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League of Legends Community (Toxic)

kajioni·9/11/2016, 3:58:23 AM·2 votes·952 views

The 2nd Paragraph is just details of why I decided to write this, feel free to skip but it adds background.

I have been playing Vayne a lot recently. I often think of her as my "Bad luck charm" why? Because it is extremely rare for me to have a good game with her. I don't mean that I rarely do good with her, just having a good game sometimes seems impossible. I literally uninstalled league of legends today after playing since only a month after Live Release. I realize most of you won't give a damn about what I am typing because recently I have come to despise the League of Legends community. 1 of the major reasons she is my bad luck charm is because it doesn't matter how good I do with her, somebody will find a reason to call me bad, say I should uninstall or call me autistic (yes, sadly it has happened.) I don't consider myself bad with Vayne and I know I am not the best with her, but I'd like to play a champion that I enjoy playing without being hated on for stupid things.

My most recent game, the one that drove me to uninstall League of Legends I was against a Draven and Janna, Janna wasn't much of a problem, she was good just not a problem, draven wasn't at first either. He was doing good damage but I still got my Soraka a kill and almost killed Janna. He comes back with items doing more damage as I have not left lane but I am still beating him. Then I finally recall after pushing them both out of lane, didn't get the kills because they both flashed. I get items I start heading back and noticed they head Mid, I didn't get there in time, Draven got a kill. OH NO. 1 kill shouldn't be THAT big of deal right? Well apparently it was. I went back to lane and it was just me and Draven by the time he came out of Fog of War there wasn't any real escape options because he cast his brand spankin new yumouus and Blood Rush I believe it is called (don't actually play Draven) gaining a ton of move speed. Up until this point I was able to beat him pretty much with ease so I popped Final Hour and he 3 shot me. 3 shot. I had no way of knowing this would happen, I could have just condemned him away from me before fighting but I never expected that at ALL. it was his first and only item, I had bf sword and 2 daggers, no items sure but still 3 shot? I am getting slightly off topic, anyways, from there it went completely downhill. He was 3 shotting me and Soraka under tower, it was a miracle if one of us escaped we asked for help repeatedly, no help came til it was way too late in the game. These events were mostly out of my control. My first death to him could have been avoided as well as one late game but everything else, short of staying on summoner platform or running away from whatever lane he was in, I could not control and our team constantly trashed me and my support for something we could not control.

Is Draven broken isn't really the topic but if somebody sees this and agrees then yay. My whole point to this is that the league community has not gotten any better, in fact it has gotten worse. I was very rarely if at all a victim of this terrible community until recently but have defended numerous people from it for years. Something needs to be done. It is not nice and it can affect each person differently, I will not go into detail but I am going through a hard time myself right now and League is physically bad for my health at this point because of it. No I don't mean suicide I mean stress.

Sorry for rambling on, I just feel something needs to be said on this topic. Thank you for reading, I hope this actually gets some attention.

7 Comments

Karunamon9/11/2016, 4:06:06 AM2 votes

So.. you got outplayed and outbuilt, and this is the community's fault that it tilted you hard enough to uninstall?

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

I don't understand this thread. If you like the game but hate the players, /mute all. If you hate the game, welp, there are others.

Awkward Couch9/11/2016, 7:22:14 AM2 votes

I've been playing a lot of overwatch recently, and I can tell you, with absolute confidence, this isn't a league issue. It's a gaming issue.

I tried to learn Dota 2, there is a Courier in that game. I didn't know at the time that there was an order in which to use it. I got flamed harder in that game then I ever have in lol.

I bought CSGO on a steam sale.i have a head set with a mic so I used the voice chat. Although it wasn't ranked play, I got told to kill myself 5 times, got called a waste of oxygen twice and the cherry on top was this actual insult that someone said about me. "You know what you should do? You should kill yourself in front of your mother, that way she can finally be proud of her %%%got of a son". And that's why I only have 45 minutes played on this game.

I usually stick to PC games but between my fiancé and I were also have a PS4 and an Xbox one. Battlefront was the worst when it first came out, at least for me.

And I swear to God, every other ranked game i play of overwatch has a kid screaming into their mic calling someone a hacker, or yelling at our own team.

The conclusion I want you to draw from this is toxicity exists in every game. League does have a reputation of being toxic, and it is a toxic game. But each game has this problem, just because you're writing league doesn't mean this issue is going to go away.

Glowdust9/11/2016, 1:54:54 PM2 votes

I agree, the League of Legends community has gone to hell so much faster than most. It is incredibly toxic from ranked down to the people still leveling accounts

GarenTopOrElse9/11/2016, 4:55:53 AM1 votes

Woah there Charles Dickens.. i didn't come on here to read a essay.

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