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Enough With the Toxicity, New System For Ranked and Toxicity.

Stephenizgod·3/2/2016, 8:34:38 AM·2 votes·362 views

I'm going to be honest, idc how mean someone is, idc what they say or who they say it to... I want to win, the moment your behavior negatively effects the outcome of my game, that is what i consider toxic. I have lost 3 games now due to people being so Toxic it literally hurts my brain to read their messages. Its gotten to the point where even I am being somewhat toxic when responding to them... I NEVER RESPOND TO THEM... Over the past week more and more of my games are being ruined by these toxic people who don't even deserve to be able to play this game let alone Ranked. Its really starting to piss me off that I can't win a freakin game because Ezreal harasses Nautilus until he AFKs... Both of them get reported, one of them got punished, so what? I still lost that freaking game because of it... Next game Lux feeds Lucian than goes mid and steals Brands lane and starts feeding again... Me and Elise did all we could to carry that game but a 2.5v5 (i count the remaining 3 ppl as only half a team member, i know its mean but one of those scrubs was my duo partner lol) is just so damn hard to win, I'd say damn near impossible.

My proposal? Ban these people from Ranked for X amount of time or put them into a separate queue for people like them. There is always the occasional Toxicity, a mistake is made and someone gets mad. This is different, this is not frustration, it is pure toxicity and I don't want it in my games anymore. Majority of my Losses are because some ass is being a douche in some way, its almost never because someone is being outplayed, or made a mistake. They are being toxic on purpose and we are losing because of it, so please something needs to be done about this.

Riot I know you don't really care about Low Elo, but this is so frustrating. How can I rise up in Ranked when I need to carry 3 people who are trying to lose? You say this doesn't happen that often, but it does... it absolutely does... Very rarely do we just lose because the other team was better. So many people who got carried from Bronze 5 and maybe 2-3 actually good players, games are decided by who got the majority of the Bronze 5's. Thats what it feels like, every freaking game. 5 minutes all hope is lost because we are already 9 kills behind them in all lanes and one of us AFKd.

Please just remove the Toxic people from Ranked in someway.

4 Comments

VMystikage3/2/2016, 7:21:02 PM2 votes

Honestly you're just having a bad streak. It usually ends after a certain amount of games so keep trying. Just know that no matter what you do you'll always lose roughly 45-55% of your games. From Bronze all the way to Masters its the same way. The players will mostly be 'bad' and 'toxic' but just let them be. You cannot change them. Just focus on yourself and doing the best that YOU can, while knowing that you will still lose half of the games you do good in. Assuming your team is bad, if you also do bad then you may never win, or your loss % may be 80% or even higher. So just mute your team mates and focus on doing the best you can, if you win, great, if not shrug it off and do better next game. I hate toxic players too but I learned that arguing with them doesn't get anywhere and it makes me perform worse which secures us the loss, then I end up blaming them for the loss. But when I mute them, I don't get mad or tilted and can usually keep us in the game and win.

My most recent example is when I was in Promos for Division 2 and my whole team was Division 5 for some reason. Up until that point my team was consistently the same division as I was but for some reason right when i hit promos it dipped. I was annoyed right off the bat that the matchmaking system put four players that are four divisions below me on my team. Then they performed bad so I was even more annoyed and played very poorly. I ended up dropping a few divisions until I give up caring about their performance or attitude. I muted them and just played like I normally would and things started to turn. It took me about 40 games to get back to Division 2 promos! Pretty annoyed that it wasted my time for no reason but that's just how the system is. But just keep your heads up, keep trying, and be patient man. You can do it.

Stephenizgod3/2/2016, 8:36:52 AM1 votes

Rant rant rant QQ gitgud

There i said it for you, no need for these comments.

No flash no life3/3/2016, 12:33:48 AM1 votes

Just my opinion. There has always been plenty of causes for ppl to get frustrated due to the nature of this game, but this season provided way more additional causes to irritate players, making them more likely to express themselves negatively.

Another thing is that while you're trying to win, most ppl aren't. They think they're trying to win, but the truth is they're trying to have fun here - nothing wrong with it until the point where winning the game conflicts with pleasure. Compared to that little ip&lp you get from winning, the glorious joy ppl get from unleashing their toxicity is much more satisfying - whether doing so will result in game lost or not is of little concern.