Why is everyone so mean to me for being new?

I'm completely confident that the majority of players are pretty decent folks. But even if only 10% of league players are assholes on short fuses, that means you'll hit one about every game on average. And it only takes one toxic player to change the atmosphere of a game from fun to unpleasant. Just ignore the trolls and do your best.

By the way, a lot of people forget that once you've reached the ranking appropriate to your skill level, your win rate will be around 50%. That means you'll loose about half your games. Loosing isn't the best feeling in the world, but it's part of the game.

The League community always has a stick up its ass. You don't win lane and win the game cause they can't they will flame ALL DAY. Just mute them and move on and learn from every game. If you go 12 12 9 in a game, find out why you died 12 times and fix it, if you go 0 12 5 again find out why you die and fix it. That way no one will start to flame. The only reason they get mad is cause they are not good enough to carry. Don't mind them and just play whatever you want whenever

Make extensive use of the mute button. Trust me, that makes the game so much more fun. First time somebody says something you don't like, mute button. Sounds childish, but the point of the game is to have fun, and you want to have fun grinding to level 30 right? Trust me on this one.

Thank you everyone for all the replies and advice. I half expected people to be mean here. Thank you im glad theres nice people :) makes me feel better. I added those who asked me too :D hope to play with you soon

Hey there fellow aspiring summoner,

As someone who was also a very new player at one point (I've been playing for around a year on and off though frankly I still am very, very bad) I know how harsh a lot of the player base is, not just to new players, but just anyone in general (though new players get picked on worse for the fact that they're new).

They do it for multiple reasons, all of them very wrong:

1.) They've been flamed many times before and some people can't deal with it and turn that frustration on others whenever they can.

2.) They get fed and very ahead of the new players easily simply because they are more experienced and then feel like they were gods all along.

3.) When it's your teammates who do it, it's because they simply assume new players will have the same amount of knowledge as they do and find the fact that they make mistakes people who they regularly play with wouldn't normally do unacceptable and instead of trying to give tips to the player and encourage improvement, they flame them and only make things worse.

As someone who's been through this I know this can turn people away from the game for good. Or at least make you doubt in yourself and put your mood down. What you can do, is simply try to ignore them and focus on your own game. If they keep their bad attitude up, you can hit the tab button, mouse over their champion portrait and hit the "mute" button and report them for "negative attitude" or "Verbal Abuse" at the end of the game If they are a problem, the system will eventually punish them and attempt to correct their behavior.

I should also say, never let all the toxcity get to your head. Not only can it affect your performance but it can also frustrate you and lead you into being toxic yourself. It really does happen, I've let it get in my head before and I have been toxic myself to other toxic players harassing me. I try not to do it and whenever I come close to it I think of the old quote: "Never let an Idiot drag you to his level for he will beat you with experience".

Lastly, I'd like to say that if you really, really like this game then don't give up on it It really can be fun at times and when you can tell you've improved as time passes on it feels pretty nice!

I'm not the best player around, but feel free to add me in game if you want and I'll play games with you if I can and try to help you out with the game as far as what little game knowledge I have!

Because smurfs need to feed their ego.

It's like a fraternity. You have to go through a gauntlet of abuse to be accepted.

I personally don't like it, but that's how it is.

Your best bet is to try and meet people. I was lucky enough to meet a few people through friends, and I've played the last few seasons with them. PUGs are just too much of a grab bag to reliably have a good experience, but if you meet some nice people you'll have fun playing for years.

I don't know if the boards here are a good way to try and meet people if you don't know anyone IRL who plays, but Reddit can be pretty good sometimes.

I'm level 15 if you wanna play with me. I'm not new at all but I'm nice and will give you any advice you'd want.

Welcome to the Internet.

I'm actually surprised that i haven't had too many toxic people in my games lately. I love playing support and had to deal with a LOT of harass and abuse early on like lvl's 10-20 but now im almost lvl 30 and i just dont find it much....

I played bots until I hit level 30. In that environment you're more likely to meet players around your skill level and people who know how to play who are more willing to teach newer players.

I know beginner bots is probably too easy but at your summoner level intermediate bots might actually be a worthy challenge to you. At your summoner level you usually will get 1-2 teammates who feed horrendously so it will still feel like a PvP game. So you will still be in a position where you will need to carry some dead weight and it can be a good learning experience. There are some hacks you can pull to cheat the game into winning if you cannot out-muscle the bots. Split pushing is your friend.

League is a huge knowledge dump. There are so many things to learn that it can take a long time to figure out half the stuff you need to know to preform well. Feel free to add me in game. I love helping new players out. Good luck on the rift summoner.

It's because people want to try and make it a game about skill instead of just a room full of guys punching each other.

Because it's the end of summer and all the kiddies are upset about having to go back to school. Seriously tho, summer is the worst time to play this game because there's children that will cry that you didn't let them carry.

Some tips I can offer tho, practice csing. Load up a custom game, and practice gettingr every minion in every wave before the 5min mark. Then practice just last hitting the minions without losing one. Do this with all the champions you are interested in playing, and then practice forcing the lane to freeze or push the way you want while playing against a bot. Being able to get those things down will help you a lot. Then focus on poking a bot down while not losing cs, or taking too much poke back.

Early laning mechanics are extremely important for every player to know, and can make such a large difference in a game.

If your interested in what to build on a champ check out lolking, solomid, and other guides. They will even help You figure out How to set up a rune page and masteries.

Lastly. Do NOT worry about the runes tell you can buy lvl 3 ones. Otherwise you will just be wasting ip on things you will never use.

Feel free to add me, or just message me if you have any questions.

I had such a nice time 1-30 that I feel bad.

Add me in game, I'm Gold 2 on my main but I can grab a smurf to play with you. I'll show you the ropes.

rule number 1 always mute everyone this is a game of trolls and toxics you can only start to unmute while doing ranked and getting gold? at least option2 u leave the chat open and just mute the toxics giving a bit more chance to the not so toxic people option 3 u leave everyone unmuted but u report everyone who flames and stay silent

I was told many times to uninstall when I started. Ignore the haters and keep learning. And yes, there are decent folks out there. Most memorable for me (I don't remember his name) was a guy that I got killed. He was recalling in a bush and I was being chased, so I ran through there and they found him :P he wasn't happy, but wasn't rude about it either. I told him I was new and still learning how everything works. He was completely cool after that and had no issues with my fuck ups. He even started to just give me advice. He didn't tell me what not to do (like saying "that was dumb, don't do X thing") but told me what I should have done instead. for example"dont chase low health past this point, just go back to lane when they get too far into fog." Or "you should have recalled when you were that close to dying."

Pay attention everyone. People like this make a HUGE difference to new players. Be this person, not the guy that tells new players how shitty they are. New players are inexperienced. They are not bad players yet.

i feel ya. same thing happens to me, even at high levels. even as good players, they do it if you die, just from trying to learn a new champion. i literally just bought my first ADC champion, Varus, and i'm still learning it, and just about every game i do there's this one guy that says unninstall league go kill yourself ect. what you want to do is A. Mute them. B there will be people in your games who stand up for you, friend them, and as you progress adding friends, you will get to the point you can have your whole team always be your friends until you get to the ranked games. other than that it's just ignore people.

Usually people get angry when you do something really really obvious bad thing and they tell you to stop and you are like DURRRRR and keep doing it. Even if its unranked you are wasting peoples' time because you basically superfed the enemy and now everyone has to wait to FF.

If you ever want someone friendly you can add me. I have helped a few others and I always try to be nice. Sometimes trolls do get under my skin but eh. I also have a lot of friendly friends (which almost sounds redundant).

I'm a level 30 though so I don't know if you want to tag along for that skill level.

play vs bots until you learn how to play.

Mute, report, try your best to not let it get to you. My first couple games playing had me feeling so low. I joined for the sake of the game, and right out the gate at level 1 I had the worst people giving me shit.

Hey Buddy if you want you can play with me ,and I can teach you some stuff. I can also help you get in an attitude that Riot Lyte would love :3