My least favorite toxic behavior (Long)

DeadlyQuestion·3/24/2015, 6:19:01 AM·13 votes·1,382 views

I personally don't troll and am absolutely never toxic; not that I'm better than anyone else, I get just as frustrated and angry when I do bad or when I get a team that seems to make the same mistakes over and over, I just don't express it because it doesn't help me feel better and it never helps the game go smoother. So on the other hand, when players say horrible shit in chat, I either (rarely) try to mitigate and make them feel better by trying to say something passive and hopeful, or I just mute the entire team so I don't have to be exposed to the negativity. AFKs and griefing by feeding kills is even more annoying, it brings a hopelessness that robs me of my desire to play, but I do my best to try and use potential honors and the offender getting reported to make me feel better (not out of spite, I just hope the system eventually works to help weed out the toxicity).

However, there is one player behavior that infuriates me so intensely that sometimes I have to idle and try to calm myself down, and that's when allies intentionally move to steal farm or buffs out of spite, even more so when they don't need it. If they can obviously use the buff/farm and they ping, I generally don't even question it and give it to them. I am so against toxicity that I will hurt my own farm by handing over what is being asked for in order to prevent potential saltiness.

But when you obviously don't need, like a Vel'Koz support in one of my games that took our jungler's red buff 3 times (twice burst stealing it from under him), "Because he deserved it" (in my opinion, the jungler did nothing wrong), it's such a shitty, negative thing to do that I wasn't even upset when the jungler decided to afk. In another one of my games, our jungler was so upset that I said "You're behind, don't worry about ganking top, just farm up." (and that is verbatim, and it was the only thing I said for the entire game) that twice he waited for me to go to a minion wave, chased me, and burned his flash over a wall just to burst down the wave, without pinging his intention to clear it. He burned his valuable, high-cooldown summoner spell TWICE just to prevent me from farming, out of spite, even though I would have GLADLY given it to him had I known where he was going. This has happened to my team four times tonight and it is such a shitty thing to do that I considered quitting League for as long as it took for me to forget how terrible the game makes me feel (last time was almost 8 months between the end of season 2 and beginning of season 3). Which, I get it, not only is this the internet but since I am telling the most toxic gaming community since Halo that I considered quitting, I am subjecting myself to hateful-for-fun taunting to go through with it because as a Bronze I am not a valuable anyway, but that's not the point. The player of a competition, even in an unranked normal, shouldn't have to feel like quitting because of misbehavior that is practically legal and allowed to go on.

Any competition between skills is a sport, I've accepted this. So, if any of you enjoy physical sports like baseball, football, or whatever, how irritating would it be to you as a fan when your favorite player decides to retire because their teammates are allowed to get away with hindering the player out of spite? Maybe that's a bad example, but I really don't know how else to express my frustration at this kind of thing, especially because it isn't "against the rules" and can't really be enforced.

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13 Comments

bad arcade kitty3/24/2015, 6:26:39 AM3 votes

you sound as an insuferrable fa***t if you said me that i was behind in such a mentor tone and i was in a mood to throw a fit, i could insult you for the whole game afterwards for any little mistake and possibly even, for instance, intentionally let you die when you waited my help in a 1v1 or 1v2 situation, giving away your death and my possible kill or assist (in a such case i usually prevent that i won't help a certain player, but they sometimes don't believe i'm serious) and it would be your fault, guess i know when im behind as well and what i should do i know too

DJ Hatsune Miku3/24/2015, 8:37:34 PM3 votes

This is so infuriating because it's the worst kind of trolling. I'd rather you afk than follow me around spamming emotes and taking farm or whatever. What's worse is if I'm jungling, and I jungle exclusively as tanks so this is even worse, and one lane gets ganked, dies, and rages hard and starts just farming my jungle and taking buffs as if I owe it to him because I don't gank as much as Lee when I'm Nautilus or Sion. I legit don't understand this kind of behavior... But I'm also someone who never asks for ganks/expects them/calls out my jungler for not ganking when I see their Xin walk into my lane 4 times. If he's wasting his time trying to get something going and I'm playing safe it's more a win for me than a loss. I usually only comment on it to say the jungler was top or w/e and that we should get drag. Since I seem to really only get ganked when I top.. Damn lane is cursed.

Åron3/24/2015, 8:39:40 PM2 votes

I really feel your pain here. It is a F2P online game, and with online games there will always be trolling, no matter how infuriating or annoying it is.

alcatrazEscapee3/24/2015, 1:19:59 PM1 votes

There is one behavior that somewhat relates to this. Thoughts?

If one of my teammates I an angry with / think is making bad decisions / raging, then I just won't follow his calls if I don't think they will end well for me. Example: your jungler ganks you top lane, when there's a huge minion wave, you and your jungler are both at half health, and the enemy is at full. If I'm sick of this person or if I don't think its a good decision, then I will just let him die. I'm not going to help him if he's going to be a douche to the rest of the team, or if I think its a lost cause.

I completely agree with you on your main post though. What makes me feel better is when you suceed in spite of a trolling enemy; in your example a teammate flashed to get your cs, and you just shot your QWE on the wave, instaclearing it and making your jungler look stupid. :D

Dangerous Man3/24/2015, 8:49:15 PM1 votes

Steal their farm also :)