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This has been one of the worst seasons for player attitude.

Mister Dumps·1/13/2017, 8:36:12 PM·7 votes·904 views

I've just had back-to-back free losses during my placements for solo queue. I was playing flex queue fairly heavily because I have a 5 man group I enjoy playing with. I cannot believe the difference in playing attitude though when I try to play flex queue by myself. I am constantly faced with teammates who die a couple of times, tilt, and simply refuse to play with anyone after that. They refuse to come to team fights and only want to farm while no-voting for the next 35 minutes so gobs of extra time is wasted. I just got out of a game in solo queue where the support decided to playing roaming Fiddle. He botched everyone's lane and died 11 or 12 times and is the reason we lost the game. And we're not talking about the depths here, these are playing who placed gold or maybe plat during the previous season.

I feel like the player base to gets tilted so very easily and then completely commits themselves to tilting the rest of the team. So odd because most of these games have been close and winnable games. They just refuse to listen or cooperate with the rest of the team. What's up with the community? I've had games with a poison-pill player before, everyone has, but this season it's been so consistent to have a player very, very determined to to ruin the experience for the rest of their team in just about every game. Why? I've been playing for close to seven years now and I usually find a way to have fun, but this is the first season where I started playing and immediately feel worse after every game. It's even affected my life where I don't feel like going to the gym as much or I'll join my friends and they'll ask me what's wrong. It's a scary epiphany to realize my negative League experiences are affecting the rest of my life.

Anyway, the player base is becoming just so truly awful. We all watch competitive streams and spout some of their "just say gg and move on" mantras, when we're in a good mood, but after a difficult first five minutes, I find a lot of those same people having this melt down.

I don't want to quit. I want to keep playing and I want the game to be fun again. To facilitate that I challenge people to try and calm down a bit, freely mute guys who rub you the wrong way instead of continuing to monitor their bad mouthing of you, and to surrender games that are clear losses (20-3 in the first ten minutes). I promise spreading a bad attitude will not make you feel better in the long run nor will subjecting yourself to it longer by spiting your team (and more importantly yourself) with a "no" vote.

8 Comments

Kartagia1/13/2017, 9:53:42 PM3 votes

And reason why this is more toxic: Riot gave judgement and announcement saying that flaming is okay as long you do not get reported. ANd false reports are reports given by only one player. The content of report, and event causing report, is irrelevant. This is saying to trolls "you can break rules, as you ensure you are majority"

Magical Player1/13/2017, 8:40:45 PM1 votes

1- that video is the over exaggeration of a league player/game 2- toxicity is a state of mind, it exists because you believe it to, imo

Psybicilin1/13/2017, 9:31:04 PM1 votes

Just grind more games, it says you have only played 8 solo queue games on the last 10 days. If you have the time, that is.

Vengeful Newb1/13/2017, 10:42:34 PM1 votes

Honestly, most cases where I tilt is when I play support tank(totally dependant on team for damage) and my team doesn't listen or worse they don't know how to build items (I.e not building void staff or spirit visage when enemy team has a powerful tank, or listening to a guide they read that says you need to build void staff last)

For example my last game : I was playing support Lux : I built eye of the watchers(support item) before anything and yet aside from ADC(who was also a decent player) I was packing the most punch because aside from our ADC I was the only one who built any penetration vs enemy team's Nasus and Yasou. We won but its kind of funny when support is 7/1/7 (without kill stealing in case you are curious) mostly because mid jungle and top don't know how to adapt their builds.