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Players should learn the definitions of these words

Hochelaga·2/12/2018, 6:34:58 PM·42 votes·2,492 views

Tilt : When a player gets angry at someone or something, often resulting in reduced quality of play. Usually used in the game League of Legends.

Int : Short for "to intentionally feed an enemy''

Troll : A person who causes acts of disruption to other players and to the community. These acts may include writing offensive messages or intentionally feeding the enemy. Trolls are also referred to as griefers.

Toxic : Used to describe a person whose attitude negatively influences the game.

Most of the time, I see players badly using these words in these typical situtations :

A Riven giving first blood top lane, then quickly comes back in lane with teleport and dies again. This doesn't mean that she's a troll or she INTed. Maybe she died because out of greediness because she tried to kill that top laner and failed again. The proper word for this situation would be tilting.

Picking items out of meta such as Armor Penetration Varus while the ''current meta'' requires him to buy guinsoo isn't trolling. In no way is this build unacceptable, it was once played before and who knows, maybe that player feels better to play Varus that way. A real troll example would be a Vayne buying Rabadon or something like that.

35 Comments

Jo0o2/12/2018, 6:41:52 PM24 votes

This is extremely troubling when "inting", used synonymously with "playing badly", results in reports. Riot's not forthcoming with the intricacies of how their report system works under the hood, but I strongly suspect that part of the trouble with banning real intentional feeders comes from so many erroneous reports.

Zombie Gerbil2/12/2018, 6:38:42 PM14 votes

I think players should mostly review the definition of Autistic and the reason why they should not use it. Due to the fact they overuse that word so much with no knowledge of what it really means.

It Hertz When IP2/12/2018, 11:09:25 PM6 votes

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A Riven giving first blood top lane, then quickly comes back in lane with teleport and dies again. This doesn't mean that she's a troll or she INTed. Maybe she died because out of greediness because she tried to kill that top laner and failed again. The proper word for this situation would be tilting.

Majority of community doesn't understand the difference between "I'm Int-ing" and "I'm just bad". Hell, most of the Boards population don't even understand.

Potato Doc2/12/2018, 7:01:35 PM4 votes

As an english major I have some input into this. Over time every language changes. Meaning of words change by the sheer misuse or intentional misuse of words. This gives them new and different connotation and definition. To say internet lingo is different is just ignorant. We say "int" after one death, or trolling after a failed play that got oneself low because it has evolved to that point because the majority of people accepted it as a use. Sure we can go with "definitions" but these words are evolving and no matter if you think they are stupid or not that is just how life and the internet is.

Troll for Trump2/13/2018, 7:08:11 AM2 votes

No one uses the words based on a preset definition. There's no need to get into semantics if their intention is clear, unless you just want to be a jerk about it.

If someone is doing really pooly and gets called a "inter" or "troll," people know how to interpret the words; they aren't computers. Unlike IFS, they can actually make judgments.

Zed genius2/12/2018, 6:44:50 PM2 votes

Who even uses inting for its actual meaning anyway ?

PurpleKingCrazy2/13/2018, 3:05:39 AM2 votes

"Troll" is essentially a loose definition. You're essentially putting down Troll as a bad thing, but in reality they're people who would want to make you react to them in a certain way and they will make a fool out of you.

In other cases you are right. But when dealing with certain types of people is only going to be influenced by yourself in a certain way. Often tilting is referred as putting salt in a wound, often making stress out of yourself more than any other person, even if you're that kind of Riven player. And sure, some riven players have big egos and are extremely salty about it, but that doesn't mean they could try to think of a different way to put that.

And of course, toxicity of the person depends on how s/he is affecting the game in a way. Usually by inting they are essentially giving up their life constantly to the enemy, building up gold and boils down to a 4 v 5. But playing badly and trying so hard to win is not one of those times. I mean, some Tristana player can go 0/5 and yet she splitpushes too and win the game. It's not that she's bad at all, but often a poor matchup but she used the strat to her will and make it more winnable. A Yasuo saying in all chat of how great he is and then dying horribly late game means that the Yasuo did something wrong and then giving up the win that was essentially his.

The meta itself kinda molds to a certain playstyle certain people have and then try to overcome that obstacle can be bearing sometimes, especially on normal games. Sometimes it's not about the build, but the player itself in general.

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gghaee2/14/2018, 3:58:33 AM2 votes

toxic is synonymous with "fuck you bud you hurt my feelers"

Jinx Hunter2/13/2018, 10:09:31 AM1 votes

I just call people fools for tiliting, tools for feeding, and monkeys for trolling. I don't really care if someone is being "toxic" because there is a block button if it annoys me.

Quannari2/13/2018, 1:29:13 PM1 votes

Vayne But I want my "challenjour" fedora...item 3089

Bruh im ok2/14/2018, 3:15:59 AM1 votes

kogmaw with rabadon is not bad. his ult just got high dmg

LordGeovanni2/14/2018, 3:37:16 AM1 votes

Int : Short for "to intentionally feed an enemy'' this is misused far too much by the community, the boards, and by rioters, and people who represent rioters. Youtubers and twitch people too. They get mad when other people so and so Int but say dam im inting when they do bad. They dont see this as bad. not every 0/4 score is an int. if an ally gets camped from jungle and is 0/4 by 7 minutes be thankful 1 that means jungle may see him as a bigger threat than you and 2 he is keeping the jungle off of camping your lane while he is worth less and less every death 4 kills on your team from only one character= less gold for the enemy than 4 of your teammates of your team having 1 death and also means they get access to catch up gold lessening the blow even more Using int makes things far worse for people phycologically. Those youtubers and twicth streammers should be banned for admitting to inting which means that they intentionally fed if not just to get them to use another set of words that doesnt auto tilt the whole community as the face of what your game is about. Omg this player on my team is having a bad game is far less toxic than omg this player on my team is inting can you not.

Hecate2/15/2018, 8:40:06 AM1 votes

What I disapprove is the use of "inting", most of them all. Maybe someone died 5 times in a row because they have a bad game but it doesn't mean they do it on purpose.

sleepysithlord2/12/2018, 10:01:23 PM1 votes

I have a hard time believing that in a ranked game, you can have the most deaths in the game without soft inting.