I found that as a reforming Toxic player, If I pre-emptively mute all 5 of my teammates...

Cloak an Dagger·1/25/2016, 8:15:46 AM·19 votes·5,522 views

I've been having much more success! Now It's not optimal but It's baby steps. It's so hard to resist retaliation in self-defense for me that I find I win more games and can concentrate better if I do this..for now. Slowly working on not having to do this. I'm trying not to do this EVERY game but I can tell in champ select about 90% of the time when they will have nothing conducive to say anyway. Especially with dynamic queue disabled.

50 Comments

Battalion1/25/2016, 10:23:32 AM6 votes

Just remember somethings:

You'll likely never play with these people again.
You owe them nothing, you only owe yourself not to get banned.
Your opinions and their opinions of each other's performance are worthless during & after the game, focus on winning, or learning from your defeat.
Don't mute your team, just respond to insults with "lol" it shows them that they aren't getting to you, and they will feel stupid and look immature to everyone else (kind of getting back at them, everyone likes a bit of revenge, I'm no saint.) They'll get punished and you'll do two things: 1) toughen up your skin so you're not easy to offend 2) You'll weed out the real trolls and toxic players.

Keep up the good work. :)

Tanadon1/25/2016, 10:40:18 AM5 votes

Whenever people rage at me in game, I just say to myself "wow what a dick" and keep playing. You don't have to type anything. If you feel like you absolutely have to respond, do it out loud, to yourself.

Samus721/25/2016, 8:28:44 AM5 votes

Works for me. I've been doing that for about a week now.

PIMPSMOOTH1/25/2016, 8:16:47 AM4 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

High51/25/2016, 1:58:21 PM3 votes

Yeah, turning off /all chat made the game far more enjoyable.

I've been asking team mates to upg trinkets recently, but still only getting a 30% response. Gonna just go back to muting everyone.

Far more enjoyable game when you stop worrying about everyone else.

KrugLyfe1/25/2016, 3:34:02 PM2 votes

I would also mute the enemy team there is no point in talking to them.

SSShutTheDuckUp1/25/2016, 10:08:02 AM2 votes

Well, you only have 4 teammates. Or you are saying you mute yourself too?

Penns1/25/2016, 12:18:06 PM2 votes

Why would you just mute everyone at the start of the game? At least wait until they start writing things that dont help if you want to mute people..

Rose Horror1/25/2016, 2:53:47 PM1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs] nicely done! have fun :D

Andrionar1/25/2016, 8:25:15 AM1 votes

I agree with you 100 %. Then I mute everyone, I feel that I can focus on the game much more and I don't fall or I fall significantly less if my team doesn't do well. Especialy if someone starts raging, you just mute that player and all problems are gone. ^^

warpenguin5551/25/2016, 3:54:02 PM1 votes

all 5... but good job on finding a way that works for you

VallaarMorghulis1/25/2016, 4:50:13 PM1 votes

I personally still miss the champion select mute button. I cant turn it off or ignore the bullshit there. I would like to join the game with Default /mute all settings.

Straw Hat Loki1/25/2016, 5:03:22 PM1 votes

Nice to see you are progressing!

Good job!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

ofart1/25/2016, 8:32:47 PM1 votes

Self-defense isn't automatically toxic. Just calmly responding to a toxic player with facts and not using insults or profanity, should NOT be punished. That is not the same thing as retaliating and I think the system falsely punishes both players sometimes.

Jakenoff1/25/2016, 8:42:49 PM1 votes

I actually turned All chat off about 8 months ago and it has easily been the best decision I've ever made, not counting the decision to buy all the Anivia skins.

The stress level isn't nearly as high as it was before. If team mates starts becoming toxic, I mute them and continue playing while ignoring them the whole time.

Dominick Destine1/25/2016, 9:47:38 PM1 votes

I do that a lot too.

Virtual summoner high five .

arcinex1/25/2016, 9:50:03 PM1 votes

When you play enough games you'll learn to just not give a damn and instantly mute anybody who is showing the slightest bit of toxicity.

Hyrum Graff1/27/2016, 2:42:22 PM1 votes

I've found usually you can tell who's going to be toxic before they actually get there.

Most people say something negative before they go full ragemode -- if you learn to identify signs that they might be toxic and mute THEN, you still avoid the trap of retaliation while still being able to talk to the friendly players.

Mestophilies1/27/2016, 3:34:25 PM1 votes

/ignore all EVERY GAME.