Advice is not trash talk

notmebuthim·9/9/2017, 2:37:30 PM·11 votes·501 views

So many people take advice or even factfull statements as trash talking. "We will probably lose if we keep stagering our deaths" was taken as "stop feeding shit heads" and somehow "LB push the lane before you roam" was also taken horribly. These are just some small examples but I see it too often.

9 Comments

Chembaron Yamada9/9/2017, 11:51:48 PM3 votes

Yep. Had a game today, our Orianna was always in side lanes pushing solo and got caught pretty often.

After the game I literally just said "Orianna, please stay with the team, you are a great team fighter, not a split pusher". What was the answer I got? "Suck my balls, you filthy animal."

King of Demons9/10/2017, 12:09:25 AM3 votes

It can get demeaning veeery quickly. Also due to text being a rather hard medium to express emotions over. Also a person who is already upset because they are playing poorly has a cognitive leaning towards taking things "the wrong way"

Shuyin1789/9/2017, 2:42:28 PM2 votes

Depends how you word the advice because people have become overly sensitive pansies.

Zane Zephyr9/10/2017, 3:42:54 AM1 votes

It's mostly because people don't want to admit what they're doing/buying is wrong or sub-optimal to the situation and also since it's through text sometimes it can sound quite condescending which further strays people from wanting to hear what you have to say.

Also, some people already have a set goal of what they want to do when they pick something so no amount of asking will change it (i.e full AP maokai or something like that)

OyddAWqJ5r9/10/2017, 5:45:36 PM1 votes

That's where you're wrong. "Advice" is the easiest avenue for trash talking.