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I am not toxic, but I do get mad

Mira Arya Enthe·12/19/2016, 8:50:56 PM·18 votes·1,333 views

I have never in my life been banned from a videogame. I have only had one behavior warning in my 16 years of online gaming(my first online game was Starcraft, which I started playing in 2000). I am not a toxic player, I do not try to bring other people down.

However, there seems to be a confusion. Because I sometimes get called Toxic by my fellow players. Sometimes, I get mad. And I will put in chat "Can we surrender? I'd rather get in another game." or "Jeez Hecarim is bullshit" or "I have been ganked 4 times, can I have some help? ;~;" or "Lee is always in my jungle... I am worthless..." something along those lines. This is rarely, if ever, directed at another player.

These are not attempts to be negative. These are not toxic behavior because I want to bring somebody down. This is simply a human being getting upset at an unfavorable outcome or bleak situation. Wishing I could perform better, asking for help or perhaps just trying to let people know I'd rather just stop this match and get into another.

Now often I am the force begging everyone to stay positive and do well. But sometimes. I do get upset. Understand, if somebody posts in chat "This is unwinnable" they aren't hurting you. Try lifting them up a little perhaps. I do, because we all have bad days.

(For those curious, the behavior warning I got was from a time I told a Yasuo "This is why I always ban Yasuo on my team..." which I do not. I was mad and should not have said that. There, I exposed myself xP)

15 Comments

VexingRaven12/19/2016, 10:31:23 PM3 votes

The consensus with Riot and the community have decided that complaining is against the rules because of the mention of not having a negative attitude. I disagree, but after being perma'd for it on a previous account I've just accepted it and learned to shut up and let the game be awful in silence.

GoleBilon12/19/2016, 10:01:25 PM3 votes

This community is full of insecure guys that care more about calling you toxic than actuall gameplay once in a while you will find a great summoner that will try to bring you up and motivate you to keep playing and to win together but mostly if you complain or ask them to do smth they will feel offended and will report you after the game , i would highly advice to mute all at the beginning of the game and you will see rise in your winrate and you will be happier :)

LastHasagi12/19/2016, 8:56:24 PM2 votes

U WOT M8?Yasuo

CrazyBear198712/20/2016, 3:14:31 AM2 votes

my advice to you is to keep your in game chat relevant to the game and remove any negative or unsportsmanlike comments.

No one wants to hear whiners or complainers, just play the game, apologize when failing and ask question to communicate with your teamates.

"sigh, this game is over, gg, surrender @ 20, thx" <-----avoid things like this.

Forced Feed12/21/2016, 3:22:47 AM1 votes

I think it's mainly because usually when someone starts complaining, they then proceed to start blaming their team, etc. or are trying to imply it's their teams fault they're doing badly. Complaining in itself isn't bad, saying I have a shit matchup etc is not toxic.

I completely understand this is not what you are doing, it's just that people expect everyone to be toxic and blame everything on their team, because so many people are, it's a sad thing really, so they see it as flaming/blaming even when that's not your intention.

Everyone who plays this is on edge all the time, you constantly feel like someone will just start flaming you for absolutely no reason. Especially when I see someone doing badly, and they are also complaining, I almost assume if I help them they will start blaming me for their deaths. I know it's a bit paranoid, but that's just my experience. Of course I'm usually support so I help them anyways... but it's always a thought in my head when someone starts doing badly "when and who is this guy gonna start blaming for his deaths"

Telephone Booth12/20/2016, 3:43:06 AM1 votes

Cool story.

Colton14712/20/2016, 8:17:29 AM1 votes

I rarely am ever toxic, angry, or upset. I remain positive.

The only times I will become angered is when someone is harassed (I protect) or if someone is incredibly toxic towards everyone.

Of course, once I defend someone, I have been successful so far in getting everyone - even on the enemy team - to report the person harassing/being toxic.

Great Muta12/20/2016, 7:45:56 PM1 votes

I'm the same way.

I have my moments here and there but the majority of times I get flamed and rallied against because we are getting destroyed and I just want to move on to the next game. Once I even suggest we end it or get mad when we don't, all hell starts to break lose and it's becomes a 1v4v5.

And by that point, when the game is done in my eyes, my team won't surrender and I'm not having any fun: flaming, throwing but hiding it or just straight up leaving are the best options for me.

I'm just moving on to other games and saving my money for other things instead.

Aatrox Mid 1v512/20/2016, 2:50:39 AM1 votes

Ok I agree with you that you arent toxic but what are you trying to achieve with this post?