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Almost Impossible to Introduce Someone to this Game

Bible Knight·5/28/2015, 5:26:51 PM·1 votes·792 views

So I've been playing League of Legends for a bit over one month now I think. I'm almost level 30, and I am 100% positive I won't be in ranked mode for a very, very long time. The reason for that is, the community has too many problems.

My girlfriend wants to play this game with me. She isn't the greatest, but she's level 15. Last night she was alittle stressed out, and thought it'd be fun to play together. Was she ever wrong. Keep in mind these games are not in direct order, it happened last night so I'm not 100% sure of the order.

Before we used to do Team Builder, which usually ended up with us playing decent games. Now that I'm forced to play blind pick with her, the results are astounding. The first game I think it was there was a person who didn't get their role. They wanted top but I called top lane, so they want Fiora Support. I ended up giving top lane to my girlfriend (She uses Heimerdinger) because nobody went Jungle. Needless to say, the Fiora went like 1/7 and our game was pretty bad.

So I told her, it happens, let's just try another game. The next game, we had a terrible experience again. I wanted jungle, and another person called it. I was like, it's okay, I'll go top lane as Yi and you can jungle (They were Udyr). He never ganked, once. All this guy did was farm, and I tried to tell him, "Ward Dragon" never did it, "Help mid lane", walked right across mid lane and did nothing. Literally, did nothing. When there was a team fight, he wouldn't help, and I'd tell him ,"Help Mid" and what would he do? From the back of the enemies, as Udyr, to a fed team, he would run up and get 4v1 in a second. I tried to carry the game (Because I was the only one able to destroy their lane's tower) but it didn't work out. So me and my girlfriend were like wow, but don't worry let's try to play another game.

So my friend (who we both promptly deleted after this) invited us to a game with their friend. Their friend didn't get the role they wanted, so what did they do? Xin Zhao support. My friend was Twitch adc, and this was apparently their real life best friend who was next to them. And all they did was steal Twitch's cs and die. And then Twitch was complaining to me how they did it on purpose, and I just told them you should reconsider your friends. We lost, again.

So we both deleted them, and went to play another game. This game, we had an Ezreal. When I didn't get top or jungle (I was trying to practice Yi last night) I had to go support. This guy swears at me, calls me the N word and his B, and continues to mouth me off, his support. At this point, after going 3 games with toxic players, I wasn't having this. So I picked Taric, and just ditched him and supported my girlfriend. I wasn't going to at first, I was going to let it go. But at the beginning of the game, my girlfriend (who was trying to use Kayle) was in midlane, and Ezreal comes and steals all her cs, then leaves to come bottom lane. Additionally, what I found interesting, is when the game started the opposing team told me about this Ezreal. How Katarina and her boyfriend had to play with him, and how he told her to do some very disgusting sexual acts I won't say on here (Why did they have to play with him 2 games in a row is not comprehended by me). So I just followed my girlfriend around, tried to help her get better at the game while we lost, again.

The last game we played we actually had a decent game, but still had a toxic player. However, this was the game where my girlfriend decided to play Heimerdinger again (She was trying to learn Kayle but gave up) and I used Kayle top lane. I pushed top lane and semi-carried. However we had a Leblanc who was quite toxic in the beginning, but eventually just let it go.

So what is going on with this game? How am I to introduce my girlfriend to play with me, when 80% of the games we played last night were terrible, and 100% of the games had toxic players in it. What am I supposed to do? I can't take her to team builder anymore to stop conflicts and even sometimes people troll in team builder. Riot needs to seriously improve on it's community and not be so laid back and allow such chaos in their game. There needs to be a lot more punishments going around.

In closing, a lot of young kids play this game. These kids don't always have the best, or most strict parents. Some of them are spoiled or just mean spirited. So you're just going to let them ruin everyone else's time? There needs to be a report system, that actually gets results. Apparently, people reported a person in one game (Ezreal) and had to fight him THE NEXT GAME. There is a serious flaw in LOL coding if that happens. If a player is reported by someone, they shouldn't be matched up with them, especially not the NEXT GAME. Like come on, Riot it isn't hard to code punishments for this stuff.

3 Comments

3TWarrior5/28/2015, 5:41:46 PM1 votes

well, there's always custom games...like those ever work XD sorry, but it is a suggestion

the majority of issues stem from that riot's playerbase are mostly high level so new players have to suffer the toxicity, but if you would rather a better or smaller community until you level up, try 3 vs 3 or games against bots

i'm not sure if these award more experience however, everyone, feel welcome to submit your suggestions

Player of Games5/28/2015, 6:26:31 PM1 votes

In all honestly, pre level-30 games are a whole fuckfest of issues. You have feeders, trolls, people that have no idea, and worst of all smurfs who will repeatedly stomp you and make you not want to play.

I highly suggest making it to level 30 and trying out ranked. You're more than likely going to be placed in bronze, but atleast the meta is more in-tune at higher levels and you wont have to worry about complete idiots.

Sorry for your bad experiences though, the grind to get to 30 and afterwards is hard, this isn't a "fun" game by any means when you're learning, it's a hyper-competitive MOBA where people try hard to win. Just keep moving forward and try to learn, things get great once you get better and what not.

67chrome5/28/2015, 6:34:46 PM1 votes

So what is going on with this game? How am I to introduce my girlfriend to play with me, when 80% of the games we played last night were terrible, and 100% of the games had toxic players in it.

Mute button is amazing for toxic players.

Mostly I've found toxic players are screaming for attention. They've usually lost hope at winning the game through it's default rule set, so they decide to play a different game where they score points if they can make anyone else salty, acknowledge their existence, and generally be the center of attention.

Mute button makes it pretty easy for such players to fail at that game too.

Beyond that: ~50% of the situations you described didn't seem toxic so much as games you were salty you lost and just blammed one of your allies for the loss.

Going in with the right attitude can make a world of difference in how enjoyable a game is. LoL is a team-game after all, everything that aids team-spirit and teamwork will often play a bigger roll in your chances of victory than personal skill. Which is pretty much all positive attitude, being a chill dude or dudet, and focusing more on a good experience for everyone rather than giving into rage.

Keep your emotions under check so you can think logically, and encourage beneficial emotions in your allies at any rate. Much of this post indicates you might be a little hot-headed, taking losses a little to hard.

Anyways:

Use the mute button for toxic players.

Keep the salt levels under control.