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PSA for everyone to calm down and remember its a game.

S2C2Xd9KOy·9/19/2015, 9:41:37 PM·7 votes·861 views

If someone on your team is having a bad game, why flame them? They'll just play worse and it will cause your other teammates to lose faith and tilt. HELP PEOPLE. If theyre not doing well, reassure them. Say things like "Dont worry, just be safe and farm for laning phase so you can catch up." Like generally just reassure them that its fine, its a game. Dont be condescending or make them feel like shit for not playing well. If someone is struggling, give them tips. This is more for people in lower elo, but if your team isn't warding, ask them to buy a pink ward and upgrade their trinket. If they have a have a heavy magic damage team, ask your tank or support to buy Locket

To follow what I just said, I have a second suggestion.

LEARN HOW TO TAKE ADVICE. Maybe you're not doing so well and it seems like your mid laner or whatever is being a douchebag because "he thinks he's so much better than you and you dont know what you're doing" when all he's trying to do is help you actually do something for the team.

I was on a smurf last game and its a smurf in bronze because I was curious to see what it would be like to actually climb out of bronze , but thats beside the point.

I could tell my teammates weren't _that _bad. Jungler had okay dragon control and bot lane was doing fine. I realized though, no one had upgraded trinkets and no one was warding. The support had a sightstone, but when I suggested she get a red trinket she said it was pointless, even though her yellow trinket was just inefficient to have. I told her and the jungler that it would be optimal if they both got red trinkets for clearing wards, and they both said that wasn't their job.

There have been other games where I've suggested items to people based on their matchup. Apparently hexdrinker is trash in laning phase against AP as an AD champion, and quicksilver sash is a waste of gold...

If people learned how to properly give and receive advice, not only would the community be less toxic, but people would probably grow as players and become better and climb, even if its just slight improvements and climbing from Silver 3 to Silver 2, improvements are improvements.

4 Comments

disregardable9/19/2015, 9:51:03 PM2 votes

I'd say you need to remember that they're low elo for a reason. If they knew what good advice was and took it, they wouldn't be Bronze. It's a waste of your time to try to explain what they're doing wrong if they don't ask, likewise it's a waste of time to encourage them to do the right thing. Just do the right thing yourself, and when someone else on your team does as well you win.

It's easy to climb out of Bronze, by the way. I'm not even significantly better and I have no trouble getting out just by not losing lane.

Hexs Fortune9/21/2015, 7:03:24 PM1 votes

Just mute everyone and focus on pings. Chat alone puts people on tilt more than they know. I played a game with a friend who muted everyone, while I left chat open. By the end of the game I was on super tilt and my friend was pretty neutral.