Just as a debrief sort of thing, I am not inherently toxic, I never randomly flame people, I only ever flame people who intentionally feed or troll me. Problem is I am in Diamond 5 and inters kinda thrive here. Any advice? Thanks in advance.
First and foremost; breathe. Four seconds in, seven seconds out. Breathing exercises help you focus.
Second; embrace the possibility of losing (even if it is ranked), but challenge yourself to win. Yes, intentional feeders/trolls will probably fuck you over and make you lose, but you're good enough (by your own respective merit) to win the next match if not that one - and your skill will even it out.
Third; find an external method of venting; punch a pillow, yell and swear out loud, squeeze a stress ball, fuck around with a fidget spinner, etc. - short term vents of your anger to help mitigate the harm that anger can do.
Those are pretty much my three best bits of advice, aside from the obvious of "mute and report" - muting may not stop them from intentionally feeding or trolling, but it will at least prevent them from goading you into flaming them, and reporting will make sure that their behavior gets reviewed and possibly punished.
People are not often receptive of criticism, even if you mean well.
Sometimes you can gauge if someone will take a suggestion well, or if you're good at wording it in a way that doesn't seem like you're telling them "You're an incompetent scrub and I'm a challenger level strategist, so you should do everything I say."
Otherwise, you're probably better off just letting them play how they think they should, and worry more about what you can do to support them or counter any poor decisions they might be making.
My only suggestion is try and notice if the person is intentionally feeding or just simply misjudged the setup. If its the latter choice try and say something along the lines of well ish happens and maybe try it this way next time. If the dude just flames back at you like nah man i do what i want..then just leave him be and do you lol.
