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The all powerful mute button

Aykan·10/29/2014, 6:55:23 PM·35 votes·11,283 views

I'm a guy who doesn't take derogatory and negative comments well. I usually would reply back, and in a not so nice way. However, I've found one thing helped me a lot.

Often people don't know how to use the mute button properly but I hope this tip helps. It's helped me a lot. I usually never mute anyone, UNLESS... and ONLY unless they say something which makes makes me lose my level head and want to type back. So that means no you do not mute everyone at the beginning of the game. For example, a conversation like this...

Player 1: GTFO my lane ping ping ping ping Me thinking: (What did I do? I'm only last hitting cs that he's missing out on anyway since he's at base) What I want to say: What's your problem? asshole What I do instead: Mute him and focus on game

Mind you, it's not that big a deal when someone says that but sometimes you're under lots of pressure and on top of that you have someone randomly cussing and swearing at you. Most people don't react too well. Anyway, If I said "What's your problem? asshole". I wasted time typing that which is completely irrelevant to the game AND I've just created tension on our team. Also, I'm not focusing on the game anymore but rather on player 1 and his doucherey-ness.

Another example:

Thresh: Wth are you doing? You're supposed to be doing ...and .... and.... Me thinking: (He hasn't landed any hooks. He doesn't even know how to trade. He doesn't even focus the adc in trades...) What I want to say: (ALL THOSE THINGS AND MORE!) What I do if he keeps continuing: Mute him and focus on game

If I said all those things, we would have just been arguing each other and BOTH our plays would have suffered greatly. I would have also added more unnecessary tension.

I gurantee you this will increase your chances of winning. I'm proud to say that even my last ranked game yesterday where our mid goes Zillean (I didn't think much of it at that time but I saw his history with that champ and he hardly played it, and oh boy when he did....he didn't exactly do too well). He gave first blood to an easily avoidable jungle gank. Our jungle was controlled by a decent lee on the other team right from the start. Our top starts cussing at him. I tell him to chill. He continues and so I mute him. Anyway few minutes in the game, our thresh is playing aggressively and he's at 40% health. They have the better matchup and are at 80% hp roughly. I do 1 "danger ping" on him and he tells me to "STOP ******* PINGING!" I got pissed. 1 Ping for your own good and you say that? I decide to mute him. Now, the other two people who are not muted are saying things and I decide to eventually mute those two as well. Mind you, I've NEVER muted my whole team before. I can proudly say that I kept a level head through it all.

This is all because of the all-powerful mute button. Becasue of it, we actually had a chance even though my whole team was broken. I was able to concentrate and I eventually had the potential to carry. Sadly though, from our top-lane's gameplay I could tell he gave up and I'm assuming there was world war II flame war in chat Anyway, I had the potential to carry but Nasus decided to splitpush top knowing that all 5 of the enemy members were at our base trying to close out the game. This just shows you that even in such a broken team like this, there is still potential to win as long as you do your best and the mute button prevents anyone from hindering your best.

Oh and one more thing, this was my last series game which would have determined if I advanced or not. I didn't. :) What can you do? You win some. You lose some.

38 Comments

Squeaky Dreemurr10/29/2014, 7:34:25 PM13 votes

All hail the All Powerful Mute Button. No really, I think this is a fundamental teamwork skill in League. Not everyone is going to attempt to work with the team, and giving those people any more of your attention than necessary can lower the morale and harmony of the entire team. Muting inflammatory team mates massively prevents me from tilting.

God Mode Enabled10/29/2014, 7:46:31 PM4 votes

mute button? pft... im enjoying my 1,000th game of being on chat restrict due to how I talk back to people harassing me.

my problem is that I take crap way too far and cant help but type, and riot punishes me for defending myself against ridiculous abuse for no reason...

which only creates more rage... /sigh.... perma chat ban life

Bill Gatez10/30/2014, 4:27:42 PM3 votes

If my reply or message is going to be longer than 2 sentences, I just mute the entire team. I don't have time to explain every single thing in my head, so I would rather just focus on myself only.

Is it selfish of me? Probably

Does it work? Yes

1337n00bh4x0r10/29/2014, 9:08:30 PM2 votes

Sometimes I want to just go on a tirade - like, do nothing but talk - at people who are clearly NOT being helpful. I lose a lot of time for it. Have you EVER, even ONCE, died because you were typing something stupid? Ever missed a kill or objective? I know I have.

I need to mute people more often. I really don't play very often (look at my matches, lol, I'm at like 52 games for the whole season and I play as often as I can) so a stray troll seriously ruins it. I don't get a "next game" that might be better. I get this one game tonight. Just one.

On the flip side, please don't be rude to people. I'd rather not mute anybody. :(

UPfreely10/29/2014, 7:54:10 PM2 votes

I usually let people know before i mute them so they can ping instead of talk.

General Veers10/30/2014, 6:24:39 PM2 votes

There should be an option to additionally mute /emotes (like laughs) and pings.

Phatdiamond10/29/2014, 9:30:38 PM2 votes

Muting wins games. Here's times when I mute. Someone asks "why..." or says "this..." Two people bickering. People doing the typical post-death tirade. Honestly, 99% of chat is useless and unnecessary. There isn't enough time to type out complicated instructions. At the first sign of division, I mute all.

TheVishual10/30/2014, 1:01:50 AM2 votes

Literally this is what causes people to lose a lot of games and be stuck in their own elo hell. Once you start raging you lose focus and can't play at 100% then it compounds and the game is over.

Best way to win any league game is to inspire your team to play their best... its a 5-man team and once you get past like gold its pretty much impossible to "solo" carry like in lower elo.

TenSlashTen10/29/2014, 8:05:54 PM2 votes

you one of those junglers that comes to a lane clears the 3 waves at the turret that laner could've got because he bought boots and is running up the lane while he's pinged you off that precious exp to hopefully at least stay within 1 level disadvantage of his enemy?

There are assholes in every game. But I'll telll you what. If everyone played logically instead of selfishly then most communities would be in a better place.

Thats one of the major issues with moba's over the years. Players don't think logically. they think selfishly. I certiainly am no saint. I think selfishly all the time. I might tax a few extra minions.

I might even take a whole wave. Hell sometimes instead of waiting for the laner to get back to his lane to shove the lane to finish those last 3-5 hits on the turret I'll shove the lane and take it myself.

I'm no saint. But its these kinds of things that seperate a solo queuer from someone who plays on a team regularly.

I actually used to do both religiously Within the last month I've started purchasing my VPN again to play in EU/KR area and I've gotten back in touch with an old KR team I had.

I've become quite selfish in just under a year because I haven't really played with anyone to consider them an ally/worth helping unless its a "need to win this game and this is how I do it" basis.

TLDR: MOBA community is selfish, costs us alot of easy wins because we're selfish =]

missinggrave10/31/2014, 3:31:02 AM1 votes

Now if only there was a mute button for those who feel obligated to remind all of us sub-par players how awful we are. Thank you, League of Legends Community. (( I'm a bit bitter over a MULTITUDE of players that decided to be disrespectful due to a player not doing well in a game. Not me in every game, but there seems to be a growing number and that worries and angers me. ))

AetherKingdom10/31/2014, 3:53:53 AM1 votes

Lol. People mute for extremely small reasons. like a couple of games ago morg: thresh stop suiciding me: maybe if you fucking committed we would do better morg: If i wanted to commit I'd play fizz me: WHAT THE FUCK, YOURE FUCKING MORG morg:muted. im so serious

Hiemdol10/31/2014, 4:26:02 AM1 votes

This is a really god point. Also along with muting people, like you said not typing things which will not, in all honesty, help the game is a great idea too. I started a similar strategy for myself and jumped from Bronze to Silver. I really found that not saying anything in almost any situation seemed to only help my win rate.

Aykan11/14/2014, 2:49:42 PM1 votes

Wow, didn't realize this thread would get this big. o_o I just wanted to share something that really helped me.

Sirin Gioro12/11/2014, 4:02:37 AM1 votes

+1.

But I have this mercy inside me, I feel like if I mute them I am not going to know of our future plans of winning the game together, but people say that if they're already flaming at you, they're probably talking about bullshit anyways.

Well, I just had an ARAM game where this Ryze just yelled at us about how bad our positioning was and "GG Jax fed". I muted this guy and concentrated on winning and peeling for the team and enemy's nexus, and we won. ALL HAIL THE MUTE BUTTON. PLEASE.

The Chin10/29/2014, 8:00:25 PM1 votes

Yeah I'm pretty liberal with the mute button. If someone says even one little thing that rubs me the wrong way they get muted.

I used to let people know I was muting them. I'd say like "k muted" or something, but that'll cause about 10% of trolls to just straight up AFK so now I don't even say anything when I mute people.

karkani12/22/2014, 10:35:27 AM1 votes

i don't know why but sometimes when i really am mad at my team, i froget to mute them so i don't get mad and they don't too So the mute button is great, and remember to use it on people harrassing you

DeMendite10/30/2014, 10:51:47 AM1 votes

Agleed! I'm at the point where I mute everyone at the beginning of every game. It feels so quiet and pleasant.

Jeddy01710/30/2014, 2:02:40 PM1 votes

Then there are idiots like me who wish not to use the mute for 1 reason:

I'm interested in what is said in the chat because the chat box can be a very entertaining place,especially when everyone is joking around.

I know,I know,this is probably a dumb reason.But most games,the interaction between the players is where most the fun come from (for me at least).Hell,I even don't wish to mute those saying negative things towards me & my performance.I know the negative comments & toxic raging probably affects my mental state & overall performance,but I'm too much of a dumbass to make use of the all powerful mute button.

Using the mute button & mutes everyone at the start of a game would probably help me perform better,but that would be probably be boring,especially in the god damn laning phase where everything is about farming.

Please note:That I don't use the chat to rage at people.I know for a fact that I never told anyone "UNNSTAL N KIL YURRSEF BRONZ SCUUB".I try not to type too much,I'm not that fast a typer.I mostly just write a quick joke or comment (or a reply joke/comment) & move on.If anyone isn't performing well or is doing questionable,I say "Uh,Yi?"or "well then......",short neutral comments like that.I will step in to tell a rager on our team or their team to "chill" or "stop bitching".I mostly just peek at the chat & write something short,my main focus is the game itself after all.

But don't be a dumbass like me,mute the chat & play the game.

Wankeroo10/30/2014, 6:40:18 PM1 votes

If you mute. You're a wimp. Trash talk is part of multiplayer games. So many thin skinned wimps.

Brenticus1210/31/2014, 1:07:24 AM1 votes

This is what I did when I was playing a ranked match as Thresh with Ashe vs Blitzcrank and Vayne. I knew Ashe wouldn't be able to get too many kills early game because of how item dependant she is (We did get first blood and a few early kills, but it wasn't enough) so I just told her to stay behind minion waves, away from the brush and out-cs vayne while I harassed her from between my minions. Thing was, she barely listened to me and I had to body block since blitz could easily pull her in. Because of this, I ended up dying a few times since I took the grab for Ashe. My teammates started raging, especially the top laner (Why is it always the top laner?).

The enemy team was sympathetic though, which was great. The blitzcrank actually noticed what I was doing and commended me for it.

My teammates though, they were still raging at me so I ended up muting them all except Ashe since she actually ended up realising why I died so many times and apologized for it.

Come mid-game though, because I had no one shouting at me through chat, I was able to concentrate on making good initiations and getting quite a few objectives.

We ended up losing though, but it was very close. We got their inhibitor first and took down both nexus turrets but we overextended and got aced. They then rushed our base and took it down :/

I did get reported by my teammatrs for intentional feeding though. Or atleast they said so and advised the enemy team to do so as well.

BakedLotion10/31/2014, 1:27:39 AM1 votes

They can talk all they want, I don't care. Ain't that hard. Now that I think about it, I have never muted anyone in my life.