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Don't flame new players in unranked game modes.

RustinMA·1/26/2020, 12:07:57 AM·5 votes·4,378 views

So I'm pretty new to league. I played the game like 9 years ago in middle school, and was pretty bad, didn't enjoy it, and got flamed, so I didn't play it growing up. (I played a handful of matches in that time). Recently, I started playing with friends, and am enjoying the game play. The thing is, I grew up playing FPS games, so I've always been a more competitive and skilled player in those kinds of games. I never played point and click RTS, and have always been bad at games like League, SC2, etc. Recently, I played an unranked draft pick game, where I let my team know I was new and was gonna make mistakes.

What a surprise----I make loads of mistakes. I'm unaware of my team, their health, I don't heal when my support is low on health, I don't pay attention to river when my jungle gets killed, etc., etc., etc. But, I'm new, and I don't have these things built in. I play FPS games, and I'm more experienced with those.

Then my jungle and support start question marking me and non-stop flaming.

"you're so bad kid"

"sorry, I'm new, everyone was bad at some point"

"ya, but you are so trash it's not even funny"

"sorry man, I'm doing my best"

"Go play against bots if you're this bad"

I am not going to play against bots. I don't learn anything in bot games, I autopilot and win in 4 minutes, and right click enemy bots who quite literally are not any challenge whatsoever. Playing against real players is SIGNIFICANTLY better for learning mechanics. I am willing to bet my life on that fact.

The flaming was consistent and ridiculously annoying. Unfortunately for me, I really like to defend myself. So I not only spent a lot of time typing, but I ended up playing even worse because I had to defend myself. We weren't even losing by that much. But this guy's nonstop flaming and me defending myself caused us to both get distracted and lose even harder. Then we got rolled and the game finished.

I not only learned a lot of in-game mechanics (heal when support is low, focus more in river, pay attention to teammates health, not just the enemies), but I also learned to not waste my time talking with toxic teammates, and to instead focus on the game.

**I hope he also learned a lesson, because immediately after the game, I got a notice saying he was penalized for being toxic. **

Moral of the story is this:

RELAX. it is unranked draft pick, where new players are trying to improve. It isn't championship worlds major EVO ESEA Katowice. It's unranked draft pick.
Flaming new players is bad for everyone. You lose the game, you get banned, the new player feels like crap and wants to leave. Just relax and play the game.

As a closing note, I would like to thank RIOT Mods/admins. There are A LOT OF GAMES where reports never do anything. I'm not going to name any games, but I'm sure players know of games where you can literally throw racial slurs out left and right and not be punished. Thank you for actually doing something about the negative and toxic players. I used to be extremely toxic myself, and it just isn't worth it. Thank you <3

7 Comments

Cind3rkick1/26/2020, 1:14:56 AM5 votes

dont flame players in any mode*

but yeah, league is so toxic. Chances are 1/3 of the players you encounter in your games are actually smurfs playing on a new account. And they will flame since that account means nothing to them.

I'd suggest just muting all if it is a big issue for you until you feel like you are good enough.

IainG101/26/2020, 4:05:50 AM2 votes

There is one important skill you can learn in vs AI, and that's basic last-hitting. Once you get the hang of last-hitting there it's easier to practice in regular games because you only have to think about your opposition, not your minions attacking as well.

But yeah, flamers in Normals really are an issue....

Ana Mihajlovski1/26/2020, 6:52:47 AM1 votes

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So I'm pretty new to league. I played the game like 9 years ago in middle school, and was pretty bad, didn't enjoy it, and got flamed, so I didn't play it growing up. (I played a handful of matches in that time). Recently, I started playing with friends, and am enjoying the game play. The thing is, I grew up playing FPS games, so I've always been a more competitive and skilled player in those kinds of games. I never played point and click RTS, and have always been bad at games like League, SC2, etc. Recently, I played an unranked draft pick game, where I let my team know I was new and was gonna make mistakes.

What a surprise----I make loads of mistakes. I'm unaware of my team, their health, I don't heal when my support is low on health, I don't pay attention to river when my jungle gets killed, etc., etc., etc. But, I'm new, and I don't have these things built in. I play FPS games, and I'm more experienced with those.

Then my jungle and support start question marking me and non-stop flaming.

"you're so bad kid"

"sorry, I'm new, everyone was bad at some point"

"ya, but you are so trash it's not even funny"

"sorry man, I'm doing my best"

"Go play against bots if you're this bad"

I am not going to play against bots. I don't learn anything in bot games, I autopilot and win in 4 minutes, and right click enemy bots who quite literally are not any challenge whatsoever. Playing against real players is SIGNIFICANTLY better for learning mechanics. I am willing to bet my life on that fact.

The flaming was consistent and ridiculously annoying. Unfortunately for me, I really like to defend myself. So I not only spent a lot of time typing, but I ended up playing even worse because I had to defend myself. We weren't even losing by that much. But this guy's nonstop flaming and me defending myself caused us to both get distracted and lose even harder. Then we got rolled and the game finished.

I not only learned a lot of in-game mechanics (heal when support is low, focus more in river, pay attention to teammates health, not just the enemies), but I also learned to not waste my time talking with toxic teammates, and to instead focus on the game.

**I hope he also learned a lesson, because immediately after the game, I got a notice saying he was penalized for being toxic. **

Moral of the story is this:

RELAX. it is unranked draft pick, where new players are trying to improve. It isn't championship worlds major EVO ESEA Katowice. It's unranked draft pick.
Flaming new players is bad for everyone. You lose the game, you get banned, the new player feels like crap and wants to leave. Just relax and play the game.

As a closing note, I would like to thank RIOT Mods/admins. There are A LOT OF GAMES where reports never do anything. I'm not going to name any games, but I'm sure players know of games where you can literally throw racial slurs out left and right and not be punished. Thank you for actually doing something about the negative and toxic players. I used to be extremely toxic myself, and it just isn't worth it. Thank you <3

Actually if you flame them, they will most likely quit league due to toxic community and you will save them from the misery we are in now.

ProphetOfDraven1/26/2020, 7:17:43 AM1 votes

Get some friends and 5 man with them. Only way pre30 games are bearable.

2gudaiya1/26/2020, 8:34:43 AM1 votes

I will always flame people who start bitching about skill gaps in pre-30 games, had to do that pretty often recently.

Inkling Commando1/26/2020, 8:41:03 AM1 votes

you got lucky when you got a notice saying the guy was penalized. a majority of reports are never informed and as such make players think the player in question was never penalized which makes them even more angry.

Captainn Ginyu1/26/2020, 9:52:16 AM1 votes

Im sorry you had this unfortunate encounter sadly thats the way the player base is now id go as far as to say it wasnt this bad a few years ago (iv been playing since s1) and it wasnt NEARLY as bad back then as it was now

now its worse than a trash fire