3 Teammates Cursing/Flaming Since Ban Phase

Ta Kraken·12/7/2019, 12:59:07 AM·1 votes·1,615 views

Queued up for my first ranked game of the night. My adc banned Senna (logical ban right?) Only for the support to immediately reply with f*ck you, which got followed by the adc saying it back. Then the jungler got involved cursing them both out.

The other team also banned Senna so no harm no foul right? Wrong. From 10 seconds remaining in ban phase through the entirety of the game, these 3 were cursing each other out and flaming each other constantly.

My mid laner and I had to fight a 2v5 all game because these 3 gave up in ban phase but nobody would take the dodge, they just decided to cost us all -15 or -20 lp.

At least I got 3 of them in one game, so hopefully I should get 2 games now without trolls right....?

Picture for reference to the damage Azir and I dealt :D

https://imgur.com/2pd4xb8

1 Comments

Kuthillick12/7/2019, 5:24:53 AM1 votes

Unfortunately these types of situations happen. I've had three straight promo series that have been negatively impacted by flamers or people intentionally feeding kills then just AFKing.

The best advice I can give for this is to realize that the chance for negative behavior, flamers, inter's, etc. is higher for the enemy team than your own. Basically, in the long run, you are more likely to benefit than be hurt by it. In a perfect world we wouldn't have to worry about this but unfortunately it's what we deal with. Just try to think of all the times you benefited from this behavior on the enemy team, even if you didn't realize it.

If you're curious: The reason why you benefit more often than you are hurt by it is fairly simple. Assuming you are in control of your own actions and aren't a negative influence on the game, there are 9 players in the game you can't control and are simply random variables.

5 of those 9 players are on the enemy team (~55%)
4 of those 9 players are on your own team (~44%).

Based off of those, you should THEORETICALLY benefit quite a bit more often. When I realized this, it really improved my mental and helped me shrug off games like the one you experienced.