"It's Just Flex"

Zeykra·Oct 31, 2017·4 votes·523 views

So, I've been playing Flex Que in order to get the Graves Chroma. And holy did I walk into a nightmare. I've had people inting, people trolling, people just going afk because "I don't want this game". But last game takes the cake.

We have a Yi top lane who purposefully fed the Pantheon because I said "Just play safe, I'll be top to gank at 6 (I'm playing Diana). He took offence saying I should gank at 2, and then just ran it down top. Our Ori tried until she lost lane to Talon after she got first blooded. Then she just kept feeding him and eventually took to following me in the jungle to steal my camps. "FF @ 15 or I keep feeding" Is what they kept saying. And when I asked the obvious question... "Why are you guys just trolling? Farm and get back into the game, or just defend for a while until Panth falls off" they replied "It's just flex que, who gives a F***".

Why is it that everyone seems to think it's okay to troll in flex que? Is everything really that bad? I thought blind pick was toxic, but this is a whole 'nother level of toxic. Some people actually want to get to some decent rank on this, and to have people like that ruining the game? It's just not okay. They ended up going 0-9/0-10 each. Like really?

TLDR - Why do people think it's okay to troll in Flex, and why does it seem this que is the gathering place of Leagues toxic community?

4 Comments

Titanium70Nov 1, 20172 votes

I'd say that's because Flex has no compeditive value.

Outside of Teamranked where things get interesting Flex is nothing but another normal game mode. Where completely unbalanced Teams play against each other.

There is no reason for Flex to exist and that's why people dont take it serious. Flex is just the pittiful remant of DynamicQ Riot refused to call and treat as a complete failure.

Hèntaî Nov 1, 20172 votes

It has the value of being a ranked queue, Im highly certain people just bag on it because a lot of high elo players do and/or they need an excuse to troll and ruin the game for some. What people dont understand is that you still earn rewards no matter the queue. Imho dynamicq was pretty fluffin good. Yeah people got boosted a whole lot and what not but the fact that I could climb higher than I could before with my buddies(That were all the same elo as me in terms of skill and in general). In fact it was because of dynamicq that I have improved so much. :T

Done25Nov 1, 20172 votes

It's sad, but Flex is more unbalanced than a one legged elephant on a circus ball in the middle of an earthquake. As such, most people treat it as a joke instead of the competitive mode that it is. End of season is especially toxic with people screwing around while others are trying to rank up.

Hèntaî Nov 1, 20171 votes

The same goes for Twisted treeline. Its honestly sad