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A "Short" Talk About Toxicity

ModWuks·1/3/2016, 12:11:49 PM·19 votes·5,033 views

I just wrapped up a match that was supposed to be fun; it was a normals match, it was a premade of 5, we were thinking of different skin compositions we could use and ended up using a Yordle composition, and we were all in Skype. Things were off to an okay start; however, clear skies would not last long. As one of the players performed not too well, she began saying things in Skype and typing things into our team chat along the lines of "I'm done. I can't do this anymore."

Yes. I've been in situations where I've played not too well either. 0/8 Vladimir mid? I've done it. But what I haven't done is give up. Despite how poorly I'm doing, even if I'm being dove repeatedly by Jax, Renekton, or Irelia top, I don't give up.

There are a few things that players should know about this game:

  1. This game is a lot more fun when you're not negative. Being negative, especially to your own team, doesn't make anyone's time better, nonetheless your own. Just enjoy the game, and if you're not having as good of a time as you'd like, try not to bring down the experience for your teammates (especially if you're in Skype with them and friends with some of them).
  2. Play as though there's a chance for a comeback because, well, there is.
  3. It's just a prank game, bruh! Sometime over the past 2 years, I've come to realize that my negativity led to me not enjoying the game as much as well as making myself less enjoyable of a friend to play with. Since then, I've limited myself to only saying neutral or positive things in chat [ sometimes I'll trash talk my team over Skype :^) ].

A loss is frustrating if you let it be frustrating. Or you can make the best of every experience that you have in this game. I love playing with friends and formulating cool skin and team compositions, and it's all the better when they work! Regardless of whether I'm with 4 other random players, in duo queue, or with a premade of 5, never will I ever create a toxic environment for my teammates because what is even the point?

Thanks, and have a good one ;)

46 Comments

MrWasjig1/3/2016, 4:34:12 PM8 votes

Token explanation of not losing your shit? Check!

Telling people to suppress emotion is like telling grass to stop being green. The cause is noble but you'll get more success knocking down a brick wall by beating it with your bare fists.

duludem3331/3/2016, 3:55:27 PM4 votes

i thought this was going to be a thread about Cassiopeia Fizz Twitch Teemo Singed

RiotRiot Whiskies1/4/2016, 4:32:54 AM4 votes

Aww. I like you. ~ヾ(＾∇＾)

Thanks for your optimism. I feel like these are the things that are very often 'duhhh' logical to many of us, but definitely much easier said than done. It's good to hear them brought up every now and again for the reminder.

PDE5 Inhibitors1/3/2016, 5:54:32 PM3 votes

I still want a blue name.

lolptwo1/3/2016, 2:37:38 PM2 votes

I actually don't recall a game where someone hasn't given up after 2 kills 'i'm done', that's so common that I don't even consider it toxic anymore. The incredibly toxic stuff, trolling, afk and feeding is way way worse and still happens often enough that one of my New Years Resolution was to quit playing League this year altogether. It just doesn't bring as much joy as it does with other non-toxic community games. Like Hearthstone where I'm a perennial legend player

GCLock6661/4/2016, 2:17:42 AM2 votes

The entire reason this game is is getting nailed to the walls is because Riot as a business profits on 2 things. Your average Joe/Jane dropping money into it and the inevitability of human corruption and hate speech leading to inevitable conflict.

The correlation between the two you ask?

Riot cant make money if you play your favorite champions all the time. May people express a great deal of distrust and hate towards Riot Games online within popular YouTube videos from streamers. As a company, removing said accounts over the course of 5-6 years becomes inevitable, as those said players have a choice to make, either create a new account, or stop playing. Most tend to make new accounts, spending more money unlocking champions and skins they enjoy playing with.

Problem being that this can ALL be circumvented. How? By removing Type Chat. Not Pings. Those are perfectly fine, in fact MANY gamers don't even bother chatting at all. Myself included. If I see someone in a lane having trouble, I help them regardless of what they may or may not have said in chat, to me or otherwise. We don't need the chat to communicate, it only causes trouble. But Riot knows this. That's why they wont remove it.

Metalhead71/3/2016, 5:38:04 PM1 votes

Let me say this thing again lols

You play a game and sadly you just have to team up with a rager under your same MMR, and then by bad luck you do bad in the game like you died a lot but your trying to help your team, allow me to include something worse your bronze 5 to 4...

When someone who thinks he or she knows the game the first thing they do is to look at yes your Elo.... and for this bronze player the others will want vengance.

SO yes they will spam reports, they will spread things about the player in the whole community, friends that this player has will permanently delete him and finally the game and the company will permanent banned him by a false report from a rager.

This is the sad truth man, and this is the main reason i have been unranked for the past 3 years.....

Arakadia1/4/2016, 5:28:17 AM1 votes

Wuks! Nice Post. I agree, but its not so ez. You helped me on the Help and Support section. Thx!

BADxW0LF1/4/2016, 5:41:18 PM1 votes

The only time I get a tad bit negative is when that time when you should know to surrender comes (inhibs gone, a 20/2 enemy, between 0 and 2 objectives taken for ourselves while they have almost everything, etc.) and 2 people on your team want to drag it out. That's when I think those 2 have the negative attitude. 3 of us have accepted defeat and the other 2 are just wanting us to play it out, calling us negative for wanting to surrender. I hate the mentality of never surrender. I would much rather play another game than to sit here getting my ass handed to me because someone doesn't know when a game is lost and not force others into not having a good time.

nightsharks1/4/2016, 10:02:59 PM1 votes

{quoted} 3. It's just a prank game, bruh!

Until Dawn reference? :0

Earl Eulrich1/6/2016, 5:36:43 PM1 votes

unfortunatly Riot did do everything in their might this peseason to make games more frustration and comebacks less likly than ever....