The Increase of Toxicity

Armaggedus··1 votes·682 views

I don't post on the forums terribly often, in fact I haven't posted on the Board system ever. As the topic suggests, this is about toxicity in the community. Now I have been playing for about three years now, and you get toxic players. They are, unfortunately, common. Typically, I roll with the punches. You can't really do much else but mute and report, and that system works, for the most part. But more and more recently it seems (especially in Ranked) that there are more and more negative, berating, toxic, aggressive, and hostile individuals. I understand, of course, that Ranked play has more of these people. It's a competitive environment, competition inherently breeds some level of negativity when losing. But I enjoy the competition, that's why I play. But last game made me truly wonder why I actually bothered to play ranked. I played a Rek'sai game, against a Nunu jungle. Now, this is typically not a good idea. But, the bans were on my preferred champions for jungling, and I was kind of forced into the role and had to choose. I was operating on the bet of perhaps Nunu wasn't a good Nunu. Unsurprisingly, I was counterjungled. My allied Zed immediately went off on me. I ignored this, moved on. Nunu continued his counterjungle crusade against me, so I requested help from Zed who was nearby. Promptly ignored, I tried to flee, only to die to the enemy Lissandra. I won't go into anymore detail on the game, but after this it was a downward spiral. Now, I can handle one or two toxic people, but by the end of the game, my entire team was raging at me, calling for reports (bear in mind I ended the game 1-5-1) and even three people on the enemy team were verbally attacking me. I have never once dealt with this level of overwhelming toxicity. So my point, I suppose, is why the increase in toxic individuals of late? Am I just some unlucky soul who gets these games often? Either way, the level of cruelty and contempt these players are exhibiting is disheartening and demoralizing. My two cents.

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Supp Hero1 votes

Summer time. I've also noticed since May I've seen the amount of ragers and trolls double.

Ada Wong1 votes

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Summer time. I've also noticed since May I've seen the amount of ragers and trolls double.

This is why I haven't been playing as much because of too much toxicity in general, and its been quite awhile since I even check here still no word on Riot on what they plan to do to fix toxicity.

. Role Selection for ranked, Riot talked about doing this on Reddit but I hear not talk about it anymore. . Automated restrictions are a joke its abused by toxic players itself you get spam reported you get restrictions. . Promotions are a joke ( the exception is when you are in a 5v5 pre-made team) Otherwise its all a joke of gambling.

. Forcing players to play with other players who are toxic, or dodge/lose promo's Riot keeps telling us how toxicity spreads from one game to another, but we are forced to play with toxic players.

. I agree it has doubled, the amount of Toxicity is still high doesn't matter if I have 20 chat restrictions, or a few ranked restrictions because I haven't really even bothered working them off still get matched with toxic players, or players who have absolutely no idea what they are doing, in a game I played yesterday, I had my jungler just run in my lane and throw it off, luckily everyone shut up when the game started going bad and it was barely a win because they threw me off so hard and then as usual players start complaining when things go bad for their own mistakes done, luckily it didn't turn toxic but still in ranked, these type of things usually lead to a lot of toxicity and like 1 out of 20 games or so when things go bad do players not argue.

Supp Hero1 votes

I used to play 5-10 games in a row with maybe only 1 rager total. Now it's like every other game has 1 rager at least. Someone being overly critical when they themselves are not doing that good I include as a rager. Usually the player raging is not the best on the team, but most often the worst or 2nd worst player in the team. I just had a Jinx go mid when I already called mid with Morgana and then Jinx went 0/12/0 65 cs, Yes, ZERO ASSISTS. No one said a thing all game except when I said 'I called mid' and this Jinx replied 'Jinx is better mid' and then Jinx raged the ENTIRE GAME. Jinx never left mid and every time we would try to gank she would either suicide or recall, and then usually call us noobs/feeders.

Jinx even said something like 'Morg kid messed me up by trying to take mid' at the score screen. At that point I wasn't even mad I started laughing because only a little kid would believe it was my fault they did so terribly, and then blame me.

It was a really strange game though because you would expect my team to be pissed at this Jinx, but no one said anything except her all game. My team kept trying but no chance when Jinx gives away 12 free kills. The sad thing is I see players like this often now since May.

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