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Why Players are Toxic: My opinion

BooASF·4/5/2017, 4:22:43 AM·3 votes·755 views

Just imagine this scenario. You're in your promos to Gold 1, you have a good winstreak going for you and can't wait to get promoted! Loading into Champion Select, you frown slightly as you realize you got autofilled to Mid lane, when you main Top Lane. That's alright, maybe top lane will be nice enough to give you his lane in promos? BooASF: Hey man, i'm in my series to g1 atm can i get my main role please i can play mid but i can't guarentee i'll do good No response. Okay, well you just have to shrug it off and play your main in the mid instead of top like you usually do, it'll work out! Unfortunately, the enemy banned you out. Guess you just have to play one of your comfort picks then. Not being a fan of off-meta picks, you can't help but feel uneasy with your top lane's Fizz pick into a team of tanks. You contemplate dodging, but instead decide to win this game.

Even after you did well in lane, grabbing first blood, solokilling the enemy laner several times, avoiding dying to ganks, and warding, all of this effort is met with a Defeat screen as your top laner was uncooperative. Forcing a top lane main to play mid is already a disadvantage, but to make matters even worse he fed the enemy Malphite. It's okay, your team is still winning, try to stay positive and lead them to victory! Sadly, he chases after kills, doesn't group with the team, and allows the enemy to grab baron and ace your team winning the game.

ANY competitive person would have at least gotten slightly frustrated with an uncooperative, uncommunicative, unskilled team member playing their main role. Yet, there is nothing that you could've done and this crushes your morale to continue playing Ranked. I don't agree with severe verbal abuse, but calling him a bad player and getting angry at his bad decisions hardly seems irrational or unreasonable. What do you guys think about this?

17 Comments

ModThe Djinn4/5/2017, 4:31:20 AM3 votes

{quoted}...but calling him a bad player and getting angry at his bad decisions hardly seems irrational or unreasonable. What do you guys think about this?

What do you gain other than a smug sense of satisfaction that you consider yourself better? Maybe he's having a bad day. Maybe he's distracted by RL issues. Maybe he's struggling with depression. Or maybe, yes, he is a bad player who makes poor decisions.

By all means get angry if you feel that helps you. But there's no need to bring that into the game, insult him, and make your teammates frustrated with both his antics and your anger at him.

It may not be irrational, and it may not be unreasonable, but it's also not required, not sportsmanlike, and not productive. So simply avoid it.

MUSHROOM MIDGET4/5/2017, 4:42:05 AM2 votes

you have pointed out one of many reasons this game is the most toxic ever made.

i believe the biggest reason is that you cant leave. its a video game where you are often trapped for 40+ minutes in what can turn into a miserable experience. locking people in a unfun situation for that long is a good way to push people into toxicity.

nawillzonny4/5/2017, 5:06:17 AM1 votes

I was toxic because when an 0/11 duo bot lane constantly blames you and curses at you in chinese its impossible to keep a cool head

Chønklord4/5/2017, 5:38:32 AM1 votes

I don't agree with severe verbal abuse, but calling him a bad player and getting angry at his bad decisions hardly seems irrational or unreasonable. What do you guys think about this?

Hold, full stop.

#There is never ANY ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF VERBAL ABUSE anywhere, ever.

Not not in the privacy of your home, not in public, not in an elevator with an old lady, not in the porn you're jacking off to, and especially not in league.

Verbal abuse is called verbal abuse because it is abusive to another and intrinsically wrong on all levels of human understanding.

calling him a bad player and getting angry at his bad decisions hardly seems irrational or unreasonable.

Getting frustrated at others is not irrational or unreasonable; but acting out that frustration through harassment is -- and more to the point, it's also against Riot's rules on socially acceptable behavior. Trust me, the community (and most modern societies) agrees with this.

Colgate Gator4/5/2017, 4:08:58 PM1 votes

I can only imagine that the people who are toxic are these people who lash out at waiters in restaurants and such.

While League is a stressful game that can put people in the spot, this boils down to basic education.

Dragfin4/5/2017, 5:00:43 PM1 votes

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... At least you sound smart. I'll give you that.

YokoNomi4/5/2017, 5:23:45 PM1 votes

I am all for criticism's, but insults are the doorway to toxic behavior, thus I see absolutely no reason to consider this to be ok. It was a bad game, and you lost, that's it. How do you think the person that lost his lane felt? Do you feel justified in making someone who may be feeling bad, even worse?

FreeKittens4/6/2017, 12:29:16 AM1 votes

players turn toxic because the community reaps what it sows.