This is the best and most inspirational League video I've seen in a long time, and it's so true.

Yeah its good. Saw it when it came out years ago. Went around the forums like hot cakes back then. Sadly this community is always going to be 50% hate mail enthusiasts. I mean its christmas and I'm still getting trolls and ragers despite it being christmas day. Yeah I win 11 games in a row, but I have to mute my team to avoid losing my cool and why should I have to mute my team?.. its absurd.

i may or may not have cried during this...

Is bumping a thing still? Well, it is now. More people need to see this.

he is right just the other day i was in a game with a friend that i was teaching and just cuz he made a few mistakes the other members of our teem kept kalling him names and blaming him for the other teem just plan out playing us that is all it was and yet thay yealed and blamed the new player for the lose and cuz of that he sad he would never play league ever again now thats sad.

wow, that's good.

Oh My God.. I don't even have the right words to describe this..

Every enemy you've ever had, everyone you ever hated, is something you've created. No one ever came into the world looking for conflict, they're pushed and prodded until they feel they have no choice. Let's have have compassion for the ragers and haters this christmas, cause they're just us too. Only 1% of the player even deserve to be perma-banned, don't treat everyone who's had a bad day like they don't belong with us.

I tried to recommend this go into a LoL spotlight/Community Creation thing and the post got deleted. It was in the Community Creations area too, ffs.

The game has changed a lot since I started playing in S1. The game has picked up a competitive scene, and with that a lot of expectations to win and try and recreate the glory people see at worlds or during the lcs.

However, one thing that a lot of the people who make videos like this do, is play Ranked. They intentionally put themselves in a hyper competitive environment where the goal is to be the best, and then get disappointed when people take it seriously.

That's the whole point of teambuilder and normal blind / draft. Those are there to just play for fun and enjoyment and experimentation. Riot has provided you with ways to still (more or less) get that experience.

If you choose to dive into ranked instead, then you shouldn't be surprised to find people who want the best from themselves and from their team.

I primarily just play normals, and have done so since S1. I simply find the community significantly less toxic there. People still get mad and upset, but it's significantly less common, and I haven't encountered someone intentionally griefing a game probably since the early summer.

So while I think this video touches on a lot of good points, I think it really depends on the game type you play, since each game type comes with a completely different mindset.

I hate how true this is. I remember the magical feeling I had inside me when I first started playing. I was new, I was naive and didn't know how to play. I remember i didn't even know what a MOBA was at the time and I just clicked random and got Sona. I remember I didn't know how to level up abilities so instead of maxing out a certain ability right away, I leveled them all equally over time. I miss those days because everyone was truly having fun, including me. Now these days I don't even have the feeling of fun in me anymore when I log on. I get on, get into a game, witness my own friends become frustrated simply because they gave first blood and it hurts to watch because I watch and remember when we first started playing together. Long story short, he taught me how to play and we had fun and he didn't mind when we lost because he knew I was still learning. However once I hit level 30 and we started playing ranked, I saw him become this monster who did nothing but vent on me and produce negative thoughts and results. Now these days I play two games and then I sit there not knowing what to do next, because I have nothing else to do but if I go back into another game, I know it will just be another painful experience.

bump this.

This is phenomenal. I, at one time, had gotten to a point where I could only bring myself to play one game. Win or lose, only one game. Then, I would much prefer to watch a stream of someone else playing. It is just much more relaxing and enjoyable it seems. I loved playing back at the end of closed beta, going bot lane with Shaco and Jax and red pots to start the match. I miss being able to pick whatever you wanted. Yes, I can still do that, but my teammates may disagree with what I am playing and troll or simply stop trying. Just miss the good ole days. May be nostalgia, but damn that was fun stuff.

Be the positive not the negative, We are all in this together, And there is one outcome YOU! I used to rage out side of the game and inside the game, I once found hate but that only put me back to the minority because my life was being picked on the out side the game by others and personal issues. And it had spread around me affecting those players, people, coworkers and family. But that was long ago, Because one day showed me something, Was that I had seen my life flashed before my eyes, And from that moment is what had changed me, Because I saw what I was doing wrong and found out just how much I could better my self as a person and a player. And I have learned there's a hell of allot to the game than I could have possibly imagined since than. I am afraid of hate and what it means, Because hate can destroy you and throw you around like a rag doll. I am a more honest player, I communicate more and i respect teamwork for what it stands, I love to win even if i have to lose 10 times in a row just to win. So get out there, win or lose and believe in your selves and your team even if the enemy team is toxic respect them any ways and hope one day they change. This game is a challenge and its tough so stay tough and remember to have fun.

I think what this guys is saying is really true. Especially the part about us being the change. Even if you've never said anything unkind to your teammates coughcoughbullshit*cough it's important to be better than that. Don't just say nothing but be positive, encouraging, even if it feels strange just pretend even, it makes games so much more fun. Who knows if that person would have raged if at the beginning of the game you'd said "hey guys let's have a fun game.

http://gdcvault.com/play/1017940/The-Science-Behind-Shaping-Player

If you watch that video (really good talk by riot lyte) look at the priming section of it especially. You don't know what set someone off or what could make them feel better. I've seen people who are toxic calm down and at least be civil if multiple people on the team are nice to him even when he's insulting them. Turn the other cheek, be the better man. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" that's really true, so do something different, try to be the person that changes the game for your team. Try to be the diplomat. I know it's not going to always work, that's what mute is for, but try first, maybe it will make someone else on your team regain faith in this community.

The thing has gone to the point where even trying to be some sort of Lead, trying to organize team mates, telling them (in a neutral way) not to roam alone, staying with the team mates or not to gank when there is the ally laner or you are low on hp is seen as toxic as capslock flaming because jungler took blue/support is taking kills (things that never bothered me if happened in the mess, an assisst is better than nothing).

I hate playing most of the matches in this game because a positive attitude and decent gameplay (I end up 90% of the times winning the lane and supporting other lanes) aimed towards a victory in the game is either seen as "tryhard" or "flaming/harassing" just because 1-2-3 other team mates don't care about win, they want a walk in the park and win the game like that, no efforts, no strategy, no teamplay.

This is why I am tired. This is why I end up fighting with team mates that don't want to play as a team and force me in an angry state so that I just don't enjoy the game. I started to leave this matches because it's either a really big loss of time or a chance that you get a restriction. I'll welcome the latter. And the fact that I left BAD PPL in a terrible state actually soothes me and I feel they got what they deserve.

So cool and so true.

Love this video. Should have more of them and more people who do this. ^^

Just play wathever you like and be positive. One day, they will understand.

Really, any competitive game is bound to cause this sort of behavior, however, adding a ranking system changes the struggle for winning into a struggle for superiority. I can easily accept having a bad game, I can easily accept when my teammates don't cooperate, but when they start or I start to use the fact that I or they are somehow superior by comparing ourselves and accusing, blaming, abusing... I feel disgusted; with them, with me, with the game that I love playing and how I let myself change into one of those people who play to win, not to have fun.

RIOT PUT THIS IN THE LAUNCHER PLEEEEASE

I love this.

I approve of AD swain...

haters gonna hate!

This is Swain and Beatrice, im here to tell you your adc's suck. But hear me now believe me later, many a girly ADC suffer from attack damage boosters, but I grant you damage bonus for landing a single target click spell. This is swain and beatrice, and considered you (double clap) double pumped up!

omfg WHAT HAVE WE BECOME WHAT HAVE WE DONE IM SO SO SRY L O L COMMUNITY

All I can say is: Beautiful. I wish I had known about League when it first came out. If League was anything like he said, PLEASE take me back.

Now new players face smurfs every other game and get flamed and yelled at because they're learning.

GG

Annndd now I feel bad for criticizing someone of picking an off-meta in Draft. ... Just remembered I once went jungle Teemo. It sucked. Lol

The feels

Reminds me of another related piece (really there are multiple great remixes/videos done to this song) http://youtu.be/Ow6fPxrwXSw Videos like the one OP posted and this one are great for really putting things into perspective. I try to be really nice, but seeing these just helps, at least hopefully , make a person more aware of what to look out for and how to be that change, in a positive way even if minute, rather then adding to the downhill spiral. Would love to see more videos of this nature which shouldn't be off topic since this all falls into, relatively, the same category.

That's extremely good and so true. Riot should put this up on the homepage and have everyone that plays rank watch it. Seriously.

Ive seen this before and still love it

I'm one of the people who gets blamed for feeding just because I'm an adc main and I'm squishy. Every time someone yells at me for dying once or twice it hurts, and I start turning into one of the toxic monsters. I too wish that there could at least be some decency in League. Too all other adc mains out there, I hope you watch this video and join the struggle to make things right again.

Please upvote this so everyone can see this

I Remember rushing on when my team didn't rage,ah,those were the days... now i can't go a game where my team blames me for their idiotic mistakes,always finding some illogical way to blame me for what they did,or remember a single game where i haven't muted someone or watched them go afk.

There were these two specific games i remember: playing support,pantheon ganks with ult,sivir thinks they can survive with their shield,ends up dying 3v1 and blaming me... top lane,mid won't issue mia, expects me to pay attention to my lane,my wards and their lane, BS.

is this the same guy that did that the video Look Up?

Truer words could not be spoken.

Whoa, just whoa

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Beautiful.

you have to be the change you wish to see in the world deep man really deep

Omg... I will never be the same :0

but being toxic IS the new meta

this wouldnt be an issue if we didnt have a majority of the community as 4fun players. This game has such a bad community because the devs cant decide whether they want to make an online child daycare center or a competitive game.

I play because I enjoy winning. If I have fun at any point along the way then that's good for me, but just because I'm not drowning in "fun" with every keystroke or command does not mean I'm toxic nor does that make league a bad game.

Man...I remember seeing this a few months ago or so. And it did break my heart, seeing as I used to be one of those players who went Wu AP (that's around the time I joined) or Leona mid because I was new to the game, with actual new players on both sides. It we had fun and laughs. After a while I started to become the toxic player (I blame the family member who introduced me seeing as I was like 12-15 at the time) and he was really good. So I began to start talking trash to my teammates and the enemy thinking I might just be like him and become better with no concern for others. Why? Because it's online. Nobody knows who I am and I can't be punished. Then a year or two ago or so I kept getting bans over and over again with different accounts, either for going AFK if the match wasn't going well or raging hardcore and getting reported to the tribunal. Eventually I started to mature and become the person who I am today, which is who I like, and I slowly became calmer and more patient. When I came up with this account as a joke with a friend who I found out plays League, before I introduced and was the reason for about 4 other players joining, I was considered a "smurf". After finding out what it was I slowed down and helped those who were new, went easy on them, gave them tips whether they were with or against me, and started becoming a positive influence on the community. Of course I am slowly going back to the toxic side a bit I will not lie, as you might have seen from a previous "hot post" I have created. But even now I am trying again to be calm and positive, even going through the process of muting everyone at the start of the game if I feel like I might rage. So I don't take it out on them. This video reminds me of the change I am and did go through, and it does hurt once again to know I was and am almost again "that" guy. So as I pick up my heart pieces from the floor I say, I have always loved League no matter what. The toxic side of the community is something that will most likely stay here forever, and that can't be changed. Riot no matter how many times they screwed up did provide and create something we enjoy today. Funny enough, with my recent purchase of Jarvan and my learning of new ways to play and think, despite some current issues I am able to actually have a lot of fun in League again.