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There Are Too Many Trolls Right Now In Lower Tiers.

Best Ekko NA·1/15/2018, 6:01:42 AM·3 votes·926 views

This stress is bad for my health.

Lucian Jungle... rushes Mercs, gets Bloodrazor... No viable items to even scale with. He can't clear his Jungle, has to back SEVERAL times for his first clear alone. It's obvious he never practiced it once in his life and he had no idea what he was doing. The enemy Jungle runs around free ganking everywhere, what a miserable game.

Warwick Jungler who says nothing the entire game, refuses to participate with the team, doesn't gank one single time the entire game. Stands still next to the enemy without using his CC so his teammates dies (intentionally), abandons his teammate in the middle of 2v1 so his teammate dies, while he goes and farms Bottom. Farms the enemy's Jungle when he notices they're taking our Towers & Inhibs. Intentionally farms Top (not split pushing, casually farming) while the enemy shoves into our base to fight us and end the game. He has a good KDA, of course he won't get banned right?

Yasuo Jungle who decides he doesn't need Smite.. runs around feeding lanes early (no, not ganking, int'ing). Later it seemed like he decided to try, but by then the game was long over... fun times...

Soraka Support who doesn't heal anyone with her W for the entire game. They ranked it up at level 3 (checked) and then never used it and did not add another point until right before the game ended. After I roamed Bot and helped them take the tower, they abandoned our Ezreal and never helped him again.. Leaving him to fight the enemy team 1v2.

I wish things like this were taken more seriously by the punishment system. These games are soooooooooo miserable to deal with. Every single time I'm trapped in a game like these, I question why I am even wasting my time playing this game. It's not fun, not even in the slightest. There's no hope of winning, my team is getting destroyed or fighting uneven odds because of 1 player's inappropriate actions. Yet, there is no leaving because the system is going to punish me... trapped waiting out a horrid game where it comes down to spending all Gold on pink wards and hugging towers waiting for it all to be over.

Like seriously, these aren't games.. it's torture and these people don't care, they aren't getting punished for doing it. When I checked, all 4 of these players in the examples were GOOD players. They had decent win rates on a lot of champions, but the trolling is not always evident in scores alone. The Warwick in my game finished with a pretty decent score, but that didn't mean anything as he was still blatantly trolling and ruining the game intentionally for his teammates.

I'm not going to feign ignorance, it happens on the enemy team too. I don't find that to be acceptable either. In probably the vast majority of my wins, my team isn't winning because we are better than the enemy. We are just winning because someone on the enemy team is AFK, Int'ing, or trolling in some manner. Sure, it's nice to win games but I can't feel any accomplishment knowing that my team only won because we gained some advantage from their teammate griefing. I don't think trolls are holding me back, they do make the game miserable for me to play however.. and it's happened at a ridiculous rate in my games the past couple weeks. It's too much... and I really think something needs to be done about it.

6 Comments

HavokDash1/15/2018, 6:15:43 AM2 votes

This game has lost any resemblance to a team game. It is no longer a team based game. Riot has pushed this "Solo Carry" attitude to its logical conclusion, where people only care about how good THEY look. The only way to get ahead is to ignore your team. Let them die. They will rage, they will drag you down. But I have been on sinse season 3. And I have watched this game go from an Amazing team game with so much strategy and promise......To Adults with the mentality of a preschool toddler, so wrapped up in thier own self importants and care more about patting themselves on the back. The only way to even remotely get ahead is to stop caring about your team. I used to be a team player, Now more and mOre I am seeing my best efforts to get teamwork going only end with me being told how trash I am and how I need to be reported/banned for "feeding" when most of the times i died was a sacrifice so a teammate could get away.

So yeah, I really no longer care about my team. I tried being a team player but I dont have the strength to fake it anymore. I dont have the patience to listen to children brag about how "OP" they are and how "Trash" thier team is. How this whole game is all about how THEY are the solo carry. I tried to suggest TEAM carry as an alternative. But I was wasting my breath.

Season 8 is the "Every player for themselves" Season. The year teamwork on league dies. Roll the dice, pull the slots. Maybe you win, maybe you get kids who feel padding thier solo kda is more important than finishing off a nexus tower thats barely hanging on.

Finn Teh Human1/15/2018, 9:23:42 AM1 votes

I mean I know everyone is saying you don't score an S by being a team player, but that's actually how I got almost all of my S's and I've won the majority of the games where I've gotten S's. Tbh low elo still has people who are new to the game. When I started playing ranked I first timed Nidalee support because I saw someone else do it and thought it was "op". In Bronze/Silver/even Gold you can't go into a game with the mindset that your teammates can be trusted 100%. I know this sounds contradictory to what I said and what I'm about to say but there's a difference between being a team player and someone who's a pig. A team player won't ignore an easy gank bot for their wolves because they think they're botlane is trash and they're the only person who is going to carry. However, when you go into a game you have to remember that the choices you make in that game have an effect as to whether or not you win. Ever since the tank meta stopped now everyone wants to carry, but sometimes you have to stand back and play around someone who is already carrying a game.