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How to stand up against premade trolls?

Scarfee·4/11/2016, 2:20:33 AM·3 votes·1,064 views

So, imagine a situation /that we've all been in/, when there are 2/3/4 premade players on your team who are just complete trolls and make your game a waste of time. Like, a complete waste. They flame you, they play horribly and unsportsmanlike, and when you try to communicate with them in any way (I am not talking about back-flaming there), they just basically tell you to screw off. As a bonus they report you in a premade bunch in the end of the game so that you get chat restriction... for flame. When your whole team muted you after you said "please help bot, enemy jungle babysit".

And as this game lasted for, like, 50-60 minutes of enemy team mocking you and making fun of your team, and, as you cannot go afk because you risk to get banned, you are forced to play that until your mood, self-esteem and patience drop to before unseen levels.

I do not know how the automatic system works, but I believe that when it is premade like this, there is not much you can do. But if I could, I would like to know what I could do... Because this is one problem that just makes me want to quit playing, which I have done for few months now, returned, and want to stop playing for the same reason. Muting from start is not an option - you have to communicate with your team somehow!

13 Comments

Deep Terror Nami4/11/2016, 2:25:12 AM4 votes

Premade reports have no greater value than a single report does. Punishment is calculated per match, not per report. In other words, 1 report is just as good as 9 because all they do is flag a match to be checked. False reports are also thrown out and will reduce the weight of their future reports, so if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about.

Refusing to mute a toxic player is like not turning off a broken radio; sure, you might hear tidbits of a song once in awhile, but the 99% static is not worth it. Those people are not contributing positively in chat enough to excuse listening to the negativity; pings are more than enough.

Athina4/11/2016, 2:33:03 AM3 votes

Unfortunately, the best you can do is mute and report. They can't flame you when you can't see what they are saying. Not a whole lot you can do though when their gameplay is part of the flaming/trolling. Keep in mind that their reports mean nothing if you weren't doing anything wrong in the first place, and that four of them reporting you means no more than if a single person did. Just be sure that if you do respond to these people, do it in a way that won't make their reports valid.

And no, you don't necessarily have to communicate with your team, not in this situation anyway. Your experience will be better to ignore these groups rather than to try and reason with them. Sure, you may have a smaller chance of winning the game this way, but that's still better than to risk getting punished because they tricked you into it.

SmokedAlmonds4/11/2016, 2:23:51 AM2 votes

If someone wants to troll there isn't really anything you can do to stop them. Mute them, keep your head down, and play out the game as best you can. Give a detailed report of what they did at the end.

Leblancster4/11/2016, 2:33:47 AM2 votes

You do what Riot Lyte does/tells us: You roll over faster than The Dog Whisperer's chihuahua, act like a complete pansy, be their punching bag for the duration of the match, and report and watch it do nothing while you get a permaban because 4 of them reported you vs. your 1 report.

YossarianSensei4/11/2016, 2:22:03 AM1 votes

Just AFK if it's that bad lol, you won't get banned for 1 or 2 games

Narvuntien4/11/2016, 8:37:57 AM1 votes

Practice your CSing