Why I Love and Hate This Game

Deaths Angel·9/3/2016, 5:37:22 AM·1 votes·556 views

TL;DR Trolls suck and i can't report them but i made lots of friends.

I started playing league in season 2 because my friends played but it was just a game then and i didn't really put much thought into it. Duriung last season though, i started watching more pro games and streams to try and learn more about the game and realized how little i actually knew. Now that i understand more i've been applying it and have seen much individual improvement, but here's the problem, none of that matters.

I thought after i escaped the pits of Bronze hell that i'd have at least semi competent team mates that cared enough to put a good effort into the game........ After getting trolled out of my silver 1 promos, this has been my experience. Every 2/5 games has a feeder that borders intentional; 2/5 games has non-ping listening, non-communicating, team blaming player; and 1/5 games, an afk after 3 minutes for whatever reason. There is some overlap so i don't mean to say that every game is bad, but I also feel punished for performing well but having a negative/troll team and i can't even report half of the culprits because of how the report categories are made.

i'm generally nice in chat and ask things of my team, instead of demanding them, i use ping but not to excess and i encourage confidence after a bad play. I'm out of options Riot, what does one do when trolls hurt the ranked community? I love this game and it's made me some really awesome friends, but i also like winning cause that's the point of this now sport. Who wants to play a game when your team is full of saboteurs?

3 Comments

Sarutobi9/3/2016, 5:45:41 AM1 votes

I dont understand exactly why you cant report these people? Everything you stated all has some form of option in the report system. So again why cant you report these people who break the rules?

Karunamon9/3/2016, 2:59:48 PM1 votes

It seems like those reports do nothing. I've been playing this game on and off since S2, and not a single time received the "a player you reported has been punished" popup, despite having a stupidly high portion of games ruined by awful behavior. Not people being bad at the game, but stealing kills, AFKing, feeding, and other stuff that it should be trivial for a computer to detect is happening.

I still do it every time, but it's incredibly discouraging.

The highs are sky high, the lows are like hell. That's what I love and hate about League.