Group Abuse
I posted about this probably 5 years ago and it is still a problem and this new system I think only makes it worse. Climbing the new honour system was fine, I don't know maybe I got lucky? I shot straight up to honour 4 with great positive people, like a week of joking around and winning. But now that I'm in Honour 4 it's like I only get paired with premades of toxic players who just gang up and abuse me for their mistakes so they don't have to face that they're each-other's problem. I'm a support main, because I like to help my team and elevate us all, but I can't do this when I'm a pariah right off the bat because these reprobates need a whipping boy to get along with each-other.
Anyways, it's at the point now where I'm like, fuck this. You know? I don't get why I need to play out a game with toxic people. I'll stick around if there is even one person on my team not saying anything, but when everyone's just raging what's the point? No one is watching the map, no one is ready for plays, people are obviously pulling their abilities to just let you die to try and prove their point... I can see it happening right there in front of me and I'm bored of it -and I'm annoyed with it.
You guys need to figure out a way to sort out who casts the first stone, because it's ridiculous to expect a peaceful solo-queue support main to just suck it up every other game and take this abuse. It's not fun, and it's not healthy. How am I getting into these teams at this honour rating?
edit: It's only groups. other solo-queue players are fine for the most part. It is specifically groups that do this. I suspect it's because you do not properly weight groups of friends abusing the honours. So while 4 people will always honour each-other to seem like positive people, they're still assholes to everyone else and they get away with it. They're artificially inflating their civility rating. I mean, that's just my guess, but you have to see it from my perspective here, there's a clear trend of this group behaviour leading to extreme negativity toward individual players. I see it happen to me and the other, in the case of a 3-man premade. They cannot yell at each-other so they yell at us. When I see it happen to my solo-bro I always try and de-escalate the situation, which I can usually do as a seemingly neutral party, but when they yell at me? What am I to do then? There is nothing I can do to bring that team together. It is my roll to bring my team together. My presence is therefore null, and the only reason to stay is to honour a system that does not honour me.