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If you want to help curtail toxicity, address the person being bullied, not the bully.

DemothHymside·11/29/2016, 7:20:56 PM·6 votes·923 views

What I mean is, I see a lot of people getting harassed over stupid shit in this game all the time. Someone misses an ult, fail flashes, or any number of things that cause teammates to rage (omg, jg, why no gank? OMG, support, you took a creep! Raaaage!). Thing is, starting a back-and-forth with the person raging generally just causes things to escalate out of control. My advice? Be encouraging to the person getting targeted, and try and convince them from engaging the person being a dick.

Last night, I was in a game where our Syndra was losing lane, horribly, to a Lux. Jungler and top essentially started camping her lane to shut Lux down and bring Syndra back into the game. We won, and our Syndra, post game, started gloating and told Lux to refund her Elemental Lux skin, and trashing her. It's this type of behavior which can really tilt someone, getting them annoyed, and easily making that player, in this case Lux, turn into an asshole in further games because now they're mad.

All I did was assure that Lux that she had actually played really well, and not to let trash talk get to them, because they were giving us all a hard time; didn't bash the Syndra, or try to escalate the situation, and it seemed to work, because that Lux invited me into her group, and she was actually pretty cool.

Point is, toxicity spreads like a wildfire, with one person's rage quickly turning multiple people into trash talking dickheads. Best way is to jump to reassure the person being attacked to ignore it, mute the aggressor, and try and keep them positive. It might seem carebearish, but believe me, it beats the hell out of having 2, possibly 3 people screaming all game and causing you to lose an easily winnable game.

14 Comments

Z Statistic11/29/2016, 8:09:18 PM2 votes

I prefer therapy.

More effective when you have a professional telling you that the outcome of a computer game doesn't have physical consequences on the real world.

Morality Coach11/29/2016, 7:46:16 PM1 votes

I consoled a kid that got BMed badly yesterday he was freaking out.

I was running top lane over as singed and they all chased and got rolled up then blamed it on the lux. Lux was bronze but actually only chased once and only got zoned off two waves of xp.

I felt bad cause his parents don't let him play, he got elemental lux and forgot to equip it, now he won't be able to use it till next week and he got super BMed the one game he got to play.

Leafri11/29/2016, 8:15:29 PM1 votes

Hey so who was this lux player, you say they were a girl?

poopchan11/29/2016, 11:55:19 PM1 votes

i just solved this by uninstalling the game. I just can't take it when every game someone is flaming or feeding. its just not fun anymore when every game is decided by what team is less toxic. I just wish i never spent the amount of many i did on this game. Now that i think about it that is the only reason I've played this long. When they start enforcing the rules in low elo like they do in high elo I might return to this game, but as the community is now it feels like a waste of time.

Zaryelle12/1/2016, 1:29:07 AM1 votes

I always try to defend people who are being flamed unjustly as well. If the person is harassing people and feeding on purpose or something then I'm not gonna stop my team from flaming them, but if they are honestly trying and my team still flame them, I will defend them.

Dominick Destine12/1/2016, 1:31:40 AM1 votes

"Bully"? a player raging at a troll is not a bully.

He's unfortunately a toxic player but most certainly not a bully.