Is this normal for Bronze ranked games?

xXDauntlessXx·5/24/2015, 2:34:34 AM·1 votes·586 views

I'm a support/adc main in high Bronze (I try not to complain about Bronze Hell too much, as I probably deserve to be there) and I've had a hard loss streak in ranked lately. In a recent game, I played Sivir and we faced a much tankier team with a great Vayne/Malphite bot, while my Thresh was hooking in the opposite direction of the enemies. I felt like I was doing decent, not dying much at all early and keeping my CS high for a losing lane, but when we reached late game my team grew very toxic towards me. I understand the costs of suicide teamfights in lategame, and as an ADC I did my best to keep myself out of the ranges of their Sion and Malphite but it became increasingly difficult, and I found myself fleeing fights sooner to keep from dying because I wasn't fed enough to put out the damage and didn't want my team to flame me. Consequently, that's exactly what happened. All four team members turned on me and said I was the reason we were losing, although it was our Nunu and Thresh that allowed Vayne to get fed from failed ganks while I did all that I could while keeping myself alive. Mind you, at the point I started receiving the flaming I had a score of roughly 4/5/17 while they had slightly more kills (except Thresh), roughly double the deaths, and half the assists and they were much more tanky and had more CC than me, but weren't covering me properly in fights which is why I had to flee most of them. I kept calm and told them to stop blaming me and just play the game, to no avail. They would rather focus on directing the loss towards me and eventually surrendering 4/1 rather than actually try to win the game. They proceeded to talk like this in the endgame chat, reminding each other that I was the cause of the loss and that I shouldn't play League anymore because I'm a trash ADC.

Is this sort of thing normal in Bronze ranked games? If it is, I'm not sure if I can handle playing ranked anymore. I can't help but take things personally and I was even in tears by the time we were at the endgame screen because I just wanted to play the game and I didn't understand what I did wrong. I was never toxic towards any of the 9 other players, and luckily the other team seemed to see where I was coming from and I recieved an honor from the enemy Vayne. However, I'm not sure if getting pity from the enemies after a defeat is worth dealing with teammates like these. It's very frustrating because I love League of Legends and I really do strive to become great at the game without sacrificing the fun of playing a game, because that's what it's meant for.

3 Comments

hh the thinker5/24/2015, 3:11:56 AM1 votes

people will blame even if you play right in any rank, besides challenge (there, they know that you are playing right really). in rank, people go try hard and they tend to blame more and I'm sorry that you had a bad time with it.

I would say play normal if that makes you happy. not all of your games will be like that, but people do tend to get angrier in ranked a bit faster.

I HAMPSTER5/24/2015, 3:37:21 AM1 votes

friendly advice - less comma's and more periods.

Tilomentry5/24/2015, 3:39:45 AM1 votes

That's a normal phenomenon in League in general. If you get on a toxic team, they'll want to have a scapegoat for losing. In my experience however, I don't run into toxic teams all that often. You'll remember them better when you do but realistically it isn't that common of an occurrence.

One piece of advice i can give is this: Use the mute button... Master it. If you sense even the tiniest of negative attitude, just jump on that button. You will save yourself so much sanity that way. I've been playing League since 2010 and that button is the best thing to happen to this game.

You can even go a step further and type "/mute all" if you're worried about encountering these types of people. Of course there is also the draw back of you missing out on meeting some really nice people as well.

And don't worry about being reported for "not communicating". If the other guy is vomiting bile at you, he isn't communicating either.