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New Player Here and My Experience with the game

NicestGuyYouMet··2 votes·939 views

Hello everyone,

I decided to share my thought and experiences from playing this game and I must say it takes its toll. My gf got me into this game and she told me it would be ruff,but this is just horrible. I tried playing Fiddle in the jungle,before that I almost always played Renekton,because he was simple enough for me and my gf explained to me how to play him.Anyways I tried playing Fiddle and I really didnt know what to do.In short i got obliterated by the enemy,and thats putting it kindly. All the while I was getting flamed by my top lane Vlad and my mid lane Lux.They were shouting at me,wishing me cancer every 20 seconds,telling me Im gay that I need to go eat a d*ck and die and so on.

I mean come on,Im level 11 for god sake,what do you want me to do? I barely started the game and suddenly I need to know everything there is to it? And I had my gf explain the game to me.I feel sad for the people who didnt even get that. If you are unhappy playing with someone who is new and cant play the game,then why in the name of all thats holy do you make a new account?! Play with someone your skill so you wont have to vent out your frustration on me. Also as if all that shouting and cursing me will suddenly make me better.

In addition to all of this,after game enemy told me that even if I report them,probably nothing will happen to them,because no one reads the reports. Seriously? You allow players like them to play this game?

Just that one game of flame should be enough to punish them for a very long time.

Sad thing is I really like the game and I really want to play,but I dont feel like I can deal with this every time I go into a new game just because Im new and noob.

19 Comments

Kei1431 votes

yea, the new player experience is horrible, cos all the people who got banned from toxicity make new accounts and be toxic in the new levels instead.

once you get to lvl 20, it gets a bit better.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

thanx for comfort,but Im not sure I will get that far :/

Kei1431 votes

try to start the game by typing

/mute all

That command does wonders, especially at lower levels. That way you can focus on learning and enjoying the game.

Purple Death1 votes

{quoted}

try to start the game by typing

That command does wonders, especially at lower levels. That way you can focus on learning and enjoying the game.

This^ I have a key on my mouse for this if someone pisses me off, just click my button and play the game.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

Honestly I have thought about it,but idk I still wanna preserve some sense of communication,even if they are wishing me cancer sometimes they have a good plan :/

DarkSunSovereign1 votes

You can use pings to communicate, ask your GF about them.

Support Bοt1 votes

I was getting flamed by my top lane Vlad and my mid lane Lux.They were shouting at me,wishing me cancer every 20 seconds,telling me Im gay that I need to go eat a d*ck and die and so on.

Hi this is Riot Games, aaaaand WELCOME IN LEAGUE OF LEGENDS.

Honestly, leveling till lvl 30 is a failure. You have to spend many, many days till this time you will meet plenty smurfs, coz MM isnt working properly. Smurfs are destroying this game.

Also as I said in other topic, leveling system should be deleted, and all players should be same level. It would open a gate to balanced MM (matchmating). Now you are limited by silly number and your hidden ELO (MMR) that makes crazy combinations. I have junger brother who is playing this game (he has now about 20 lvl ). Every, every game he has a smurfs. Even when he is total newbie player with first account, he encounters people that makes 30/0 on master yi and so on.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

Doesnt sound pleasant to me at all :/

HerpDerper1 votes

it's not very pleasent, but it's an unfortunate reality of the game. While this sort of thing does get better, the smurfing is present at every rank (ie there will always be lots of players who have higher skill than you who are playing on their alternate account which happens to be at your level).

that being said, this is a game of extremes. multiple times in a gaming session I go from feeling pure elation following an intense game where our team came together and made a game winning comeback from a dismal state, to trying to talk myself out of punching a wall or screaming due to the distilled rage i have following a game where some teammates let us down or we threw super hard. It's honestly part of what makes it so addicting.

This game is very abrasive to new players, and even once you get some experience, seemingly everyone you meet will think they are better than you /know more than you (most of whom are totally dilusional). At the end of the day, you just have to take the good with the bad that comes with this community. try to find some people who are UNDERSTANDING, and try playing with them a lot. use voice chat programs like curse voice. try to just keep learning as much as you can. the more you learn, the more fun this game will be, and the better you will do. this is a game of immense subtilty and decision making.

the best thing i can suggest is to find a few characters and a few roles you like, and learn the game by playing them more than the others. try telling your teammates that you're new and you want to learn. You will find some toxic assholes (who you should just mute), but you will also find some people who genuinely want to help nurture you as a player. be sure to ask the players who are helpful/nice if they want to play again (throwing a few compliments out never hurt with this either). this is still how i find many of my ranked duo partners, i find a person who knows their shit in solo queue (on either team), and say something along the lines of "Your play was really clean man, i'm impressed. Hit me up if you ever wanna queue, I think we could work well together". or "if you're down to play together, i'd love to learn more about the game from you".

tl;dr: this game is a game of extremes, try to develop a hard skin for the assholes, and try to make friends with the people who are helpful.

hope this helps!

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

Thank you for the long comment and time you put into it. I will try and follow your advice :)

RavenOfPallas1 votes

Im helping my brother level up in league. I made a new account and me and him play together. we just try to have fun and not be jerks and it makes it more enjoyable. has your gf tried making a new account and playing alongside ya?

NicestGuyYouMet2 votes

She is Diamond 2,and we did play together once or twice,but honestly she stomps the game so hard I just dont even feel like Im playing :/ I wanna improve and get better,but if she plays I feel like Im clicking just so I dont go afk :/ So I will probably play with her once I get better :D still thanx for the advice :)

RavenOfPallas1 votes

No Problem! well when i play with him i pick champs im completely bad at and that normally evens out everthing.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

I would love if she was bad at something xD but even the champs she is "bad" with she stomps xD

Telephone Booth1 votes

Lol ya I have a diamond friend (I'm silver) and we rarely play together but when we do, he plays his "bad" champs. So he goes riven and obliterates everyone lol. It does make ya feel useless huh? Anyways, I know you probably hate to do it, but for real just /mute all at the start of the game. Pings should cover anything you need to know.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

yeah if it really gets bad I will do that,but I would still prefer not to :/

welovegag1 votes

And i wish i could be like ur gf and being a diamond and storm everyone :S badly back to reality im bronze and its a horrible night are every game u have to watch those "skilled" adc and jungle ganks

Best Foxx NA1 votes

Level 11 and you're getting flamed like that? Jeez. I've occasionally gone to my level 21 account to go level it up and have a fun time (I play some Kalista there to learn attack-moving since that's the best way to play with Kalista) and some of the flaming I see there is just atrocious. Sorry you have to deal with that, but to the guy who said to, and I quote him here,

just /mute all

that is some of the most solid advice you can give a man, but I would warn you not to mute your GF in game as that can take her off your friends list accidentally (I did that once or twice without thinking to friends and corrected it immediately after... XD). Being totally serious here, a good portion of the community can just tilt off the face of the Earth from one or two salty comments but muting is the best way to stop it. I do it sometimes and I hate doing it, but at the end of the day, we all wanna win and sometimes shutting the flamers up with /mute is the best, and only way, to stop the tilt and win the game.

Best of luck to you, friend.

NicestGuyYouMet1 votes

Thank you very much for your comment and advice,but after today and countless hours of people going AFK and intentionally feeding and wishing death on everyone else I have realized that this game perhaps isnt for me. Still I wish you best of luck on SR :)

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