antagonizing teammates

BigNasty3000·Jul 11, 2016·1 votes·469 views

The Akali in my last game decided I stole a kill, so she proceeded to farm my jungle and antagonize me the entire game. Kept calling me salty, saying i was crying, taking red then saying "thanks for red," etc...

Why isn't behavior like this punished? Goading teammates into cursing you out is not being a positive member of the community, but this guy won't get banned because he didn't type a racial slur, or call someone the f-word. People would never act this way face-to-face, as nobody would play with them no matter what the game may be. I play a lot of poker, and this type of antagonizing is frowned upon even in a game where shit-talking is part of it.

This is what an automated system allows for. I got my laners fed by ganking early, and got antagonized for it.

Before you say "ignore it," consider that you can ignore racial slurs too, yet they are still punishable.

5 Comments

scazzmanJul 11, 20162 votes

flamebaiting is a problem that riot refuses to acknowledge because it would imply that flamers arent always at fault

Mister PunchesJul 12, 20161 votes

I would consider it unsportsmanlike conduct and report it as such.

When someone intentionally tries to get a teammate angry just for shits and giggles, they aren't playing as a team.

Mister PunchesJul 12, 20161 votes

Don't worry about it either, just report them and move on as well. I know I have to sugarcoat it, but you won't see them again unless you go in immediately.

If the person continues their toxic attitude, then they will get banned eventually, unless you're like me, and have to report every game because the ingame community is worse than the Call of Duty community by a long shot now.

Edit: When I mentioned "unless you're like me", I mean that my reports don't count at all anymore, since I have to report pretty much every single game at this point because of how toxic the ingame League community is.

BigNasty3000Jul 12, 20161 votes

So do I. I have to. I was just in a game where the jg and supp steal my farm mid, even when asking them to stop. I can't lane anymore, and they are calling me all sorts of shit. My promos.

It's hard not to tilt when people play a team game like it's single player. Riot needs to ban these people ruining games. They would rather ban me for getting angry, a perfectly human response to people trying to ruin your good time.

Mister PunchesJul 12, 20161 votes

Personally for me, I had a run in with two extremely toxic players today (I'm at the point where I truly believe that the ingame League community is much worse than the Call of Duty community in every single aspect now, seeing as I run into toxic players every single time I play League, vs running into a toxic player in Call of Duty every 3-4 games or so), and both have said some pretty bad things; things such as:

"You're retarded"
"Uninstall you dumbass"
"kys" (Kill yourself) -"Stop being a fucking autist"

Just to name the more toxic ones they mentioned, and this was on an ARAM. I know how you feel, and my next games after the ARAM today do show how negative attitudes of others can affect someone in future games. I personally am at that point where I refuse to go into Ranked as a solo player now because I can't tolerate how bad the ingame community of League has become since I joined. When I joined back in late 2011, the community was toxic, but it was definitely not as toxic as the community now.

A lot of people do complain to Riot though about the toxicity, since many believe that Riot has not done a decent job at making their community more inclusive (For example, people are still freely able to call each other racial slurs, homophobic names, able to make fun of someone with a disability, etc.), and as well as not really listening or even being empathetic to a person (This lack of empathy is pretty much in the form of automated responses in Support Tickets, which many people think Riot uses for answering).

I feel you, and I know I heavy tilt when people call me retarded in the game, seeing as I definitely take that offense as one of the worst things someone can say to me, even in real life. I'm not mentally or physically disabled, but I do have family members who are due to injuries as well as genetics.

My account is at that point where my reports mean nothing, so if I reported someone who did break the rules by being extremely toxic, chances are, they will get away scot-free unless someone decides to report them for being toxic.

Sorry about your negative experience though. I would definitely recommend playing with friends in Ranked (even though the naysayers and toxic players in this community, both ingame and in the forums, will say that you're boosted. Personally for me at this point, I would rather be boosted and play with friends who I know I will have a good time playing with rather than playing solo and constantly having to deal with the toxic ingame community.