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How do you get the mentality necessary to play ranked with trolls?

Morgana Ultima·8/7/2018, 9:19:41 AM·6 votes·4,340 views

I don't understand it. I do my placements. I place gold and I have a very high win rate. I play on the weekend and I get people who literally run it down mid. They intentionally destroy the game. I get mad, I tilt, and then I start losing because I'm off my game.

How can I not get mad when I'm trying to progress and play competitively and I have people like a 0/9/1 ryze in my game flashing his mastery 7 emote and trolling? I just don't understand how anyone in the world can possibly enjoy this.

I've tried for years. I've had so many accounts over the years. They always end up permabanned because when I get somebody who literally runs it down mid I'm generally not very nice to them.

I don't know how to be apart of this community because the worst members of the community are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad that it actually drives me nuts.

I actually feel deep depression over it. I put in effort to try to play ranked and to progress in skill. Yet I get people who walk into the enemy jungle and intentionally die. I feel like I have no control or agency over my own destiny in this game. How am I supposed to not get upset about such a thing?

Then, when I finally do snap I get in trouble and the person literally running it down mid doesn't. I've tried for eight years to play this game. I just can't. I've held my tongue. I've tried to be nice. I just can't be nice to people who are intentionally destroying my games and holding me back. How does anyone do it?

I had a game ealier today where my team is 20-6 and its a stomp. Our jungle actually trolls and refuses to baron with us after an ace and throws the game. He was a plat four player with a 0% win rate on pantheon over a large number of games. HE KNOWS HE IS TROLLING. Holy shit. How does anyone deal with this?

30 Comments

DearPear8/7/2018, 11:12:21 AM2 votes

I just don't give a caca!

Phoenixdust8/7/2018, 11:02:12 AM2 votes

The only way to play this game ranked for a longer period, is to not to take it seriously.

If your tryhard all your games, and do everything to win, and meet these trolls you will get upset and eventually will be banned. (You can try unbinding the chat button). So do not give a shit about it, play like you play normals.

Since Rito does not give fck about soft inters (and almost gives no fck about hard inters), it wont be solved in the near future.

Sogbee8/7/2018, 11:14:19 AM1 votes

It's sad. I maybe am not supposed to say anything because I'm bronze and just reached silver. But getting out of bronze was a big thing for me.

I saw a lot of trolls this year too. It's crazy. But I wish that our rank was not based on other people's troll games. I often wonder if you lose game but still did well. Will riot at least not make us lose LP.

AnAggravatedPimp8/7/2018, 11:14:43 AM1 votes

Stop playing to win and play to improve. When you're only playing the game to get better, to push your limits, to learn something, ranked loses a bit of it's edge. My cs is garbage for example so I set a goal to get 64 cs by 10 minutes and 180 by 20. Then I layer on reaching those cs numbers while also trading effectively and so on. I change the definition of what winning is for myself so that if I lose the match I've still reached a personal goal.

Kei1438/7/2018, 12:05:18 PM1 votes

Statistically, if you don't troll then the enemy has 20% more chance to get a troll, and that will even up after many games.

If you are good enough, you'll climb to your proper MMR. Which means that you don't worry about that handful of games you have a troll, cos you'll get up to your level with enough games.

Best Vi Earth8/7/2018, 12:38:07 PM1 votes

game over, go next.

SSmotzer8/7/2018, 1:27:04 PM1 votes

Put on the chillest music you have, I recommend Gorillaz' Plastic Beach album, but whatever can lower your heart rate. Then just breath and try and lose yourself to the music.

Lucian Waifu8/7/2018, 1:30:11 PM1 votes

Just know that either you try your hardest to hard carry, or know that the next game probably won't have a troll.

SaberRattler8/7/2018, 4:21:40 PM1 votes

I play off-meta A LOT on my main with DH everything lol. You're playing a game to have fun right? Just have fun.

Think of one match as one match. It's not the end of the world if it's a loss. Take it one match at a time and things are usually peachy.

Mostly, ya need to stop thinking about teammates "holding you back." If ya keep thinking ya deserve to be in a higher MMR, all you're going to do is get mad at every loss.

Right now I'll bet you get much more worked up over your losses than you're passionately happy about your wins. This means that you'll feel like crap even if you break even with a 1:1 win loss ratio. That mentality is going to reach a breaking point at some point whenever you roll a new account.

Tuition Fee8/8/2018, 3:02:01 AM1 votes

If League is giving you depression, take a self-care break.

Keiros198/8/2018, 9:14:22 AM1 votes

It would be better if RIto gives their really IP adress if they cant punish em properly. I would solve problems with trollers my own way

Grokmir8/8/2018, 3:41:46 PM1 votes

Only thing you can do is stop caring about the outcome of a single game so much. The more you care = the more you tilt = the more you lose/go on lose streaks = more tilt.

Its a painful cycle.

Just shove trolls out of your memory and move on.

disregardable8/7/2018, 9:50:10 AM1 votes

I've never had a ranked mentality to be honest. It's why I've been stuck in low silver for like 3 years lol. fuck trying to win from behind, and fuck trying to carry players worse than me.

but that's not helpful to you. the answer is, being upset is normal. you just can't use chat to vent. you have to find another way to deal with it.

Dr Cat Pooch8/8/2018, 5:38:16 PM1 votes

You have to both not care about your results and care about your team as people. Are you working to encourage positivity in your games? It's easy to be mean and rude and snap at people. It's hard to say nice things. Try that.

Icy Hot Shoto8/7/2018, 10:15:24 AM1 votes

Turn off emotes, mute their pings, mute their chat, do NOT move your camera over to them, heck mute everyone for chat from the start and mute pings if it becomes needed, move chat off-screen so you won't feel the need to type.

Oh, and take a break after the game. Maybe a half hour-hour break to calm down. Don't rush back into another ranked match if you're tilted/annoyed/aggravated from another game.