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Eilif·3/28/2016, 3:21:32 AM·3 votes·845 views

I have recently returned to the game after a year of absence, largely due to the community being… rather aggressive towards poor performance. Admittedly, I have been in my fair share of flame wars with other players and been reported and notified by the tribunal a few times before I left, but this time I was trying to just enjoy the game, no fights, no jokes that could be taken the wrong way, nothing.

Just now however, I finished a 30 minute 3v3 match that reminded me why I left in the first place. First in champion select, someone who I thought was going to fill a roll didn’t, and our comp ended up being unbalanced. After we two discussed the issue at the start of the game, and apologized for the confusion, everything was fine. Then I noticed said player getting destroyed in his solo lane. He/she refused to switch with myself or the other player. A few team fights latter and this player is still doing horribly, so I look at his items (granted I don’t really know what most of them do at this point) and noticed that he wasn’t buying things that made sense for an Ahri. I suggested buying some boots, the other player suggested some other items. A few more minutes pass and the Ahri dies another 5 times and wasn’t heeding our suggestions.

At this point the other player says “This Ahri” and I responded with “I know. I really don’t want to be an ass but…” Then the Ahri goes on the offensive and says they are reporting both of us for being toxic. I break my rule and ask exactly what we did that was so toxic. We have a back and forth where I called him out for his poor play (maybe not my place, but he was 1/12/0) and how he was ignoring our advice about items and over extending. The Ahri then goes on a whole thing of how I am the reason people kill themselves and that he demands an apology. I refuse, because I’m super mature, and then he straight up says he’s going to continue to feed the enemy team (who had a DC so it was 3 vs 2, a comeback was completely possible) until I did. I tell him that, now that he admitted it, I have something to report him with and that we should just drop it and play. He refuses, and continues to feed, the score is now 25 to 6 with the 2 player team winning. Despite the other player and my best efforts we couldn’t make a dent in the enemy team, so we decide to surrender- but we couldn’t. Apparently in Twisted Treeline the whole team needs to agree and of course the Ahri was refusing.

So the other player and I tell the other team that there’s no point in playing, the score is now: Them 30 something to our 6. We were going to wait in the base for them to win. Now I like a good competition as much as the next LoL player, but we didn’t really have another option for a quick way out. The Ahri then proceeds to say that his account is a smurf and he doesn’t care if he gets reported and drags the game out for another 10 minutes.

I’m not saying that I’m without fault, but damn, why are the people who play this game so…childish? The month I’ve been back has been full of games like these, usually to my team’s benefit, but being on the other end makes me remember why I left a year ago. I’m not really sure what I hope to accomplish with this post. I guess I just need some hope that there is still a reason to play this game, because after a month of mostly poor matches I am ready to drop it again.

6 Comments

Lucent Rengar3/28/2016, 8:49:32 AM2 votes

welcome to league, where trolls get away with murder. but say the wrong thing to them, and oh man, you're account is perma ban.

CubedJustice3/28/2016, 4:02:04 AM1 votes

You don't sound any better.

Straw Hat Loki3/28/2016, 4:09:49 AM1 votes

Yikes. Sounds like a horrible experience. I hope your other games have gone better since.

Also. what is up w/ the downvotes? I think you title should have been phrased better; you were in a 3 v 3 i.e. 6 players and you have complaints against 1. That isn't the whole "community". Perhaps that's why.

Kei1433/28/2016, 7:21:31 AM1 votes

{quoted}

I have recently returned to the game after a year of absence, largely due to the community being… rather aggressive towards poor performance.

At this point the other player says “This Ahri” and I responded with “I know. I really don’t want to be an ass but…”

Aren't you the same?

FrankerX3/28/2016, 5:31:37 PM1 votes

how do you not know the items on 3v3? "i didnt play a year" yea but they didnt really change at all on 3v3.

reason to play this game: ignore ppl move on and enjoy the game. if you cant dont play it. there is no point in playing a game you dont like.

Eilif3/29/2016, 12:09:33 AM1 votes

The title could be better, since the bulk of the post is about one particular instance, but the title was geared towards the whole slew of bad games caused by people grieffing that I’ve encounter this month.

Also, I’m not saying that I’m blameless, but I never once used my words to attack him as a person, just his argument; which was that the other player and myself where toxic. Is it no longer acceptable to give advice to people? Granted my “I don’t want to be an ass but…” comment crossed a line, but compared to other things I’ve seen that’s pretty tame.

Is acknowledging another player isn’t doing too well enough to warrant a report? Is the point of a team not to make up for each other’s weaknesses and try to help? I suppose I didn’t realize this was such a big issue and that it was necessary to walk on eggshells when dealing with people who are all supposed to be working towards the same goal. Maybe they should just take chat out of the game entirely and leave communicating to pings and voluntary services like skype.