Positivity gets you in trouble

Act 4·6/1/2017, 2:15:48 AM·4 votes·634 views

Ive been on a huge losing streak dropping multiple ranks. I keep telling my team to keep their heads up, but all that gets is the team blaming me for the loss and flaming me. then i get mass reported. This has made me hate leagues community as i dropped all the way to B5 and it just gets more and more toxic. I am way too demotivated to even play ranked anymore as all that gets me is getting flamed when i go 20/3/8 and they tell me i didnt control my laner. Leagues ranked is too stressful and the community is toxic. Ive just given up on league until urf comes out again now.

Basically trying to be positive makes the game stressful and gets you mass reported.

22 Comments

F0zzyBear6/1/2017, 2:17:58 AM2 votes

Sometimes the community seems like a big butt. Add some more positive players to surround yourself with, makes it much more fun! :D

SEKAI6/1/2017, 2:18:20 AM2 votes

Being mass-reported is the same as having 1 report. It's just a flag, multiple flags will not increase your chances of being punished.

If the report is faulty, nothing would happen as well.

You "fell" over nothing, really.

YerroFever6/1/2017, 4:16:42 AM2 votes

Telling people to "keep their heads up" without showing us how you exactly say it is like asking me to describe what is in front of me in the pitch dark. How you say things may not come off how you mean them to come off.

How exactly do you tell people to "keep their heads up"?

Telephone Booth6/1/2017, 5:44:50 AM2 votes

Some people take positivity as sarcasm. Last night my jungler tried to give me the other teams blue buff on an invade, but his red buff ended up getting the kill. Earlier I didn't leash him starting at red (I was heimer, come on, just start blue so you get the double leash), so he hot mad and said no ganks for me. Okay whatever I let shit like that slide and just say sorry. Anyways, I didn't expect him to give me the blue since he was salty about the no leash. I said "wow thanks anyways for trying to give me blue" ... he goes "bruh... I did try to give it to you but my red buff stole it". You see, he thought I was being sarcastic but I clarified I wasn't and actually did appreciate it. Everything was cordial from there.

ˉˉˉˉˉˉ6/1/2017, 12:37:48 PM1 votes

Haha URF coming out again nice jo-- oh. You meant never.

And yes, gotta agree on the toxic community. No other game is this horrible. Sure there is toxicity in games like CS:GO etc, but League is on a whole other level.

sardiniii6/1/2017, 5:18:57 AM1 votes

:( Feels bad man Empathize for you

This Is Your Dad6/1/2017, 2:37:20 AM1 votes

I suggest aram. I know it may not appeal to you, but being given a random champ and trying interesting builds (to win still of course) is fun, and it's always a 5v5 deathmatch.

Nahui6/1/2017, 2:37:31 AM1 votes

Can't be reported for being positive.

In terms of being positive, use social skills and cues to understand the best type of positivity in each scenario. If your Riven is 0-8 by 10 mins and she's being flamed, and you come out going "Don't worry, she only made a mistake! We can win this!" Yeah, you'll get flamed because you're being an idealist optimist, if you see what I am saying. Also some people you can't change. If they're hating the game, and you tell them it's winnable and they judt start flat out disagreeing, your opinion won't change that. They have their emotions to deal with as well as 5 other players on the enemy team. Best you can do is communicate to other players and try and turn the game yourself so that individual's emotions change too.

And if you're the reason for the loss, your positivity does nothing. If you're that Riven and you go "It was only a mistake, I'll play better!" well that's not going to end well. Best you can do, again, is play better.