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Just a friendly reminder

Rindin14·12/13/2016, 6:04:50 AM·1 votes·530 views

Gather around and I will tell you all a tale. (or you can skip to the end if you prefer)

There once was a League of Legends player. He joined when the game was still young (around season 2 but who's counting) and was greeted with a barrage of toxicity, unfriendly teams, and a brutal slog to climb anywhere on the ranked ladder. After many nights of flaming teammates, afk teemo top lanes, and lane partners who don't know which end of the gun to point at the bad guys, this brave soul made it out of that mess. (don't get me wrong, it still wasn't perfect, but it was better.)

Now this player was a hopeful soul, so he thought, "gee, the community must have improved. There are far fewer toxic players nowadays. Isn't this great?"

But a dark day was coming for our hero. A day when he would try to initiate one of his dear friends into this illustrious League of Legends. Once more the intrepid support delved into the trenches of beginner level play. To his horror, the community was just as toxic and aggressive as before (perhaps even worse.) Still the squabbling over "calling lanes" and flaming out a teammate for any and every reason. Our hero despaired. How could this game that he loved be so hostile and rude? What could be done to save the poor souls trying to learn this game? Were they doomed to be hardened by the terrible atmosphere of low-tier blind pick? Has anyone actually read this entire long-winded tale?

Long story short: does anyone have any productive ideas on how to fix the atmosphere of low-tier play?

I myself am a (low :| ) silver ranked player that recently went back into the depths to teach a friend the ropes. I was appalled at how any little mistake was immediately blasted, and how brutal and critical the players were. I was embarrassed for my dear League and wished that my friend had not been forced to experience such treatment.

I am afraid that if something isn't done to solve learning atmosphere it may spell disaster for the game as a whole. I don't know how we expect new players to start when they are treated so horrifically.

Anyhow, I would love to hear suggestions and the like. Perhaps these are isolated cases, but my experience lately has been very bleak...

4 Comments

Hauling Ashe12/13/2016, 6:21:26 AM1 votes

When I first started playing, people were pretty nice, actually. I remember my first intro bots game. I must have been playing with smurfs. I sucked so hard on Lissandra, but we (of course) won the game. At the time, it was pretty hard for me to understand all this skillshot and passive nonsense. (That was never a thing in Age of Empires!) I was excited that I didn't fail my first game, however, and I got a very friendly "congrats!" from the other players when I announced that I had just won my first game of League of Legends.

Later on, I braved the scary lands of Blind Pick. I picked up Ashe and went bot lane. Didn't even understand how Q worked because it was blacked out half the time so I didn't think to press that key. (I thought upgrading Q just made frost shot work.) I did badly, but so did my opponent. I think we lost that game, but I didn't expect to win my first PVP match anyway. It was alright.

A few games later, I met a guy who was a Gold elo smurf. He honestly didn't teach me much, but he added me and would encourage me in improving. I also took the scarier step of posting on the boards asking for help. I was disappointed that I got downvoted just for that, but I got some friendly replies. Someone linked me to a video and explained what I was doing wrong with Ashe. Ever since then, I've become great at cs'ing and often carry with her. Obviously proud to be an Ashe main and I don't see myself getting bored of her.

The worst people I encountered while learning were the typical Master Yi newbs who thought they were so awesome because they could get easy triple kills. They flamed you if you weren't winning your lane or engaging so they could go in for another triple. It was kind of easy to laugh them off, though. I mean, if they were playing at my level, then they were just as crappy as I was. ;)

MXXXXXL12/13/2016, 6:23:32 AM1 votes

Tell him to /mute all every game.

MaropaL212/13/2016, 12:41:50 PM1 votes

So you are silver and teach others how to play? Thats some shit right there.

When i first started playing about 2 years ago i was placed in Gold 3, played with diamond friends. Nowadays im not playing ranked any more but still getting matched with Gold/Plat players.

There are alot of shit players in this Game. Some listen to you, most dont. Some want to be better, most know it better themself.

Learn the Items and win the Game. You could go ranged champ with extra range and 3x extra first hit damage which pretty much deals 500-900.

Champs that get Damage from Armor or extra Armor the more Armor they have, are op. Camille is the first AP Resist i know of.

TheEvilQueen13512/13/2016, 12:46:52 PM1 votes

I actually rarely encountered toxic players until really 2016 (not including people I knew in real life that were just mean) and i started first half of 2014. I've seen them in every game mode so there is no one place to be safe or ignore. I actually have a friend who was raged at in intro bots for taking cs... a lvl 30 was in intro bots with lvl 10s and was raging at them...