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Dealing with Toxic Players, Leavers, and Inters.

Warpather·1/26/2020, 3:52:29 PM·4 votes·6,511 views

So I came to this channel 100% ready to let out my frustration on how many games i've been in recently that have had an unnatural amount of toxicity in them. Once I arrived here I realized just how much of this already existed here. It seems like literally everyone on this forum has the EXACT SAME experience. So ya know what I want to take a different approach. How can we (the players) deal with these when we encounter them in game. It happens A TON anymore, but there has to be someway to at least better our chances.

Me personally I tend to get heated when people start flaming inting etc. I 100% admit that I tend to make the situation worse once it starts. If I could improve on this I might come out of these games in a better mental state and proceed to do better in the following games. I very much want to hear from you guys though and see what you guys do to preserve your mental state as you are playing ranked. Also what actions you guys take when things like this happen.

TL;DR: Inting flaming and leaving is rampant in league. What can we do as the players in these games to help improve the outcome of the games and also help preserve our mental well being while this is happening.

7 Comments

IVSakenz1/26/2020, 4:04:13 PM4 votes

Cato The elder said "We Cannot control the evil tongues of other, but a good life enables us to disregard them"

You can not control the actions of others.. the only thing you can control is your reaction..

This is a difficult lesson to learn. But necessary in this game and in life.

Tenarin1/26/2020, 4:06:06 PM2 votes

I can tell you something that might work sometimes. Get better. IDK if you're the problem, but from my experience (i'm a jg main) when laners do things which are too ridiculously bad for me I have trouble taking the game very seriously. For example yesterday I got a mid and adc which were zoned out afk farming. I fought Elise in the river with 0 response..for a very long time, while spamming mid to help. Then Elise caught onto this and invaded. I spammed and spammed and kited her all the way to bot lanes turret and died at their turret...they had no clue. None. Then she literally walked around, right up behind them and killed them. Then this happened mid too. I even 1v1'd the mid laner (I was ganking) and we fought all the way to our turret and she was still out in the middle of the map farming...this whole time. THEN after this happening constantly, enemy jg invading nonstop, then mid joining here (they all realized that my teammates were braindead afk farmers and all started hunting me) I tried to ff at 20 and my teammates agreed that it was "jg diff". Game over. Nothing worse than this. I'm a beast a jg but I have lost games due to skilled enemies...but this....this was not me. This was mid/bot. They don't respond to anything...not even ganks. So if you're one of those people, get more aware and get good. This tilts me so bad, i'm not going to say I int or leave, because I don't want to be banned, but I can no longer play. I literally cannot play. What do you do? You can't attack anyone because enemies respond and teammates don't. I can't farm my camps because the entire enemy team is following me around camp to camp because I have 0 laners. The game is over. I just sort of tip-toe around avoiding everyone, trying to farm what I can, waiting for the damn nexus to go down. I could DEFINITELY see someone inting or leaving at this point. I have HAD people int/leave when it was me and 1 other normal person with 3 of "these people" on our team. They noticed it and either left, or ran it down mid and I did not blame them one bit. No one wants to play a game like this...you can't even play...your skill doesn't matter because you might catch someone thinking they have your back and they just stand there afk farming or w/e and now you die 1v1 (because they fed the enemy jg who ran over a ward every time they ganked, yet still got a kill).

IF you're not one of these people, just say nothing. Trust me. Say literally nothing. Even if you say nice stuff it just tilts them more. If you say mean stuff obviously it gets worse. Don't say anything. Don't ping them either. People spamming pings are just as toxic as inters or people in chat...that shts so annoying. Just do your best and keep quiet. Stop looking at chat and look at your map more (in case your lack of awareness was the cause, js)

zPOOPz1/26/2020, 3:59:44 PM2 votes

literally everyone on this forum has the EXACT SAME experience

literally not everyone....

I do encounter some toxicity, leavers, (haven't seen a real hard inter in a while. people died, does not mean they intentionally feeding), but not as many in my games. Maybe 1 in 10-15 games at most.

Pombagira1/27/2020, 1:48:01 AM2 votes

This will sound absurdly stupid... and I mean STUPID... but I got this angry Yuumi emote and I just spam it because if I just flame through text I'll just get banned... so I just spam the emote. People can mute the emote pings if they get sick of it too, so it's not against the rules. Does it help? A little. It helps me not get banned. It helps keep my fingers away from the keyboard when I REALLY want to say something bad. It helps express my anger. And if they don't want to see it, they have the option to mute it.

I give you credit for wanting to change and have a more progressional approach to how to deal with playing with idiots and NOT wanting to flame them though. I have anger issues, really bad anger issues, so I know it takes a lot of strength to try to refrain yourself if someone says something dumb to you and does everything in their power to try to get you tilted and hopes of reporting you to get you banned. I wish you the best of luck! [sg-ahri-2] Sorry if my comment was not helpful whatsoever.

BONUS DMG 2NOOBS1/27/2020, 5:01:34 AM1 votes

When they balance the game, the toxicity will go down. In its current state, toxicity will remain high because the game itself is frustrating for both good players and bad players. It snowballs, certain champs are beyond broken, and the meta is bad. Only marginal players with no competitive drive, find this game fun right now.

SalineRichard2/10/2020, 4:36:27 PM1 votes

I believe Riot is way to lack on punishment. I had three different AFK's in three ARAM games after they didn't do well, requested an FF, and then just up and left. They need to start handing out Week long bans for the first offense, and get stricter till it's a on outright ban. Doing nothing has shown to embolden these type of people.

Toxicity is curable by just muting those players. I turned off All chat since there is really nothing to gain by being able to talk to the enemy team. As soon as someone starts flaming on my team I simply mute them, tell them their muted, and move on. I can't control players being toxic, but I can control the way they communicate with me.

I don't see inting very often, just people behind trying to fight when they shouldn't be. The fact that the game has too much damage at this moment where if you get ahead you can one shot the opponent under tower makes it hard for a mid range player to get back into the game verse someone that's ahead. It's not fun to have no agency in games, as games are suppose to be about fun. Feeling powerless when behind, or having someone that's gotten fed on the other side of the map come and one shot you when you've gone even or won your lane is equally as in raging.

Smiling Frog2/19/2020, 1:59:35 PM1 votes

You need to give them love, You’re 0/10 but it’s my friend I love you, let’s fight together wr can be the heroes that everyone need.