I've just had an encounter with LoL's infamous "players"

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Today, I decided to try out Kennen, I wasn't entirely sure about him, after all, I absolutely suck as Akali and Shen, and I was convinced that the "ninja squadron" characters weren't for me.

Nonetheless, I thought It'd be fun to try him out, as I have a preference for all lightning-oriented characters in video-games, suffice to say, the match did not go well: I was up against ziggs, and my MS was painfully slow, I got poked a lot & died often during the mid game.

At around the 12:00 mark, Pantheon started projecting via chat, with the usual selection of CoD kiddie comments, when I called him out on it(I inquired if he's 12, I shouldn't have gotten myself involved, but anger took over), he barraged me with continuous insults, but it didn't affect me, due to the reason that I quite clearly had intelligence superiority.

I'm not hurt, or pissed or anything, I just wanted to know when was your first encounter with the douches of a gaming community(this was my first time), and how do you deal with it ingame, ie, what are your favourite comebacks(yes, I know, don't feed the troll, but we sometimes want to indulge in an attempt to beat the stupid out of cod kiddies)

So you tried a new champ without playing him vs. bots around 3 times? And then raged and replied with "Are you 12?"?

Sorry to break it to you, but you ARE the 'infamous LoL player'. Not to mention you claimed to be superior in intelligence, but actually acted out in a quite retarded way.

Actually I already knew his abilities & some of his nuances beforehand; I played as him a few times before, but I left LoL for a month once I had discovered DoTA 2, so I was a bit rusty, nonetheless, Ziggs was creep denying constantly & I still tried through duking and staying away from dangerous encounters; in addition, I apologized for every death and congratulated every well-executed kill, however, Pantheon was being an arrogant prick, and I KNEW I SUCKED AS KENNEN, I was not in denial, but his comments made me rage.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I inquired if he's 12,

And then....

I quite clearly had intelligence superiority.

Not one to point out the painfully obvious but no, no you didn't.

The "are you 12" comment is quite possibly one the least intellectual and most pathetic attempts at an "insult" used by dwellers of the internet.

In fact, it's derogatory to insults to put that in the same category.

An intelligent way to go about it was to remain silent and giggle to yourself at illiterate attempts to put you down.

Or at least use witty put downs of your own.

I know, I was still raging, forgive me, but in the face of both xenophobia and homophobia, I assume instantly.
(LoL does that to me sometimes)

So basically you failed to keep a cool head when faced with some supposedly 12 year old kid throwing petty insults at you.

I hate to break it to you bro, but you're one of LoL's infamous "players".

I go to a school, the population of which is mostly made up of annoying racist & homophobic teenagers, I'm usually calm, but I suppressed rage for far too long and I guess I snapped.

I know I shouldn't throw such insults, and I do feel bad for doing so, but likewise, rage built up and that match was my breaking point.

 

[bearlotz]

Now you should stop jumping down the OPs throat, stop pretending that you've never been there and stop pretending as if he's in the wrong when he said that he only came out with one comment.

Pretty much, the LoL community could try the patience of Buddha himself.

Honestly, just remember that they have terrible days and terrible games just like you and don't let other people put you off of a game you like. I usually joke around in allchat before things really start to kick off, so far it seems to be spreading peaceful vibes to both teams. Its harder to get srs bsns mad at the same people you were just quoting Futurama with.

 

[KeyMaster45]

It didn't take long after I started playing WoW to meet my first douche, though I didn't see my first truly horrid example of online personality until the Burning Crusade example.

I was tending to what small amount of AH investments I tended to make when I get a whisper out of the blue from someone asking that I run them through a low level dungeon. I was busy and had other things I wanted to get done so I said no, and that should have been the end of it. This person, however, had apparently asked multiple other people to do this prior to getting to me in their random selection of lvl 70 players currently in cities, and persisted. I cannot stress enough that I had never met this person and had no affiliation with them.

"Why not," they asked.

"Because I'm busy and don't feel like running someone through a dungeon." I replied.

"But you have to run me!" they cried.

"No I don't."

"You're max level, you're supposed to run low level players through dungeons. Cmon, I've been at this for hours." they insisted.

"First off, I have no obligation to run low level players through dungeons. Second, in the time you say you've spent begging for runs you could have been out questing and long since leveled up. Really you should just skip dungeons entirely as questing will get you leveled up much faster."

I don't remember the specifics after that point, but suffice it be said he lost his shit after that. After spamming me with insults for a few minutes he decided to take his tirade to trade chat. That's when I just flat ignored him, which lasted about as long as it took for him to log over to another character to by pass the ignore. This went on for a solid half hour(they started just making and deleting characters I think); they'd log to another character and I'd put them on the ignore list. The only effect it had on me was a bit of shock that the person was so determined, and a bit of wondering if it was someone's pathetic attempt at random trolling.

 

[Artemis923]

Today, I decided to try out Kennen, I wasn't entirely sure about him, after all, I absolutely suck as Akali and Shen, and I was convinced that the "ninja squadron" characters weren't for me.

Nonetheless, I thought It'd be fun to try him out, as I have a preference for all lightning-oriented characters in video-games, suffice to say, the match did not go well: I was up against ziggs, and my MS was painfully slow, I got poked a lot & died often during the mid game.

At around the 12:00 mark, Pantheon started projecting via chat, with the usual selection of CoD kiddie comments, when I called him out on it(I inquired if he's 12, I shouldn't have gotten myself involved, but anger took over), he barraged me with continuous insults, but it didn't affect me, due to the reason that I quite clearly had intelligence superiority.

I'm not hurt, or pissed or anything, I just wanted to know when was your first encounter with the douches of a gaming community(this was my first time), and how do you deal with it ingame, ie, what are your favourite comebacks(yes, I know, don't feed the troll, but we sometimes want to indulge in an attempt to beat the stupid out of cod kiddies)

I would have probably complained myself. Sure, it's not ranked, but nothings sucks more ass than going 4-0 in my lane and watching n00bs lose the game.

If you don't know how to use a champion, play a bots game.

 

[joshthor]

yeah. its gotten much better but you still have your gems occasionally. I was on the PBE last night and the enemy nami was complaining about how her team was very noob when she fed 4 kills immediately. then the other team was all fighting nami on all chat and i jumped in and started making fun of her english asking her what an su and a ck meant as they are not words. if someone is berating you in game its better to pretend that they have a mental deficiency than to actually insult them. its funny, both teams tend to enjoy it (if they are berating their team on all chat they tend to be worse in team chat) and it is unbannable.

 

[snake4769]

I love how everyone on this forum TRIES to act so intelligent. Its cute.

Justin Beiber avatar, 80 posts and 5 warnings, post that's unrelated to everything. OBVIOUSLY you're not trying to bait ANYONE into ANYTHING...

OT: After reading a few of the insults, it seems like people are just jumping on the bandwagon that the first reply obviously started... I know for a fact that none of you saints stay completely level headed in 100% of your league games.

I know ALL OF YOU have had at least one game where you get pissed off and flame others. There's no question in it, the only ones of you who probably haven't are those who have only played about 5 games. Now you should stop jumping down the OPs throat, stop pretending that you've never been there and stop pretending as if he's in the wrong when he said that he only came out with one comment.

Disregarding my bad track records, what i said still holds truth. Seriously, the OP calls him 12, then thinks hes a very intellectual. When called on it, hes gives BS about him having a rage moment and he was tired and somehow found out he actually was 12. (wtf?) This forum is full of that type of silly non-sense. And no not trolling, last post on it. Just IMO.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I love how everyone on this forum TRIES to act so intelligent. Its cute.

Justin Beiber avatar, 80 posts and 5 warnings, post that's unrelated to everything. OBVIOUSLY you're not trying to bait ANYONE into ANYTHING...

OT: After reading a few of the insults, it seems like people are just jumping on the bandwagon that the first reply obviously started... I know for a fact that none of you saints stay completely level headed in 100% of your league games.

I know ALL OF YOU have had at least one game where you get pissed off and flame others. There's no question in it, the only ones of you who probably haven't are those who have only played about 5 games. Now you should stop jumping down the OPs throat, stop pretending that you've never been there and stop pretending as if he's in the wrong when he said that he only came out with one comment.

Disregarding my bad track records, what i said still holds truth. Seriously, the OP calls him 12, then thinks hes a very intellectual. When called on it, hes gives BS about him having a rage moment and he was tired and somehow found out he actually was 12. (wtf?) This forum is full of that type of silly non-sense. And no not trolling, last post on it. Just IMO.

So stating that I was still angry at the time of writing of my first post is absolute BS? Seriously, you jump to conclusions a bit too quick. Also, LoL does that to you as well, it can invoke arrogance, and I admit that once I read that he was 12, I did assume that I was smarter than him; I was still angry after the match. Also, Pantheon himself stated that he was 12(my comments got to him, as the insults intensified and he admitted so)

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Also, LoL does that to you as well, it can invoke arrogance, and I admit that once I read that he was 12, I did assume that I was smarter than him; I was still angry after the match. Also, Pantheon himself stated that he was 12(my comments got to him, as the insults intensified and he admitted so)

Dude.

Like...seriously, holy shit. It's a video game. The people you talk to in League of Legends are nothing more than text on a screen. Responding to their inept dribble is what they want. Half the time when I play LoL, I don't even pay attention to the chat log. Like I give a flying fuck what some random person on the internet thinks about how I play a video game.

I'm there (and you should be too) to have fun. You shouldn't let them get to you like that.

 

[clippen05]

I don't generally get LOL hate comments anymore... I got them a decent amount when I just started and now I'm mid-level. When I start playing Ranked matches I'll probably start seeing them again. But to be honest, I can understand where of these comments come from. In a game like LOL, if one teammate is doing bad it could very well cause the team to lose. Lol is a very competitive game; I won't lie, I play to win and it becomes frustrating when a teammate prevents you from winning. But still, frustration doesn't mean you can call people out with hate-speak. Some people can control their frustration, others cannot... you get the latter teammates sometimes...

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Also, LoL does that to you as well, it can invoke arrogance, and I admit that once I read that he was 12, I did assume that I was smarter than him; I was still angry after the match. Also, Pantheon himself stated that he was 12(my comments got to him, as the insults intensified and he admitted so)

Dude.

Like...seriously, holy shit. It's a video game. The people you talk to in League of Legends are nothing more than text on a screen. Responding to their inept dribble is what they want. Half the time when I play LoL, I don't even pay attention to the chat log. Like I give a flying fuck what some random person on the internet thinks about how I play a video game.

I'm there (and you should be too) to have fun. You shouldn't let them get to you like that.

[Referral to original post]

I know, but as I mentioned in previous quote(/replies? I don't know what to call them) I had some anger built up as a result of going to school with quasi-cod kiddies, and likewise, I know that comments shouldn't get to me, but sometimes you snap and become contempt of a barrage of insults to such a point that you can't help but respond.

 

[daveman247]

I can't remember my first encfounter like that in a game. I've had xbox live for 4 or 5 years now

I DO remember rainbow six vegas being particulary unfriendly - where i got the game a year or so after it came out. So pretty much everyone was level 50. Most hosts booted me for being level 1. Gave up quite quickly with that games multi :/

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I've been interested in LoL, but all the talk about the community puts me right off. I have a thin skin, and I'm sure it would fuck with my psyche to have to endure a hazing ritual in order to play a game.

Also, it appears that there's a "right" way to play the matches, and little room to improvise or try a different approach. Is this true? I don't see how it would be fun if I had to "do it right" and strictly adhere to my role. If I'm wrong about this, I would love for someone to enlighten me. I'd be willing to give it a shot if stories of the hellishness have been greatly exaggerated.

 

[bliebblob]

You want to know how I deal? Sit down kids, grampa's about to tell a story.

This happened yesterday, in a christmas themed minigame in guild wars 2.

Him: OMG fucking OP noob scouts
Me (a scout): haters gonna hate
Him: noobs gonna abuse
Me: problem?
Him: learn to fucking play normal noob
Me: snowball fights, serious business.
Him: It's not a snowballfight it's a game
Some third dude: actually it's just bits and bytes
Me: nuh uh! itz electic signals moving thru teh mainframes! ur all wrong noobz! iwinz!!!!

He went quiet after that, a shame because there were plenty more lines where those came from.

So let's sum up today's lesson.
Your attitude should always be: "Oh look, here comes Ragey Mc. bilespew and his friends hissy and fit. He's trying to start a flamewar? How quaint."
After that, ignore or block. And by ignore I mean don't even read his stuff or you'll get all hot and bothered after all.
If you're feeling particularly confident in your ability to stay in a good mood, feel free to poke fun like I did in the example above.

Class dismissed!

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

WoW. First dungeon with a guild. Got to a chest and i automatically click on it. I guess its an automatic reaction to me from rpgs. So i end up collecting a thing i didnt want by accident and quickly wrote, that i picked it up and others are welcome to it. But no, this one guy playing a dwarf just bitched and tried to get me kicked out the guild, bad mouthed me. This other guild guy said his like that and they accept it. I really think he believes his a dwarf the loser. The guild also wanted me to have a meeting with the guild leaders about it at a certain place and time in the game world. I thought this was bullshit and ignored them.

I still dont get why people react like that. Its a game. Its meant to be fun.

 

[Risingblade]

I've been interested in LoL, but all the talk about the community puts me right off. I have a thin skin, and I'm sure it would fuck with my psyche to have to endure a hazing ritual in order to play a game.

Also, it appears that there's a "right" way to play the matches, and little room to improvise or try a different approach. Is this true? I don't see how it would be fun if I had to "do it right" and strictly adhere to my role. If I'm wrong about this, I would love for someone to enlighten me. I'd be willing to give it a shot if stories of the hellishness have been greatly exaggerated.

There's a meta in place, you can try to improvise but really if you don't know what you're doing you'll just end up feeding the other team then they will proceed to slaughter your team. There are 5 roles and you can't really go out of them. Top who plays the top lane, Mid you plays the mid lane, Jungle who kills the monsters in the jungle area and ganks other lanes, ADC who usually carries the game and support who baby sits the adc and gets them fed. The community can be bad at times but it's gotten better with the new honor system.

 

[mrblakemiller]

I was playing bot, purple team (where I always do worse), and I died once. The jungler told people to report me for feeding. I don't get how other players think that will make anything better, will inspire confidence or get a better result. Whenever I'm heckled, I always do worse, up to the point where I play my best but hope we lose just so my buttmunch teammate doesn't win. Anyway,I died two more times after arguing with him on the nature of feeding, he said, "And that's trike three!," and I disconnected. I'll bet they lost suddenly having to 4v5.

Seriously, what are they thinking?

 

[Vegosiux]

Oh, the classic "Mid of I feed" attitude was all to common. But best game ever was when there was a particularly obnoxious Lulu who at the start of the game went "WTF no jungler, I'm going to alt tab and surrender at 20". That's what they did, put up a surrender vote at 20. When we already all but annihilated the other team, 4v5. Incidentally it was one of my best Gangplank games ever. We proceeded to actually win while the Lulu was still raging and threatening to report us all for...I don't know what. Being retards who can't jungle or something. All I know is that they got 9 reports in the end.

Best part was? That player seemed to actually take offense when we won the game without them!

 

[bearlotz]

I've been interested in LoL...Also, it appears that there's a "right" way to play the matches, and little room to improvise or try a different approach. Is this true? I don't see how it would be fun if I had to "do it right" and strictly adhere to my role.

There's a meta in place, you can try to improvise but really if you don't know what you're doing you'll just end up feeding the other team then they will proceed to slaughter your team. There are 5 roles and you can't really go out of them. Top who plays the top lane, Mid you plays the mid lane, Jungle who kills the monsters in the jungle area and ganks other lanes, ADC who usually carries the game and support who baby sits the adc and gets them fed. The community can be bad at times but it's gotten better with the new honor system.

Rising summed it up pretty well. There are some champions who can fit multiple roles (Dr. Mundo, Sion, Kayle, and so forth) depending on what items you buy and how you play, but in general each champion has a well-defined role on the team.

Try not to think of it as "there is a right way to play a character" so much as "everyone can't be good at everything". For example, if you play a mid lane mage character (Ryze, Swain, LeBlanc, etc.) it makes the most sense to focus on buying items that increase your Ability Power (more damage), max mana or mana regeneration (cast more spells before running dry), or spell penetration (ignore enemy magic resistance). You could opt to build for attack damage or attack speed instead, but then you wind up with a character who cannot get very much damage on their spells but also cannot do enough damage by attacking to be helpful to the team.

You want to first match your playstyle to a role, then find a few characters within that role that you like and try to get familiar with their abilities. I highly recommend bot games for this step. Next you can check out some build guides for your favorite champions and try them out a few times. When you do this, try to understand why each item is there and what benefit(s) your character gets from it. This lets you start to really determine what your champion needs, and once you know that you can start trying out different items to fill those needs.

tl;dr- you can improvise, but only once you really know what you're doing.

Edit: quoted Risingblade properly