Constantly Trolled

Life Is A Toilet·Jul 3, 2019·2 votes·2,694 views

I've spent months doing my best to improve and make it out of gold. Now I realize there are even more trolls on plat than there were in gold. In the last 4 games, I've had at least 1 player who chooses a role or champion that they have 3 or less games on. This should be considered griefing or intentional feeding. I just got chat banned and I wasn't even being verbally abusive. I did, however, vent about being tired of people trolling every other game as some people want to enjoy their experience and win. Why is it that Riot cares more about banning people for bad words (when there's an easy solution - the mute button) rather than banning those who are actrually ruining the ranked experience for players?

12 Comments

KFCeytronJul 3, 20193 votes

So... you think that just because someone chose the champion they wanted to play rather than the champion you wanted them to play, they were trolling? And when you "vent about being tired of people trolling" you're not harassing your teammates while they're trying to play LoL, you're just stating facts, and no one can possibly be bothered by facts?

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ŠUÞËRßÅTĆÅTJul 3, 20192 votes

I don't think you are right. People are free to choose whatever champion they like as long as they are trying to win.

FreaktoryJul 3, 20193 votes

thats the problem, regardless of what champ is chosen, people arent TRYING to win anymore. Players are more concerned with thier kda "pissing contest" over who's kda is bigger, who is "carrying the trash team" But suggest they stop chasing a 18/2 kda and go after those outer towers that havent been touched (unless you count minions) and they will tell you to "stfu and stop being salty" because you suggest "Stop chasing kills and take towers" So yeah, people can play whatever champ they want. it doesnt matter because this community isnt even interested in destroying the nexus anymore, just fighting over who has "most kills, bruh"

GatekeeperTDSJul 3, 20192 votes

You should consider taking a break before being tilted results in ruining your achievement. Don't get demoted.

AladoronJul 3, 20192 votes

it just depends on what you define by "trying to win".

Intentionally handicapping yourself by picking a champion you are not familiar with (assuming you are really new with the champ, not only on this account) is clearly not "trying to win" in my eyes...

usul1202Jul 3, 20191 votes

Picks/bans is part of playing the game though, and is riot obligated to make you play the game well as part of trying to win?

Should unoptimal builds also get people banned?

AladoronJul 4, 20192 votes

Should unoptimal builds also get people banned?

What do you call "unoptimal"? I'm quite sure I play Vladimir "unoptimal" by rushing the 30% CDR asap, but that fits my playstyle. For that: no. If I play a champion which does not scale with AP at all, and I rush rabadon, then yes.

usul1202Jul 4, 20191 votes

If I build tear on velkoz support, I would get absolutely murdered for doing it, probably more so than if I second timed pyke. It's not trolling (the item builds into something good for him), it'd just a bad decision (not recognizing item weaknesses). It could be a playstyle choice, it could be a choice made my someone who doesn't understand situational weaknesses well enough. Should that be banned?

AladoronJul 4, 20191 votes

I have no idea how velkoz support plays out itemwise. I guess (just based on the item) not, but you should realize that this is a totally different example than rushing rabadon as Draven :)

usul1202Jul 4, 20191 votes

Yes, it's very different. It's workable, but definitively increases my chances of losing. Just like picking a champ I have little to no mastery on (pyke). I wouldn't count it as trolling, but it would be intentionally handicapping. I know it's handicapping because I have an absurd amount of experience on koz, but a medium experience player may consider it, and I think them building it shouldn't be bannable (like picking a champ with low mastery) but should be a learning experience for them when they get destroyed for it.

overrz9000Jul 3, 20192 votes

I 100% understand your pain. As someone who played two to about three years ago in high plat and finally comes back and gets placed in bronze 5 i 100% understand your pain now. Also, I main adc. I have dealt with so many people feeding, leaving, trolling, and just downright not listening to calls it makes the climb unbearable. That's why i've decided to not play anymore. Unless you play a hyper carry mid or top it's really hard to influence the game. For example, out of my last 100 games coming back, I would say about 30-40% of the games had a clear troll in them or intentional feeder. I don't mean by the end of the game someone had 10 deaths but literally by the 8-minute mark a top or mid had 5 deaths. Granted I've been climbing steadily its just the amount of games i have to play is ungodly. To reach even what I think is the average skill level of gold I'll easily have to play around 200 more games at my current ranking progress. Which mean I would basically have to live on this game and it makes it demoralizing. Also, it's tedious when you have the trolls and they just never get banned. That's just the sad state of games like this though and I'm not sure how you fix it. When it comes to someone doing unconventional builds I understand my last game had ad ekko and you can go ahead and bet he gave up 6 kills within 9 mins. lol But, there really isn't much you can do about it. BNot sure there is really anything riot can do about it either.

Life Is A ToiletJul 8, 20191 votes

I hear ya man. It's awful. I seriously don't mind losing games. I just want it to be a decent game. But this season is horrible. Every game is incredibly one-sided and 90% of the time the winner is determined in the first 10 minutes of game. It's turned into a big game of ARAM.