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What do you do when you're entire team rages at you/reports you?

Stiler·7/19/2017, 6:14:00 PM·1 votes·837 views

Just legit had one of my worst experiences playing league.

I was playing a blitz support and we started out fine, I helped our adc get a early 2-kill lead and then things went drastically downhill.

He started complaining about me being too passive when I would hide in bush and try to hook the adc, etc and then he got caught with a hook and died and immediately blamed me for not blocking it and started to rage at me.

He comes back to lane and we have a fight at tribush w/our jg , our adc hops over the wall and our jg comes in, I focus the enemy adc with an e and our adc gets the kill. He has literally one hit left on him and we start to back, the enemy jg comes in and kills him. I start retreating since it's a low-health mumu (our jg) vs a full health graves + thresh.

Then both the adc/mumu complain about me running away.

I recall to heal since I'm low health, trist gets back to lane before I do, gets hooked and dies, rages at me for not being in lane.

Most of the team (minus our top) starts blaming me , trist utterally loses his mind and complains that I'm not blocking hooks. I get back to lane, he gets thresh flayed/ulted, I run between him and the thresh to block a hook and then I die. He complains that I get caught.

At this point our mid even starts raging at me.

Shortly after this point in the game I'm trying to ward drag and set up some vision since we had none, I get caught, team says I'm intentionally feeding and basically everyone goes off on me.

End up doing terrible after this point, our top/mid didn't win lanes either and we basically ff asap while the entire team is asking the enemy team to report me and I feel terrible.

What do you do in these situations? I tried to ignore it, but when your own team is raging at you and blaming you for every-single thing it makes it hard to not try to defend yourself in chat. Felt like no matter what I did nothing was right, set up vision, die and I was wrong, rush in to E an enemy attacking a team mate and I die trying to save them, my fault.

10 Comments

mosaickle7/19/2017, 6:30:53 PM2 votes

You literally disregard what they say because you know what's going on. You seem to be very clear that your ADC is pretty incompetent without you and very inconsistent with his needs in terms of you supporting. The fact that you know what you did and whatnot should allow you to disregard what others say. Especially if the hate started pouring in from the others stemming from the ADC's complaints, this is very easily explained by mob mentality as well as wanting to be blameless being a part of human nature.

What I mean by that, is that you mentioned both mid and top weren't doing so well and thus we can assume that they also wanted someone to blame their own losses on so they don't need to feel 'bad' about themselves. Once one does so, the other conforms to mob mentality and easiness of doing so. In this I mean that if your mid for example starts blaming you as well, it's harder for top to stand up for you; it's much easier to hop on the bandwagon and all blame you.

My best tip to deal with things like this is to be aware of why they're doing what and say what. I've been playing this game for perhaps too long (heh) so I've grown used to toxicity and am now almost invulnerable to being tilted (I happen to the honored the most for being tilt-proof these days) and I know this to work as long as you have the right mindset. And that, is to understand the bigger picture. Chances are you'll never play with these people again, and by the time you happen to come across one another chances are you won't remember. And this is the exact same logic with them. They don't know you, they just know that 'someone is Blitzcrank'. None of it is personal since they don't know you, and being on the internet and being in a game they themselves don't really suffer anyhow for saying hurtful things. They don't feel any repercussions because they have no idea who you are. Knowing this, it becomes evident that its not personal. So in that way, the 'issue' is with them, not you.

A way to 'argue' or 'stand up' for yourself against people like this, is to make it clear to everyone else in the game that you're not driven by emotion but reason. If someone starts to chuck out insults for 'something', reply with something very rational, even if it includes you apologizing about something they're right about. This way you'll be "rationally" blameless. If someone continues to rage at you, by solidifying your character as someone rational puts them in a bad spot. If the entire team is against you, identify whether they're just pissed or they actually have a point. If they have a point then great, you have something to work towards. If they're just pissed then that's on them.

Sorry about the impromptu wall of text, I really didn't plan anything and I just thought of writing from my head. I'm sure there's probably a few typos or structural/grammar issues but meh, hopefully my point gets across

Umbra Z7/19/2017, 6:16:55 PM2 votes

/mute all. Just do it.

Aptest7/19/2017, 6:29:39 PM1 votes

/mute all. then you stfu, and carry.

Stiler7/19/2017, 6:45:36 PM1 votes

Thank you all for some good replies and advice.

TheDonar7/19/2017, 7:13:52 PM1 votes

  1. I love the ADC pissed off that you are not tanking hooks for him rather than being pissed off at himself for being so out of position that he can't easily sidestep behind a minion and evade a Thresh hook. The role is "support" not "personal valet meat shield"; you have to take SOME responsibility for your survival ADCs of the world. No one is perfect.

  2. /mute all. Done. Assuming all you said is accurate, there is nothing to say. If you try to reason with them, it sounds like they are so out of their minds that they aren't going to come back to Earth anyway.

The only way you get in trouble is if you "defend" yourself and say something messed up in chat. Otherwise, what is there to report? "hey I believe this guy didn't play as well as I would have!" uh, OK?

Telephone Booth7/20/2017, 1:19:12 AM1 votes

You say you tried to ignore it but it seems you didn't even mute them. Why not?

Starbòy7/20/2017, 7:59:26 PM1 votes

when they all flame me : /mute all and cya (avoid as much as possible drama chat if u dont want any punishments) if they report me : lol idc if i know i haven't flamed/trash talked anyone or inted that game ez

Kevin7117/20/2017, 10:08:47 PM1 votes

/mute all and ks

HalcyonDweller7/19/2017, 6:20:15 PM1 votes

Once people go full tilt they are just going to scapegoat you and blame all their mistakes on you. It sucks and they suck, but that's just how people are.

It is better to mute all and just report after the game. There is no need to continue reading what they have to say because they are sure to only be negative the rest of the game.