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The best way to deal with negative/toxic team mates

ZergReap··2 votes·1,286 views

Say nothing. Just don't respond to them. Stick to "drag 45" "Vayne no flash" or "tri-brush warded". As one streamer put it "It becomes about winning the arguement instead of winning the game" (forgot who sorry). If you are like me and willing to sacrafice ego, tell them "my bad sorry", even though it wasn't you at all. This goes for feeding team mates as well. Let them be, telling them how bad they are playing isn't going to make them play any better.

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Mister Punches2 votes

Eh, I tend to mute them even after that. I've had more people say stuff like, "of course your bad, get off of league and die" or something related to that even after I sent "mb". When I play with a duo partner, I rarely see any flaming at all, but I see flaming a lot when I solo queue.

From personal experience, I would say that there are a LOT of toxic players in League, since I've run into one pretty much every single game, be it on my team or on the enemy team. I've had people from the enemy team ask us to report their teammate for verbal abuse, refusing to communicate, or whatever. Even in ARAM, I've had people be toxic, even though it's just meant to be a "fun" game. Do I think there are more good-natured players than toxic players in League? Of course. But I'm simply saying that there are a LOT of extremely toxic players in this game. To say that there aren't any or that there are very little amounts of toxicity in this game would be inaccurate, at the least.

I've had players on my team who have made bad mistakes (e.g. facechecking bush solo and blind, then getting ganked). I've raged before, but I tend not to type it out unless they keep repeating the same mistake. Then I ask them to stop doing that. I've had players ignore it, then rage themselves, and I've had players say "mb" and then they stop doing it. I always respond to someone who stops making a mistake with "ty" or "thanks".

I'm not the best player. Far from that. I'm not the "nicest" player, but I'm also not the most toxic player in the game. However, I'd rather see people put out constructive criticism rather than insulting, which the latter happens most often, unfortunately. Hell, if you check the forums, there are toxic people who are saying that they are right, and their teammates are wrong. Those are the people I tend to avoid, and I prefer to avoid.

Faith Breaker1 votes

But Riot has this wonderful report system in place and Lyte even made a video where he used SCIENCE to proof that RITO is best game.

Mister Punches1 votes

I've reported people who have afk'd constantly, and people who are extremely toxic (e.g. extremely racist, wishing to physically harm their teammates, etc.)

In my time playing League, I've only seen 3 of those people being banned, but it was extreme cases such as physically coming over to slit throats or something related to that. I'm just waiting for the Tribunal to come back up, but there really hasn't been an ETA or update about it ever since they took it down.

Faith Breaker1 votes

They don't plan on returning the Tribunal. It's "too much work" but clearly Rito has no problem ripping off other games and IP to make money (skins)

BattleOxe1 votes

Lol, that's the only thing I do every game. And since I started saying, My bad sry, I don't see many people flaming

ZergReap1 votes

Exactly, how do you respond to "you're right my bad"? Pretty much case closed after that.

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