My sodium levels are too high. Help.....

Saltiest Yordle·6/2/2015, 3:50:14 AM·3 votes·1,154 views

So yeah...First post ever yayLulu ! Im tired of all my salty tears item 3070 item 3070 Anyways, wondering what I can do to stop being so easily agitated. Normally it takes me a bit to get me fired up but for some unknown reason that doesn't apply for games. One simple remark and suddenly you got a salty b**** on your ass. So question is, how do you guys prevent anger?

21 Comments

kJs6/2/2015, 3:54:01 AM2 votes

You ignore them? I find it pretty easy to not get agitated or to ignore them. Eventually they realise they aren't doing anything but wasting their time trying to anger me. If you can't ignore them then bad luck, you should stop playing League of Legends before you waste anymore money on it.

You can mute them is you really want a short term fix to the problem.

Sometimes I chat troll them back to make light of their offensive or aggressive behaviour.

Focus on bettering yourself not on what other players are doing in the game. If you're good enough you can carry or semi-carry the match.

PK Arcfire6/2/2015, 3:57:23 AM2 votes

I have to remind myself to be the bigger person, feed my superiority complex, and yell at the computer instead of typing it out in chat. Trust me, yelling is a lot more effective than typing and less likely to get you banned. Also, taking a break and drinking helps to cleanse out the salt. Replace thy precious bodily fluid, and keep one's purity of essence.

kombu6/2/2015, 4:08:36 AM2 votes

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Rabid Husky6/2/2015, 4:10:16 AM1 votes

for me it was ranked that cured my rage i used to get so upset at haveing a bad game then i play ranked where the stakes were higher and the trolls trolled harder it was not a fun time but eventualy i raged so hard (nothing happened but i just got so pissed off) that after a break i played norms and the idea of people trying of not haveing high stakes instantly made me chill i still can be upset if someones being a dick but its much less of a issue now as for ranked...just let out the salt and the tears get a padded object like a punching bag or maybe a bed? and just pound it then take a breather and some water make sure to keep moveing unless you want a afk warning and try to get through it

SexyTaylorSwift6/2/2015, 4:14:05 AM1 votes

If you're suffering from hypernatremia, you could have a real problem! I would figure out the cause of the elevated sodium levels. It is most likely due to a decrease in water volume, thus increasing the sodium concentration. Increased sodium concentration can lead to many many bad things. You should really see your doctor. You might need to get on a 0.45% saline solution right away!

mvargus6/2/2015, 5:13:14 PM1 votes

There are no easy answers to this question. There are too many different factors that help generate the saltiness that one finds in LoL. However, I can offer a few suggestions and observations.

  1. in general anything that can be taken as criticism is dangerous as you could end up with a very salty response.
    LoL may be a "game", but there are a lot of people who take very seriously. Many of these people want to believe they are the best in the world, so criticism is taken poorly if its accepted at all.

a) my related advice is to never offer criticism during the game. No matter how poorly your teammate is playing suck it up and just play your game.

  1. Defending yourself from criticism almost always starts a flame war. It's the flip side of point number 1. Remember that too many players here think they are the greatest ever and if you tell them that their unsolicited advice is unwelcome they often get unhinged and start berating you more.

a) my advice is to say at most: "I'm sorry" or "My bad" and then don't respond if someone starts criticizing. You won't win the flame war if you do argue, and often the one arguing in the one reported. (I have ended up reporting the one who uses all chat to say "report X for flaming me" more than once.)

  1. Remember that many LoL players are not exactly well adjusted socially in real life. This might not make sense at first, but the way I look at it is to picture that the person screaming at me is probably someone who's seen the bottom of too many trashcans during school lunches. After all someone who is social and popular probably isn't going to spend hours staring at a computer screen and beating up on a set of pixels.

a) This means that you run into people who don't know how to resolve differences in a friendly manner. You have to be the "big man" and just take the abuse as you'll never win if you try to argue them to your side.

  1. Another warning is that there are some LoL Players who enjoy getting other players in trouble. They will deliberately troll in order to get you to stay something reportable.

a) The only way to avoid this is to ignore someone who tries to bait you into an argument, of course, it can be hard to tell if its a bait, or if they are honest. The easiest solution is to not talk unless necessary.


As you can probably tell my main suggestion is to keep your conversations in chat to things like lane declaration and champ suggestions in the pre-game and then game related facts. Things like "dragon in 30 seconds" or "We're being pushed, can we get a gank?" Don't be negative and never name a teammate directly except when congratulating them or saying "nj". It won't eliminate the anger, but it will make it difficult for anyone to direct it at you and you'll find that your games go more smoothly.