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How to stand up against premade trolls?

Scarfee··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 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.

Scarfee2 votes

Well, I guess you're right.

I just really get a ton of games like this, I mute a lot of players when they get toxic... sometimes they lay out a lot of tactics in chat, but then start flaming someone, or you, for a mistake. It's hard to cope with, and lowers the pleasure you get from the gameplay, that was solely what I was talking about.

About the weight of reports - I didn't know that, will keep in mind. My situation with CR took place a while ago, probably six or eight months from now, so I think that was when the automatic system was not that well balanced just yet.

The only thing that I am still sad about though is my time when troll situations happen - I cannot exactly leave when things are hopeless, or do exactly anything when I am trapped in there, so I just keep wasting my time even though I know it;s worthless and the premade trolls fail the surrender vote on purpose...

Denavai1 votes

Wasted 3 consecutive hours of my day like that. Isn't it swell. Worse then random generated boxes in a mmo. At least there you can complain about taking crap... I'm deeply upset that this game fosters a meek personality's in our youth.

70640285DEL12 votes

Whoa! That changes the way I look at things. So one report has the same power as nine in one game? I have seen so many people telling other people that they would get banned because their whole team was reporting them. Joke's on them, I guess! But surely it's a little more complicated then that, right? There's gotta be some kind of complicated algorithm behind that sort of stuff.

entitledplayer1 votes

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Whoa! That changes the way I look at things. So one report has the same power as nine in one game? I have seen so many people telling other people that they would get banned because their whole team was reporting them. Joke's on them, I guess! But surely it's a little more complicated then that, right? There's gotta be some kind of complicated algorithm behind that sort of stuff.

Because the people who said that don't know how the system works and never did -- they believe bully tactics are supposed to scare players into doing what they want.

Athina3 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.

DepressedAhri1 votes

And the difference between your previous chance of winning and new one is really slim. The premade didn't go into that game to win anyways, so there really isn't much of a difference. Just mute them and accept it's coming.

SmokedAlmonds2 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.

Scarfee2 votes

Yeah, that is what I usually do, I agree.

But I am still wasting my time and I cannot exactly leave or afk. I am talking about really hopeless games past minute 20, where you know you are losing, enemy knows you are losing, and your team knows your are losing, like, for sure. And people still fail surrender votes on purpose, go "for dance parties near baron", "Our Diana is farming your blue", etc., and you are just trapped in there unable to do anything.

I am trying to understand what to do in such situations...

DepressedAhri1 votes

At that point, sell all your items, then do some random off meta build you've always wanted to do but were always afraid to try then carry the game because no one expected it.

Leblancster2 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.

YossarianSensei1 votes

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

Narvuntien1 votes

Practice your CSing

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