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Why do people have to be so toxic?

Kazekuro·12/4/2013, 6:24:19 PM·12 votes·422 views

Just finished a game where I went ADC Nidalee. Its fun and a thing I love to do. Surprisingly effective as well. We had a top lane Aatrox who lost his lane, fed a Gangplank 7/0/3 Before GP decided to roam, (To dominate the other lanes) and he starts complaining how bad bot lane is and how AD Nid failed the team. We won are lane and shut down the silly Sivir and Annie. My support Zyra was awesome. Ahri was doing ok mid, and our Fiddle was rocking in Jungle. Why can't players just accept their own failures instead of filling the chat with extremely toxic chat. It does nothing to help us, in fact its a demotivation and lowers our team coordination in teamfights, effective assisting the enemy team. For once I would like to see.

"Sorry guys, I lost lane, anyone mind If I start countering their jungle while pushing my lane. Since I cant out Duel my opponent anymore?"

Or some Idea along similar lines. I have been in far to many games, where someone has an odd take on a role (ADC, Sup, Top ect...) It works, and they are doing great in their lane, and the 1 person in the game who loses their lane has to complain to that person non-stop. , Fighting amid yourselves is a good as letting the enemy win before the match is finished.

Whether it be the Taric who decides to Jungle or the Ahri who wants to ADC. Be nice to that person, because if you don't it just makes them want to help you less. Who knows that Nid heal, Taric stun, or Ahri charm could be the thing that saves your life in a fight. They might just decide not to. ;) Be nice, and be friends.

Before I go, have the wisdom of one of my favorite game characters.

"If ten times their number, surround them. If double, divide them. When equal engage, but when less, be capable of withdraw. Make no mistakes and you simply work to conquer, an already defeated foe."

Edit: (HitYouInTheFace made some great points and also asked about my build, Scroll down to see it.)

27 Comments

Ralantha12/4/2013, 10:05:30 PM3 votes

Any time I notice someone struggling in a lane I ask the jungler to help, or as the jungler I try to do what I can. Top lane, however, is one of those places I will ignore if they can't win duels so I can feed bot and mid. Lately I've been lucky helping a friend get out of bronze league and try as much as possible to give directions about objectives and how not to ham after the kills.

Goldenelk59812/4/2013, 8:16:55 PM3 votes

Exactly. People get so frustrated during laning phase that they completely forget that one good teamfight where maybe they get a triple kill can totally turn around their game...And i'm usually one of those people who just straight up starts begging my teammates not to hate me for losing lane lol. Sometimes it just happens so we move on.

Sir ArmaMalum12/5/2013, 2:52:08 AM2 votes

When someone tries a'troll' lane or something that doesn't seem like it'd work, my response is always "Hey if it works, it works!". I always give someone a chance with a combination I haven't seen before, because I enjoy being surprised, and I will always laugh when a crit bannana gets a kill.

As for toxicity, I agree, it accomplishes nothing. That doesn't mean I don't yell at my screen when I think something stupid happens, but I always endeavor to never have it reach text chat.

Wikitaytay12/5/2013, 8:15:48 AM1 votes

People just take the game too seriously

HitYouInTheFace12/5/2013, 8:58:59 AM1 votes

I dont trust your judgement of toxicity. For all we know, you could be just as toxic and you came on here to have self-righteous raging. Now, that is most likely not the case and I am glad you made some positive statements in your explanation of the game and how things could be improved.
Often times in the game, people are provoked into rage by another player's subtle, negative comments. Ex: "Fail aatrox"; "stop feeding"; etc. Try to not provoke anger and be overall positive.

I have seen too many reports in the tribunal where the person being reported was actually provoked by the teams negative attitude towards him. Positive attitudes and communication is a 2 way relationship

Glad you healthily understand the problem and the way to go about fixing it, as far as I can tell.

Also... ADC nidalee... eh. :P What do you build on that to make it "effective" ?

<3, hityouintheface.

404 PhdNotFOUND12/6/2013, 8:45:46 AM1 votes

well...people who rage at other and ignore the mistakes they made will never become better player. Think this way, if u treat ur team nicely, ur mmr will rise and u will be far away from raging people.

TwerkZerker12/7/2013, 7:50:17 AM1 votes

I totally know this feel.

I main AD Leona. And I'm not saying that I play Leona AD and suck or anything--I actually do quite well with her. Especially if the enemy has a Yi--it's pretty funny. But honestly it doesn't matter how good I do (or how many sorry butts I save...) most games; the instant anyone dies, an objective is lost, we (God forbid) get outplayed by the enemy team, etc., it's all "Leona lost the game for us". Pfft. As if.

I've even been reported for playing her AD--just because she's classified as a support. Seriously, wtf is that... If something works for someone and it isn't a detriment to the team, people should just have a little faith and shut the heck up about it. True, some weird picks are doomed to fail (AP Riven support), but that doesn't automatically mean "weird" = "bad".

The only thing I can't stand about the LoL community is that so many players take an attitude of "I can't make [such-and-such] work, therefore it's impossible ".

My only response to such thinking is: "Gurl, plz".

Andersnordic12/5/2013, 12:38:08 AM1 votes

I agree like why do people have to be so toxic when I try to Soraka top. People don't understand just because of what the champion is doesn't mean it can't go other lanes. No need to false report or harass others. Also I don't think AD Ahri would work well since she scales with AP. Anyways people shouldn't be toxic about watch it and see things could really work out in the end!

Zephyr8912/5/2013, 4:05:32 AM1 votes

Not everyone is.