Does Riot encourage players with huge egos?

100HorsePower··4 votes·1,202 views

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Just got out of a game with a Syndra who thought she was god's gift to the role. She was diving into the enemy team, getting one kill and then calling herself successful.

I just cannot abide players with an arrogant attitude like that, plus she tells me that Karma should "only use her shield to prevent kill stealing." When I say "James Cameron just called... he wants to make a movie out of your ego". She gets really nasty and then calls me toxic.

Where do players like this get off, it seems that every game has one person in it that thinks that being an arrogant prick during games is acceptable behavior?

17 Comments

Lost R2 votes

They're pricks, but it's not against the rules. If you encounter one like that on your team, just don't help them. Give them a dose of reality that this game is not a one-man show.

Memeguel4201 votes

Well technically it could fall under the unsportsmanlike conduct.

Kei1431 votes

There's arrogant people everywhere. Especially on the internet.

We can't do anything against arrogance, but you can report them for being toxic when she does flip on you.

Nasus Withers1 votes

If you don't like a player's attitude then mute them and report post-game if you really think you ought to. Riot does not encourage that sort of behaviour, and I am confused why that is in the title when you make no reference to it in your post. I do want to point out, though, that from what you are telling us, that player did nothing wrong. The syndra could have come off as really annoying, but not breaking any rules as far as i can tell.

Zelorxon1 votes

Holy shit i had in my placements a syndra like that last season, a total fuckwad that did nothing but killsteal to look good and afk walking calling me a clown when she pushed out a target from my hitbox... Are we talking about the same person retard?

But yeah, attention whores should be gutted off this game, and life in general.

Great Muta1 votes

As someone with a huge ego, absolutely.

Yasuo is living proof of this.

Morality Coach1 votes

Having a big ego will help you gain ELO. You need confidence to make bold plays in this game. You see a little too much humility at the bottom of gold and I think it hurts peoples chances of climbing there. Gold 4 is a very humble division IMO.

The biggest carebears in this game are in Bronze 5 and will always stay there. Being a safe space wasteoid is a weak mentality to compete with other competitive people.

It's also not your job to comment on someone's ego. Maybe the kid got sodomized and acting egotistical is how he copes with it.

midnight oil243 votes

That being said, if you're too confident then you will just be a bad player. There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

Also, why do you feel like if you're nice then you won't get ahead? I know plenty of nice people who are high ranked.

Morality Coach1 votes

I'm nice in game, it's actually the only way to get ahead cause people will throw if they don't like you. I'm only not nice on this board cause it's filled with the scum of LOL.

What I'm talking about is enforcing the humility / safe space mentality in game is toxic. You never know why people are acting that way it could be a core part of their identity that you're insulting. You will gain ELO more efficiently molding your personality to the person you are dealing with.

Some kid that's into Tyler 1 and Draven is NOT going to want to hear your crybaby stuff.

midnight oil242 votes

I'm not going to mold my personality to go along with the yasuo who's feeding but being arrogant or the xin zhao who tells me I'm not important because I've only got three kills, yet when the both of us contribute equally but I use my ult to kill the escaping enemy tells me I'm kill stealing. I'm not going to help those people because it tells them that their behavior is alright. I'm not going to change myself for a match to appease some kid who's a tyler1 fan. Why would I? I'm going to work with the teammates who cooperate with the group, because those are the ones who are going to get ahead.

Morality Coach1 votes

I waited tables for 5 years in college. You wouldn't be very good at it, lol.

Molding your personality to the idiot in front of you is one of the most useful life skills there are. It has gotten me so many benefits I can't even begin to count them.

A lot of times those kids acting toxic want a big brother to play with, not a lesson on humility.

A lot of kids are in their hand eye coordination peak as a human which I believe is 15 years old. You motivate that toxic kid he might just go godmode and start 1v5ing the enemy team.

midnight oil242 votes

Well there's a difference between playing a game with a teammate who thinks they're god and waiting tables. If I was waiting tables, I would put up with it. It's my job. If I have a teammate who's not doing well or acting like they're better than all of us when they aren't, I'm going to just play the way I normally do. I'm not going to be a big sibling to a kid. I hate kids. Acting toxic isn't going to make me like them any more. And I've tried motivating. I got flamed and told that I, the adc who had been in that teamfight from the start, was a kill stealer.

Morality Coach1 votes

That's just it though, only bad waiters have to "put up with it" I never had any problems with anyone cause I'd shoot the shit with them like they liked it. You can make 80k a year if you're a god at it.

This attitude is why you're in Bronze TBH. You can't just have one strict morality for every person you encounter, that's what douches and Christians do.

midnight oil241 votes

Do you look at profiles? I'm not even level 30. I'm not bronze. And if a person isn't being a douche, I'm glad to change some stuff around to work with them. What I'm not going to do is change myself for toxic player. That just encourages them.

Also, I'm not a christian, so I guess I'm a douche

Morality Coach1 votes

How are you going to get along with a hyper masculine culture like Arabs or Armenians? They are 100% the opposite of your mentality in public. What do you do? Just not do business with them?

You gotta rethink your ways IMO, only way out of Bronze.

midnight oil242 votes

I'M NOT IN BRONZE! I'M NOT EVEN LEVEL 30 YET!

Now that I have said that, hopefully you won't use that again.

And irl I'm a pretty different person. I'll go along with a lot. It's just that I want to have a good time in this game.

Also, my rank isn't super important to me. So there's that.

Morality Coach1 votes

You won't have a good time stuck in Bronze arguing with trolls about following the Summoners Code ingame better. I know that much, lol.

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