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A theory that may reducing trolling in your games.

ThePartyLeader·10/23/2015, 6:56:32 PM·16 votes·1,556 views

If you are one of the people who experience these things almost every game.

Players that Troll Rage Afk Feed

Teams that don't Use teamwork Ward Teamfight Take objectives

Have you ever thought about what causes your teammates to not want to try, win, or even play the game at all?

Sure it is expected to get these bad games every now and then but maybe you get them over 50% or even 90% of the time.

Maybe there is a common factor in these games. Maybe your teammates are reacting to a common catalyst that pushes them into tilting, rageing, or not wanting to communicate. Is it scuttle crab silently taunting them by dodging skill shots? Or perhaps the river bush that's barely avoiding that ward. They are in every game. There is one other common variable in all these games though. You. Maybe if you take a step back and judge yourself fairly you will see something you never thought of that you are doing that negatively effects your entire team mentally.

I can't tell you what it is or where it is hiding but if you truly want a better experience my guess is that it has to start with you.

Reading the forums I find that my matchmaking experience is vastly different from a lot of people. I don't remember the last time someone actually afked after rageing, or said "gg ff at 20" after first blood. I don't recall the last champ I have seen suicide repeatedly into turrets or summoner wish death upon another player.

Just a thought. Maybe I am just that lucky.

25 Comments

Jari10/23/2015, 8:45:30 PM9 votes

I deserve chalenjour and these bronze teamates are too heavy to carry on my 20/30 azir. Report pls.

/s

Shield Villain10/23/2015, 9:12:20 PM7 votes

This seems like a very unlikely condition, just based on a few factors I'd consider. The first being that there are 9 other players who influence the game, and the second that you don't know what's going on with these 9 other players. Maybe something in their real life is affecting their game, or something the enemy said.

It's true a lot of it can be influenced by being more positive yourself, but I think for the most part we're typically insignificant factors, unless we're actively practicing behaviors that made us huge dicks.

In my experience, most of my negative games start when one person messes up, and another over reacts. Or when one person begins losing, and they start getting salty and blaming others.

I'm sure that for the most part, most people are okay and behave pretty decently. It's just those 1/10 people that feel like they have the most presence in a game, for the negative way in which they behave.

Ryntak10/23/2015, 7:23:36 PM3 votes

Yeah I think you have a point. I mean, I'm in plat and that's like the most toxic ranked environment in the game (in my experience) and I still get trolls/afks occasionally. (More than in normals or on smurfs). I think you're 100% right.

Yuppers10/24/2015, 12:44:56 AM2 votes

I full-heartedly agree with your post. In the beginning of this season, I was placed in Bronze 2 (I was placed in Silver 4 and dropped down to Silver 5 last season before it ended). I struggled, very heavily when it came to climbing out of bronze and early Silver. It wasn't until I started watching videos of more experienced players online and talking WITH more experienced players (which I happen to have Platinum+friends that gave me great advise) that I realized that my attitude was holding me back from climbing...

It wasn't as if I was TRYING to blame other people for my losses, and I felt that I was pretty far away from that mentality. Instead, I saw the mistakes that they made and assumed "Well, I can't help out these people". That was the wrong mentality. Instead, I switched to the mentality of "Hey, I can TRY and do something to help out the team!". I began to shot-call more, and I also began to notice A LOT more of my personal mistakes. Because of this self-epiphany, I was finally able to hit Gold V (now gold 4, but whether or not I get demoted remains to be seen ;p ). It really IS attitude that helps you personally out in a game. It also influences other people too by remaining positive. When someone makes a mistake, assure them that it's OKAY and that we'll (WE as a team) do better next time. If they do something great, I almost always congratulate the player and try to push for more benefits from their play.

TL;DR, You're right man. item 2009

Infiny Mage10/24/2015, 2:02:31 AM2 votes

I climbed out of silver/bronze being the team cheerleader. Often times there's one or two people on the team who rages at another when they do badly. I go ahead and remind them that trashing/writing in all caps/etc doesn't help the teammate or the team what so ever. If that fails I kindly tell the team mate who's being trashed/flamed etc to mute the toxic player and not bother responding to their behavior. And I also make sure to let said player know that if their attitude doesn't change I will be reporting them. This often gets them to take it down a notch or simply go off the edge which just solidifies my report. While yes they may not be punished right away but I know I'm making sure in the long run that if they continue this behavior in other games and get reported that they will in the end get what's coming to them. And now that we get those little messages letting us know a player we've recently reported has been punished, it makes it all the worth while. Best case scenario is that the teammate apologizes for losing their temper and when this does happen its 100% times easier to pull together and make that much needed come back. And as of late I really only ever get 1/30 games where someone trolls. 1/20 where some rages and goes off the deep end. It truly does help to be that person who puts the effort to make sure that person(s) on tilt doesn't continue to spread their nasty attitude to the other fellow teammates. Least it has for me.

PixTron10/24/2015, 4:16:56 AM1 votes

Nah, they just need to release SandBox Mode.

The only thing fun to do in LoL right now is flaming and trolling.

JacctheInsomniac10/23/2015, 10:09:43 PM1 votes

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Rueian10/23/2015, 11:19:57 PM1 votes

You have a different experience than other people. Just because one person is the common factor doesn't mean that the random factors dont randomly land frequently on negative individuals.

The community is prone to fits of negativity, if one person is expected to not react that means everyone is expected to do the same. If one player is negative, the 4 others are expected to try to bring up that player, not beat them down farther. The consistent factor is the communities outlook on each other. The community believes itself to be toxic, so everyone is toxic.

SoMNia10/24/2015, 3:25:21 AM1 votes

Victim blaming helps no one. You don't know what others' circumstances are, and you have no grounds for assuming they are personally responsible for their own negative experiences. Considering the number of people who complain of being specifically targeted for things that don't deserve a hostile response and often aren't their fault to begin with, it's particularly inappropriate. Writing this kind of "open letter" to anyone suffering from toxicity, to tell them to fix their own behaviour, is making a lot of assumptions you have no right to make. Don't do this.