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I'm Not Sure How Much More I Can Take

Aero Dash·9/4/2015, 6:30:02 PM·5 votes·739 views

I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this since I've never used the community forums but I really need to vent. I've been playing League of Legends for roughly a year now. In all honesty, It's one of my favorite games of all time. I just love the characters and their lore. Playing and working as a team in League can be such a thrill.

When I first started playing this game I only played Player vs. AI games. I did this because I was scared of PvP and I heard a lot of bad things about the league community. After many months of playing AI games I found the courage to play PvP for the first time. It was one of the best decisions I ever made because of how much fun I started having.

I bought skins, champs, and runes and started getting really good at the game. Months went by and I was having a blast but such fun just couldn't last. For some reason as I reached my year milestone of playing I started to encounter the worst of the league community in my games. I ignored it at first because I knew I was better then the angry players I came across in league but a person's tolerance of others can only twist and bend so far.

I had just purchased the champion Thresh and got into a game with him. My team was getting destroyed the entire game. During that game a Cho'gath that was top laning spent the entire game telling me to uninstall league and how much of a bad person I was. It caused me to get all flustered and I couldn't focus on the game anymore but I remained silent. I didn't want to start with him.

Things didn't get much better. I kept finding myself in games where my team is practically crucifying each other in pure hate and all I can do is ignore them or mute the chat.

Now let's speed up to September 4th present day where I'm still playing league and I have roughly two weeks before I go to an academy for game design. For the last few days I've been losing most of my games because of my team. Now when I write this I'm not saying the players I'm teamed up with are unskilled. It's their blind urge to condemn each other over their mistakes during a game that caused most of the losses.

Most of my games I've been playing over the past few days everyone's raging at one another over the smallest of things and it lasts for the entire game until we lose. one time I tried to give a friendly tip to a Vayne in game and he responded to me as if i were a peasant. Today was the tipping point for me. I was playing a game with a Jax and Ezreal and Ezreal started a fight with the Jax on my team for no reason. The Jax on my team proceeded to insult everyone in broken English for the rest of the game which caused everyone to start arguing.

I Don't know how much more I can take. Just simply logging into league and playing a game is punishment for me. Because of what's happened over the span of a year I'm stuck at a crossroad. Uninstall the game and stop tormenting myself by playing **OR **continue playing league because I love it and because I've already invested so much money in the game that leaving would make me feel guilty.

I just don't know what to do. Constantly finding myself in games with such scornful people has left me crestfallen.

Please, find the decency within you to avoid lashing out at me for posting this story. I just needed to vent, thank you.

8 Comments

Serevas9/4/2015, 6:52:06 PM5 votes

Well after looking at your OP.GG to see what types of games you play, my only suggestion is to try out draft pick normals.

Team Builder games are, from my experience, filled with people who believe they're unbelievably good at one specific role, and they queue it all the time. They don't understand other roles because they've never been forced to play them, they're prone to blaming other people because again they think they're insanely good at their role.

You're unable to counter pick, ban certain champions, or even prepare for the game through runes/masteries, which leads to people getting in poor match ups and often times getting completely dumped on. Again because these people feel like they're the god's gift to top lane, they rage at everyone else they can find to pin the blame on in any form at all.

Literally the only thing I use it for any longer is, for example, when the Juggernaut reworks came out and I knew specific ones would be permabanned, I went to team builder because they couldn't get banned out, and I hate blind pick with a fiery passion.

Will you still find horrendous people in draft pick? Sure you will, but I don't find them to be as frequent. I also have the luck of lately not finding many toxic players any longer, I'm not sure why this is, I'm assuming it's just luck, but it could have a little to do with the game mode. I also like to think that draft pick is filled with people who are actually interested in preparing for ranked play, whether that's true or not is impossible to know, but it would make sense. If you're still encountering the same type of people, well then it's your choice to stay or go, the money factor has held me here on the few times I've considered quitting, and while I regretted not quitting a bit now and again, as a whole it was a positive choice as I have fun with the game more often than I don't.

Worst Kench NA9/4/2015, 6:55:07 PM5 votes

playing in 5-man premades would be the only way to get around it really, just make sure they're all people who don't really care about losing or not and you're set

you could also try playing the other gamemodes like 3v3, aram and dominion. people there don't seem to flame each other as much

i probably won't play SR for a while myself because most of the toxic idiots seem to congregate to that gamemode.

ZT Xperimentor9/4/2015, 7:12:18 PM3 votes

Been playing for years, and when I started out, I'd play several matches a day (~8-11); but as time has worn on, I've noticed the increasing hostility. Now I play like one or two unless I get to game with friends. This video is a bit aged, but even more appropriate now days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAabW7JfTQ

nerak239/4/2015, 7:30:45 PM3 votes

I really hope you find some peace with the game or whatever you choice :) Good Luck !

Linthe9/4/2015, 7:32:10 PM2 votes

This is why I love the mute button. At the first sign of anything resembling toxicty I hit that button hard. I err on the side of muting too early rather than too late.

Sona Ping9/4/2015, 7:37:42 PM2 votes

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I started to encounter the worst of the league community in my games.

I don't quite believe that; you don't play on OCE, after all. : P

But enough of that; serious post and advice time.

People are simply like that. You need to learn to adapt. I'm sorry but you are too thin-skinned; when you go to the academy, are you going to have your day be ruined because some guy shouted at you in traffic? People are like this and you are playing with people online, what else would you expect? You go play Dota and you will just have people cursing at you in Brazilian or Russian instead. You are going to have to learn to deal with this, or you are going to have a rough life. I mean, you are supposed to be going to into college but are you going to be thrown off just because some middle-school kid told you to uninstall? Because if that's supposed to be "torment" to you, then I don't know what you can do here.

I'm trying to help you here, I really am. But if this how you are handling it, I don't know what you can do when life starts throwing the real heavy shit at you.