The passive expectation to play therapist to mentally unstable teammates is honestly enraging.

Six Inch Heals·6/11/2019, 3:22:08 AM·5 votes·5,403 views

Title.

Haven't played ranked in awhile, decided to dive back in. Not the best placements, but that's expected, as ranked itself has always been a shitshow of too many variables, but something I'm noticing in A LOT of my games is that there's always at least one person you have to talk off the emotional ledge. Now, I PERSONALLY don't engage in such discussions with teammates, as I'm not here to emotionally manage individuals whom I am not related to, friends with, or sleeping with, but in general, there's always one (sometimes more) people who just absolutely lose it, and need to be talked off the proverbial ledge. Why is this? Why is this a thing? Why is it somewhat expected to talk these teammates down and emotionally manage them? That's just anti fun. Something I'm missing here?

21 Comments

Tailypo6/11/2019, 4:27:07 AM7 votes

Just mute and leave it alone imo.

Shadowbyte6/11/2019, 4:12:06 AM3 votes

Not really missing anything, the community and ranked in general have just degraded over the years to to neglect on riot's part. If you fail to talk them down from the ledge they're more likely to tilt i.e you're more likely to lose. Same thing if you mute them. If you get angry at them and call them out you get punished. it's pretty ugly

hhaavviikk6/11/2019, 7:24:40 AM3 votes

you're not expected to do any of that, just mute them and keep playing

LegacyDAP6/12/2019, 2:30:40 AM3 votes

Nobody wants you to play mental therapist. They're looking for attention. Muting and leaving them alone is the easiest way to get them off the so called "ledge," and hopefully nobody responds to them so they just shut up and play or at the worst just leave the game.

fatherdarius6/11/2019, 4:36:09 AM2 votes

I have two words for you:

Participation Trophies.

I'll let you do the rest of the social math.

Telephone Booth6/12/2019, 3:37:27 AM1 votes

What is giving you the impression that you are expected to/need to talk them off a ledge? I usually just mute or ignore the drama queens.

Pandemic Punch6/11/2019, 8:13:16 AM1 votes

You aren't managing anything. Just mute them at the beginning of every game.

LOBSTEE6/11/2019, 7:09:14 AM1 votes

hey man dont let it get to you. i stopped playing for 5 6 years and just got permabanned after a 14 day warning. so i had to contact my bank for all the fraudulent charges. just good riddance on the game you couldnt believe all stress the game puts you in when you get back it puts you in ELO hell then you have no honor cuz you got banned. you are better off getting a new account and starting over. just let your bank know of the fraudulent charges aka the BULLSHIT BAN

Zardo6/11/2019, 12:52:08 PM1 votes

Trying to talk them down doesn't help. It normally doesn't make it worse, but they'll normally just ignore you. I'd just mute for your own sanity.

KazaJhodo6/11/2019, 5:12:02 AM1 votes

The games are extremely toxic.

The play is even worse.

Its getting to the point where you actually can't play the game because someone is always running it down.

Woodakoodashooda6/11/2019, 9:04:52 AM1 votes

Report, block, and move on.

Lost a duo to this shit just recently. We were having good times, win or lose. Started out as a support/adc relationship, but they wanted a return to mid. Then, about a week into it, they started going extremely on tilt. It didn't bother me at first. I've no magical immunity to tilt myself. But then they rage quit a match and messaged me privately to join them for another once the match ended.

In my mind, I thought to myself, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

So, I ended it soon as the match was over.

Reported. Blocked. Moved On.