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New player having trouble with trolls

wesley38·2/8/2019, 3:46:05 PM·2 votes·4,242 views

Hey everyone, I started playing a few weeks ago because my husband loves the game and since I like video games as well (first person shooters) I thought it might be a fun thing for us to do together. He was really excited and we have been having a great time and he has been showing me the ropes since he’s played quite a lot and is something like level 130.

I’ll come home and play a few games with him each night so I’m about a level 23 now. I’ve been trying a few characters and settled on learning Jinx as I think she’s a lot of fun. I’m not perfect but I think I picked up the game up pretty well. I learn from my mistakes and have drastically reduced my deaths and manage to always hold my lane and take towers. I’m now working on my farming and team fights. I’m pretty squishy so I’m trying to balance doing damage without dying since people seem to go for me first.

The problem I’m having is trolls. Most of the time things are okay but every once and a while someone is just absolutely awful. I’m trying to not let it rub me the wrong way but it’s hard.

For instance, last night I was paired on a team where everyone was level 130+ and I was 23. I held my lane, and even got a tower. My support wasn’t great, he kept running off to jungle and to mid for some reason so I was basically on my own. I think my final was something like 5/2/4. So not great but not terrible.

My non-existent support then proceeds to say that I didn’t get enough damage and am ass and everyone then rags on me...even though they didn’t hold their towers and we’re running all over chasing champions. I’m brand new and I even know not to do that.

It really got to me. The last thing I want is to come home from a hard day of work to play a game and get flamed. If it’s the enemy team who cares but my own team? I’m about a minute away from quitting or just sticking to bot games. I don’t know what to do anymore.

I’m super positive and always stick up for others when I see them getting trolled and I don’t get upset when we lose because it’s an opportunity to learn but no one ever sticks up for me, they just stay silent in the chat.

15 Comments

Rule34 Kindred2/9/2019, 3:36:48 AM2 votes

Hello wesley.

The problem with open communities is just that, they are open, so you will get the occasional bad apple.

I've read through all other replies to this thread and seen several points that should had been addressed ignored, so while I've been away from the forums since my failed romance with Ahri, I'll try to write you something to help you find your north on this matter.

You've to understand that, you'll be teamed with people with anger issues, hormonal issues, poor manners.. teenagers, for short.

There are a few things that you can do to handle this fact,

  • Mute people when they start insulting or belittling you or others. Never be afraid of muting your own teammates when they begin direspecting others or losing their temper, both your chances of winning and your experience in the game will improve when you do so.

  • Add people that you enjoyed playing with to your friend's list. That Sona that stuck with you through thick and thin, gave you advice and honored you after the game? The sooner she makes it to your friend's list, the better.

  • Queue with a friend. Invite that aforementioned Sona, and any other players you meet and that you would like to play with again. You don't need to make a full team every game, even having a single friend in your team can make the occasional nine years old that much more bearable.

The best you can do to handle unhelpful, childish, and or uncouth teammates is simply to use the mute function, try to work around them, and leave a report on their name after the game.

Never listen to them, or give in to their provocations.

You can't fix that they decided to take it out on you when the cat mistook their bed for the litter box, but that doesn't mean that you've to bear with it.

Have fun, and as a new ADC, never forget.

_It's **always **the supports fault. _

W. M. Dante

ModPrandine2/8/2019, 4:55:41 PM2 votes

Sorry you had a rough experience. Unfortunately trolls will happen from time to time, and while they are definitely frustrating to deal with it's best to not let them get you you too much. If I may make a suggestion you could try taking a break from SR and try playing some of the others modes such as TT and the FGMs. Not everyone in LoL is a troll or jerk, you just gotta know where to look for them.

Noor Sakata2/8/2019, 4:48:16 PM2 votes

Well having trolls is something common in all teamwork video games sadly and nothing can be done about it

Kei1432/8/2019, 8:09:21 PM1 votes

Let's have you understand that being high level doesn't automatically make you good at the game.

Someone can be lvl1 and actually be a pro, as accounts are free to make.

We also need to correct your terminology as being bad doesn't necessarily mean they are trolling. At the same time, just because they use a different strategy (in this case, roam and pressure mid) doesn't necessarily mean they are a troll.

Whether it was an effective strategy to roam and pressure mid is another discussion and changes from game to game, but you need to recognize that there are other methods to play the game and you might need to change your strategy on the fly and adapt to the situation.

The game is not only played with one strategy, the more experience you accumulate, the better you'll become in identifying how to adapt. Sometimes it's ok to concede tower, sometimes it's ok for you to die at one side of the map and your team gets stuff on the other side of the map.

Bottom line, never stop asking yourself on how to improve your macro strategy and don't blame others for not following the strategy you are used to.

OlympusSworn2/15/2019, 6:31:15 PM1 votes

Huge sympathy dude. It sucks being flamed, especially when you arent doing badly (I am jg main, so this happens almost every game). Best advice I can give you is do your best, and don't worry too much. People flame when they are doing badly, and thats not your fault. Communication can be helpful, especially as an adc, and always remember. Just cause your team is stupid, that doesnt mean you need to be stupid with them. Also, if you are ever looking for a tilt proof, mediocre player who loves the game, send me a friend request :)

ChrilleN2/8/2019, 4:23:59 PM1 votes

Okay, so what I think happened is that you were doing very well in your early leveled games and the system Riot has in place thought that you were a smurf account. Which means you're doing significantly better than most other players but sadly, you have to deal with other smurfs (who most of the time get banned for toxicity it seemed to me) or moments like these. You have a great outlook on the game and you definitely didn't do badly, they're just dinks who want to blame someone for their problems, but the only thing you can really do is Mute and Report them. From my experience once you report a player you won't match with them again, so I hope that helps a bit.

Most of the community aren't dinks, I promise. It's just those that are, are the vocal minority. Good luck in your leveling and I wish you the best if you play ranked at level 30! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

BanDezeNutsRito3/31/2019, 1:54:25 AM1 votes

Don't mute them. And stop letting people slap you in the face. This company essentially advocates for allowing bullies to bully people and get away with it then victim blame when any person who is under verbal abuse speaks up for themselves. Just remember that before you make a single purchase on this game.

BradNo2/8/2019, 5:04:46 PM1 votes

Why don't you just play duo bot lane with your significant other?

hrooza dota 2/8/2019, 7:40:21 PM1 votes

flamers are that flamers

you will always meet them be new/old/pro or whatever. be the one with perfect stat and you will still get flamed for the slightest stuff.

the best thing to do is to mute ppl who become toxic and focus more on your gameplay and then report said toxic players post game.

wish you the best of luck in your future games [sg-ahri-2]