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Personality Types and League Comps

The Holy Epic·9/18/2013, 1:13:07 PM·3 votes·602 views

So I was kind of interested in some statistical info concerning League, and maybe this is the venue in which to obtain it.

If you happen to be familiar with Psychology at all, there's this thing out there called the Myers-Briggs Personality profile.

According to this profile there are four categories that largely define one's personality. For example, I am categorized as an ISFJ. A quick search on google will tell you a lot about me based on those four letters.

My thought is this: how would knowing one's personality profile aid or harm your interactions on LoL?

I wonder how much of the toxicity that occurs is actually the result of a volatile mix of different personalities. It's not that those people are being toxic, but rather due to misunderstanding things turn venomous right quick.

I acknowledge that some people are just vile to the core (or are probably used to 1-man-army FPS's), but just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are part of the troll epidemic you heard about online.

TL:DR

  1. What's your Myers-Briggs personality profile? Google it, take a quiz, look up info on what it says about those personality types.

  2. Reflect on what your typing might mean for you as a League player. Post reflections here.

*Disclaimer: These personalities can only be so specific. They might even be flat out wrong and you disagree with what is said. There is a margin of error, and people's personalities tend to fluctuate. The goal of the test IS NOT TO LABEL YOU, but to reveal what the mode in which your personality prefers to operate.

2 Comments

Alfirinestel9/30/2013, 5:53:21 AM2 votes

Hello Holy EPIC.

That is an interesting thought! The Myer-Briggs Personality is 16 personalities and based on your percentages on a 4 dichotomy scale of: 1. How you are energized, 2. How you enjoy gathering information in the world, 3. How you process and make decisions of the information you have perceived and lastly 4. How you structure your life based on the first 3.

You can usually receive a free Comprehensive Myer-Briggs Personality test via you school. They should offer it free if you pay student fees. Working for the SUNY system, I know they offer it for free.

I myself majored in Psychology and worked in Student Life centered and was heavily involved in helping students discover themselves using the Myer-Briggs as a tool.

Within the Myer-Briggs the Keirsey Temperament is used along with it to determine what kind of "temperament" you have which is a bit different than personality. (http://www.keirsey.com/4temps/overview_temperaments.asp) It's more of what emotional deposition you naturally have and that usually does not change. I'll explain why in a bit.

I myself am a X-NFJ (ENFJ&INFJ). I say X because I am right in the middle and my E and I flip-flops depending on which community/setting/environment I am in. (.ie: Friends vs. Work) So regardless whether my E or I flips, I am under the Temperament of "Idealist" which is determined by the middle two letters. And being an NF's tends to be supporting peoples. We are Ideal, and we make great teachers, counselors, healers and champion to people. We gravitate towards those roles and so, I gravitate towards the support role!

When I first played, I naturally picked Soraka and Sona and I loved playing support even though no one else liked playing it. It was something I loved to do and I was adamant in getting good at even though it was such a "high expectancy" role. Next was jungle and lastly Mid. I have not tried Top. I have tried ADC (Marksmen) and I am just not good at it. HA.

However, I would remark that I play the game holistically as myself. I bring my values and who I am into the game. However, Internet Psychology is a very tricky thing and personalities are not static with a person's personality IN REAL LIFE because of anonymity. They are able to be as TOXIC as they like and get away with it knowing there might not be real consequences besides a reform card that they may ignore, "chat privileges" or a ban. With a ban they make a smurf account. I do believe kids and players do bring this idea of anonymity "trolling" fun into their real world experiences. And in places that they can get away with things due to anonymity, they will take it because it has become second nature to them. (Example: http://www.helpmesave300.com/) Now I'm curious how many of those kids were League Players.

Also, Myer-Briggs only matter perhaps in a Pro-League Teams as they need to play with the same people and know the people irl. Myer-Briggs matters very little in how one can cooperate with another based on 1. Anonymity 2. Inconsistent, ever changing teams and social environment, or the lack thereof.

Myer-Briggs is designed to understand your strengths and weaknesses, to grow and to depend on each other. Being aware of this helps you know who to best work with based on your strengths on weakness so that you can GROW via complimentary partner/team and be the best YOU. Given, it is very hard for that to occur in MOBA games for the players like League.

But for myself, what does that mean as a LEAGUE PLAYER. Well, it makes me want to work for RiotGames as a Player Behavior Specialist. :)

Enemy Wessel9/19/2013, 9:44:23 PM1 votes

Well, this is a coincidence!

I minored in psychology in college. I studied the five factor model more than MB but I'm an INTP (IIRC).

In terms of what MB means for me as a player? I don't know. But I do know that positive reinforcement works much better than negative reinforcement.

Interesting question, since the game is generally won or lost based on teamwork and communication.