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GD, how do you prevent tilt in the face of *actually* feeding teammates?

Jellyfish Rave·11/8/2017, 5:41:56 PM·1 votes·544 views

Way back in season 2 I actually thought the ranked League experience was the best one yet. I thought it was absolutely insane that anyone could even be toxic when we're all just trying out best and whatnot. Of course this was back in like probably Bronze 4 before Leagues was even a thing. A good few years down the line, and League of Legends 7 comes out. In League of Legends 6 I hit plat, which I thought was fucking lit. I didn't do too much with ranked after getting plat again until maybe the last four months of the season, at which point I tried to climb super hard to diamond. Those were probably some of the worst 4 months of league that I've ever seen.

When you lose a lane, even really hard, jungle camping, hard matchup, bad match for you, the whole nine yads, I can expect something to the degree of like 0/5-0/6 down maybe even 40 cs. Of course that's probably a rare occurrence, but anyway, moving on. I have seen some of the most insane shit I've ever seen in the last four months. I've seen people troll because they don't get the champion they wanted, I've seen people, for literally no reason whatsoever just walk into the enemy jungle, die, afk in a different lane, tp away, die more, then afk before 10 minutes. Last night I watched my leona rush a poacher's dirk and then just roam around the map, only fighting when she's sure she could go in ALONE and die, then afk. Those are more extreme examples, but the standard is something like 2/3 people going 2/12 or something by 20. On occasion I can maybe get that, but this happened in a solid 70% of matches and I just don't even understand. If you're say, and adc, and your top laner has given renekton 12 kills before you even get a second item, there's literally no way you're winning that game, through no fault of your own. You can come out of lane 3/0 with a 30 cs advantage, but still lose, because there's no way for you, an adc, to stop your top laner from snowballing that renekton.

I witnessed maybe 400 games of this over and over again and honestly it's made me start feeling toxic which is fucking insane because like it's League of Legends, what the fuck? I think I just got tired of witnessing the same thing over and over again, going some insane 5/1 score before 20, and then getting stomped by the 13/0 because nobody knows how to play from behind. It's just a mega tilter I guess. Sorry for the rant, but before this season officially starts, does anyone have experience with this and advice on how to deal with it? I hate wanting to be toxic, and just wanna move past it and climb, but it almost seems like it's actually impossible. Is there any way you guys know of to stop that kind of stuff before it even starts? I'm actually looking forward to the next season a lot, but I wanna make sure I know the tactic to prevent my fervor taric top from single-handedly losing the game :V Thanks in advance guys, sorry for the long post.

TL;DR- Advice on how to not want to be toxic when people actually feed tens of kills before 20 minutes? Specific roles to learn? Times of the season/day to start a match? Any advice is appreciated.

7 Comments

Okuma11/8/2017, 5:45:19 PM1 votes

I like how you refered to seasons as "League Of Legends #"

ZenithEevee11/8/2017, 5:45:56 PM1 votes

just laugh it off as someone just being a dumbass

Makior7211/8/2017, 5:59:50 PM1 votes

Some things I find that help.

If you can, play the game when most of the children. Are at school. If you work during the day, try to wait until later at night to play to eliminate as many children as possible. Same thing for weekends, try to play in the early morning or late evening when most of the kids are sleeping.

Odd Gnome11/8/2017, 6:14:45 PM1 votes

Play YOUR game. Focus on you. If they come down and feed your lane or whatever then play back as though you fed them yourself. If they're a chat troll, mute. If they're a ping troll, mute. Avoid them and play your own game, farm up, try to get picks with your team that is working with you and play carry roles. Ezreal Veigar Tryndamere Orianna all have significant abilities to hard carry on their own.

Automatis11/8/2017, 6:24:37 PM1 votes

its w/e just accept that they're bad and try your hardest. ping objectives and make calls, they'll usually listen if you don't flame them. Feeders usually know they're bad, and only dig in their heels when attacked. If you're calm and authoritative, they'll meekly follow you.

Also accept that you won't win every game. Even the absurdly broken champions have sub-60% win rate, meaning that even if you're skillfully abusing a meta pick you're going to lose games. Climbing the ladder isn't about the individual games, its about the long climb. As long as you maintain 50+ win rate, you'll climb (sometimes pretty slowly, depending on how close to 50 you are). Its much more practical and realistic to view your ranked games in aggregate than try to find some magical cure for feeders and trolls in each individual game.