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Straight up just went afk and realizing I'm probably a toxic player, but how to reform? [Discussion]

heck yea·4/20/2017, 12:36:52 PM·4 votes·977 views

I realize going afk is bannable, and beyond that, just a trash thing to do, so help me reform my dudes. Not my first time either, it's been a problem in the past and I'm getting back into that rage pattern again. Might get banned for posting this, maybe, idk? Willing to do my time tho it's only fair if that happens.

Just got out of a game I went afk for a few minutes ago. Played an off meta pick of Fizz jg in norms cause autofilled. Died during my first gank, rip, but no biggie my team can carry me and what not. Later I go for a pick on the enemy midlaner but get baited pretty hard and die for it, then get pinged on by the support. I ping the dude about 30 seconds later when he totally whiffs an ult cause I'm still a little salty about him pinging me in the first place. My next death he spams my death timer, so I tell him to chill on the salt, which gets some dude he queued up with to start flaming me too. I get accused of being a troll and the top laner gets in on it too, so it gets to the point where the only person not flaming me on my team is the adc, who was pretty chill. So at this point 3/4 of my remaining teammates are just running me into the ground and I afk cause frankly I have no will to play for a team that goes out of their way to make me feel unwanted (and I'm not saying that them being toxic first justifies any of my actions or makes me any less toxic for how I reacted, especially since the Lucian who did nothing to me was impacted by my decision to afk, I'm just saying why it felt justified to abandon the team). Game was 100% winnable, we were all doing okay for the most part but our mid was doing great and it should've been easy enough to just close this thing out with all five of us, like this wasn't a matter of being behind or anything.

So I'd like to get some discussion going, for the sake of bettering myself and anyone who stumbles upon this needing to reform a bit. What do you guys do when you wanna afk? And not just from the type of situation I posted above but advice for other situations is also appreciated (knowing that your team can't win the game but they won't ff, getting wrecked in lane, etc.), also general toxicity discussion if you want.

tl;dr I get toxic and I know I'm not the only one, need some more well tempered bros to give me and the other ragers some advice <3

9 Comments

deathgod54/20/2017, 1:58:50 PM4 votes

#my personal rules

  1. ##/note (or /n) is a life saver for in game raging. seriously try it in a custom if you don't believe me you write all information to a txt file on your computer. It is actually meant for game testers to make quick notes, but it is open for anybody. I have had some games where my chatbox looks like a long line of /note, but nobody even noticed I was toxic.
  2. ##remove your chat also if something is tilting you move your chat of screen(drag to bottom rignge size to minimum and disable all chat.
  3. ##food management Make sure you eat and drink enough as those affect your mood more than you might think. Our brain gets aggressive when hungry.
  4. ##remember what rage looks like for me it helps to look at a video of some babyragers near their pc, it helps me realize that raging looks and is stupid.
  5. ##stop playing after a rager If a game was so bad that you were raging, just stop playing after that, it is not worth getting more mad. Relax and wait until you are calm again before going back in.

  6. AHK's are for emergencies only

league doesn't allow you to disable your chat, there is a program called ahk tho(auto hotkey script(has nothing to do with scripting)). They are used to disable and rebind keys on your keyboard and do not affect the game at all. I am not sure if they are league allows them so only if you know that your behaviour would get you perma'd anyway.

D3m37r14/20/2017, 1:01:43 PM2 votes

Mute them and report them after the game. It's ok to rage,just don't type it out. I've had people tell me to kill myself when i went 0/5 in lane.I just assume it's some kid trying to sound cool and ignore it. Personally i don't mute people because sometimes they might say something useful. Games like that are gonna happen. I don't really get angry but that's because i play for fun.When in doubt, ask yourself why you play this game? If your team can't win and they won't ff, just play it out. It probably won't last that long anyways. Sometimes when people get wrecked in lane, they're just having a bad game. As long as they are still trying to win, just chill and maybe give them some advice(calmly). Idk about high elo but in bronze, stalling out a game so someone like a Jinx can get items is a viable strategy.

And above all else:

** People are more likely to do what you say when you are nice to them**. Fake it if you have to. No point in making good calls if people won't listen to you.

Molohk4/20/2017, 3:41:58 PM1 votes

Frankly, there's not much to say other than try to block them out. Mute them if necessary. For me, it's easy to just block them out and not give them any attention, but I get it's not as easy for everyone.

Basically, the most important thing is to break the toxicity cycle, where one player gets toxic and others start to respond in the same way, and it won't end until people just manage to shut up, lol.

XxEarthDreamsxX4/20/2017, 4:12:52 PM1 votes

What I do is I mute people way before hand, especially if everyone is already at it before we even get to the loading screen! I find that it helps me focus better and I can put more energy into the game. Sometimes (like mentioned before) its not always a good idea to mute everyone since they may have something useful to say, so I kill them with kindness. I try to be the nicest thing on the planet, then when the game is over I say gg and I report the players who were toxic the entire game and move on. But overall I try to have fun, when I am having fun it's hard to bring me down.

ModThe Djinn4/20/2017, 4:38:49 PM1 votes

Personally, I tend to either mute or ignore them, and then focus on simply playing the best game I can, with the expectation that I'm likely to lose. In short, cut out their input and just focus on a single task -- in this case, playing the best you can. :)

Pommel Knight4/20/2017, 7:10:04 PM1 votes

Here's the tips I do in Diamond.

  1. Mute the enemy team and whoever is getting toxic on your, no mater if they are angry at someone else mute them both.

  2. Stop playing after 1 or 2 bad games, play another one not online that will let you relax, read a book or exercise.

  3. If you fail and can't do much just farm, get objectives and go tank.

  4. Take deep breaths and say "Fuck it I can do it." and try to see what your mistakes are. It's good that you can see that you are toxic and want to improve. Try to see your mistakes and improve upon them.

  5. Realize that some people are impossible and give up, but give it your best.

  6. try to help out the toxic people on your team and they will be friendly(leave a kill, save them, let them farm, say gj when they do good, etc)

  7. Say fuck it and rage at someone who gives you good reason to. You can't be a saint, there are people deserving of flame, the ones that troll or bitch all the time.

GL from a fellow Fizz main.

Bot With Dumbass4/20/2017, 10:06:15 PM1 votes

i made a thread read it its called how to reform and how i did

eazymakaveli34/20/2017, 3:20:33 PM1 votes

play the game in windowed fullscreen.

click the enemy nexus, alt-tab, repeat.