Let's discuss the best strategies to calm down hotheads!

When you have toxic people on your team, people often say that you should either ignore or mute them . . . I can see where they are coming from but in my eyes that is kind of giving up on the whole issue. People really underestimate what tilt can do to a person's player skill so in my opinion you should avoid it at all costs.

Recently I actually had some success with a Lucian that was on my team who was kind of pissed. In champion select he got mad at me for typing too much in chat for his liking ( because I type a lot ) and later in lane for fucking up a bit.

What I did is basically telling him that the best way to avoid all of this is communicating with me, pinging me and telling me what to do. "You're the boss".

Not only did this apply to his sense of superiority, it also created a good setup for further communication which we desperately needed since we were laning together. It got us through a rather rough laning phase and later he actually thanked me "for putting up with his mood", I figured he was carrying his anger over from last game.

Another thing that I remember doing in the past is camping the person who is the angriest the most. While there is the general wisdom of "never gank a losing lane" I think that saying doesn't really take the psychological aspect of this game into account. In my experience an angry and feeding Yasuo or Riven main will be surprisingly compliant when you follow their "advice". It gives the term "babysitting" a whole new meaning, you should always be there when little Yasuo cries and wants something from you.

Lastly, when people other than myself are arguing ( the typical 4 people flame-war while you watch from a save distance ) is getting them to stop typing and focus on the game more by just shotcalling and formulating a gameplan while telling them all to calm down. Now this does not have as much of a success rate as the other tactics but if it works, it's probably the most impactful tactic of all those three.

Now, let's summarize:

• When people flame you for your play, ask them what you can do better and if they can call shots and ping a bit more
• When people tilt because they lose lane and angrily demand ganks, it's a wise decision to camp their lane when you are a jungler or a roaming midlaner/support
• When other people on your team are arguing with each other, formulate a gameplan and call some shots and ask them to please focus on that instead

Now comes the part where I ask you guys for other ways to calm tilted teammates down that have proven to be successful. Do some of you also have some experience with this?