Tips to stop raging?

Shroom Junkie·8/26/2015, 7:46:41 PM·4 votes·1,047 views

Like, normally, I don't rage. Anything bad happens and I try to ignore it. But when I go on tilt and lose like 3-4 games because someone fed(whether me or someone else) I get pissed and I don't know how to contain my anger, because if I don't rage, I feel like I'm going to explode, and if I do then obviously that lowers morale, makes everyone hate me, and basically makes us all do that much worse.

Any tips on getting out my anger while in a game? I get outside of a game you can just take a break but when you're in-game and bitching your ass off there's not much you can do besides stress out.

16 Comments

S H A Y C 08/26/2015, 7:52:03 PM5 votes

1.) Understand that there are things in life that are out of your control.

2.) Get a Duo partner that you can skype, curse, or teamspeak with, and vent your rage over the phone, that can handle your rage and knows how to calm you down with jokes or encouragement to dissipate the negative emotions.

3.) listen to neutral / positive music. Stay away from angry heavy metal and emo stuff that will just make you upset withouth knowing it and feed the beast. I like lindsay sterling and other dubsteb / techno that is generally energetic and upbeat and since there are no words it is not distracting.

AWKaiser8/26/2015, 7:52:43 PM3 votes

To be honest, I was a heavy flammer but i undestood no amount of rage will improve your game, it has just a direction, making it worse. So i try to tranquilize, ignore the bad thigs that happend and play the best game I can, I'll not tell you i don't rage anymore but the amount is very low no. The most important advice that I can give you is to NOT directly play for the win, instead I play focusing in improving my gameplay despite de vicroty or not because improve your game depends on you and a victory is a teamwork and you cant control all the team work.

7ha7guy7778/26/2015, 11:53:55 PM2 votes

Don't hit enter Say the stuff out loud provided it won't disturb anyone around you Take breaks between every 2 games/losses Role play as sona or rammus (only say what they would say "ok" or "...") If it's a ranked specific problem, play a "for fun" game mode

disregardable8/26/2015, 7:52:37 PM2 votes

Just don't type.

CKwoka269478/26/2015, 11:52:54 PM1 votes

I think Riot needs to take more steps to punish the players inducing rage rather than the rager. The problem is exarcerbated because many times one can tell quickly who the noob/troll is but is still forced to play with him because there is no exit out of game option.

boosted frog8/27/2015, 12:18:46 AM1 votes

If its a normal game and you have a low tendency to flame others and that you're not feeding but your team is, going into all chat is a fun way to lower your anger (although talking too much will make you lose the game, which might anger you unless you talk so much you forget about the bad game)

Joke around in all chat (refrain from flaming) and just have a convo. Now if your teammates start going into all chat and flaming you/enemy talking negative towards you then you mute everyone. Usually you can hold "decent" convos in all chat.

Talking in all chat takes your mind away from the situation. Sure, you might lose the game by talking in all chat but if your team is already losing really badly cause of bad choices (assuming thats the reason why you are raging) then it doesn't matter.

usually having a good convo in all chat leads to a more relaxed environment.

Also do not make your all-chat comments sound sarcastic LOL..

Now if you are feeding to someone, I say for you to not try to all-chat cause talking to the person you are feeding will make the situation worse (i learn from experience LOL..)

If all goes bad, theres always the /muteall or whatever command input.

You can also /message your friends on league during the game to talk about the situation. Just make sure that the stuff you say to them (especially if its about your teammates) doesn't accidently leak into all chat. Sometimes i mistake all chat for the /reply message lol.

amazingzebra8/27/2015, 5:39:20 AM1 votes

i play guitar between games. I also try to laugh at stupid things instead of worrying about the win/loss.

like the game is the game and 50% of the time your teammates are likely to underperform compared to the other team. So just relax when it happens because its going to happen all the time, and remember, whether they are trolling, raging, on tilt whatever....they are at your elo and they are there for a reason. Bronze5-challenger we all earned our rank, so just have some faith.

ZT Xperimentor8/26/2015, 8:12:36 PM1 votes

I'm surprised this isn't a hot thread when it should be. I distract myself between games, either by chatting with friends about different video games or movies.

blkKalameet8/26/2015, 8:20:17 PM1 votes

When I play support I take a shot every time my adc suicide dives into a bad situation I warned them about.

And when im playing with my friends I tend to smoke a lot more than normal. Well, when I play with one friend in particular. Hes the highest rank among my real life friends, but he makes the worst calls ever. He's the kind of person that will give his opponent a kill just so he can kill them too. And then rages at people for every mistake that made.

My advice is if a game gets to the point you want to chew out the other people on your team, just do something to make the situation enjoyable for yourself. Find a random build to do with the champ your playing and just see how well it works.

Mat7itan8/26/2015, 11:47:28 PM1 votes

Take a break. If you are having a rough time try playing later after you have calmed down, and so you are no longer thinking about how poorly you were doing and/or how much you were losing.