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PhadurrDougg·10/21/2018, 12:40:15 AM·3 votes·3,095 views

I very new to writing in the boards usually because I think my opinions are mild to discuss seriously but I think this time I need to share. Almost every time I play ranked I happen to get the most uncooperative players. I usually tell them to play safe or not attack the certain champion, but I feel like they just don't want to listen or just mute the entire game and just play however they feel like regardless of their errors. I don't like to just have players who end up feeding and throwing the game because they don't want to work as a team. I have had this experience countless amounts of times. The odd thing, is that people in the normal queue are extremely cooperative and listen to their errors. They try to ask nicely all the time and never try to flame or troll. I always seen the people in my normal games try to be as calm as they can or laugh at their errors without getting mad at pings.

I'm just wondering if other people have experience these types of players. I feel like Riot is just giving low elo players this experience more than high elo players. I can't tell you how many times I lost my promos from players like that.

I had another argument I wanted to share but it's pretty weak:

Every time I ask my team to report one player they usually support them for some reason. They see that the person is purposefully intentionally feeding but they give the person the excuse of a "bad game." I know that people have bad games, but it is obvious when a player just tries to 1v5 with a high amounts of deaths and expect to win that fight.

4 Comments

SlandersPete10/21/2018, 12:53:51 AM2 votes

What rank are you? If you play in Silver or lower ranks, you might have games with various players. Some people go into ranked because they are: -Bored -Trolling -Trying to rank climb elo (Ragers) -Have fun -Duo In higher ranks, you see less of the above and more of the serious players that know what they are doing. Keep playing ranked and do your best to help, whatever role you are. It is good to rely on others to win, but you need to be confident you can handle yourself.

eerdegaurd10/21/2018, 4:08:19 AM1 votes

I feel what your saying man i really do as a fellow player trying to climb up in rank. I find that playing at night you get more players that are willing to cooperate, and during the day you can get anything. all I can say is try find those ppl you can duo with. Stay strong man keep going for gold <3

Kuthillick10/22/2018, 2:44:56 PM1 votes

Unfortunately these types of players and games happen but there are a couple things that you can do to help and to keep in mind.

First and foremost: Play to your best and get really good with a couple champions in your main role, and know at least one, preferably rarely banned, champion in other roles. Learn them inside out. Learn common matchups, character specific tech, how to item build against different enemy compositions, when your power spikes are, etc.

Second: Communication is great and good on you for trying to communicate! Sometimes though, players simply won't want to communicate, follow a call, or just have everyone muted. Communicate as needed with pings, without spamming, to help communicate major stuff, but in general I would say don't try to dictate a playstyle, just objectives or engages if you are the one engaging. Keep vision down as much as possible and have good minimap vision. If you see an enemy on a ward going to gank, a combination of "Danger!" ping on the enemy and "Retreat" or "Danger" ping on the lane it looks like they are going to can save a life and can quickly get the point across to your fellow teammates. This is all done without saying a word.

Third: Try your best not to get tilted by non-verbal teammates, toxic players, or afks. This sounds tough to do but everything will even out over time, and actually end up benefitting you in the long run. You can figure this out by doing some math. There are 9 players in the game you have no control over whatsoever. You can control yourself and how you react/play but can't do anything about anyone else if they rage/afk/feed/etc. If you assume that any of the other 9 players have an equal chance of being a negative experience on your game, the enemy team has a 5 in 9 chance, or roughly 55% chance, to be the one with a negative player. That leaves your team with just a 45% chance to have a negative experience with teammates. To clarify here, Im not talking about bad games; everyone has them. Im talking about players that are just toxic, AFK, or intentionally feeding. Going back to the math though: If you have 100 games with negative players in it, theoretically you will have 10 more games where you benefit from the toxic behavior than vice versa. People tend to have a negativity bias and therefore focus on when things go wrong on their team rather than on the enemy team. When I did the math and realized that in the long run, things would generally benefit me I was able to deal with the annoyances and toxicity a lot more easily.

Fourth: Self-centered critiques and praise after each game. When I was struggling with climbing the ladder I decided to start a blog and log each game. I did things like list out the team compositions for both my team and theirs, write a brief summary of the game, and then list three things I did well and three things I did poorly. I did NOT critique my teammates or blame them for anything that went wrong. This was purely self-reflection. If I died quite a bit to ganks, I may have put down I needed to ward better or have more map awareness. If I won lane hard after abusing my power spikes I wrote that down as a positive. If I thought my teamfight positioning was good I wrote that down as a positive as well, and did the opposite if my positioning was poor.

Hopefully all these help. Best of luck man.