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Tips and Tricks to Help Keep Your Cool

Silly Neeko·1/30/2020, 9:09:45 PM·8 votes·9,293 views

So, I suppose it is time for another helpful tips thread that people should try to utilize to keep their cool in a stressful game, or some are good in general. Feel free to comment other things that you find helpful.

  1. This is just a game. I feel the need to state this first because people seem to forget that. There is no reason for you to stress so badly over a game that you start flaming and raging at other people. Whether you are being trolled or badmouthed, it doesnt matter who started it... it is not ok (Rammus ) to be flaming and raging at other people.

  2. Say it where they can not hear you. For those that just need to vent a bit, you can utilize yelling at them through your screen rather than typing it. Most of the time we are not in a call with the person annoying us, but on the offchance that you are.... leave call before you start badmouthing. If someone is badmouthed, there is 2 pretty much assured things that will happen. Either they will flame back, and then there is a flame war... or they will feel bad about doing bad. Both of which will cause them to about 95% of the time (assumption, no research to back this other than my own experience) play worse than if you didnt flame them. Best to not flame so you can avoid the issue all together.

  3. Listen to some music. As strange as it might seem, listening to music will reduce your stress levels and will possibly even make you play better because of it. Listen to some parodies from Instalok or Natsumiii or Plentakill.... listen to the songs that Riot has had released... listen to nightcore.... SOMETHING! Anything that you enjoy listening to and gets your foot tapping and head bobbing.

  4. You are in control of your own actions. People can not make you say things, or act in a certain way. You choose to. Trolls are in every game, and there is some people who are not actually trolling and are just bad or rusty. Flaming either of them doesnt help anything as stated before.... but to all those people who claim they "had to tell them off" you didnt have to. Nobody made you do it. Flaming trolls is not doing anything but making them laugh..... and flaming others who are not trolling is just you being a jerk because you feel like being a jerk.

  5. Utilize mute and report function for toxic people. Toxicity includes trolling, flaming, raging, intentionally feeding.... pretty much everyone knows the drill on this. You can ask if they can stop trying to be a jerk, but if they dont then there isnt much you can do. Mute them and report them after game. If it is a pretty excessive toxic case, after you report them after game... go to the game in your match history and click "view on web". Copy the link to the game and go to the Riot Support site... log into your account... and create a ticket with the catagory of "report cheating, phishing, and negative behavior". Fill in the blanks, and in the description paste the link at the top, make a space underneath it, then say who it was and what they were doing. You are not gaurenteed anything for doing this, but it helps get a human touch when it is needed.

  6. Stop cyber stalking people you report. The amount of times that I have heard people saying that "this person is still doing games even for months after they were trolling me!".... is rediculous. They were more than likely punished (severity is determined by multiple factors), and you were not informed of it because you just were not. You do not NEED to be informed. You want to yes, but you do not need to be. Reports do work, otherwise there wouldnt be all these people claiming their punishments were wrong (which after they show why they were banned is again about 95% of the time a correct punishment from my experience).

  7. There will ALWAYS be a winner and loser in lane and each game. Just because someone lost lane does not mean they are trolling or feeding intentionally. This is a game of win and lose, if you cant handle a loss, dont play. This is for your sake and everyone elses, because those who can not handle losing will be toxic and be stressed out. That isnt good for anyone. It sucks to lose a game, but it is still just a part of the game. There is no need to stress out over it.

  8. Take a break from time to time. Take a couple minutes after each game to do SOMETHING. Stand up and stretch a bit to loosen up. Doesnt have to be long, but just a random something that gets the blood flowing a bit more again. Can even make a sort of game out of it.... after every game you win, do 5 situps. Every game you lose... do 5 pushups. Just going and petting your dog or cat for a little bit will also help.

  9. Play some bot games if you are on a losing streak. As weird as it sounds, doing some beginner bots is actually quite relaxing and will help you in a few things. You arnt stressed over winning and losing.... its pretty much an assured win anyways... you can try things out that are way too absurdly risky for trying out in pvp...you can focus on last hitting minions.... stuff like that. Can also work on reflexes that way as well, though even beginner bots are way annoying to try and dodge.

  10. Add people who you enjoyed playing with. This could be for many reasons, whether they played great or they had a good can-do attitude.... no matter the reason try to find people who you enjoy playing with and you will find games going much better and be much more enjoyable even if you lost, though hopefully it turns out to be a very enjoyable win.

  11. Learn from your mistakes and look for counterplays. This simple and easy thing to do while grey screened will potentially save you not only in the current game.... but in future games as well. This can be as simple as "I got greedy. I should have backed sooner instead of finished pushing the wave to tower." To "They have lots of healing and armor and I am the ADC, so Mortal Reminder could be my best option. I see my Riven has Black Cleaver, so if possible then we can play around her, and since the Mordekaiser keeps using his ultimate on me I should work on a QSS at some point as well." Or it could be "i knew that was a bad idea. Next time I will listen to my gut and not go in with them." There are many new things to learn in the game, so never stop learning and if you have any questions, ask other people or look up videos. Often times there is information all over about the topic you want to learn.

Hope these tips help some people out.

24 Comments

Elite4Runner1/30/2020, 9:37:31 PM3 votes

I find that it is helpful to try and take responsibility for mistakes. If I'm looking for what it is that I did wrong, ... with the intent of improving, not berating myself, ... I am far less likely to blame someone else. Sometimes that does include situations where I followed someone else's shot call / decision. That sort of falls in line with your #4. They didn't make me join them in a 2v5. I should have let them die. My death was my mistake because I didn't have enough information, or I did have enough information and did it anyways.

That is another major point, assess the information available. Do you know where the enemy is? Check the mini map every 30 seconds, or every minion wave. Who is showing? Who is missing? Where were they last? How long have they been missing? If mid was in lane last wave with full health and you didn't see them fighting your mid laner, but they're not there this wave (30 seconds later) ... they COULD be roaming top or bottom. Don't wait for pings, expect that they're on their way and play as if they are until you know otherwise.

Amazitez1/30/2020, 10:02:33 PM2 votes

Bold of you to assume that it's an assured win if I play against bots. I am so god damn awful at the game - I play like a monkey. [sg-soraka]

JustA kleo1/30/2020, 9:35:18 PM2 votes

all basic stuff. can help but its not an all healer. still wont hurt for ppl to read this

F1uttershy20751/31/2020, 4:05:31 AM1 votes

or use the master tip / trick..

Mute Every one, put some music on and just do your thang.

Hugsssssss1/31/2020, 5:17:21 AM1 votes

Let me shorten your list.

Step 1: Quit. Step 2: Play a new game.

Zertryx1/31/2020, 10:06:35 AM1 votes

A few things I suggest / Do when i feel im getting frustrated enough that i wanna type

1: /mute all for a few games, If i cant see the chat im less likely to even type. Most the time i have enough self control to just read and not type but SOMETIMES i need that little extra help of /mute all.

2: keep snacks around, it sounds crazy but sometimes just being hungry can make you a little more irritated than you normally are, hungry? grab a snickers.

3: i keep paper and a pen/pencil near me, occasionally if im having a REALLY bad day and things irk me a lot il just grab the paper and pen/pencil and just aggressively scribble on it to let out the frustration, if its really bad ill even jab the paper with the utensil. this can really relive a lot of stress without damaging anything expensive or yourself.

4: keep an empty water bottle near ya, throw it at your trash can if you get mad

5: fill the water bottle with water after a stressful game, that small 1 minute break sometimes is enough to clear your head

6: drink the water, Water is good for you, hydration is important, good health leads to better mentality, Drink WATER!

7: go to the bathroom, dont forget to wash your hands! (again 3-4 minute break to help you clear your head and prepare for your next game)

Waaaarrrrgggghhh1/31/2020, 11:17:48 AM1 votes

I will get disparaged for saying this but venting is an important part of keeping ones cool. We all do it in real life, it's not good for you to bottle up your anger forever. You need to be able to talk about it and have someone listen. There are ways of venting without getting punished, you just need to avoid the trigger words.

If you have a garbage bot lane that went 0-20 then say 'gg bot lane diff'. You're venting, the enemy team will empathise with you and you're not saying anything grossly offensive that will warrant a ban.

freeformline1/31/2020, 6:50:59 PM1 votes

The best advice I ever heard (courtesy the Youtuber Huzzy) was that, on average, 40% of your games will be losses you can't do anything about, 40% will be free wins or games you get carried, and only about 20% of games are games whose results are defined mostly by your performance, so you just have to accept the 40% of losses, allow yourself to be carried for the 40% of wins, and only worry about the 20% of games that are up to you. Once you're at peace with the idea that 40% of games are just going to be guaranteed losses, bad games become a lot less frustrating to play. I don't play League much anymore, but when I do, I find it helps a lot to keep that idea in mind.

Emperør Rhaast2/1/2020, 1:35:35 PM1 votes

This is one way I've found to really stop being toxic.

Start streaming, or record every game you play and upload to youtube, reddit, or both. Most people would be pretty embarrassed to let other people see them being super toxic and flaming everyone in chat. I've found it to help me a ton.

Akali Prime2/1/2020, 2:53:22 PM1 votes
  1. Have good competent teammates
RenSnow2/2/2020, 6:24:50 AM1 votes

This is why i hate the league community nothing but fucking cocksucking cucks

Nyarlathοtep1/30/2020, 11:32:33 PM1 votes

Just because someone lost lane does not mean they are trolling or feeding intentionally

Yeah no. When my aphelios walks to 700 or so range of a sona and ashe ALONE and dies, well he ints (bonus points if he is doing it multiple times).

When my mordekaiser dies to a lvl 1 yasuo and then i ask him to play safe, only to ignore me and give yasuo 5 more kills, yeah he ints (bonus points if you asked him for a trade and ignored you).

SImple as that. You cant reach plat while making such a big ass simple mistakes.

Sałem1/31/2020, 12:41:05 AM1 votes

BRO I need TIP how to make my mid jg and top RECONNECT in-game again that is all ... if you give me that tip you would bless me more than kayle leonas ascension ever was in the lore