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The Rants of an Ex-ribbon Holder

Transcendent I·4/7/2016, 10:55:15 AM·4 votes·1,657 views

I had unlocked all honor crests and had kept the green ribbon on my loading screen for 3 years. A few days ago, it was gone in a poof. If you ask me honestly, I daresay my honor crests were well-deserved. I had never flamed anyone before March 2016. Always typed 'nice job :D' when my teammate gets a kill or pushes a tower down. Say thanks to the jungler when they gave me a gank or their buffs. I would encourage my teammates when they are demoralized. I would offer suggestion to the strategy we should adopt to win the game. Make puns to lighten the mood. I am most definitely not the best player, as you can tell from the fact that I am from lower silver, but I swear I had done everything in my power to be a decent human being and create the right psychological condition for my team to win. I kept doing most of these, except for the avoiding to flame part. Lately I begin to feel more and more helpless. I started playing ranked games in late 2012, and people weren't THAT bad back then. Players did flame. We all get frustrated about the fate of our LP. But severe humiliation only happened once in a blue moon. I could actually recall incidence where my team flamed. Now it happens almost every lost game that I completely lost count of how many flamers I encountered. People just refuse to communicate with the team. They don't listen to pings. They are off minding their business regardless of how their actions adversely affect the team. They put the blame on others even when they are part of the factors that lead up to the defeat. I remember on one occasion a Karthus went jungling. He did pretty well actually. But he kept asking us push to the inhibitor when we are supposed to defend our own. Then he refused to group with us and chose to backdoor their open inhib. And he afk-ed after he failed, saying that 'we deserved to lose coz we were not respecting his orders'. Everything positive I said went down to drain just like that. At my worst times, I only won 4 ranked games out of 20. To say I was furious and frustrated was an understatement. I actually told my friend that I lost faith in humanity during these loss streak. Then I just decided that my attitude doesn't matter anymore and forwent all my good girl manners. There was this game where bot lane was getting camped by jungle and mid and our kat, who is supposed to be an exceptional roamer, kept farming mid without even so much as pushing down their tower. We hugged the tower till there was no tower to hug. Worse still, she flamed us for feeding. I lost it. I started being sarcastic, and the worst I said was telling her to rot in hell. I guess the loss of my honor crest was justified after all. After that game, I muted all the toxic players - a function that I never thought of using before, but it's better that way so I don't get emotionally affected and flame back. I had been diagnosed of depression before. League was my escape. Now that the circumstances has deteriorated, I have every reason to close my eyes and ears towards this negative crap. I'm tired. I'm spent. I would positive in winning games like a regular person normally would, but I don't have an ounce of positivity to spare on losing games anymore. I believe a number of people here use League as an escape like I do. There are people out there who has family issues, relationship problems, difficulties at work and studies etc. Your attitude in the game can heavily influence their mood. I really hope that every player can remember that the people you insult in game are actual human beings made of flesh and blood. Respect them as you would respect your friends and family, especially towards your teammates. Begin by muting toxic players to avoid adding to the negativity. Save trolling for custom games or bot games - or at least normal games. Help your teammates in any constructive ways posssible. Gradually, learn to befriend them. Give the compassionate people a reason to be the nice person in game as they are in real life. Infect the toxic with friendliness. Make this community a better place.

24 Comments

Doaenel4/7/2016, 11:03:36 AM4 votes

you sound like a nice guy, add me and ill be sure you have at least 1 non-flamer and have a shot at winning some games :)

Amen God Bless4/7/2016, 11:14:40 AM2 votes

Hope you're still online, i sent you an Add. Let me net you some wins friend

69469238DEL14/7/2016, 12:56:40 PM2 votes

Everyone in ranked thinks their in an anime and only they can be the main character lol

Gimpy894/7/2016, 11:18:00 PM1 votes

I'm glad you see people as people in the game. A lot of players don't do this and they are worse human beings AND players for it.

I have always felt that empathy is a powerful tool in LoL, and is an essential component to having good awareness. If you have empathy of the enemy you can predict their actions better by understanding what they want to do (for example if they are arrogant in their play or comments they might be the type to make overaggressive plays without backup from their team and you could take advantage of this). All chat people are also the most suspect to tilt when you camp them and although its terrible, tilting the enemy wins games. Also a lot of mechanics are based on asking yourself "what would i do if i were then enemy?" and preparing to react to that. If you view the enemy as a human being it is a lot easier to predict the their actions as long as you know the champion too. Good empathy of your team is also great as you can stop players from tilting when they go 0/2+. Letting them know that you aren't mad at their score and the game is still winnable goes a long way.

This is a nice change of pace to the "RITO PLEASE UNBAN ME" stuff that is usually here.

McHaten4/8/2016, 2:06:22 AM1 votes

It's called a flawed, automated system. The bans used to be given out by a group of actual players that were part of the "tibunal". they could see chat and game history and would vote on the outcome of the bans as a group on a case by case basis. They did away with that system in late S3/S4 in favor of an automated system. The amount of complaints of unfair banning has risen exponentially. Riot said all the way years ago they were going to re-release a player-based tribunal and have barely even mentioned it since, much less actually done anything about an insane amount of bogus bans.

I never once received any kind of punishment EVER from season 1 to season 4 until they started the automated system. I got 2-3 chat bans in less than 2 months after. Back then if you chewed someone out or cussed them out because they were trolling or feeding, or refused to help the team, the player-based tribunal saw that and would let you off. With the current system, you could never type anything but gg at eh end of games for good job and you will get banned if enough percentage of people report you, or if you use enough "tag" words along with enough percentage of reported per game. **There is no justified or right/wrong, its jsut you used certain words or got reported enough per so many games, so you were banned. **

worm4/7/2016, 11:02:18 AM1 votes

don't try to be a hero. the game will NEVER be a positive friendly place because of how competitive it is and the giant egos the players have.

Levyathyn4/8/2016, 7:24:33 AM1 votes

I lost my green crest, I suppose at the start of the season, and I haven't managed to get it back again. =\

I keep trying, but I'm finding less and less people giving honor this season.

venomous frost4/7/2016, 11:08:16 AM1 votes

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I started playing ranked games in late 2012, and people weren't THAT bad back then.

you got it reversed, people back then all were bad, nobody knew optimal builds and best champions to use. everybody was so bad bac then, nobody was bad.

Nowadays with all the guides and streams available, 1 guy not knowing the optimal build just sticks out as bad

Kim Chi Vendor4/7/2016, 8:00:23 PM1 votes

The game is toxic cause it's the real deal. Whichever game is the real deal will be like that, I remember quake 1 being like this online.

Play a MOBA that moves slow and has 6 second stuns will be more carebears there.

Most people don't care about making a video game a better place, you should probably invest your emotional energy someplace where it will do some good like into a romantic partner or a charity.