Boards›Player Behavior

Griefing/Soft Inting

PonsterMenis·11/8/2018, 4:26:31 AM·2 votes·1,586 views

Likely to get down voted to hell, but this is a trash account anyway. (https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/get-started/summoners-code/)

For those of your who aren't aware, League of Legends is a competitive game. I've played for nearly 8 years and there has been a progressive decline in the competitive nature of this game. Sadly it's also corresponded to an apathetic community that no longer calls out griefing behavior. What's worse is it seems to be the social norm for the opposing team of the griefer to troll any of their frustrated team members (bc f#ck everyone else).

Inb4 people argue this topic is subjective. Clearly when we are discussing complex strategies our opinions of most effective tactics will likely diverge. Clearly people are going to have bad games. Clearly new players are going to do stupid stuff. This is not a flame post. I am not suggesting any of these things.

When a Plat 5 top laner has a vision score of 3 at 15 minutes, he's too drunk/high to play and is clearly f#cking griefing.

7 Comments

rujitra11/8/2018, 4:36:32 AM4 votes

How do you prove he was intentionally not warding?

Zombie Gerbil11/8/2018, 4:40:32 AM4 votes

First off, no downvotes will come from me.

Now for the call outs. The reason Riot is so against callouts is that it's distracting from the actual game. Yes, griefing is annoying and should not be tolerated. But it's best not to call out players because, for one, one report counts as 9. Secondly, calling players out will shift the attention for a more negative purpose rather than a positive one, because it'll likely just lead to more heated arguments and conflictions which is a negative influence for the team to go through. So trust me, if you see the griefing, your team will likely as well.

When I simply see it, I go through it, and just report it. As much as I hate seeing it, I know the best course of action is just simply report it.

Silent Gravity11/8/2018, 4:41:35 AM4 votes

Not "calling out" griefing behavior would be the community maturing, not becoming apathetic.

"Calling out" trolls only encourages them. They are looking for a reaction. Nothing else gets them off.

"Calling out" trolls does nothing. Totally nothing happens to someone's account because of what someone typed in chat about them. If you want action taken, what you do is report them.

ı Sona ı11/8/2018, 5:06:35 AM2 votes

If the player is too high/drunk to properly play he isn't griefing he's just making a poor decision. But you have to channel your inner top lane flashless Sona and muscle through the hard games to prove your worth!

BeatleZzz11/8/2018, 5:46:06 AM2 votes

{quoted}

Likely to get down voted to hell, but this is a trash account anyway. (https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/get-started/summoners-code/)

For those of your who aren't aware, League of Legends is a competitive game. I've played for nearly 8 years and there has been a progressive decline in the competitive nature of this game. Sadly it's also corresponded to an apathetic community that no longer calls out griefing behavior. What's worse is it seems to be the social norm for the opposing team of the griefer to troll any of their frustrated team members (bc f#ck everyone else).

Inb4 people argue this topic is subjective. Clearly when we are discussing complex strategies our opinions of most effective tactics will likely diverge. Clearly people are going to have bad games. Clearly new players are going to do stupid stuff. This is not a flame post. I am not suggesting any of these things.

When a Plat 5 top laner has a vision score of 3 at 15 minutes, he's too drunk/high to play and is clearly f#cking griefing.

Sounds like you need to take a break. You seem angry.

Kei14311/8/2018, 3:09:32 PM1 votes

Eh... if his wards didn't reveal anyone, the vision score won't increase.

Though it's probably true that he didn't buy a pink ward.