Best way to avoid toxicity: Play during school hours!

Mom: Why aren't you at school?

Me: Avoiding noobs that wish deadly diseases on me.

+1

Well TBH I'm a high school student (no hate :< ), and I can only play at night when all the toxic brats are playing. I usually encounter toxic players with low IQ and EQ at night who spams surrender votes, and it is really frustrating. But when I stay home when everyone is having school, my solo queue teammates are usually friendly/non-toxic. So yeah. Thanks for the friendly reminder, I think I'll stop playing ranked games at night, since it's always a gamble, like if I'm going to get toxic teammates...

EDIT: I came home from school early, at about 11 AM and I've been having a pretty good experience in Solo Q. YES JUST PLAY SOLO QUEUE AT AFTERNOON

I envy the hell out of you for being able to work from home....just saying.

You realize that school hours are generally 8-330 right? 5 and a half hours. There are 5 (and a half, if you count newfoundland) time zones in north america. There's maybe 30 minutes in a day if timed perfectly with no school age kids online.

I live in Turkey, it's mid--term atm. And the amount of toxicity in TR server is increased by 250%

You're absolutely right.

The worst people are usually the pot smokers, who are of any age. The people who go AFK to smoke, AFK to pee, etc. That's the only label I believe in. I've played with students who have treated the game in a mature way, so it's not the students.

This is my general experience in the middle of the night (2 am to 5 am) but then it starts to become "toxic central" about 6 am. If I play league once I get home from work (post 6 am) I get the most impossibly toxic folks. I'm usually asleep during the typical school hours. I'd love to try that out.

On the other hand, when I was doing ranked before for this last season I was playing at the time between 7 pm and midnight and OH MY! Never repeating that experience again. (I'm on Leona, my ADC last pick Vayne while enemy team first picked Cait. Get's bullied constantly and complains about it. I annoy Cait some and drop her down a bit then go ward. Ward is down in river, enemy jungle is coming to gank, I ping Vayne FIVE times to fall back [and type it in chat], she chases after Cait, dies in 1v3 in less than 2 seconds. Next thing you know "/all GG this leona don't do shat!")

'Some of my worst experiences in League was with adults" who think that everything they do is right because they're older than you.

I joined league in early s4 but got to lvl 30 in around mid s4 went right to ranked my first game as lvl 30 was my first placement match and I couldn't agree with your post more, we had feeders, flamers, and spam surrenders. I managed to (barely) win 4 games and got lucky to get placed into Silver V, this season though my work schedule had changed so I really could only play in the morning time and the difference was huge! My team mates were respectful and had common sense they warded pinged called mias (got upset when things didn't go well but never flamed) and I won 6 ot of 10 games but unluckily of me I got placed into Bronze IV and discovered that all the stories about Bronze are true...

You. I've read this thing and your comments on the replies. I like you. Can I give you a virtual cookie?

Corect! My firs 5 placements were played during the week and went well, 4/1 then this past Sunday I decided to finish out my placements MISTAKE! Every lane feeding before level 3 almost every game, and then "ff @20 plz" I mean wtf my first 2 placements were 55 minute games where we came back and won! There is just no hope in these kids/potatoes. I mean not saying I'm good or deserve high silver/ gold but I was always the only lane that won and went positive every game! Check my match history :/ anyway bronze IV-V here I come now im 4/5!!!! Looking for a duo that is mature and respectable and that can either win lane or at least play from behind and deny enemy kills :D reply to this comment and add me so we can climb back out of hell. Together! lol league schedule is 730-12 est I'm also off Sundays and Wednesday. Main top and jungle but can also adc if I have someone dependable bot :D top always pref in ranked

I hate playing with kids. I wish there was a was an adults only queue that required age verification and was limited to players who are 21 and older.

There are plenty of toxic college students too, but playing with kids still in High School is unbearable. I do the same thing and avoid ranked queues during prime time hours specifically because of this.

Weekends are just as bad, especially Sunday.

I myself am home during the day (laid off) and i have also noticed that up until later in the afternoon the games are much more friendly. All the toxic "kids" must be at school annoying there teachers getting ready for when they get home.

I'm not Level 30 yet but when i do i'm going to try my placements during school hours. With my luck though all the "Toxic" kids will be calling in sick that day :)

While playing during school hours can help some, the toxicity is definitely still there unfortunately. The internet username mask is just too easy to hide behind, for those both old and young. I too had this same thought some time back and implemented the same strategy, noticing a small decrease in toxic behavior, but it wasn't a huge discrepancy.

It could just as likely be toxic any age. The majority of College classes and adult work are also during the day.

Best kept secret? More like worst kept secret tbh XD

I'm in college and I usually always have at least a day off, so I pretty much only play non-bot/ARAM games during that day My ranked experience is not very extensive (I've only played ranked since S3 and only to get the gold reward, so in total I've played maybe 120-150 ranked games across 2 seasons) but I don't really think I've met a real troll and the flaming is pretty damn uncommon

I wholeheartedly agree but there's nothing I can do about it, office hours are basically school hours and then some.

I guess playing during approximate exam dates would also be a good idea.

this is very true. also playing late at night on school days is a good option.

DONT PLAY ON WEEKENDS

I've personally found that 9am - 2pm or so is a good time to play. It's honestly the only time I feel like I'm playing with people that belong in my matches.

Now, I stayed in Silver last season, but even then, the commonly seen pushing without wards, the immature redirection of responsibility, and unwarranted tantrum throwing is scarce.

The toxicity spikes after 2pm (PST) so.. From this, I'd say it's reasonable to deduce that the toxicity is from the school age players.

Would be nice to be able to separate them out. I'd rather wait 5 min for teams that are looking to play as a team and win or lose as a team than deal with the children that delusionally believe they single handedly carry to win and become prophets of doom as soon as things take a poor turn.

Good point here. Now... how am I supposed to play during this time as I got work too? Better start working during night so I can play league during the day.

I've never understood why major multiplayer games like League or WoW or anything else don't offer queues/servers gated by age (requiring either a credit card or license or w/e).

I'd love to jump into normal (draft, 25+).

Charted my win rate against time of day a couple years back and came to the same conclusion. I play at night and early morning for the same reason.

I've been doing this ages now, but I keep forgetting and getting locked into playing late at night and not getting anywhere in ranked. One week early last season I decided to only play ranked during the day while on a break from college and I climbed from S1 - P5 in about 8 days.

It's outrageous.

Truly outrageous.

I couldn't agree more with what the op is saying. I'm usually awake at around 7pm to 9am because I work a part time graveyard shift and have most of the week free.

I honestly thought all the stories about the toxicity in this game were being blown way out of proportion. Occasionally, I would have a rager or an afker. Rarely more than once a week however and from the stories I would read one would think this happens every single game. Everyone in my late night games were relatively friendly and actually sought to work together. I learned the horrible truth one day when I had to adjust my sleep schedule for some family duties. I started playing games at around 1 pm (Pacific time) and I have never in my entire league days found so many petty, toxic, rude, impatient and just generally idiotic people in consecutive games. Over and over it was just toxic player after toxic player who would rage in all caps at their support or at the jungler blaming them for their own mistakes (like pushing the enemy too far in without proper warding and getting sweeped by ganks).

It only took a couple of days for me to resolve to never play around these hours ever again. Really, guys. If you ever get a lucky chance to try playing games when the bad kiddies are at sleep or at school, take it. You won't regret it. Your experience with the game will be a lot better and just generally more enjoyable. I'm not saying you'll be completely free of toxicity nor do I want to imply that every student age player is a problem. There's still going to be a chance of finding an idiot in your team regardless of how old they are or what time it is you are playing. But the chances are so much lower that there's going to be problem players and that both teams will have groups of people actually willing to work together.

None of this would be an issue if the game wasn't marketed and geared towards children.

"One evening I had two brothers afk for 20 minutes because their dad made them take out the trash." It took 20 minutes to take out the trash? SMH

What if you work during "school hours"?