The fundamental principle of toxic behavior to your teammates: it hurts you!

ChillWeGotDis·6/25/2017, 7:44:40 AM·3 votes·342 views

Toxic behavior directed at your teammates during the game is self-defeating. It distracts your teammates, distracts yourself, hurts team morale, makes teammates less likely to help, and in general makes a bad gaming experience for everyone.

You're more likely to lose when you're toxic to your own teammates.

And yet, we see players being toxic to their own teammates during the game. I guess league players really have no control over their emotions.

6 Comments

Cornerstone16/25/2017, 12:43:35 PM2 votes

Too reasonable to matter for people who have anger issues. Anger and irrationality often go hand in hand, and no amount of clear thinking about results will intrude on the angry rager (until well after the fact, when the damage is done).

Inting Pillow6/25/2017, 8:24:16 AM1 votes

Wow it's almost like people being toxic actually don't care about the game, and would rather you be mad at them than win.

Winters Dawn6/25/2017, 9:33:51 AM1 votes

people getting angry in an online video game is nothing new.

woodvsmurph6/25/2017, 7:13:43 PM1 votes

give away doublekill bot - no response

force a 2v2 with no wards by enemy tower and at low hp with no sums - die to 3v2 - can you guys try to ward when you push up?

overstay 2 hits from dead trying to force a 2v2 at enemy tower with no wards or sums; feed another kill - can you guys pls hug tower and just play safer?

force a 2v3 fight vs enemy bot lane and jungler at dragon with no wards; feed 2 kills and blow their summoners - just stay at your tower and farm pls

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4 "mistakes" later ... ....

Snuck a baron and won our first teamfight after having lost about 5 straight. Still way behind. Just play safe, ward flanks and let baron minions shove lane. As long as you keep 3 or 4 (insert lane here), I can 1v1 or 1v2 pressure (insert other lane here). I will tp if they dive you, but let me set up wave before I join you. Same people as before force a 4v5 engage, lose 2 people before I could even start my tp or set up a push in another lane that will get us a tower. I can't stay in side lane and push because they will 5 man collapse on me before I get anything. - Why would you take such an idiot engage? I just told you to play SAFE and let me pressure.

Am I toxic for saying they made an idiot engage? Sure maybe. But what about their intentional feeding? You know the 8 times they took bad fights where they were obviously going to lose but took them anyways? When they had better options spelled out for them? Or when they try to blame the last fight on me for not being able to tp in instantly or continuing to split and grab a tower 1v5? Is that not toxic? So if you weigh it out on a scale, how many times can someone else do the same toxic thing and go unpunished while the person who has been toxically ignored all game, been asked to carry inting teammates, and been giving helpful advice loses their cool and THEY get punished while the other people don't? It's not "having a bad game" when you do the same "mistake" 10x in one game. If a cop catches you speeding they might let you off once if it was a mistake and you forgot the speed limit for that area or didn't notice it changed. But if they catch you a 4th time speeding in the same area? Yeah, that's not a mistake anymore. Same with making the same bad plays in game. If these people were properly punished - so they weren't so frequent - and so people putting up with them had hope they wouldn't have to KEEP dealing with them game after game after game - maybe the "toxic" players having to put up with such people wouldn't BE toxic...