continue to go 0/5, and the grief you/dc or ignore you completely trying to fight 1v3.

I'm just wondering, why does my rank reflect from the behavior of these players? Even my girlfriend tells me every time I queue it seems like a gamble because it never seems to be balanced. I read I have to learn to do everything, and I really try to, I really really do. But when I'm at 0LP losing MMR and fucking LP gain/loss because the gamble is not in my favour, it's super hard to reign in the sodium levels and not get mad.

I've done my best to study on this game, practice, learn from my mistakes, take notes, watch replays, but it doesn't seem to matter. My rank does not seem to reflect my efforts. It does not seem fair to have to play games like this where - your rank Actually reflects your ability to handle hopelessness.

Nothing will change, the game exists for fun or professional play anyway. And I'm sure everyone who actually cares about their rank knows this anyway, but I needed to journal it out. Thanks for reading. See you on the fields!

3 Comments

Grymmstrike2/4/2018, 7:49:22 PM2 votes

Yeah, it's pretty sad that Riot doesn't crack down on actual toxic players. As a jungler, it is hard to win a game if all three lanes are losing. And lord forbid if you try to gank a lane and don't succeed, because the people you just tried to help are suddenly the biggest haters in the world. Never mind the fact that if they had actually helped with your gank attempt it would have been successful, but they are too busy failing at last hitting since the big bad enemy laner has given them a moment's respite (Because you are trying to gank...) to even care that you are about to die.

Iręlía2/4/2018, 7:56:58 PM2 votes

Thats why everytime I get a toxic person, who uses excess profanity and hatespeech terms, inting, or refusing to communicate to the team, I report them in the lobby, take their names down and submit a ticket to Riot. I usually get the response Im looking for, so far 100%.

Sometimes not enough people report a bad player cause they dont care or because they just dont wanna waste time, but I take the time to open a ticket about abusive behavior anytime I find it after game.

If people really want less toxicity, they need to take more action the way I do and dont be afraid to open a ticket, you're not "double reporting" and it IS necessary sometimes. They are there to help us, just let em know whats up.

<3 Evelynn