How do I deal with this type of situational bullying?

DontYellAtMePlz·Nov 17, 2014·2 votes·631 views

So recently I've experienced a type of "Rank Status Discrimination." I am a support and ADC main and this past season made it to diamond on those 2 roles. Lately I've been taking to normal games to practice my other roles, jungle in specific. Apparently the people I played with expected me to be good at everything I did and started with the "what the hell was that you diamond (profanity)?" kinds of comments. It eventually got to the point where literally everything got pinned on me. And like some suggestions from the Riot staff I muted them or just ignored them but eventually I started getting blamed for that as well. "Please report this (profanity) diamond for refusing to communicate with team." So I saw a bunch of these type of comments and over the course of plenty of games got fed up with this kind of abuse. So I ask what am I supposed to do? Seems I get reported for not meeting the expectations of my border?

8 Comments

disregardableNov 17, 20141 votes

Jungle role is particularly susceptible to abuse from other players. They blame you when they suck, they blame you when you're not as good as the enemy jungler, they blame you when you don't meet their expectations, and they blame you if you lose the game. I get so much hate as a jungler. Best solution is to put your big boy pants on and report after or not play jungle.

HitsFromTheBombNov 17, 20141 votes

Jungle role is particularly susceptible to abuse from other players. They blame you when they suck, they blame you when you're not as good as the enemy jungler, they blame you when you don't meet their expectations, and they blame you if you lose the game. I get so much hate as a jungler. Best solution is to put your big boy pants on and report after or not play jungle.

its almost like you didnt read his post ... almost lol

heres what you do ... in the lobby chat BE EXPLICIT AND SPECIFIC that its not your role, your learning it, having fun and not to take it too seriously. Ask if anyone can help you as you go, ask for more pings, ask for a bit of help with warding even ... just communicate with your team even before the match so they know going in not to put the whole world on your shoulders. Communication should be your go to key not what you run from to avoid hate how else will you learn what they want what to do etc etc without it , this is a team game be a team player.

And finally tell them if they arent ready for a noob jungle to simply dodge its only normals and if they havent dodged much or recently its only a 3-5 minutes wait for the next game. easy peasy lemon squeesy

and then in game if your tanking bad , ward the shit outa your jungle and farm as much as you can in it to help after laning phase (AGAIN ALWAYS LET YOUR TEAM KNOW YOUR PLAN) or join someone in a lane if they dont mind you supporting and try to be effective in getting kills with your number advantage.

disregardableNov 17, 20141 votes

its almost like you didnt read his post ... almost lol

At least my answer was actually true. Keeping communication open and farming when things go wrong might help you win the game, but it's not gonna stop them from blaming you whenever anything happens. It does generally make the enemy team take your side when your teammates spam "report noob jungler" in all chat after dying though.

HitsFromTheBombNov 18, 20142 votes

its almost like you didnt read his post ... almost lol

At least my answer was actually true. Keeping communication open and farming when things go wrong might help you win the game, but it's not gonna stop them from blaming you whenever anything happens. It does generally make the enemy team take your side when your teammates spam "report noob jungler" in all chat after dying though.

now its almost like you didnt read my post either ... maybe comprehension is your prob lol

YoungFishFilletNov 17, 20141 votes

Its a computer game... why are you taking this so harshly. Those people dont matter. Get over it, its just a computer game. So many people on the internet do this.

DontYellAtMePlzNov 17, 20141 votes

Its a computer game... why are you taking this so harshly. Those people dont matter. Get over it, its just a computer game. So many people on the internet do this.

Well it doesn't really matter to me, but after about 3-4 games of this it kind of does get on my nerves. It's like after a while, the constant bitching gets to me and actually starts affecting my performance and shit just starts going downhill from there.

SwampmajikkNov 17, 20141 votes

still doesn't solve the innate issue of the bratty kids who play this game... there isn't really a solution other than queueing with friends or what Hits From The Bomb said. I still find it mind numbingly frustrating that this the common ground of the player base.. the responsibility is everyone's but mine and i'm perfect.. i feel like this is a much bigger issue in NA than other servers...am I right?