This community is toxic

SlntReaper·Sep 5, 2016·2 votes·507 views

So I was playing an ARAM, when I find out the enemy Janna is gold. Ok, why did that happen? Apparently she was "playing with a lower level friend." Mind you, she's gold, and I'm not even ranked yet. So I ask her, why are you smurfing by playing with a lower level person? Then someone on the enemy team calls me "mentally retarded." ??? The game got pretty ugly, and it ended up in the entire game reporting me. I don't know why, I just was asking over and over, why u smurf? They were the ones that said I "needed help." Why does this happen? And why is the community so frickin' toxic?

17 Comments

Kei143Sep 5, 20164 votes

Delivery is important. You can try asking it like "curiosity question: why do you smurf?", instead of saying "why you smurfing?"

People are defensive in their nature and don't like to be attacked, if Janna already said that they are playing with their friend, then that's what they are doing. Your further questioning puts them on a defense.

While i don't have full details of your chat, it doesn't sound like Janna was smurfing, and i might need you to define smurfing.

AraMoOseSep 5, 20162 votes

{quoted} I just was asking over and over, why u smurf?

I think the problem has to do with the "over and over".

People are allowed to queue with their friends.

SlntReaperSep 5, 20161 votes

But not when it becomes a gold pubstomping a bunch of noobs. She wrecked us and we almost lost because of one person. It's the same problem as boosting, a diamond+ player ends up screwing over a bunch of bronzes because they need to boost.

AraMoOseSep 5, 20161 votes

yes, they are still allowed, especially in aram.

SnarflazSep 5, 20161 votes

Because we have so much competitive players that this game isn't considered a game anymore. It's got its "Fun" sucked right out of it and turned into rage and insults. Honestly i wouldn't recommend league to anyone who wants a game they'll have fun with and just to relax with. You can't relax when your just trying to have fun and have your team yell at you for making that one stupid play.

sheldonbunnySep 5, 20161 votes

A gold playing with a lower level friend would not be classified as smurfing. A smurf is an alternative account for a player.

In all honesty, there was no reason to continually bother them about it. People of differing ranks play with one another constantly, especially ARAMs, where though competitive, is still more about fun.

GeauxxSep 5, 20161 votes

So you were in aram... asking about smurfing... in aram, when aram takes all levels of people based off an mmr completely different from ranked, from one of the comments i saw, you apparently kept hounding them about it. Just going to be honest, think about it and you'd have your answer.

MagicFlyingLlamaSep 5, 20161 votes

smurfing means playing with a different account.

ARAM matchmaking has nothing to do with ranked matchmaking.

ARAM is also a totally casual fun mode.

Jo0oSep 5, 20161 votes

Sounds like you started it.

It's ARAM, gold isn't a huge deal, etc. Next time, just play the game out.

MUSHROOM MIDGETSep 5, 20161 votes

matchmaking is weird. my fresh level 30 account with not enough champions to do ranked yet got matched up against a plat 2 a plat 4 and a gold 2 yesterday in aram.

Kei143Sep 5, 20161 votes

MMR currently isn't splashed between game modes. If someone doesn't play a mode often, they'll have a different (typically lower) MMR compared to ranked games.

CystSep 5, 20161 votes

{quoted}

MMR currently isn't splashed between game modes. If someone doesn't play a mode often, they'll have a different (typically lower) MMR compared to ranked games.

Very true more regular ARAM players you will notice have over 4000-6000 wins.

Thats when you start to worry :)

Even most diamond/plat that crawl up in aram have not figured out it isn't SR yet and try to keep the old mindset (MOAR FARM).

MUSHROOM MIDGETSep 5, 20161 votes

that may be but i am nowhere close to a platinum in any game mode. or are you saying those plats are not strong at aram? i dont know about that but they destroyed me. i couldnt do anything against them.

Kei143Sep 5, 20161 votes

no, I'm saying they don't play the mode enough to "level up" their MMR

CystSep 5, 20161 votes