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Your teams morale and how you can affect it. (Positively for more wins!)

Drugoth··9 votes·461 views

Let's all be honest, League has one of the most unforgiving playerbases at times. (aka not all the time, even though it feels that way) We all already know how your teams morale can be negatively affected in several ways and we all dread it possibly happening to us (not my promos! again, sigh).

This post isn't about that, this post is about how you can do better to help raise/maintain your teams morale and maybe keep your chances of winning within reach.

Your Attitude

Your attitude has a large contributing factor to your teams success, sometimes all that needs to he changed is the way you phrase a suggestion to a teammate that you think could use a boost in confidence. It's important to forgive those few minor mistakes that people are bound to make. We all make mistakes after all!

The following are a few key phrases I've seen time and time again that can be taken negatively and will lower your teams overall morale. I've paired these phrases up with a slight re-wording to give them an overall more positive and constructive vibe.

Harassment: /all: "RIP, our Lee never ganks, open mid."

Constructive version: "Hey, Lee, the enemy is pushing my lane in consistently and is open for a gank. Maybe we can burn a flash or get a kill."

It's important to stay positive with your jungler, he's the glue that keeps the team together, he's the guy running all over the map and has the most presence to make positive plays.

Harassment: "Nami, we're already 15 minutes in and you don't even have sightstone yet? WTF ARE YOU DOING???"

Constructive version: Hey, Nami, is it possible you could get some more vision? It would help as a pre-warning system if Amumu starts coming our way."

Specifically for you all-star ADCs out there: Your support is super important to your success, giving positive advice and feedback rather than harassing them can go a long way to boost their confidence, in turn they will try their best to help you if help them.

Harassment: "WTF are you doing, Ahri??? Fizz has been bot 2 times and you're not pinging MIA or even following him to help!"

Constructive: "Hey Ahri, Fizz is wandering around and putting pressure on other lanes, can you give us some warning or follow him to at least even out the odds please?"

Sometimes we forget to ping MIA or don't notice until it's too late, it happens to the best of us. Snapping at he person in question isn't the right way to go about it, instead, why not ask for their help the next time? Using "Please" and being forgiving of small mistakes can go a long way to maintaining your teams morale.

Harassment: "Where the hell were you, Yorick? Cho'gath TPed down while we were fighting dragon and owned us!"

Constructive: "Yorick, this is just my opinion, but can you please keep an eye on Cho'gath and keep your TP available next time? He wrecked us in that last fight."

In this example, Yorick either didn't have his TP up because he used it to get back to lane, or he didn't see the Cho'gath TPing in time. Again, instead of berating him for this mistake, try to offer some friendly advice instead.

Harassment: /all: "Report Orianna for feeding, what a waste of air."

Constructive: "Orianna, why don't you try to play a little safer and farm up? It seems the enemy J4 has really taken a liking to you."

Remember, asking for reports is considered harassment and is punishable in the summoners code. Not to mention, the amount of reports doesn't alter the chances of punishment or increase severity, instead, you may end up being punished instead. Protect yourself, and try to be more supportive instead.

These are just a few of the common examples we see every day. As you can see, it's not too much more effort to go out of your way and forgive your teammates and help each other instead. A happy team is a winning team.

Good luck out there on the Rift and keep it sportsmanlike!

42 Comments

UnboundHades2 votes

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blackid1011 votes

Nah attitude doesn't matter , a person who goes 0-3 will never show signs of doing anything positive for the team, so forgive them

Drugoth2 votes

See, this is what I'm talking about, looking at everything from such a pessimistic bias can't help you or your teams confidence. Try to be more supportive of that player next time he goes 0/3 instead of berating him and calling him bad. I guarantee you've had your fair share of bad games too, everyone does.

blackid1012 votes

when I have a bad game I don't excuse myself from the flame I get, I know its deserved and I try to get my head out of my ass and win

Drugoth2 votes

That's fine, and I get that. Holding yourself to higher standards is admirable. But most people are more easily affected by harassment than you or me. Flaming isn't constructive, and has no place in a team game.

blackid1012 votes

it does how the fuck are you gonna get your point across to your 2-10 bot lane to stop fighting the enemy , some people expect others to be happy for them that they are trying to win instead of inting or afk , which is just a lie

Drugoth2 votes

Did you even read my post? There are numerous better ways to communicate with your teammate than just harassing them and calling them bad.

blackid1012 votes

mate having a happy feeding teammate is still a feeding teammate... your trying to excuse your feeding by putting blame on the people who blame others

Drugoth3 votes

You're confusing me trying to promote constructional team communication with trying to redirect blame? I'm not saying that the person that made a few mistakes and fed a few kills isn't any less to blame, or that the people that flame him are any more to blame. My message is that nothing good can come of flaming, whereas constructive feedback can often yield positive results! Is it all just coming in one ear and out the other with you?

blackid1013 votes

no I understand what you are saying but being positive rather than toxic is no difference, a feeder will always feed no matter what you do,I'd rather take the aggressive path rather than the passive aggressive path that your taking

Drugoth1 votes

There is nothing passive aggressive about offering constructive feedback to your teammates. Riot has put in one of their "did you know?" Load screen things an actual statistic, I can't quote the actual % but it says that players that flame their teammates lose more games. I would take that statistic pretty seriously if you truly are competitive.

blackid1013 votes

Lmao ,your gonna take your argument on the competitive side,I play to win , If you ruin my gameplay experience ,I'm gonna take shots at your morale...

Drugoth3 votes

Hate to be the one to break the news to you. You're not truly competitive if you're willing to throw a game in the trash just to get your jimmies off harassing someone that you feel superior to. You're supposed to help your team win, if you really do play to win like you claim.

blackid1012 votes

Lol I back up my flame with my play fym,you can't help dumbasses who literally can't help themselves

Drugoth2 votes

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Lol I back up my flame with my play fym,you can't help dumbasses who literally can't help themselves

Can't say I didn't try though :P. Good luck out there, hope you can dodge those bans.

blackid1013 votes

Lmao I want riot to lay the ban hammer maybe that would improve the quality of my teammates ,please don't coach your kid into the idea that losing should be fun

Drugoth2 votes

You mean the actual act of playing a game shouldn't be fun unless you win? Sounds like a pretty terrible game to me.

I'll raise my children as I see fit since I am their parent, so no thank you.

blackid1013 votes

You play to win, If you wanna have shits and giggles go play normals, there shouldn't be positivity in knowing you were the reason your team lost, there is no participation trophy logic that you're tryna spread,for every win there is praise and for every loss there is a scapegoat,you either one or the other ...

Drugoth2 votes

A team doesn't lose simply because of one person. You can't simply lay the blame all on one guy, (unless afk or intentional feeding troll of course) it is a team effort after all. I think what you're doing is reflecting all of your own failings onto others in order to make yourself feel better, and that's unhealthy.

Can you tell me honestly that you don't believe that you're partly to blame for at least one of your losses?

blackid1012 votes

Fam you dumb af ,Like Is aid before I own up to my feeding,and when a man goes 17-8 and loses because of his trash tf mid who was 0- 5 at 15 mins ,You really wanna claim I complain because I'm actually trash, that's just flat out bs

Drugoth2 votes

This is the last reply you're getting from me. Clearly all you intend to do is flame instead of actually have an intellectual discussion on the possible benefits of supporting teammates with positive reinforcement rather than laying into them.

If you want to continue on, being an immature person who wants to lay the blame on anyone but himself at all times and harass people for it, then so be it. All the more power to you, and your many accounts that you will have to make in the future when you get banned.

blackid1012 votes

G you just implied that the reason why I complain is because I suck, I'm as mature as you , I take the blame I deserve and nothing more,If you gonna be in the majority that feels that internet words hurt than your just as immature as the people saying them,there is no benefit to positive reinforcement, that won't change anything

Usually I don't flame but nothing ever happens and we lose thanks to the garabge tier top laner who doesn't respect his opponent, but nah keep thinking your being head and shoulders above me in terms of morality ,stick to being a support main that gets flamed whenever lane doesn't go the ad's way....

AdeBug1 votes

He did admit that sometimes it's their fault but owns up to it. Of course we all contribute to a loss some of the games. You're just being ridiculous rn.

AdeBug1 votes

At least 2 of your examples did sound passive aggressive, other posts like this did a better job and frankly I'm tired of these posts still blaming the victim. I do agree with Black that sometimes feeders will feed no matter what anyone says or does. I tried giving friendly advice in the most friendly way and some still get mad, there's a point where nothing more can be done so it's actually better to not say anything at all. You assume they care, or that they're trying to get better, maybe they don't. And in the rare cases they do! You can't train someone in a live game, they won't magically become better in a few minutes. And if you do care about their future games, add em after and explain. if you really wanna give em just 1 lil piece of advice, keep in mind: it's unwanted. Unless they ask. I myself ask random stuff to understand why I died, for instance, and half of the time I do get an answer. But I'm a teeny minority.

And regardless of the game, lol n others, there will always be that type of people that will reply with a 'fuck you' to a simple 'gl&hf'.

Funkin Dunkin1 votes

Were you paid to write this?

Drugoth2 votes

Nope, unless you consider me taking 5 minutes of downtime while doing my job getting paid to write this.

Kloqdq1 votes

You know I've tried to do that. I also try and defuse people that are blowing up. Some people just want to watch the world (or in this case the team!) burn. Most mistakes are mistakes and I'll just ignore it.

Drugoth1 votes

I'll try to throw a wrench in the middle of the flame war too occasionally, this hasn't had as much effect as just being positive and giving out little bits of advice here or there.

Kloqdq2 votes

Typically if someone is already mad, trying to do that will just spark some more flames. It's hard to find a good balance that doesn't start a flame war with everyone.

blackid1011 votes

If you don't want a flame war then don't feed

Kloqdq1 votes

Uh pretty sure that has nothing to do with it but okay.

blackid1011 votes

If you don't feed then there will be zero flame but if you clearly don't give a single fuck about the game then there will be a flame war

Kloqdq1 votes

This happens with people all the time and it may not even be from dying. People just can blow a fuse at the drop of a hat in games and it could be caused by any number of things. Assuming it's just due to feeding is frankly ignoring the vast majority of other cases that these fights start.

blackid1011 votes

majority of the time it happens to be feeding, any other case is just a man tilted to the brink

Kloqdq1 votes

I mean people die. I've seen people flip on a guy who died twice. oh well he died twice, no need to rage. My point was, it's difficult to offer advice or try and stop people from raging when they are already hot-headed. Whatever the reasoning behind it may be.

blackid1012 votes

people won't be mad out of the blue, when you start ruining the game by consistently dying and showing no improvement then people will flip the fuck out

Kloqdq2 votes

Have you played long enough or what? People on league will get mad if they didn't get their champion. Hot heads exist and they will flip at the simplest shit. Shaclone will int because people banned shaco for example. People will run it down mid for having a kill taken. Someone won't leash so they just duo top. People won't trade roles so they just double up. This shit happens all the time in a variety of different forms.

blackid1011 votes

are you trying to fight, maybe if you weren't such a passive aggresive dick maybe your games would have less flame, but nah you assume they get mad over small shit like that, they mad they know they aren't in an optimal point to win which is the same effect as feeding

Kloqdq1 votes

I just stay silent. No gain from typing in chat normally. Think whatever you like, talking to you is like punching a break wall. It's pointless and just gets painful after a couple of minutes. I am done.

RainXBlade1 votes

Whenever I make a mistake in the game, I try to not let my other teammates carry that mistake as well, considering this is a team game. The reason is that I don't want to disappoint my other teammates whenever I flop or make a misplay. I also do that because I don't want my team's morale to stay okay at the cost of my own individual morale.

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