PSA for climbing: Please, DO NOT INSULT YOUR TEAMMATES NO MATTER HOW BAD THEY ARE DOING

Alternative PSA, don't be a jerk in ranked. Although people may be immature and over react, telling a player they are bad before the game ends will never ever help them to be better. At best they will mute you or ignore you and play normally. In between intentional feeding and not even noticing is where the majority of players will lie, in that, they will react by muting or ignoring, but will believe that one player on their team is rude/a jerk/mean to them/just not pleasant and who they would play with if choosing teammates, and they will play worse because at best they are less interested (less positive brain chemicals lead to less interest and brain stimulation) and less focused, and at worst they play on tilt and do worse than they normally would.

The number of games I have been in where I decided it makes more sense to just mute EVERYONE and just play, finding myself in a nigh impossibly-to-win circumstance, and then still pulling out in the end is staggering.

If people would just shut the fuck up sometimes and play the game, then perhaps we wouldn't have so many people bickering about toxic shit.

Now if Riot could just make it so you can mute people's pinging as well...

I don't bother talking to anyone anymore. Even useful advice presented in a non-insulting way will see some over-sensitive kid rage and start playing worse... or just afk or feed. Something as simple as saying... "If you're behind just build tanky Udyr. We've got enough damage without you rushing Triforce." Will get you ire cause Udyr is still salty over his two deaths.

There really ISN'T anything you can say that won't provoke someone to rage or act out like a jerk. Asking for a gank. Asking someone NOT to gank. Asking the team to stop arguing and play the game. I got someone to rage at me once with just a warning ping to let him know I couldn't go in on his attempted gank. He ignored the ping, dove in 1v3 and died, then called me trash and pouted all game over it. I didn't say a single word in chat.

Chat in league is more trouble than it's worth. I just /muteall at the start of each match more often than not these days.

The problem is that there are so many people who will get offended by the smallest of things. I've had people afk because i plainly asked them to ward and hug tower after dying 5 times in top lane.

The only things I comment on are that we need wards, that we should group, that we should not get caught, and what objectives to take. I never comment on anything else. At the end of the day it won't help any, so why bother.

I'm not a great player. I have my good and bad days... mostly bad, but I'm trying to get better. There is so much frustration in ranked games though. I've been accused of buying my account (Borders are a blessing and a curse x-x). I've been yelled at so many times and had been made the scapegoat for games where it was just awful all around. But I would never intentionally leave a game and make it even more frustrating for other players. Especially in ranked where you could get matched up/against with those very same players.

I've actually had a game recently where I got matched with the same player twice in a row. One match of where I did horribly and they got angry as heck, and the next match where I did ok, and they were actually nice (leading to a much more gung ho team experience). Thank goodness most people don't pay attention to user names x-x;.

Just saying, having 4 players talk you down for most of a game does NOT help you play better one bit. A mute button doesn't really change that, and going into a game already muting everyone doesn't really help me at all.

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If there is a troll determined to make you lose, YOU WILL LOSE and there is absolutely no way of predicting who is immature and who isn't.

Someone who insults a teammate is displaying a lack of maturity, so I find that statement to be quite amusing.

"Lets play smarter plz"

Thats probably the biggest insult I will say in game. It works sometimes.

I find people being fake-nice to be annoying too, but it's true that there is absolutely no upside to insulting people. If I could see quantifiable evidence that calling someone a feeding scrub that needs to stop sucking would suddenly make them play much more effectively I might change my mind, but as far as I can tell it can't possibly contribute in a positive fashion and is quite likely to make the poor teammate more emotional and even worse. From a W/L perspective, doing something with no potential upside and large potential downside is an awful choice.

If you want someone to avoid feeding, tell them a course of action that will lead them to avoid feeding if they listen. A lot of them will ignore you and keep feeding, but this at least has a chance to make someone play better rather than worse.

TL;DR

Something along the lines of "Rengar, they're warding mid and looking for picks before taking dragon, stay with the team" might or might not help.

Something along the lines of "Rengar, stop being an idiot and suiciding" will definitely not help.

As I have said many times to flamers,

Fight the enemy, not your own team.

this needs to be on like the front page of the forums, encouragment can go a long ways