About Toxicity.......
Why?
Why does someone feel the need to disgrace another person or yell at another person in game for an outcome that person did not want? Why do people feel so entitled to themselves they forget that there is other people in the game? You just do not do this.
I am mainly a passive and kind person. I'm not toxic in any sense, I don't flame my teammates, don't ping them for their mistakes or anything of the sort. Normally I will encourage my team, give advise or say "well done" when my team made a good play or got a kill even to the enemy team on occasion. If we win I am humble and if we lose I am graceful.
My problem is though I am nice to people in game they still flame or get angry at me or the rest of the team although I am bringing a positive mood. I see too many toxic players every game, always complaining on ks, bad supports, other players not doing what they wanted them to do, not peeling, etc. Ive played league for a while now and I see this repeated day after day, month after month, year after year.
For example:
Recently I was a support Zyra with a Misfortune ADC, a typically bot lane, and we did fairly well early to mid game. In the landing phase we got first blood, a few kills and our outer turret and all was going well. By mid game MF starts to flame me for taking "her kills" and blames me for a bad KDA and trying to ruin her. Now this entire game I was being nice to her and the rest of the team encouraging all of us to do well and she comes out of nowhere flameing me. Yes, she did not have the best KDA in the world for an MF and I did have a few kills up on her, but we were winning with more objectives and towers on them. I say to her to calm down a little it is only a few kills and we were winning objective wise but she persists. Eventually her flaming leads to her diving for kills, getting more toxic and eventually costing us the game.
This is just one example of many. A player picking on their team or teammate since they did not get what they wanted out of the game. In this example was it right for her to flame over kills? No. Did they do it anyway? Yes.
Looking at toxicity, it is an accepted feature in league. You can be guaranteed that there will be at least one toxic person in your game either on your team or the enemies and you will have to deal with it. That is disgusting. To think that we as a community accept this kind of behavior is truly revolting. I know most of this community would not act this way in real life so why do it in a game. People need to stop this. Being toxic should not be a common occurrence and at the bare minimum should be very rare.
Being toxic to any teammate can feel degrading, like you did something wrong and your being punished for it. Being toxic is essentially bullying, but just a different form of it. It follows the definition of what bullying is being aggressive, mean and trying to degrade someone else.
I'm surprised no one has tried to change this what so ever. So I would like to start now. We are all good people sometimes we are drawn down the wrong path and we need guidance back to our original good ways.
I want to try an experiment if people are willing to do so. Toxic or not I would like to ask the community to stop flaming people in chat, pinging about a misplay and overall thinking you are better than the other players. Instead try to talk positively to your team, give advise kindly, encourage your team and accept outcomes that are not in your favor for what they are and plan for your next move with your team to not make the mistake again. Don't fall into the habit of blaming your team, take responsibility for your actions,(most of us here are adults or close to being and we should act our age and not blame others) and whenever you do feel mad or upset refrain from clicking the enter button to vent your anger, take a breather, forget about whatever you were angry about and focus on playing the game. Most importantly have fun. Win or lose always try to have fun, but not at the expense of others. Try to make that game a good one for both you, your team and the enemy.
This may seem like a big, impossible task, but I know that some of you will be willing and from there will influence others. Even if only a few take this challenge ill take it as a victory since we just made league of legends a little bit of a nicer place.
One person can create a spark, but a group has to tend to the fire
