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Controlling Tilt During Game (Reforming Myself) and Needing Tips

SnowPirate·10/24/2017, 5:09:10 AM·5 votes·915 views

I have finally come to the realisation that I am VERY tilt prone and toxic. I keep blaming others for getting upset and playing badly when the only person to blame is myself. This is basically how it is:

I play a game, have a bad time, either to playing badly and flaming, or doing very well but still losing due to outside factors, and then I get down on myself, it gets worse game by game and I just spiral downwards, making me angrier and more likely to flame others, getting reported in the process. I need help stopping this.

I adore this game, it's so much fun when I handle losses well, and I love playing with my friends. I need some tips on stuff like:

  1. Controlling my tilt and staying sane
  2. Keeping myself from being toxic
  3. Making sure I am a productive part of the community, and not one of the crappier aspects of it

Any and all tips are welcome. I want to reform myself right now so I don't run into problems later down the line. Treatment without prevention is unsustainable, and I want to make sure this does not continue. [sg-ahri-1]

UPDATE:

Lately I've been tilting less. I've tried some of the strategies that have been suggested and, for the most part, its working well! Obviously I've had games where I tilt, that won't change, but in general i feel like I've been a much more constructive part of the community. If I'm feeding, instead of tilting and blaming teammates, i try to powerfarm for late game, or play as safe as I can.

I've been rewatching some games where i played badly and learning from my mistakes instead of getting upset. Lately I've been listening to music (like oldies Jazz) or watching Twitch streams while I play to keep my stress to a minimum. I feel like I've been doing well!

As of right now, I'm Silver 3, 23 LP, and I'm hoping to begin climbing when Season 8 comes around! There's still a hell of a lot that I can work on, but in due time I'm sure I'll figure out strategies.

14 Comments

MadMad Sickness10/24/2017, 5:14:21 AM2 votes

kudos to you for realizing this and working towards reforming your behaviour

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Magical Player10/24/2017, 5:21:47 AM2 votes

Hide the chat box unbind the enter key Watch videos about removing league chat Self control(if you can do steps 1-3 you can do step 4) Accept this is a game and one day you will not value it as much as you do now Accept people are never as good as you think they should be Accept that people make mistakes Accept that in this game you're never fully in control

Roll with your tilt but change it to not be flaming Like everytime you want to flame someone just: A) say it out loud or in your head B) type out a safe word like apples, and just kinda change your flaming to be funny ex I apples you you apples, Apples you piece of apples or Just always keep talking in ranked and make it a story or something engaging for the readers, like talk about the Lighting mcqueen coming to town and you're riding shotgun or something random or something just never ever ever ever flame team mates :D

MadMad Sickness10/24/2017, 5:27:07 AM2 votes

_Another procedure to avoiding toxicity _ For when the game is beginning to hinge towards toxicity...

  1. acknowledge that the chat just became toxic and know how to identify a player that may trigger you.

  2. choose to not instigate or respond to that behavior -if you chose to respond, even mild toxicity may be considered low-toxicity and can add to your toxicity rating.
    -If conversation is beginning to lean towards toxicity, responses can make toxic players sour really, really quickly.

  3. Mute the behavior if you are at risk at responding in a toxic manner. -if you feel yourself being triggered, or about to be triggered immediately step away from the conversation by muting that individual. -do not let yourself be baited. -do not tell the individual that they are muted -do not tell the individual that you are going to report them -just mute them without saying or instigating anything.

  4. Play the game out as best as you can and do your best to not even acknowledge the toxic individual, or individuals. -note: in the case of toxic premades just /muteall. even if they all decide to report you, If you are responding appropriately the system will consider your report more valid then theirs and your 1 report>>>their 4 reports because yours is actually valid.

  5. When you get to the report screen, report all the players involved and move on.

Remember, you can always que up again. Toxicity isn't worth your account.

Champion Skin10/24/2017, 5:30:15 AM2 votes

Keeping myself from being toxic

Well that one has at least one easy solution just don't use chat you can also use "/mute all" since there is almost never anything useful said in chat and usually pings are a quicker and better way of communicating (and obviously don't spam pings either)

Controlling my tilt and staying sane

Well there are two ways I can see you trying to try and make that better

By caring less since if it doesn't matter why would it tilt you? And generally winning or losing in league really only matters as much as you want it to matter

Or you can try to focus more on yourself and the ways you can win be it by split pushing and using your allies as distractions or by getting picks on the enemy team or by carrying teamfights

TWITCHTV ERONATE10/24/2017, 6:56:21 AM2 votes

The easiest way not to tilt is to listen to rain sounds/fireplace and a lake while playing , really helps you to stay calm. learned this from tobias

Warios10/24/2017, 11:20:33 PM1 votes

You play with 9 other people, total strangers, and your actions have no real life implications, other than an account ban.

In your mind think of it like this. Your team consists of your Mother, Grandmother, Fiancee, and future Mother-in-law. The other team has 3 nuns from your local church, and 2 nice old ladies that used to babysit sit you when you were a toddler and change your diapers. Now when you chat to the players in the game, thinking that these 9 people are the ones reading your chat, If they do stupid things, Say to yourself, man they are not good, but they are trying.

When words come out of a persons mouth, it is milliseconds till they are heard, but typed chat, you first need to type it, then hit enter, that is enough time to decide if you really want to type what you just did, take another second and hit backspace if you think what you decided to type in haste is appropriate for the above imaginary team comp. Won't be long till you lose the urge to be toxic.