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Everytime I feel like quitting this game, I have a team that restores my faith in the community

Caoil··60 votes·5,373 views

So I have a history of bad luck in ranked games. All through my placements I didn't play a single game with a full team due to DC's and rage quits. I'm now silver, which seems to have more negative attitudes than bronze.

Last night I was playing some ranked, and I usually play ADC whenever I can, but I was last pick and ended up playing support, no big deal there, if I don't get ADC my second choice is usually support. Anyway, after about 5 minutes into the game I realized that our jinx was terrible. Not like just getting outplayed, but she actually didn't know ADC mechanics or how to CS at all, and she fed lucian 4 kills by the 5 minute mark. At this point I was 1-0-1 morgana due to jungler help since the jinx was always dead. I so wanted to rage at the jinx, and my team probably did too, but top lane was going even and our mid lane zed was winning lane hard, so I held it in hoping the jinx could just play safe and try to farm while zed carried us to victory.

20 minutes into the game jinx was 0-8--1 with 37 cs. I was farming whenever jinx wasn't in lane, and I had 70 cs by the 20 minute mark as support. Still no one on my team said anything to the jinx and just focused on their own play. By this point in the average silver game I would have expected my team to be in full anarchy, with at least one person trying to 1v5 and everyone blaming the jinx in all-chat. Around this time someone on the enemy team said "sorry for the intentional feeding jinx" in all-chat, and our jungler responded "she isn't intentionally feeding, just having a bad game." This comment just restored my faith in the community, having a teammate acknowledge that someone was just having a bad game, and that her other games probably weren't always like this. I know I hate it when I lose lane because I got outplayed and my team is raging, telling me never to play x champion or x role again, telling me to kill myself or uninstall.

We were still in it at the 40 minute mark, being about even in kills but down by a little bit in towers and objectives. Jinx was becoming somewhat relevant, having completed 2 items, and zed and I could 2v2 any 2 players on the enemy team, including the insanely fed lucian. Once our inhib went down our top lane nidalee started blaming the jinx a bit, but the rest of my team actually defended her, saying that it was okay, we all have bad games and that maybe she should practice her adcs a bit more in normals. We lost the game, but we put in a good effort. There were times we aced the enemy team and were able to capture objectives and towers to keep ourselves in the game. Jinx got caught out while she was trying to farm and the rest of us just couldn't 4v5.

Even though we lost we felt we had at least put in an effort while most teams would have surrendered at 20 with the scores being what they were at that time. It was nice to have a game like that after a bunch of bad games in a row where my teammates wouldn't stop spamming chat. I try to only speak in chat to give constructive advice and praise to teammates for good plays. Sometimes I get caught in the middle of the arguing and it's difficult to hold it in. I'm glad my team didn't blame bot lane as a whole for losing the game. I hate when I'm in a duo lane and my lane partner is playing bad, but I'm holding it together and I get blamed. Our zed even called me a "godly morgana" at one point for getting a triple kill in a 1v3 where I got caught out. I duo'ed with the zed for the rest of the night, and I got into my promos. I wasn't expecting to receive honours after a game that we lost, since people tend to only honour after winning a game. I did honour the zed and lee sin myself.

TLDR; focus on the good games, not the bad ones. Sure the bad games seem to outweigh the good ones, but some people in this community are amazing human beings and they are what keep us playing.

68 Comments

littleblupenguin22 votes

our jungler responded "she isn't intentionally feeding, just having a bad game."

That's awesome.

When I first started playing, I usually went ADC. After a while, I decided to give other roles a try, and ended up maining jungle. I went about a month without playing any other role, then started playing as ADC again. The first few games, I just couldn't last hit for my life. Took a few games to start to even feel somewhat comfortable with it.

Fact is, we never know what's going on with another player. It's a game, they may be sick or stressed or tired, and just trying to squeeze in some enjoyment in their life. Who knows? It's a game, let's all have fun.

I agree, it's always uplifting to be on a team like that. Last week I was playing my first game as Corki in team builder. I let my team/support know in advance I was new to Corki, turns out every player on our team was trying out a new champ. We lost, but we all had a lot of fun doing it.

Rew7118 votes

That happened to me 1 game in ranked. Never in normal though, which is weird after over 600 games in normal but about 15-20 games in ranked.

I had just gotten to level 30 (miracles do happen) with no idea how to build items and what positions champions go in. I had also just gotten Mordekaiser and thought this guy is awesome because of what he can do. But in top lane, I went against a Xerath , before the nerf, who constantly stunned and insta-killed me a lot. I only built a lifesteal. So its the end of the game and my team is raging at me. But one guy says this.

Guys, he's probably new. He's probably scared. He might need help.

To me.

Ok, dude, your building wrong. You need AP.

Me

AP?

Him

Its ability power. Its better than what you have now.

Me

But I like this item. It's really helpful.

Him

Yeah, but Mord is more of a AP champion. Buy a DeathCap ->item 3089

Me

What?

Him

Look it up. Type in death in the search box...

This took some time.

Me

I really wish this was in the tutorial. I didn't even know about this.

We lost like 10 seconds later.

DrCyanide3 votes

For me it was Teemo.

I thought upgrading poison made his mushrooms stronger, so I always maxed that first. I had no concept of AP, but I saw pretty awesome results when I maxed out my Attack Speed, so that's what I did game after game.

For better or worse, new players need the community in order to learn how to even play the game. Riot sure doesn't teach them.

Esdeath Desu2 votes

I had just gotten to level 30 (miracles do happen)

That's nice and all, but how did you get to 30 without having the basic concepts down?

Rew7111 votes

well, i mained Udyr pretty much my whole time until level 25-27 i began to look at different champions.

Tiropat1 votes

I have a friend who made it to silver 3 and has literaly no idea what counter building is. He only plays 2 champs and uses the exact same items every game. watching him play vs a Zed I said you should probly rush zonyas instead of deathcap, and he had no idea why. Later he was playing vs a Malzahar and I said get a qss he had no idea what the item was or what it was good for.

Silver 3 man.

Goilo6 votes

That happened to me 1 game in ranked. Never in normal though, which is weird after over 600 games in normal but about 15-20 games in ranked.

I had just gotten to level 30 (miracles do happen) with no idea how to build items and what positions champions go in. I had also just gotten Mordekaiser and thought this guy is awesome because of what he can do. But in top lane, I went against a Xerath , before the nerf, who constantly stunned and insta-killed me a lot. I only built a lifesteal. So its the end of the game and my team is raging at me. But one guy says this.

Guys, he's probably new. He's probably scared. He might need help.

To me.

Ok, dude, your building wrong. You need AP.

Me

AP?

Him

Its ability power. Its better than what you have now.

Me

But I like this item. It's really helpful.

Him

Yeah, but Mord is more of a AP champion. Buy a DeathCap ->item 3089

Me

What?

Him

Look it up. Type in death in the search box...

This took some time.

Me

I really wish this was in the tutorial. I didn't even know about this.

We lost like 10 seconds later.

Not to be a jerk but that is pathetic if you can't find items by lvl 30

IceKingChernobog5 votes

You can't really blame him for not knowing half of the stuff because there is literally no tutorial on how to use items or what items champ classes should buy, how to last hit or jungle. I had to learn all of these the hard way.

Solaxo5 votes

Dunno I always do research about games I'm playing. Especially when it comes to such basics like finding an item in the shop

AbodyHUN6661 votes

I researched a lot too despite having a brother playing for a longer time, but it was quite a long and though read. Though the game's depth got me hooked on the game I felt like I was studying for school xD

AK47WOLF1 votes

To be fair I'm sure whatever item he had was probably better on Morde than a Death Cap would be.

jmaishere2 votes

except with a deathcap on morde you can probably 2v1 at level 10

Junkο1 votes

Or steal 50% of the enemy tanks health AND converting it into your shield. One or the other

Junkο1 votes

Or steal 50% of the enemy tanks health AND converting it into your shield. One or the other

Ryu the first7 votes

I love it when i play a solo-queue game, and no one ever chats, but everyone's mechanics are rock solid, all communication is through pings or, more commonly, silent consensus, and we absolutely crush the enemy without saying a word to each other. :D

Hyrum Graff2 votes

Yeah. I find 80% of the time, pings are better for communication than chat. Which is (one reason) why I'm so liberal in muting people. I just let them know, "All this chat is distracting me, to I'm going to mute you to concentrate. Please ping me."

iamthegoatofwar1 votes

That's going to cost you later on when you don't have any idea what tactics the enemy is using cause...you ARENT reading the chat. Chat is very important. You go for top to gank while you're at full and he's at half hp. He types in chat that you should ward 1st cause lee is camping for darius and you both get killed as a result.

Hyrum Graff1 votes

That falls squarely in the 20% of the time I find chat is more useful than pings.

I don't, like, mute people right away or anything. I mute them:

  1. The second they give indication of toxic behavior.
  2. If this is ranked, and they're typing a lot of things that don't fall into the category you gave a great example of (qqing, typing things they could have pinged, etc)
Doominator101 votes

This is where I think having more ping options would be great. I rarely mute people because

  1. Friendly trolling / taunting the enemy / or talking about anime
  2. Being able to say "Vayne no Flash ~8", and my jungler comes at 7:40 for a free double and a dragon.
Tehemai5 votes

But it's not having a bad game. 0-8-1 with 37 cs is not just having a bad game. It's not knowing how to play. That person should be playing bots or at least normals, not ranked. I understand you don't want to get upset at the jinx but at this point you're being so positive you just sent him up to queue with another team he's gonna drag down. That to me is far worse than blaming him as you just ruined 4 other people's experience instead of just one.

Sometimes you HAVE to be a bit harsh, it's sad that none of you had the courage to do it. I can only hope his next team does.

cool1653 votes

But it's not having a bad game. 0-8-1 with 37 cs is not just having a bad game. It's not knowing how to play. That person should be playing bots or at least normals, not ranked. I understand you don't want to get upset at the jinx but at this point you're being so positive you just sent him up to queue with another team he's gonna drag down. That to me is far worse than blaming him as you just ruined 4 other people's experience instead of just one.

Sometimes you HAVE to be a bit harsh, it's sad that none of you had the courage to do it. I can only hope his next team does.

lets assum jinx got lucky in her promotional and ended up silver and had a lot of fun being ranked win or lose. Why should that person be forced to stop playing ranked because they weren't put where they were supposed to be? and no you dont have to be hash you can just not be an ass and focus on your own play.

Tehemai5 votes

But it's not having a bad game. 0-8-1 with 37 cs is not just having a bad game. It's not knowing how to play. That person should be playing bots or at least normals, not ranked. I understand you don't want to get upset at the jinx but at this point you're being so positive you just sent him up to queue with another team he's gonna drag down. That to me is far worse than blaming him as you just ruined 4 other people's experience instead of just one.

Sometimes you HAVE to be a bit harsh, it's sad that none of you had the courage to do it. I can only hope his next team does.

lets assum jinx got lucky in her promotional and ended up silver and had a lot of fun being ranked win or lose. Why should that person be forced to stop playing ranked because they weren't put where they were supposed to be? and no you dont have to be hash you can just not be an ass and focus on your own play.

Because she doesn't need to play ranked. The only benefits of playing ranked is to see how well you can do. If you don't even even remotely have the basics down, there's hardly any benefit to playing this mode. You won't be climbing anywhere with that kind of play. Considering that she will be dragging everyone else's experience through the mud until she drops a ton of ranks, the considerate thing to do would be to stop playing ranked for just a little and play the many other fine modes more suited for beginners until she gains a bit more experience.

Her impact on the game is worse than a DCer and you don't see people encouraging people with severe internet stability issues to queue up for ranked. In both cases, the right thing to do is to tell the person to stop playing ranked until they get their problems sorted out and play a mode that is more suited for their specific problem until they do.

Tsunday1 votes

Sometimes when you get behind as a role against a champion that is pretty dominant in their role, there really isn't anything you can do. You fell behind in midlane against LeBlanc when she had her silence and if you didn't have the reaction time and CC to stop her, she could dive you the second you got back to lane. In fact any assassin is like that, and an ADC who falls behind is going to be sporting some greaves or maybe just a vamp to the enemy's IE or BoRK. I want to see you get in lane and try to get more than a couple farm as an ADC because that doesn't happen. Not with a meta where ADCs are often full of dashes some kind of light cc and some long ass range ult. Not when there are 2 people botlane so you're tower is gone and somehow enemy bot is still pushing like crazy. Not when the jungler thinks 'Oh Jinx is 0/3 that lane is already too gone to gank'. It's one thing when you have the idiot who is pings like crazy to go in even though he's a 1/6/2 (about to be 1/7/2) Singed with no tank and then expects to set up a pro 5v5. It's another thing when you have the 5/6 WW without a finished FF thinking he can facecheck baron and then 5v1 smite steal a buff from an enemy jungler that has 2 levels up on him. It's another thing when you're sitting there in lane against a lane bully and the lane bully is like "I don't even care if you're under tower because I can still kill you anyway".

Watch that Jinx probably is in the right MMR and that Lucian got placed in Silver and really deserved to be somewhere in Gold.

Caoil1 votes

Honestly, the lucian wasn't great. I main ADC and could easily have beat him. I just don't understand why the jinx wanted to ADC when she knew it was her weakest role. She was 2nd pick so she could have gone almost anywhere else.

Cupkek4 votes

That's nice and all, but a player who can't CS and feeds the enemy adc 4 kills in 5 minutes does not belong in Silver.

I'd tolerate it if it were Bronze, but in Silver you're expected to be more intelligent and skilled than the average doorknob. This jinx appears to be an average doorknob. While I'm not a professional player, I do get irked when people who have no clue how to play with more than one active brain cell manage to make their way into my games and then screw us over.

I hope she's back in bronze where she belongs.

Caoil5 votes

She did admit she was new to jinx, which is why I suggested she play some norms first. I hate when people try out a new champ in ranked for the first time. I usually play 10-20 normals with a champion before even considering adding them to my ranked champ pool. Some people just seem to think norms are a waste of time.

African Mundo 1 votes

She did admit she was new to jinx, which is why I suggested she play some norms first. I hate when people try out a new champ in ranked for the first time. I usually play 10-20 normals with a champion before even considering adding them to my ranked champ pool. Some people just seem to think norms are a waste of time.

It's true. I used to think normals were a waste of time because of all the people that screw around and people trying out new champs. I thought people sucked in my normal games. Then I looked at my match history and realize that I suck even more and I play normals pretty often, then brought my ass back to silver 1.

Mistress Madoka3 votes

She did admit she was new to jinx, which is why I suggested she play some norms first. I hate when people try out a new champ in ranked for the first time. I usually play 10-20 normals with a champion before even considering adding them to my ranked champ pool. Some people just seem to think norms are a waste of time.

I Like to Go a Step further and at least do 5-10 Bot Matches before taking the champ into Normals, even.

Ayame Isaki1 votes

She did admit she was new to jinx, which is why I suggested she play some norms first. I hate when people try out a new champ in ranked for the first time. I usually play 10-20 normals with a champion before even considering adding them to my ranked champ pool. Some people just seem to think norms are a waste of time.

I Like to Go a Step further and at least do 5-10 Bot Matches before taking the champ into Normals, even.

Absolutely. Bot games are great for learning the basics of a champion's kit. Sometimes you get lucky and run into someone else doing the same thing who knows the champ you are playing. My first time running Ahri (in a bot game to learn) one of the other players mains Ahri and gave me some really helpful advice and pointers.

iamthegoatofwar4 votes

In ranked I kinda expect people to get their shit together so I'm kinda neutral on everything there if I think the person is seriously causing an issue for others and not doing anything to fix it at all, but on normal matches I will bullet sponge the rage rounds like no other for players that I know are seriously trying or just having a really bad game. I'm sick of the toxicness EVERYWHERE in league even in aram and anything that isn't ranked. However if it's your 1st time ever playing a champ in ranked and have no clue how to play them I'm going to cry.

Shantogen3 votes

Indeed. It also helps to fight rage with kindness. There have been plenty of times where I wanted to scream at my team instead I type things.

Its ok, Don't let it phase you, come back strong.

And thanks to that they turn around and go from 0-6 to 10-8...always keep your head up.

Cupkek3 votes

I have no sympathy for first time players or people 'testing' a new champion in ranked.

Ranked is where you come to compete, where you put your best foot forward to display your abilities in the game. Not to mess around and try out a new champion at the cost of others' MMRs.

ZzJzZj2 votes

how old are u ?

Caoil2 votes

...why?

Hyrum Graff2 votes

It's awesome to play games like this :)

On the other upside, I find that I can push games in this direction by being positive, starting in champ select. Any (ranked/draft) game I play (and the rest are Team Builder), the first thing in lobby is "Good evening, everybody." I honestly contribute my seems-like-better-than-average-mannered teammates to be a direct result of opening games like this (followed by "Mid/supp > top > adc > jg pref. Anyone a good adc/jg?")

Feel free to add me if you want.

ˆˆºº2 votes

Every person in your game got better as a result.

Remember, if the reason your forever stuck in bronze or silver is because of your crappy teams, those crappy teams never go away. The OP provides a fine example of adapting to the situation forced upon you and using what is available to you. If every game was more like this, the entire NA community would be full of better players.

Every player who switches from blaming others to supporting their team creates a more skilled NA community.

KilljoyX2 votes

Everytime I try to play this game after my faith has been restored in humanity this game again destroys it.

Killer X 121 votes

That is nice to see. I try to defend people on my team when they are attacked for having bad games, but only if its obv they weren't doing it intentionally. Sometimes they just underestimate the other ADC/person and then it spirals out of control. As long as they don't rage and they try their best to help out the team i'll take their side.

Wirius2 votes

Thank you for leaving this excellent story in your renewed faith in people. It renews ALL of our faith in people. You guys did the right thing.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

This almost encourages me to play ranked. Almost. But the...what... 12% chance of running into a team like that? Not worth the head ache.

Still. Kudos to you and your team. Hopefully you can run into more team mates like this. (And hopefully you don't have to loose to find them. XD )

Caoil1 votes

I used to have the same thoughts about ranked, but honestly I'd say some of my better teams and games have been in ranked. Usually people are playing their best roles and champs in ranked, and they have some idea of how to play. I found the worst MMR to be in was silver 5 because there were quite a few people who either had been boosted up from bronze at the end of the season, or who trolled every so often because it's not easy to fall back into bronze from silver. I found bronze 1 and silver 3 to be the best MMRs to be at, because bronze 1's are just focused on getting themselves out of bronze, and silver 3s are happy they aren't in bronze, and are still aiming for gold. I still have teammates who ruin the game occasionally, but it isn't any worse than normals.

Junkο1 votes

Probably the only reason i haven't quit the game yet. EVERY SINGLE TIME i go "I'm just gonna play this one game and then quit LoL and never play it again", ends up being an extremely fun game with the nicest people in the world

Aozora1 votes

I got flamed by my jungler, Fiora, last game when playing Syndra who I was still learning and it also didn't help that the new rift was laggy as hell for me. My end game score was 5/6/14 and I think I did pretty decently. The Fiora got a pretty good KDA mainly because she constantly dumped her spells on targets that were pretty much dead (a lot of the team got really annoyed due to this) Every time I was about to type something to defend myself, I just remember that it's a huge waste of time and that time typing to some stressed out dude could be spent helping my team push, taking objectives, farming etc.

Basically, if you're having bad games and teammates with bad attitudes, just don't even bother replying. Some of the games I played where my team was totally in sync we never really talked. We communicated via ping. Don't give those people a minute of your time and just focus on winning. Eventually you'll see you won't even need to put them on ignore.

Whenever someone does bad teammates always tend to go "Come on dude" or "This insert champion" in all chat. That doesn't help anyone, but the other team. If someone is doing bad, try helping them instead of criticizing. I was playing with my friend who is level 25-ish and we got players around their level. I noticed how many mistakes the other team and my team was making and it made the game incredibly easy for me to carry. The enemy team was flaming the guy I was laning against until I went and pointed out that I had more wins than they did games overall.

The way I see it, every game in League is winnable from the start. How you conduct yourself, treat your teammates, and use your past experiences is what keeps your nexus alive or has it get destroyed.

LordGeovanni1 votes

i swear people believe that you are intentionally feeding and that if they losing the the game is a waste of time i have had a few games like this not in recent months but everyone has a bad game even the people who are having the bad games become toxic some times. Silver is just bronze but with people who got the lucky good match makeing with people who dont automatically give when things not going their way extremely early

Hyrum Graff1 votes

Agreed. Ideally, I should be able to play a game without ever chatting and still have near perfect communication.

Practically, I know this isn't going to happen, but there's still a lot of room to improve upon the ping system.

DauKho1 votes

You're lucky. Everytime I feel like quitting this game, I get another troll to cuss at and it makes me want to quit even more. Why do I play? Cause I'm bored all day, browser games suck, I refuse to spam on paid to win games... Seriously, I need a good MMO.

On another note, in reference to the pinging, I have honestly learnt to completely ignore the pings. Cause too many people like to spam it, like pinging me 15 times is going to make me more likely to suddenly obey your opinion. I can generally evaluate whether I have my escapes up and can decide for myself if I want to go in or not... ugh.

On a last note, playing solo queue tends to be more fun even with bad players.... people who know you tend to criticize every single thing you do and destroy what's left of the fun in this game.

Cupkek1 votes

You're lucky. Everytime I feel like quitting this game, I get another troll to cuss at and it makes me want to quit even more. Why do I play? Cause I'm bored all day, browser games suck, I refuse to spam on paid to win games... Seriously, I need a good MMO.

On another note, in reference to the pinging, I have honestly learnt to completely ignore the pings. Cause too many people like to spam it, like pinging me 15 times is going to make me more likely to suddenly obey your opinion. I can generally evaluate whether I have my escapes up and can decide for myself if I want to go in or not... ugh.

On a last note, playing solo queue tends to be more fun even with bad players.... people who know you tend to criticize every single thing you do and destroy what's left of the fun in this game.

Goat Simulator MMO patch drops 11/20/14, come become part of the bleeting sensation.

DauKho1 votes

I did say 'good'... I hate goats. And goat cheese. And goat milk.

HydraVenom1 votes

gold is even worse >.<

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