Hey all,
Weekend warrior player here. I’ve played league on and off for 10 years and spent close to $600 on skins last time I checked. I’m not good at the game, and I know it, but I try my best to win whenever I play.
Yesterday I played a game and messed up on a level 2 all in from a Sylas because I wasn’t expecting it. I got flamed relentlessly. I immediately apologized to my team saying how I wasn’t familiar with the matchup, and will try to play safe. That didn’t stop people typing in chat how terrible I am, or that I should uninstall and stop playing.
Not the first time I’ve heard this, and i know it won’t be the last. If you like playing league, you shouldn’t be mean to your teammates/enemy players. Flaming and bashing people when they want to play the game will get them to leave the game, and eventually the game will die. If we want league to continue to be a game we can all play we should try and make it better. The mindset of people saying “it’s an online game of course it’s toxic” needs to stop if we want it to grow. Couldn’t we be the bastion of nice gaming on the internet?
I go by the logic: Riot will HAVE to do something to stop soft inting and trollers if we keep flaming eachother so much or the game will die. As long as Riot doesnt do anything about this I will assume the game is doing fine.
To clarify, I mean flame the clearly trolling 0/0/0 200cs at 20 min jungler, the 2nd turret splitpushing toplaner when our nexus is open and he is slow pushing waves ignoring the entire team, the 0/14 at minute 10 inter who is clearly not trying to win it anymore and just insta-engages and so on. Not someone who does a mistake here and there. But someone who actively chooses to ruin the game