Rant: Why League is "toxic"

Confideskill·10/14/2015, 1:30:24 AM·1 votes·228 views

Hello summoners, I am Confideskill. My rant is about our beloved League of Legends. All I ask is to read my post and if you don't like it, respect it or understand it, then please leave it be. I've been playing League since S1, and with that said, League community is different from other games, for example like private WoW servers. Everyone here doesn't care or respect other players in solo queue and everyone is super offended by everything. On private WoW servers I've been harassed for months, by a group of like 20 people on forums, I've had staff admin power abuse to silence me and get rid of me and all I ever did was manage my guild and try to do my own and respect others even with literally the odds against me. Now you are probably thinking Confideskill what does this have to do with League? In solo queue like I said earlier no one cares, respects or anything of the sort of you. And I'm used to it thats fine. But I'm the type of player who can say hi and get reported for verbal abuse. And I'm probably considered a toxic player by the vast majority. I've got a sarcastic personality and I try to lighten hard situations up with humor so teammates that are on tilt relax and aren't so mad about the game at hand. And I try to be a team player, selecting champions to fit the team comp, and fill and overall try and make it so we got a better shot to win since I'm trying to get Platinum. But I get frustrated with solo queue sometimes because we are all human, and I might say something dumb and it's honestly nothing and I'll get reported for being "salty" Now that would be fine, however I am not a salty player, nor am I a troll, and I'm probably above average on being serious in games because I'm trying to improve my game play. I just wish the community wasn't so... lack of better words, sensitive. Everyone being offended by everything everyone says. I literally get called the N word honestly one in every 7 games. It's like the most toxic players are hand picked to play with me, and I have an aura that brings the worst of them out. I keep my mouth shut majority of the time, and I generally mute them. But all it takes is for me to say something small back, like hey I'm "F'd top" without the actual swear word, I say it like that. And I always get the toxic players to say "wow why so salty" And then they decide to troll me because I gave them something to feed off of. I try and raise the morale by using DST (Sky Williams video) And say don't worry guys, we aren't that far behind (score can be like 7 to 10) and my teammates are breaking down, saying GG and by then are fighting with eachother. Even doing that, being the guy to lead them is considered toxic, and you can and will be reported for it. Because they can report you for negative attitude and say that your being sarcastic. So all in all no matter what you do in this game, you have to either never talk and get reported for refusing to communicate, perform above average to not get reported for feeding, and if you talk you'll get reported at the very least negative attitude. And that is what frustrates me, I love this game and I'm not claiming to be the best at League ever, I'm just saying since playing for so long and seeing how the community is and constantly being reported for anything and everything, it's frustrating and even still I'm trying to get Platinum and I'm worried that with these reports for whatever being stacked that I'll lose my border and I would of played this entire year for nothing. I know this post won't fix anything, or even help. I just wonder if anyone else is in my situation and shares my same views because I feel like it's maddening and I just wish the community overall had a tougher skin (to have patience, and respect everyone) shrugs To the very small few that actually read any of this thank you. ~ Confideskill Hecarim

3 Comments

Archon X10/14/2015, 1:50:08 AM1 votes

most people are not interested in your sarcastic comments in-game after they make a mistake