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The expectation of the random individual

Sexy Challenger··1 votes·423 views

I'm somewhat confused by this expectation that if you dare que, you should be the next faker or trick 2g or hotshot gg. God forbid if you're in normals and you're pre level 30 you're not AWESOME at everything you do. Even when you do good, its not better than ME. I don't understand this mentality, I don't understand it in draft, blind, or aram.

I least understand it on Aram. Am I wrong or isn't Aram to have some fun and just play but people act like its worlds and losing this will kill their aunt, uncle, babysister, and cat in one fell swoop. I just don't know what to do anymore, in three days of playing this game I've become afraid to say anything in chat, unable to play even a recreational round without being called X or Y, be expected to be the second coming of faker in normals.

How bad is ranked if the other 90% of the game is this toxic and horrid?

Just to be clear I like league, I like playing league, but my 'team mates' are starting to outweigh the love of the game. I'm pushing towards team builder hoping for some sanctuary and it can't come fast enough.

Am I expecting too much to think I can just que and play a game without having the wieght of seven strangers expectations on me. That I'm allowed a period of learning how to play the game, or is everyone supposed to be gaming gods past level 3? Should I never leave bots despite being more skilled than bots and finding no challenge in them? I'm at a loss on how to continue...

Should I just play on a different server than NA? Are any other servers better? At this point I don't mind the ping.

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DeadlyQuestion1 votes

The moment the match starts, mute everyone on your team and the enemy team. Bam. Problem solved.

"But muh communications" 50% of this game is communication, but 90% of that 50 are pings.

"But using chat is part of the fun/it's not the same/etc." It's true and I agree with you whole-heartedly. In an ideal world where children didn't have to expect perfect teammates every time or incite a pissing contest when someone threatens to be better than them, we wouldn't have this issue. But it's not the case and we have to suffer for lack of sportsmanship due to anonymity being a thing (if people had their identities displayed, I'd bet shit would be different).

Mute is your friend. League is a competitive game, not a chatroom. Get your social needs somewhere else and muuuuuuuuuuute.

Sexy Challenger2 votes

I actually started doing this, the game is much quieter but unfortunately you still need to bear the weight in post game screen, unless you hammer leave as soon as it loads. Usually people just say GG and leave but if they're upset they will let you know it or give you a full rundown of your poor/indifferent/not as good as mine performance. With match analysis the way it is, do you need a post game screen any longer?

DeadlyQuestion1 votes

I've come to just start muting the players the moment the enemy starts spewing bullshit or I start having a bad game/before the flame comes. When I first started playing League, years ago, I'd get pretty negative about failing matches. I never flamed or raged, but instead just express my doubt of victory because of the way I or the rest of the team were playing. I eventually started just muting all players at the beginning of the game, and eventually, when I hadn't used the chat in awhile, I could keep it unmuted just to keep tabs on what was being said without having the urge to use the chat myself. So nowadays I leave it open until enemy or ally toxicity threatens to affect my game.

But you're right about the post game screen, it does suck having to endure the sludge in the post-game chat and I do end up "hammer leaving" many of my games. I'm trying to break this habit though and learn to completely disregard and ignore the chat, because I enjoy the immediate information in the post-game screen, dolling out honors to players that I feel deserved the consideration, and reporting those that use hate speech or say the worst things (before I had put them on ignore).

The post game screen should remain in my opinion, but the option to either manually enter into the chat itself or an 'x' to leave just the chat while retaining the post-game screen should become a thing.

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