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Reporting people. Does it help you?

CominTowardsYa·11/13/2019, 10:58:58 PM·2 votes·1,764 views

No.

Reporting people does nothing for you personally. The fact is, if you are becoming upset by others, then you need to work on not getting upset, because that effects your play style and performance more than reports.

If you work on improving your gameplay by warding well, encouraging players on your team to work together, and being nice to people no matter what they do, you will win more games.

Some games you will lose of course, because there are always going to be feeders, and angry people who have bad games, and trolls are in there too.

You don't have to lose as many games though, so don't forget to start fresh after every game, win or lose. Your new team doesn't know if you recently lost or had a troll in your last game, so don't punish them for something they have nothing to do with.

Just focus on getting ahead in your lane, vision, and setting up early ganks. Whatever it takes to make your team win and the other team get frustrated first to take home the win.

This topic seems relevant given a recent abundance of perma ban and report posts. Riot won't fix anything, it is up to you Summoner!

[garen-swing]

7 Comments

Jimmy Rustles11/13/2019, 11:13:20 PM5 votes

It totally does help though

Makes it less likely you'll have to deal with that player again if they lose the account

ModPeriscope11/13/2019, 11:10:06 PM3 votes

I don't think there's anything wrong with encouraging others to focus on the game. That doesn't mean there should be exceptions for players creating toxic environments in games. I think everyone can probably lose their cool in this game, but that should only be tolerated to an extent. With many players' chat logs, I typically see that they're not focusing on the game, and instead direct their energy and concentration on one player rather than winning the game. So while helpful advice:

The fact is, if you are becoming upset by others, then you need to work on not getting upset

it should be directed at everyone, not just people who report.

Żügżwäng11/13/2019, 11:07:41 PM1 votes

A friend of mine plays all chat disabled and no emotes. I agree it's the best way to focus on your own game

But I miss the days of online interaction. Crazy cs1.3 servers with all sorts of insane and hilarious stuff going on. While a lot of it is deemed toxic these days, I personally do like a degree of human interaction. Like playing a game of pickup soccer at the park with strangers. You play to win but you have fun bantering. Now that does leave a lot open to toxicity. Not everyone will be there to meme or make funny jokes winning or losing (like enemy teammate pointing out our klepto ezreal had a full inventory by saying "full build ez pot"... Funny stuff that makes all chat worth it). So yes, reporting does help. When someone is there being a little expletive and taking out their failed midterm on everyone else, they should get punished. How well it works, I don't know, since I'll see game history of homophobes and racist players seemingly unaffected.

I know mute and report is the thing to do, but I recently have grown to ignore it and let them continue their idiocy without responding so I know what to report them for Muting just ignores the problem and allows them to continue being negative I'm future games to ruin it for others.