You matter.

GoodOlAlex·7/1/2015, 6:43:21 AM·34 votes·3,116 views

I'm aware that this is a game, and people will talk trash in a game. There's a point however, where talking trash becomes straight abuse. Please remember when you're playing this game, that the people you interact with, even if it's only for just 30 minutes, are actual people. They have feelings, lives, ambitions, and what you say can matter to them. Recently, I played a game with my buddy that wasn't going so well at the start for the bottom lane. He was supporting, as Braum, as a Caitlyn. Upon the enemy marksman receiving an early double kill, her first reaction was to say this. "ur a f@@@ing moron, kill urself." I was astonished that someone could say this simply because they lost 2 kills, let alone say it to another human being at all. As a result, my buddy ignored the Caitlyn and moved to the mid lane, rather than continue laning with our toxic ADC. Our Nidalee responded to this by saying in all chat, "Report Braum for being an oversensitive b@@@@."

That game ended with both Nidalee and Caitlyn trolling. What angered me wasn't the fact that we lost, but the fact that the other team, despite witnessing constant fractures within the Summoner's Code, did not even care enough to even stay and report either of them.

Coming from a peer who is saddened by how insensitve such a group of people could be, your reports matter. Everything you do, matters. If you witness a person telling another person that they should take their own life, you need to speak up. We're all people, sharing a common interest. I didn't come to this game to be abused and mistreated. "I just want the oppurtunity to play League of Legends." -Dyrus.

45 Comments

GoodOlSkyler7/1/2015, 6:46:49 AM11 votes

I was the Braum. :C

Chimewlan7/2/2015, 1:18:31 AM3 votes

Kills don't matter unless it's feeding and the objectives are more important than that (which Cait and Nid should know if their ego is that big) and no where it says that supports should stay bot.

TurquoiseYoshi7/1/2015, 11:36:34 AM3 votes

I was laning against a Yi toplane one time. He said something in all chat about how his team sucked, were noobs, or something like that. I responded in all chat by tellling to report him. Sure, his bot lane was playing like crap, but you just can't say that. Also, since when did toplaners care about any other lane before grouping?

Also, the funniest part of that pic is the guy who just says: "We bumped uglies," and then just leaves or silences.

Nyá7/1/2015, 7:14:50 PM3 votes

Every game at the very beginning for the past 500+ games ive played, win or lose I say Goodluck everyone, let's have fun! ^^

At the end, no matter win or lose or if we have a troll, I say Goodgame everyone, was fun! ^^

In game I always try to be nice and encourage people, you never know if someones just having a really bad day, or a really bad game, dont go off on em just try to encourage them or even help them out, pop by and drop a ward in there lane, if your mid roam top, if your support and your botlane just got a double kill, recall a little early and help the top laner out. youd be suprised how a few gestures of kindness can make someone feel.

I use to be able to only play a game or two a day, my days were usually hella crappy, but I still really enjoyed league, it sucked if i did bad in a game and got super flamed for a mistake so I know how it feels, ultimately, we all play league to have fun, not to get off and feel even worse than you did before.

Were all human, let's treat each other like it.

SuperiorWalrus7/1/2015, 6:52:29 AM2 votes

Q_Q Rip in Pepperonis Wombat

BakedLotion7/1/2015, 7:03:52 PM1 votes

I have a question for you, how did that affect you in any way? I'm not taking sides here but I'm pretty sure you DIDN'T kill yourself. Problem solved. Ignore them.

TendajiX7/1/2015, 7:10:20 PM1 votes

Why did you block out the names i want to know if i should dodge at champ select XD But in all seriousness i'm confused by some of the people i see on league. I get seriously confused when i see someone type "You filthy idiotic faggot you should kill yourself after uninstalling this game, Trash like you shouldn't be allowed to touch a keyboard let alone play a video game. But in the end i guess it isn't your fault, its your mother's for not aborting you.", because a support took 3 minions O.o People will leave a 30 minute game because "meh im bored this is taking too long" or "wow this brand is trash i could have killed him if i wasn't ganked report noob jungler for not being in my lane 24/7 t help me". Worst of all is when people die..... When people die in league you would think they had sexually abused 27 children and lynched 400 black people by the way people talk to them. I will sit there for a second, confused, trying to figure out if its a dream or this is a real human talking like this. Talking like this should be an immediate permanent ban because this is so cruel it isn't even human, its demonic, a truly detestable act.

Bresn7/3/2015, 1:24:10 AM1 votes

I love how your enemy team gave zero shit and everytime in ranked my enemy team threatens to report our team because we're 'abusing" the lone troll.... holy crap.

Ariel the Cruel7/2/2015, 4:14:47 AM1 votes

Supports don't matter. All they do is get carried while I do all the heavy lifting.

Still wondering what you do all day, ~ ADC mains

isKOPPEN7/2/2015, 5:58:52 AM1 votes

Something called mute, and the fact that your braum didn't do that and decided to go duo mid at like levels 1-6 or whatever is straight trolling. be real

CharQueen7/2/2015, 6:10:49 AM1 votes

This has pretty much been my issue with so many matches recently. And I'm only playing ARAM.

It's annoying and completely demoralizing to have both teams spam you with hate speech. Especially when bystanders choose to mute everyone to avoid that interaction.

This is a team game. I'd like to communicate. Yet, muting everyone seems to be the only way to enjoy the game. And when I do mute everyone, I feel guilty because I become a bystander to someone who went through what I did.

Riot, you're game often feels like DOTA2. I didn't come here to be mistreated by a bunch of asshats on Reddit.

H0riz0n2347/2/2015, 7:44:44 AM1 votes

Because all some people care about is winning. They could be fed kills and see the enemy trolling their own team but to some people its considered not their problem. It sucks that the community isn't even trying to be better.

chÖwchan7/2/2015, 10:37:56 AM1 votes

What is worse is when the enemy team says things like "Honoring -soandso- for helping us out :) " or stuff like that. As a support main, I can do good, but if my adc is trash, it's still my fault and I'll honestly say as someone with a shit self esteem it does seriously eat away at me how awful people can be. Ive been playing for a long time cuz I have fun and can play with people I know. I dont want to quit. I know im not very good but at least I try ya know?

ShuffledPancake7/1/2015, 6:52:39 AM1 votes

Well it is wrong in every way, but no one NEEDS to report someone, they may be morally obligated too but that doesnt mean they will.

Midder Scray7/1/2015, 6:59:32 PM1 votes

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JelisahQuest7/2/2015, 1:45:46 PM1 votes

I've had pretty severe emotional problems ever since I was little. Long story short I come with a long history of abuse and a family with a laundry list of mental illnesses including disorganized schizophrenia (brother), schizoaffective (mother), and being raised in an environment I believe most would find to be shockingly cruel at times, probably has a lot to do with why I've been shuffled between psychiatrists, therapists, and any retarded alternative medical practitioner my psychotic mother could find growing up.

I take medications that somewhat mitigate the depression and suicidal tendencies enough so that i can function to some extent in society without returning to excessive drug/alcohol abuse, although I relapse from time to time.

With that out of the way, excessive criticism/abuse from team mates will occasionally cause me to relive some of the most horrific moments of my life, like the time i was left in a parking lot in the middle of the night after being driven to a drugstore to pickup razor blades bought by my aunt so that I could kill myself far away from where they would have to clean up the blood because the last thing my parents needed was another mess of mine to clean up.

I don't specifically think about the event when it happens, but when people tell me to kill myself because I can't CS for shit or I accidentally flash into a wall, if it's towards the end of the day when my medication is wearing off, my heart will sink to my stomach, eyes well up with tears, and think to myself, maybe they're right, everyone else seems to think so. Maybe if I had quit drinking sooner, my fiance wouldn't have left me. Maybe if I hadn't made my neighbor angry when I was little, he wouldn't have raped me. Maybe if I could have shown up to work without drinking half a pint of tequila for breakfast, I wouldn't have lost my job. Maybe if I wasn't such a failure, I would be be lying in a coffin rather than a hospital bed the time I tried to overdose on benzos.

Maybe if my team mates knew what that phrase actually means.

Maybe some people are just too ignorant.

Maybe I should try again....