Since every ranked game I play it is toxic. that is why I don't play. or maybe I should rephrase it. how many games do you have toxic people? Because I see far less in normal even when people suck and get destroyed.
Every game has at least a salty, passive-aggressive, on downright flaming person in it. I don't really mute them because I want to know what they say so I can make better reports when the game ends, and I kinda like reading all the raging nonsense they make up to blame everyone else when they are the first ones doing horrible (people that flame are almost always terrible players as well).
I have to reckon though, that I sometimes need quite a few days away from LoL, since toxic people sometimes get on my nerves and the game becomes frustrating.
Oh, and sometimes I also take breaks because of Riot's terrible balance and declining game health... cough Juggernaut update cough preseason changes cough
I report at least 1 person per game. But it's also out of 10 people. 1 out of 10 ain't bad.
Every game. I always start by saying "glhf" followed by /mute all. Pings say everything that needs to be said.
pretty much from mid-gold and up, people are not illogically toxic.
however, you do get the people who go 0-3 and think the game is over, or the bot lane got double killed by a devourer jungler and similarly they think the game is over
in platinum and up to diamond, in general everyone is there to win, so there might be some harsh words exchanged but that doesn't really matter to me as long as everyone is still giving it their best
one of the huge reasons that I hate normals, and have bitched to rito constantly about it, is that the toxicity among bronze and silvers is immense. Again, I can handle flaming, even directed at me, but they get put on tilt and choose to troll.
I almost never report people and I have only muted one person in 3 years of this game. (And it wasn't cause he was toxic. Just annoying.) Either I just give zero fucks about people's words, you people need to grow a pair, or I'm just lucky.
Never. I'm able to mentally be able to ignore other players if I feel like it. People flame and my attitude is get used to it, there's no reason to let it bother you.
The reason it's more flamy in Ranked is because ranked players are more likely to care about victory.
My stream is rated mature cause I play naked, does that count?
Lately in preseason the toxicity in ranked's gone up considerably at the platinum level <_< I usually end up muting someone at least once or reporting some other person. I'll usually unmute if the person I muted stops doing badly since at the low-mid plat level I've been playing at, there's a lot of rage when someone plays the blame game of "I died, because you made me die because you didn't go in with me etc. etc."
there are some enemies laner who like to talk and can make things funnier, i had those, but too much trash talk and stuff like (insert champ name) IS OP DURR/Dat damage DERPP/ when i have a really bad game and team begins blaming i just instamute.
i only /mute all when the shit hits the fan and the game becomes boring
i dont type that much, i mostly just ping
I mute people when they start flaming. Why waste my time communicating with someone who isnt focusing on the game. Anyway, pings do the job fine
Eh, i would say like once every 3-4 games i will need to report someone.
Every other game.
It gets slightly better as you climb, but even mid diamond was full of raging children. Sadly, its easier to learn the game than it is to learn maturity
I generally never mute anyone because we can always find a way to work together and have teamwork in the end, sometimes you just shouldn't speak for a bit tho until you make a good play together.
Also it's critical that, at this point, you don't rage at anyone at ALL, then you just make the game worse. Don't try to make jokes or anything that can be turned against you. DONT TILT!!!! Also, play safe until you can make a big play with your team.
Once said play is made, trust is being restored and use the play to rebuild teamwork. If said play never happens, just apologize for raging (sometimes even if you didn't), and try to move on. THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER GAME TO BE HAD.
That's my idea of what you should do in these situations. Happened a while ago in a game I was playing mf and got angry at shac for not ganking when we needed him and he was nearby. We won that game.
TEAMWORK OP! :P
If a teammate is just being toxic off the bat for no reason ( not playing bad, getting role, etc), then there's not much to do... Just try to have fun with it I guess.
I personnaly mute the guy that is toxic since the beggining and play the game.
Havent muted them for 2 seasons long, and regret I havent done that earlier
The moment someone says anything hinting so much as tilt/rage or toxic insta mute
as for a number
70% of the players gets muted
I am a jungle main so I can't really mute people. I depend on communication and leadership to win. it's been absolutely miserable over the past few days as the boosted kids drop and the preseason snowballing is too high.
I don't know if I'd call myself that mature, but I don't mute anyone unless its over the top insane, and those are extremely rare. Sometimes they actually have something useful to say, and just as importantly, learning to ignore and listen to people when necessary is a vital life skill.
Don't worry. It's only 1% of toxic people in this community.
Next on the news an interview with PhD Lyte: Why duo queue doesn't create toxicity and Dynamic Teams are a good idea.
Honestly, I think the most mature thing is to be able to handle the toxicity without needing to mute.
If you are mature enough to know the toxic people are dumb/rude, it's the next logical step to be able to keep a cool head even when they are flaming you. It's hard at times, but I almost never mute anyone. I like to keep chat open so I can see if they start talking strategy. It sometimes happens.
I noticed there are some people that need a break from LoL. They get too emotional in the game XD. I know if i get frustrated, and usually i am not toxic (yes i do say things like "your fault, not mine, learn to ward newb" cause that's usually directed at the aggressor). I dont like to bash someone who is not doing all that great, i actually try to aid them if they are not that far behind, or i use them as a human shield or sacrifice since if they are feeding it is wiser to just have them soak up all the abilities and Shiv shocks to focus the carries who have stuff on cd XD.
I played jungle often this season (but on my other account) and I was often annoyed by some people so I muted them but I didn't had to.
The majority of my problems are with people in ranked queues, probably muting one person every 15 games outside of that. But this season's ranked climb made me finally turn off all-chat and I still found myself averaging 2 mutes per game. I got to the point where I could tell whether someone was going to rage based on how they typed their first 2 sentences, tested by unmuting them halfway through the game just to find out they were still flaming, that is unless my teammates were still responding to them in which case I kept them muted.
I've turned off a couple of the sounds in the settings on top of that because emote-spamming is either bm to our opponent or just annoying and distracting to allies.
Long story short I've used almost every tool Riot has provided to make my time dealing with teammates less frustrating. Here's to hoping they give us more control over dealing with allies spamming pings in the future because I find myself getting pretty suspicious if someone on my team has a chat restriction even though I should be focusing on how I'm playing instead.
I tend to mute on a drop of a hat now but mostly in response of clearly coarse players that skip player positive and prove that they don't social.
I do attempt to avoid saying "MUTED" though, but when allies start complaining about the person I muted I ask THEM why they haven't muted the toxic one yet.
There is a video tutorial on how to remove the chat box completely on youtube. It will make league a million times better, i promise. The ping system is more than enough for communication.
If it's directed at me then I usually mute them if they don't prove their point and then shut up. If it's not directed at me I usually try to add fuel to the fire and make them even more asinine, not only is it great comedic value but it lightens the game mood overall if I can get the enemy team involved too. After getting both teams pissed at the flamer/toxic douche and the insulting has passed the flamer usually doesn't say anything. However if they continue to persist I usually mute them. And the only reason people are usually nice in Norms is because they're all people that have lost any kind of hope in ranked games because of the people you've mentioned, and you've got nothing to lose at all Vs. whereas in ranked people are so desperate to climb and grace the LCS with their clearly superior mechanics that losing a game might as well have just severed the umbilical cord of their League dreams.
TL;DR: In a community as massive as LoL's some teammates are guaranteed to be hyper-narcissistic dick holsters, add the element of competition into the already shitty melting pot and you're left with New York City attitude Stalinist's who are only out for self betterment and have no problem with throwing other peoples emotions/self-esteem under the bus.
In some 140 ranked games this season i muted like 10 people top's. Not because there was low amount of flame and useless chatting but simply because most of it was not mute worthy.
I think in my entire career of playing league. From 2008~(closed beta) to now, from no-ranked games into diamond last season. I've muted about four people.
It just feels way too easy to ignore them and carry on with my life than feel like i need to hide it to protect my emotions. I'd feel more disappointed in myself for having to do something like that. But that's how I look at it for myself. I understand that others are different and definitely could use the mute function.
As far as how many toxic people. Truly toxic people you mean? Maybe like one in every 100 games has a genuinely toxic person. The rest are just having a bad game/day
I mute people who begin to rage at other teammates or myself on a regular basis, maybe every 4-5 games or so. Some days are worse than others. After about 15-20 minutes I unmute them and see if they have calmed down. If not, I just mute again. Some people get so worked up its ridiculous. Hell, I have gotten more ragers and toxic fucks in ARAM recently than ranked. Very very weird.
I've never muted someone. If they act toxic or whiny I just do what I would do in real life, ignore them. Seriously, do people have such little self control that they have to respond to every idiot they play with? Sorry but I don't have enough APM to waste it typing to a lost cause.
I'd say close to 50% of my games have a toxic/whiny person in them. Most of the time they shut up once we start carrying though.
I mute the moment someone dies and says "gg". I have become a strong believer in the mute button and its strength to tone out feeders who blame shift.
Example; last game I played we had a donger mid, he was going to "carry us" if we let him mid or bot, he desperately wanted support but me being a support main and above him in pick order I picked my support (tahm) and he of course threw a fit. I had MF up 10 kills 2 deaths Donger was 0/5/1 (the 1 assist was a first blood given to him by me). He began saying it was the jungler's fault, I immediately muted him. I always inform them in chat when I am muting them as well, as I think it encourages the rest of the team to mute said person, which overall keeps your teams moral steady. (minus the muted individual that is nothing but an anchor at this point anyway)
But yeah, I mute the moment I hear someone blame someone else, excessively ping for assistance before the jungler has even got their first clear (preemptive muting, because I know they're just going to bitch), pretty much anybody that says anything counter productive gets instantly muted by me.
I very rarely mute people. I just don't respond to trolls. I generally mute more for spamming than language, as a constantly full chat log takes up to much screen space.
Why are you playing with so many toxic players? According to Lyte, less than 1% of players are toxic. So you should only be coming across one every 10 or so matches. According to him, if you experience toxic players more than that, you are the cause of it.
If someone says "it's over" by like 5 minutes, then I just mashed mute because usually he will keep on whining and often that alone loses people games. I use that button to mainly deal with whiny people that just won't calm the heck down.
Maybe not applicable in this match, though. Everything is so stupidly snowbally.
How often does that happen? Probably 1 in 20 games, I'm pretty tolerant towards people especially after maining support for a long time.
Honestly, usually just mute everyone. People are so toxic now days. Some times I test the waters and dont mute right away to see if they will be non toxic.. but usually unless we are snowballing hard.. ppl get tilted and start blaming every etc.
I've muted and reported in every game I've had so far, preseason. At least 25-30 games. I made it to Platinum, and I'm very surprised how much of a better attitude gold players have. Sometimes I just drag my chat box off screen.
