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@riot Low honor depression

Corvid·6/2/2018, 7:51:08 AM·5 votes·4,072 views

I got the rank of dishonorable. I flame when I stay up too late playing ranked, and I deserved it.

But the issue here is, I go for long periods of time without being negative, and it feels like I go nowhere. I dont understand it. I can move down, but I can never climb out of this hopeless pit of despair that is the low honor levels. I get more and more toxic as I feel more and more hopeless. My games begin to be lost from my tilt, my toxicity, deepening the spiral. I'm not usually a toxic person, but every time I get into this rut I go deeper and deeper. I get sadder and sadder... then I finally see my honor drop. There's nothing more depressing then being down this low. I feel like I'm never going to climb out, like there's no end to my nightmare.

Riot, this is my request. PLEASE after your first or second report, please give a warning out to the person that encourages them to stop being toxic. I know it would save me, set me on the right track when im spiraling down into tilt. Also please, please help us dishonorable people move up before the end of the year. Be transparent on what we should do to move up in ranks beyond "Dont say anything in chat and pray that you are honored by randoms". Make it easier to climb down here, It feels soooo hopeless as is, which just makes me even more toxic and depressed to come back to this game that I so love.

I would take a break from the game, step away from the game, but it feels like leaving will just destroy my chances of getting my end of year rewards.... It makes so many emotions well up inside me, making me play worse, making me tilt even harder. I just cant do it.

I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now. Thanks for listening to my depressed rant. Please, please someone red respond to this topic. I'm not pleading for an appeal, I'm not saying I was in the right. I just need to know my feedback has been heard.

6 Comments

Despìca Bìll6/2/2018, 1:55:33 PM2 votes

Bud, I totally understand what this shit feels like. I just made it back to honor level 1, and it took most of the year.

That being said, if the game is making you feel that bad, get rid of it. It is not worth it. I got stuck in this cycle last year, where I'd take a short break, come back to ranked feeling optimistic, and then get somebody first-timing a new champ in an off-role, somebody feeding and refusing to ping, and somebody who decided to bitch me out because of their own dumb moves...I get pissed, I spout off in chat, I get punished, I take a break....rinse repeat. This game, whether intentionally or unintentionally, makes people very angry. I wanted to keep playing, but I decided to stop for a whole month just to see whether it was as bad as it felt. It absolutely was. By the time that month was over, I still missed League, but I felt so much better, I couldn't believe a fucking video game made me that mad and depressed. I ended up coming back, but I won't play ranked anymore. The stress and anger is not worth it for me.

The only purpose of a game is to entertain you. When it stops serving that purpose, but you keep playing, it's an addiction, and free-to-play games are designed to be addicting. It's the only way they can make money. Since they're not selling anything, you are the product, and they don't want their product to leave. But you totally can, and you totally should if it's upsetting you this much.

In the end, you're not depressed and angry over this game; you're depressed and angry because other people are mind-blowingly rude and ignorant, and this game is a perfect microcosm of everything that is wrong with the rest of our society. The game just forces you to take it, in ways you would never accept from the rest of society.

truckboattruck6/2/2018, 9:52:55 AM1 votes

ultimately you should report for griefing and leavers. you know....actual gameplay infractions.

crying over text is stupid and should be frowned apon.

Kei1436/2/2018, 12:48:05 PM1 votes

Better clarity is always a good thing.

Ifneth6/2/2018, 2:12:50 PM1 votes

My friend climbed out, and we see posts about it frequently. I think you need to play regularly, not flame even once, and not take breaks.

TheSnowyLeopard6/2/2018, 9:58:40 PM1 votes

stick with it man! it gets faster and faster, but the start is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, im climbing back up and its gettting progressively faster each checkpoint, you can do it! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DivineSnow6/3/2018, 8:08:13 AM1 votes

  • In matches, occasionally give someone a "gj" or a "nice" when they deserve it. It encourages them to carry and they see you as being positive and might honor you later for acknowledging them. Also then if someone who assisted you says "gj" make sure to return it with "gj to you too. ty for the kill!" If you are top or mid that got some nice ganks from your jung, always thank them even if they took the kill (if they take the kill though, they shouldn't take the minion farming taxes... that is just being polite). If you adc, ALWAYS try to be nice to your supp and thank them for the kills you get. Supps in early game have the ability to ks every single time... but they don't because they usually know better than to do that intentionally. If you are a supp, ALWAYS try to be nice to the adc and tell them good job for their followup on the snare (or if it is a tough lane where the enemy counters you... check out ur adc farm and if they are somewhat on par, then tell they doing good against the champs that counters them) Just be encouraging.

  • If some people are fighting each other in their own team, remind them they can mute each other. Sometimes one of them will and it could benefit the team by not having a distracting chat anymore. Don't mute unless one of them keeps going at it, then mute and remember to report later. Also, if the enemy is fanning the flames or something, tell everyone that is what they are doing and everyone needs to mute the enemy to focus. Better yet, if an enemy is trying to mock a team mate of yours, defend your teammate and make it fun. Your teammate will be grateful, won't give up, and chat fights likely won't ensue.

  • If everyone is fighting in the chat... (sometimes including myself ): )... I'd try to remember to honor the person who muted everyone and kept quiet all game.

  • Never try to threaten with reports unless they are saying some seriously mean shit and won't stop. Wait a bit to see if they stopped. If they stopped all together for mainly the rest of the game, changed their attitude, or at least stopped putting other down and just saying things like "sigh" ... I'd honor them. If not, then report after game and say what to report them for.

  • If someone afks for any reason other than rage quitting ... welcome them back. Shit happens. (Especially recently with that glitch were I cannot see anyone health bars and I can only see 2 champs when I use tab ... plzzz fkin fix that riot, thx). It isn't the end of the game. All that matters is that they returned, so don't give them shit for returning. When that weird glitch happened to me, I pressed 'b' and restarted. I was afk for maybe less than a minute sitting at based, yet someone gave me shit in the chat for going afk, even when I explained I was having an extremely weird glitch and needed to restart on my first back. If that ever happens to you, just try to explain yourself and move on.
    "Yeah well you were afk ofc I suck as a supp cuz I got no adc" The correct response is to just say you've already explained why you were afk (and maybe sorry if it was like a spilled drink or a somewhat weak reason). I see too many people who get shit for being afk for 2 second... then respond to that quote with something like... "yeah well YOU bla bla bla" ... don't start that fight. Don't let a fight start for such a poor reason. There will always be that one special person will continue to be annoying and reminding you that you were afk for 2 seconds (even in the damn after game chat...). Don't fall for it. Everyone else might think that person is being an idiot for holding that against you when you are carrying... they just arn't saying anything because they don't want a fight or a rage quitter.

  • Don't spam pings... especially the mia pings on your own teammates... That is just asking them to start typing to you in chat to fight you... or they just mute you AND your pings. Your pings mean nothing to everyone if you use them in such a way. "But I pinged mia!" they use that ping all the time...how am I supposed to tell what it is actually for this one instance?

  • Maybe this seems dumb, but use the emotes a lot. Especially when good things happen... because if you have an /allmute teammate, you still wanna tell em good job.

  • If someone is just having a bad game... they have a counter champ against them or something ... and someone for some reason is saying "oh hur dur this guy is init. report em" Defend the bad player and remind that you can't report for being bad. Likely, the bad player already feels like shit and/or is tilted... and now someone is making him want to afk or surr. Stop that person from making the tilt worse.

  • If everyone on your team gives an honor, then you get extra from it. So if someone else makes great plays / broke up a fight / was funny / didn't start a fight and was a better person... say you are going to honor them. When I adc and my supp or jung makes an amazing play, I ask everyone to honor them because they legit deserve it. "plz everyone honor this fkin nami for that dank bubble... that just won us that team fight" or "That annoying ass jinx is finally dead... zed you da real mvp" (this kind of goes back to being just encouraging but adding a factor of emphasizing that what they did is fkin honor material)

  • Basically, try to treat others how you want to be treated... by treating them nicely and saying words of encouragement. You will get the honors that way.

I completely understand the frustration and staying up so late. When you feel like you are tilting, but you still have an itch to play then I suggest going into draft unranked or aram. When I do that, I calm down a lot because the players there are definitely more chill. Whenever someone starts to get worked up, just remind them it is unranked or aram. I see so many people in unranked and even aram get toxic and asks someone else if they are stupid. In aram, no matter who they start to flame or get mad at I normally say "It is aram, you are supposed to look stupid" then I promptly die under enemy turret so I get go buy my next item xD It really helps.

I got out of a game recently (which is why I'm in these forums now lol) where this one player from the beginning was using the first letter of that one racial slur ... every time he wanted to call someone dumb or something. The guy just wouldn't stop even when I addressed it (he wasn't even talking to me... his chat just bothered me so much) and said it was a "typo"... yeah right... he still kept using it. So I said I would just report later. He said reports do nothing especially for people like him... I'm assuming he means he just keeps making new accounts? So I said "We will see then". I didn't mute, but I didn't talk for most of the game now... I wanted to see if he kept going or changed his attitude. Kept going. You probably aren't this guy. You are probably the guy that gets unnecessary and unhelpful shit from guys like that.

*edit - sry turned into a rant near the end there. last 2 bullets are the best advice i think