Why im now sympathetic with dunkey after informing myself.

I never heard of this guy before but with all the talk about him i chose to just look up his channel. Im someone myself who in the early days had misconceptions about league of legends and my place in it, thinking that there was any positivity to be found in ranked or that the game would stay somewhat coherent/balanced, or that riot would respect their customers by not altering content that had been payed for. But mostly i was somewhat loud myself in chat, a negative character trait i have almost completely shook off by example and discussion with my main man and mancrush calsot. (actually i dont have a crush on calsot cause hes not my type, im just making this topic a bit more lighthearted before a half orc rioteer impales me aswell for stating some of my peeves)

As you can already see, hopefully that is.. im not the average jump on the bandwagon lets spice up the forums with -crisis- threads type of guy. But this dunkey case does make me want to say something that i feel is being ignored way too long. (and ive made threads about subjects close to it that have for some reason been ignored over "WHY ISNT AHRI HABE A NAKED SKIN" threads and the like. (probably exists somewhere in the history)

League of legends itself is toxic and here is why: It invoked, even perpetually instigates feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy by making people believe that they play competitively. Let me spell this one out for you: league of legends isnt a competitive game but it feigns itself to be. This is simply because for the level of actual competition to exist you need practice, trust and most of all communication. These three things are completely void in every single ranked game. If you sit on a chair at the lcs with a team that you have clear and tested compatibility with you can expect competitive gameplay. If you sit in your dark room with one hand in a bag of doritos and the other on a old mouse scratching a dusty table with no headset on and no interest in helping the rest in your team attain a higher rank (who does really, you only care about your own rank, and for what again? epeen? exactly, epeen) you cannot expect to be competitive. Yet its called ranked, and it rewards you for some reason unexplained in this context of suum suique in a 'team' enviroment..

Now i fully understand man busies itself merely to con their neighbour but this pretty much capitalized on it, I suppose its the buisiness model to prey on insecurities.

The heading of league of legends right now is flaunting focus on its buisiness model with big roller events and exaggerations, and then i dont even mean the balance of champions but the whole of it; alterations of champions for the sake of event aesthetics, spearheading, if it has no emediate profit it is benign only to the imagination. The game is being dumbed down and any and all creativity is crushed under intention. Now even the metagame is being enforced rather than dynamic. You know.. we used to figure out wich sleeper / hardly played champ could work against a champ that seemed to be strong against popular comps? Sometimes we would even take a champ deemed only fit for bot top, or a champ deemed only fit for jungle mid if that gave some sort of means to fight the cheese. Now champions are reworked into either single orientation or worse; having overkill of orientation making them work literally everywhere and creating something called : it is fucking impossible to counter these champions with any other champion in the entirity of the champion pool. (champions such as riven and vayne are notorious for this, rengar is another) Oh and the same goes for items. Where are the items that allowed you to actually do something against a strong matchup? I dont see magic resist or armor work anymore against all the burns and ignores, heck i played a fulltank garen the other day and i was literally blown up by gp's barrels and a xerath with just a liandry's within 3 seconds endgame. I thought garen was tanky, ohwell. Atleast there wasnt a vayne in that game.

What can you expect on toxicity when the game focusses merely on a bubble of a direction being competitive play that is unattainable for every and all player that are not either emerged into this game 24/7 or in an active actually training together team on teamspeak? And for the record even when you get into a duo in ranked to increase teamplay you are both punished for it and annulated by the simple fact that the rest is most likely not, it still takes 5 to tango in league of legends. Yes a single troll will send dissaray into your team, and a single flame toward that troll will make it into 3 people still possibly trying.

I used to be of the kind that thought that reasoning with or even scolding in a sort of cry for justice these trolls and other malice catalysing individuals (that you thusfor become yourself for speaking out) had any effect. It obviously instantly annulates any and all of your impact in the match, increasing the chance for your teamchat to erupt into a blaze of fighting amongst themselves instead of the enemy team. What i learned from people like calsot is you stay silent unless its lighthearted friendly in idle phases and focus on your cs, putting your opponents into disadvantages and take objectives when possible. Then again hes the kind of guy that clicks away a game regardless of the outcome and starts another right after. Ive seen so many post game chats continue about whatever flamewar had sprouted ingame. So you could say 'look atleast theres people who get it, perhaps the problem is education', and theres some truth to that. But you have the problem that it has already created enviroments because of that false idea that everyone is playing a competitive game, or even should.. (because noone can obviously in the way these games are set up)

You only learn by example and in these enviroments the example is short temper; lashing out the moment one feels being sabotaged, and a better than thou; im climbing' mentality rather than what league of legends started as; a playground for battle mechanics and no worries beside that. You do know none of us will take a trophy home right? Your name wont be remembered in the same way the kingdoms of old were swept under the sand, and even uncovering them gives little impression about the actual people that lived there. We are all but a legend in the end so why fight over it.

So what does all of the above have to do with me agreeing with dunkey? Simple; dunkey's lashing out was absolutely the symptom of a toxic system, he wasnt toxic. He was made toxic by a toxic enviroment that is literal core right now in this system because of riots decision to serve this game as a competitive dish. The misconception is now so baked in, so accepted as normal that people have ran into a maze they will find a very hard time to get out of to see the light that this game is NOT competitive in any qeue unless you play it with a 5 man familiar team on teamspeak etc. And that this is the cause of negative emotions that are natural in human beings to experience. Afterall it is constant dissatisfaction without control you are peppered with.

This is why i sympathise with dunkey, i have watched some of his videos today and he has some good content and intelligent humor. He slipped up because he had expectansies of this game that were wrong, he slipped up because he like so many of the playerbase felt sabotaged. I wanted to point out that the reason that his feeble mind was brought to flame was the way league of legends is set up, and i have explained how.

Its sad that people, not just dunkey, everyone.. is brought to such dark feelings all the time. Even i go on streaks of being helpful into a ruined day because of continuous matchups with people that obviously have been infused themselves with the illusion of inadequacy and act as a vessel to its wrath. And none of us ARE toxic, we are however made it under the circumstances.

-ihaveapotion. -Played since S1 vlad release. -gold S2 (quit ranked after that) (did carry a team in S3 for gold in 3v) -650+ - euros in league of legends. All skins. (alot of wich have been post purchase altered or dissapeared in play because of radical reworks) -quit 4 times over the years because of toxicity. -now plays arams and begs calsot to make a 3v3 team for season rewards cause cannot be arsed to dig through waterfall of falling souls.