Smurfs and Jerks In League of Legends

LoriChicken··2 votes·1,064 views

I am having a terrible time playing this game, I only started it because its the only game my friends play anymore. I created an account and played a few bot games, then I start with PvP. The community is so terrible that I am sure 4 people on my team and at least 3 on the opposing team were "Smurfs" (a term I learned from my friend who plays lvl 30) They tell me to uninstall or to quit, complain that I am loosing the game for them, and the other team is thanking me to making the game easy. I thought the whole point of the level system is to make it so my level 4 account only plays with other level 4 accounts. Why is it am I being matched with players who are way higher level than me. It is terrible to play this game, I can't learn anything because I am being bullied. Even in bots i've been told to uninstall or quit or my team tells the others to report me. "Jinx insta report" "lol noob jinx, report" How am I supposed to learn or play this game when all the players are like this? Your system needs to be fixed, its unfair and has been stressing me out to the point of never wanting to play this game.

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360D3GR3SS1 votes

I feel like chat should be restricted until level 15-20...SO TOXIC at lower levels.

LoriChicken1 votes

That could be good. I feel so bad, my friend tell me to turn off chat but then I am scared I look at report and you can get report for not communicate with teammates so there is not much one can do.

mvargus1 votes

If you hold down the alt button and left click on a spot you can then send out a "ping" These can be things like "Danger" , "Assist me" or "On my way". You can use these to communicate.

Honestly, most players won't care much about you not talking as long as you alert them when the person you are facing in lane is missing and join in on team fights and dragon, etc. At least that's true at your level.

And don't be afraid during champ select to tell people that you've only played a couple of weeks. It might get some smurfs up in arms, but many will be happy to help out. I was in a game yesterday where I planned to ADC while a friend with 2 weeks experience took Annie out as support for the first time. Another player called ADC so we warned him that the Annie player was on a first run with the champ. The only complaint we got was late in the game when Annie thought he'd burned his stun and the ADC ended up asking why Annie had not cast a spell to stun the one who killed him. But the player was nice about it. It was a good game for everyone.

As others have said having Skype or TeamSpeak can help. Even if only one other player has it you can still talk to them and that helps a lot at the beginning stages.

Hope you have more luck finding good people to play with. Add me as a friend if you want. I'm happy to play with friendly people and won't chew on you for mistakes. I make enough of my own for both of us. :P

AnomalousChimera1 votes

I recommend that you avoid PvP until you can handily beat bots (as in plural) at intermediate difficulty by yourself.

DisasterSola1 votes

Youre new. Like... Dude. Youre NEW.

Do you use skype? If so, play with your friends. Otherwise, stick to bots.

I say this without vehemence; if youre new, stick to bots. youl learn more by playing against them until you reach the point where you can land skillshots 80% of the time and have an average KD of 10:1.

And actually, the community in league of legends has a severe E-peen complex where "LOSING HORRIBLY AGAINST PLAT 1 PLAYERS TEACHES NEW PLAYERS HOW TO PLAY". In reality, this is wrong, and just makes new players quit the game.

GG Beers1 votes

Don't listen to these other people, just keep playing, ignore what people say in chat. Mute people if you want. Anyway, matchmaking will split you off from smurfs pretty quick, usually around 7-8.

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