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The thing that frustrates me the most about competitive online communities, in this case League

Lothàrs Edge·6/12/2017, 8:18:47 PM·3 votes·375 views

Is the glaring hypocrisy.

I'd be a millionaire if I had a dollar for every time someone has said in ally chat and/or all chat: "Please report X" followed by "X is toxic"... despite the fact that they

A. initiated a flame war B. asked to report a teammate one or several times C. literally lies about who is being toxic or tries to say that a teammate is "inting" D. banned a teammate's champion E. don't care about communication (i.e. I play teemo support on a silver smurf with 68% WR) but that doesn't matter because teemo. It doesn't matter if their WRs are garbagio on meta champs, what matters is that you picked a champion they consider to be a "troll" while simultaneously denying that they partook in trolling a teammate. F. bonus is if they blame you the entire game, spam ping you until you mute them, and then obviously ask the enemy team to report you for "inting and toxicity" post-game lobby. G. or better yet, your ADC decides to AFK because your support pick is "troll" (do I need to remind people of winrates and what actually matters is results?) and/or ask for reports immediately upon game starting. H. whine, complain, moan and insult players who pick off-meta champions in low elo, and again, their performance 9/10 times will be worse than the person who played the off-meta champion.

As an AD thresh top, I can call it almost every single time. If and when someone says any of the following:

.... omg troll gg report ?

They tend to suck. Those who are more vocal about off-meta picks tend to suck even more. It's truly amazing how accurate the Dunning Kruger effect can be at times. But incredibly annoying and hypocritical as well.

Note to people in bronze/silver/low gold: Off-meta picks are usually played by people who are really good at that champion and tend to have higher winrates than meta champions that most people tend to play. Picks matter, results matter more so. So if you don't like your "troll" teammate for having a 70% WR over 40 games with said off-meta champ, then you're just not thinking.

13 Comments

NinjaGuy696/12/2017, 8:23:07 PM3 votes

Those who are more vocal about off-meta picks tend to suck even more.

  1. You don't have any evidence to substantiate that claim.
  2. Picks like top Thresh and support Teemo aren't Off-META picks - they're straight up troll picks (even if you win with them).

Stop conflating legitimate Off-META picks with your troll picks. It's toxic.

MysterQ6/12/2017, 8:24:02 PM1 votes

One problem is those stats aren't shown in champ select. You say Off Meta means the person probably plays it more with a good WR.. but that is false. How do we know he plays it more? What if he is really just trolling? How do we know his WR is good? What if he is falling instead of rising?

We can add play percentage, win percentage in champ select an stuff if you think that would help.

Additionally side notes. Congratulations on Thresh toplane. I would love to see that in game just because Thresh is cool (but I hate Thresh support). The first xx wins are not as important possibly because it just means you were climbing in an easier tier. I easily won out of B4, B3 but then my WR stabilized some.