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How do you deal with someone with a bad learning attitude?

Mister Punches·5/25/2015, 9:43:11 AM·2 votes·1,127 views

So, I had a game where I personally think I did average (A B+ ranking on Taric, I'll need to work on that) in, and we ended up losing. I found myself making mistakes early on in the game such as getting caught out of place, and not catching up to heal my adc on time. However, as the game progressed, I learned from those mistakes and Rumble, Miss Fortune, and I pushed our bot turret all the way to the inhibitor. However, on the other end of that, we had a Mordekaiser who wasn't taking our progress too well.

I had my sneaking doubts that he was a Gold I player last season given that he was borderless in the loading screen, and he made a LOT of mistakes that I personally wouldn't have made in mid lane (such as never warding the bushes and then overpushing while he had low health). The team collectively called him out on it, ranging from simple criticism ("Morde, stop pushing mid, you're going to lose") to harsh criticism ("Morde, you're an idiot, stop pushing mid").

This was pretty much the entire team telling him to stop doing things, but he ignored us and pretty much kept complaining that we were the problem. Throughout the entire game, he ignored our pings, and didn't really participate in teamfights, waited in the bush, and came out only to clean up. At the end of the game, he ended up complaining in the postgame chat about how he was going to be stuck in elo hell forever because of "scrubs like us". Now, I don't play support that often. Support is my second weakest role, but I was last pick, as was every single game I had of ranked so far, so I had no choice but to be support.

But I digress.

To get back on to topic, I ended up learning from my mistakes, and didn't really die too much in the game after the 10 minute mark. My team called him out again in the postgame chat, as did I. In return, a lot of them left, but I tried telling him what he did wrong from my viewpoint. I mainly called him out on his negative attitude throughout the entire game, his lack of warding, his overextending with low health, and his lack of presence in teamfights. Because of this, I ended up getting not only death threats from him (Which, I'm really accustomed to due to Call of Duty back when I was a teenager), but this tidbit from the Mordekaiser. The second picture is pretty much him trying to instigate me into some form of fight (Which, I don't really know why he would do that), including the death threat.

One thing that I tried to do after the macro spam in the postgame chat was asked if he felt better after letting off some steam. Ended up getting another death threat from the Mordekaiser in the end.

Long story short, how do you deal with someone who isn't willing to learn from their mistakes, but rather, blames their teammates, and leaves a very nasty feeling in their teammates' mouths after the fight? I was duoing with my friend and he told me over Skype that he felt even worse than me, and he's not one to really feel in games; he just plays to win, but in this game, he felt like he was back in Call of Duty again.

8 Comments

Gunpoint5/25/2015, 3:42:28 PM2 votes

It isn't your job to teach them. Also you don't "digress" in writing. You just edit the post so you don't digress.

Matthias91195/25/2015, 8:40:23 PM2 votes

Like other people said, it's not your job to be a coach or to tell everyone what they are doing wrong in your opinion. (In fact, this can get really tiresome if someone won't shut up about it.) Even if someone is receptive, it's hard to make any significant changes to your play in the course of a single match.

If you offer someone advice and they throw it back in your face, just drop it. Pushing it likely to just make them mad. If they get angry and start arguing or flaming, just mute them and report post game. Arguing with them is not helpful.

badooga5/25/2015, 12:31:06 PM1 votes
  1. You are most likely never going to play with him ever again, so if he doesn't respond well to your comments, so be it.
  2. If he starts trash-talking you, just mute him. That part is OK.
  3. Report him for verbal abuse. With the new system, he may actually get a chat restriction or even a ban. The new system seems to help a lot in fixing bad behavior and is helping people realize that what they are saying is wrong.
Digivolve5/25/2015, 1:19:57 PM1 votes

you forgot to cut the name out of the PM at the top of the PM;p

Yankova4ka5/25/2015, 10:50:01 AM1 votes

2/3 people i meet in League lol. Just ignore him

Randomonium5/25/2015, 3:41:21 PM1 votes

You can't fill a cup that's already full.

Some people are so convinced that they are good that nothing you say will do anything. If someone is issuing you death threats then just report them and they'll get a permaban pretty fast. Also, anyone who issues death threats in a video game is obviously a punk little kid who wasn't hugged enough by daddy and now thinks he's hard. Don't worry, those people get crushed in the real world.

3tyson5/25/2015, 3:25:45 PM1 votes

best way to deal with death treaths is by just telling them where i live usualy its like i play na server yet im from europe if your gonne spend a 1000$ to fly to amsterdam il let you kill me ok

Sona Ping5/25/2015, 10:52:55 AM1 votes

If you were trying to help him with gameplay advice, I would advise you not to bother with it. You can't change someone who is not willing to change. When dealing with people these things will happen. Just ignore them and play, don't get into type fights with them. The best thing to do is to just send some unredacted copies of those screenshots to player support and move on.