Advice on Dealing with Toxicity

I saw an article recently about dealing with toxic behavior.

How Successful People Handle Toxic People

Considering the issues I see crop up, I thought I would share it here. To summarize for those who don't want to read it:

TL/DR for those who don't feel like reading the article:

1. Know when to step away. While in game, part of this is abusing the mute button. If they're an attention seeker, you remove that particular reinforcement.

2. Understand yourselfBeing able to recognize when you are likely to lose your temper before you lose it will help you to know when to hit that mute button, or to skip jumping into a queue if you know you aren't in a good headspace for playing

3. Adapt. If you have a feeder, use him as bait. And yes, I've seen that work.

4. I'm going to make this a quote off the article because it's said well: > Emotionally intelligent people are quick to forgive, but that doesn’t mean that they forget. Forgiveness requires letting go of what’s happened so that you can move on. It doesn’t mean you’ll give a wrongdoer another chance. Successful people are unwilling to be bogged down unnecessarily by others’ mistakes, so they let them go quickly and are assertive in protecting themselves from future harm.

Basically, be willing to ignore stuff while you are in game and then report it after.

5. Don't let them stop you from having fun. League is designed to place you with others close to your skill. Having a W/L record close to 50/50 means you're in that range. So if you only have fun if you are winning, then you're going to be disappointed in roughly half your game. If you can learn to have fun by playing at your personal best, the losses won't seem as bad and it'll become easier to see mistakes as just that instead as intentionally trolling.

There's other stuff in the article, but that's what I see as specific to League.