ELO HELL POSTERS: Please stop pretending there is a troll/afk in all low elo games

warpenguin555·7/11/2016, 4:52:30 PM·2 votes·460 views

Ive been in bronze for most of my ranked games, there is not a troll or afk every single game. In even in the depths of bronze 5 where i have been twice i didnt see as many trolls and afks as you claim there to be. Not being able to climb is one thing, but blaming that on something that is flat out false is just plain stupid

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Aerothal7/11/2016, 5:08:08 PM1 votes

weeeeeelllll..... there is trolls and trolls and afk's and afk's.|

to some players, the 14 kill feeder might seem like a troll, but maybe he is just bad or inexperienced or both. to some players not engaging in fights out of reasons unknown feels like an afk.

and to be honest, in low bronze (and i was down in B4 after my 7 win / 3 loss placements) the amount of trolls and afk is disproportionally higher than in silver. In bronze 4 there really was a troll or afk nearly every game. This is why for players like myself who are not the too good at the game, it is actually hard to climb out.

I do agree 100% that blaming others for your losses is stupid and will never help you climb though.

WukongMain7/11/2016, 5:26:31 PM1 votes

what's trolling for one person may not be trolling for another person.

For example, i got called a troll once because i disagreed with someones call to force a fight. And so, I didn't force a fight. After all, i was the initiator. Because i disagreed with his call he then proceeded to bash me every chance he got. despite my constant explanations as to why it would have been a bad engage. We were in a discord channel. a community type one, and after the game he took to the chat channel to call me a troll some more. Simply because i disagreed with his call.

To this day i can't understand his reasoning for truly believing i was trolling...

Anyway the point is, There's a difference between trolling, Being negative and simply being a bad player mechanically and attitude wise. Often times the word troll is used to describe all these things, Unfortunately.

TheRealMondo7/11/2016, 5:49:16 PM1 votes

Trolls don't exist at the bottom of the tank. They exist in the center of ranks.[slayer-jinx-unamused]