admit it - trolls are awesome

Letters and Word·4/1/2015, 1:57:38 PM·2 votes·1,439 views

trolls usually seem like carefree fun-loving pranksters. rebels of a sort who don't care about rules and cant be fazed by punishment. maybe they cost you the game but you've got to have a certain respect for such a character.

meanwhile the troll's counterparts feel like complete nerds, often threatening to tattle on the troll if he doesn't play the standard way. these boring, by the book, unimaginative bores become greatly upset when the troll doesn't follow the normal rules for their little game, but they can never match his lively banter. often the only comeback they can muster is 'muted and reported'.

it is little wonder why the other team often honors the troll even while his basic teammates beg for him to be reported. honestly who would you rather hang out with?

10 Comments

Laughing Fish4/1/2015, 2:40:24 PM3 votes

Trolling is an art form.

ActuallyArrow4/1/2015, 2:32:36 PM2 votes

From that logic this means there are only two sides: The trolls, and the snobs.

This logic is that a ten year old has. A "kids rule, parent's drool" mentality. This mentality is brought about because of how a child views their actions. They view their actions as "fun", because at the age of ten common sense, and reality, aren't much of a worry. Other people do not matter to a ten year old, for they do not care if they make the other person cry, or ruin their day, because they are just ten year old children having fun.

However, this entire "honor trolls" is disgusting. It isn't "trolling", "trolling" is a name people gave to people who use bad behavior to either annoy some one or ruin their day. The term "trolling" has been use too much, instead of calling it blatantly what it is. The term "trolling" implies that the person knows what they are doing is wrong, and purposely doing it for the simple satisfactory of ruining people's days.

While League of Legends is a game, the amount of time I have wasted because of "trolls" is more-so than the time I have spent actually playing the game. You either get your trolls who spam, and feed. Or the ones that don't talk, and take your lane and don't leave until you do. Or you get the ones that swear everyone else is worse than them. Then you have the people who come onto the forums and make "troll" posts (kinda like this one? Because nothing you said sounded serious at all), flaming about a character that needs no nerfs, or calling the users garbage, spamming the forums.

That kind of behavior is not a positive thing. When people sit down to play League, they are devoting hours of their time to try and win, or maybe simply just to enjoy the game. Given no option to leave a match when a troll arises, it is unfair on the people who are playing the game to be competitive, or to play the game, to have to sit in a forty minute match that they could care less about because a team mate has chosen to be a toxic player.

it is little wonder why the other team often honors the troll

That is because the other team was handed a win.

Who would I rather hang out with? Neither. I don't play this game to be social, I play it to play it.

Soybean164/1/2015, 2:15:18 PM1 votes

Trolls can be put up with in normal I guess, defenantly not ranked though

FHMarshy4/1/2015, 2:45:57 PM1 votes

Sincerely wish upon you that every single promotion games you ever play will have 4 trolls on your team.

You will enjoy them a lot it seems :)

phirestarter4/1/2015, 5:00:17 PM1 votes

these boring, by the book, unimaginative bores

...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

warpenguin5554/1/2015, 2:34:17 PM1 votes

depends on how you are trolling. Troll picks, go ahead. Intentionally feeding, no

Wirius4/1/2015, 2:33:00 PM1 votes

The noble and often misunderstood troll is a staple of the LoL ecosystem. These creatures typically lurk in caves and subsist on a diet of soda and popcorn. As such, they grow to enormous sizes to ward off any physical contact that would remove them from their computers.

Due to their poor diet and isolation, the troll gains its true sustenance from the misery of others. In an illusion of self-superiority, they scatter misery delightfully throughout the battlefield. They are an extra environmental hazard, a player mutated from wanting to win the game, and instead wanting to win at life by crushing all other hope and happiness from all others.

The troll is an important part of the LoL experience as they introduce an element of randomness into the system. Just as one can randomly pull a chellenger smurf in their game, so one can pull a troll. The troll ups the challenge level of the game from a 3* to a 4* level, and winning with a troll on your team gives a regular player a feeling of accomplishment and an inner knowledge they can face any challenge and come out on top.

Many players do not know how to handle a troll, and end up letting the troll win. To win against a troll, a player must have emotional fortitude, an uninjured pointer finger to click the mute button, and an ability to tune out distractions that would impress Tibetan monks. Trolls are fortunately not in danger of going extinct any time soon, as few people reach the skill needed to not feed one.