I genuinely don't get people like this

Zardo·12/3/2018, 8:57:57 PM·3 votes·4,332 views

People who do their hardest to try to tilt their teammates. They'll passive aggressively ping all game, flame you the entire game, smite buffs away from you, smite cannons away from you, etc. for literally no reason. You can be playing perfectly, be the most positive player on earth, and still have people do this. Why do people do this? What's their end game?

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ı Sona ı12/3/2018, 10:37:59 PM4 votes

I've been "punished" by vigilante players across hundreds of games for off meta picks, such is life.

[sona-playing]

AeroWaffle12/3/2018, 9:03:47 PM2 votes

Several reasons I suppose.

  • Attempting to rationalize to themselves and others that it's not their fault that the game is going poorly, and enacting their own vigilante justice on what they think is the source of the loss.
  • Bitter about something in their real life and the game is a outlet for their anger.
  • Some people are just malicious and derive joy in it. Many don't quite make the full connection that there are real people on the other end of the screen, so find it easier to treat them poorly because of the lack of social consequences.
xZabaksx12/3/2018, 9:07:58 PM1 votes

Everyone plays this game defferently. Maybe they find fun in that and hope to make others mad.

Faneseeker12/3/2018, 9:49:10 PM1 votes

Nothing much you can do but to ignore them. I believe their primary directive is to agitate, annoy, and provoke for a reaction. As to why they do that my guess is as good as yours.

You can try baiting them into a ban but, I don't advice so. These are a lot of times players who have a strong resentment towards the system, either they are already on chat restriction or been banned recently, they know how to not get banned so baiting them is usually futile.

The best course of action is just ignoring them and treat them like air. They'll stop once they run out of steam, or patience.

C9 Aphrolift12/5/2018, 4:14:07 PM1 votes

People who do their hardest to try to tilt their teammates.

Are you sure this is their intent...

They'll passive aggressively ping all game, flame you the entire game,

Pings are mutable, chat is mutable...and maybe they're just helping to communicate

smite buffs away from you, smite cannons away from you, etc. for literally no reason.

So if they're smiting a buff they are probably the jungler and it's their buff? It's kind of an etiquette thing to ask if you're going to take a buff from a jungler. A cannon minion can be smited in the interest of pushing the lane out quicker.

You can be playing perfectly, be the most positive player on earth, and still have people do this. Why do people do this? What's their end game?

Maybe they're just playing the game the want they want to play it.