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

[Vegosiux]

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

I remember one game I did with a couple of my friends, we ran one mid, one bot, three junglers. And we completely demolished the other team because we pulled it off well and before they realized what was going on, their confusion as to what we're actually doing cost them like 12 kills and a few thousand gold deficit.

So yeah, agreed. Improvization can be really fun, but you do need to know what you're doing, and make sure the other team doesn't figure it out too soon. Unconventional approaches are unconventional for a reason - were they always successful, they wouldn't be unconventional...

 

[OniaPL]

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)

-Kennen wins against Ziggs. Ziggs lives on midgame poke and Kennen has everything he needs to counter that.
-Against a skillshot oriented champion you start with boots. Kennen + boots doesn't have a painfully slow ms.

OT:
-You talk about Pantheon being the usual CoD kiddie
-You do the typical "Are you twelve? Omg CoD Kiddie" -thing
-After that you claim to be intellectually superior
- " but we sometimes want to indulge in an attempt to beat the stupid out of cod kiddies"

Oh dear. Was it sucky that Pantheon raged at you for being sucky? Yes. Are you any better? Well, no.

 

[s0p0g]

LoL is a demanding game and very frustrating when one of your teammates is single-handedly losing the game for you.

So PLEASE play at least a few games vs bots before you go out and just try a new champ in a normal game without knowing anything about how it handles.

You are part of the problem.

OR you could just play LoL like, you know, a game. for fun. (that happy feeling when you do something)
games are played to have fun - don't take the fun out of your game

and yes, you can actually have fun even while losing - if you have nice company and a good time; you know, do your best, crack jokes, stuff like that

that includes not asking for a major eff-up, for example by playing a new char, or one you don't play well, during a ranked match, of course - no need to provoke shit

i am also fully aware that we're talking about a competetive game here - but that's what it is (or, at least supposed to be): a GAME
like, playing football at school when you were younger - sometimes you lost, but you could still have good time
(come to think about it, it's quite fascinating that the traditional game-logic doesn't work for a lot of video games. weird)

 

[OniaPL]

OR you could just play LoL like, you know, a game. for fun. (that happy feeling when you do something)
games are played to have fun - don't take the fun out of your game

But is your fun more important than my fun? I know guys who think it is fun to play AD Annie and AD Gragas, but that just ruins fun for the others who want to win. You might find playing AP Olaf fun, but I can guarantee the other 9 players will not find it very amusing, as they are stuck clowning around for at least 20 minutes.

You can have fun while losing, but you can't have fun when not trying. Too often people can't tell the difference between playing outside the meta/ trying something new and being a troll.

 

[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)

-Kennen wins against Ziggs. Ziggs lives on midgame poke and Kennen has everything he needs to counter that.
-Against a skillshot oriented champion you start with boots. Kennen + boots doesn't have a painfully slow ms.

OT:
-You talk about Pantheon being the usual CoD kiddie
-You do the typical "Are you twelve? Omg CoD Kiddie" -thing
-After that you claim to be intellectually superior
- " but we sometimes want to indulge in an attempt to beat the stupid out of cod kiddies"

Oh dear. Was it sucky that Pantheon raged at you for being sucky? Yes. Are you any better? Well, no.

I feel some clarifying statements need to be put into my original post(at time of writing, I have added the necessary details I missed out, pardon me, rage did that to me).

Ill admit that I wasn't doing too well, but at most, my K:A was around 2:3:5, not good, but I don't think that it is awful, yet I had never encountered pantheon(in a fight) until the 17:00 mark; the reason for as to why I responded was that after two kills in a row, he and his team joined in on taking the piss out of my team: use of homophobic comments was immature, in my opinion, so I called him out on it, wherein he responded with MORE homophobic comments, and that's around the part where I got angry.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

LoL is a demanding game and very frustrating when one of your teammates is single-handedly losing the game for you.

So PLEASE play at least a few games vs bots before you go out and just try a new champ in a normal game without knowing anything about how it handles.

You are part of the problem.

Also, I stand by everything the others have said about your "u cod kiddie, me intellectually superior" obnoxiousness. And it's clear that you're butthurt otherwise you wouldn't have posted in that tone.

[updated original post]

 

[Tony2077]

hmm i wonder whats worse the are you 12 thing or the elitism of some of the posters on here

 

[s0p0g]

OR you could just play LoL like, you know, a game. for fun. (that happy feeling when you do something)
games are played to have fun - don't take the fun out of your game

But is your fun more important than my fun? I know guys who think it is fun to play AD Annie and AD Gragas, but that just ruins fun for the others who want to win. You might find playing AP Olaf fun, but I can guarantee the other 9 players will not find it very amusing, as they are stuck clowning around for at least 20 minutes.

You can have fun while losing, but you can't have fun when not trying. Too often people can't tell the difference between playing outside the meta/ trying something new and being a troll.

nope, no one's fun is more important than someone else's, but it seems that to some people (and i have one of those among my friends) fun = winning, thus no win - no fun (if the game doesn't go as planned he becomes the worst raging bitchy whiny pussy in the hood! guess some games/genres have that effect on some of people)

also, as i said: "that includes not asking for a major eff-up, for example by playing a new char, or one you don't play well, during a ranked match, of course - no need to provoke shit" - no-one should intentionally fuck up a match by doing/buying obviously stupid shit. but there's intentional feeding, and there's just not-being-as-blessed-with-über-LoL-skillz-like-you

you wouldn't want the worst player to join your team for a tournament, but a match between classes on the schoolyard - why bother?

i am certainly not the best LoL-player on god's green earth, and of course my friends know that as well as i do, so i don't play ranked games (neither with them nor random)
also, as they play much more than i do i ask them for advice on new chars or after more-or-less major updates (tried that in random games too, but it seems some people prefer bitching to help improve someone's game; but at least they usually stop flaming afterward)

if they are out for a win they play ranked (without any wild experiments regarding builds or whatnot), and if they want to spend some of their leisure time chatting with friends via voicechat while playing LoL just for fun they go for a normal game and play it all relaxed

nothing wrong with being ambitious and competetive and all, but no need to be a dick about it - it's not like your future is at stake there; that's what RL is for

 

[Zacharious-khan]

in my opinion a game that has to instate a judgement system to go through all the players that act like assholes in game doesn't bode well to non-trolls

 

[Wackymon]

While the only time I've delt with those fellows is in TF2, where I wasn't the direct object of the harassment. There were these three fellows, pestering this little kid in TF2, and I tried to get them to let him/her be, and get him/her away from there. I... didn't do that well, they pretty much ignored me and continued to harass her. I didn't know how to contact the little kid, so I couldn't tell him/her to get off the server... It's a real shame, and even now, a solid month afterwords, I'm still fairly flustered.

Also: I've probably been the but of the Internets stupidity, and just don't remember.

 

[Jaeke]

My first one of these was a couple weeks ago, when I was locked in Diana and called mid but decided to go top since someone else had just locked in Kassadin even though I called mid.
I shrugged it off as w/e but the moment I got to top, my teammate Teemo just started ranting at me in broken English, typing "ATTK NOOB" over and over for about 20 seconds,I attacked and killed the enemy Riven, but Teemo died, and just went off again with his keyboard. I just hit the ignore button for a bit, but after a while the rest of the team, being French, just started insulting me, calling me a "dumass American" and other hilarious petty "insults", telling me to go Mid, which I refused to do because of my stuborness. Eventually it led to threats of a report and I just laughed at them. Teemo, of course, did the whole roundabout from turret to turret, picking up kills (YES HE STOLE KILLS GET OVER IT) and using his high kill count as an excuse to call me a noob (I was 1-4-19 at this point just for reference).

The whole experience disgusted me so much I stopped playing the game for a couple weeks.

 

[Jaeke]

Meh, honestly for every dick I encounter in LoL I find like 10 more people who are hilarious.

That was literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Thanks.

 

[bearlotz]

in my opinion a game that has to instate a judgement system to go through all the players that act like assholes in game doesn't bode well to non-trolls

They did, any time a player gets reported too many times their account goes to the Tribunal for review and judgement. Also, they recently added an Honor system with 4 categories (Helpful, Friendly, Teamwork, Honorably Opponent). If you get honored enough times in any category (20-25 times I think?) then it displays a little graphic on your profile during champion selection.

 

[Vegosiux]

in my opinion a game that has to instate a judgement system to go through all the players that act like assholes in game doesn't bode well to non-trolls

They did, any time a player gets reported too many times their account goes to the Tribunal for review and judgement. Also, they recently added an Honor system with 4 categories (Helpful, Friendly, Teamwork, Honorably Opponent). If you get honored enough times in any category (20-25 times I think?) then it displays a little graphic on your profile during champion selection.

I still think only opponents should be able to "honor" you, if only to prevent a quite obvious way to abuse the system. "Oh, so we'll play 5 games together and just honor each other for everything after each of them"

 

[bearlotz]

I still think only opponents should be able to "honor" you, if only to prevent a quite obvious way to abuse the system. "Oh, so we'll play 5 games together and just honor each other for everything after each of them"

You can only honor a player in one category for a game. The potential is still there, but what does anyone really gain by scamming the honor system? They'll have the ribbon during champ select, but it doesn't really give any advantage or anything like that. It is a system that can be manipulated, but the stakes are low enough that it's not really a big deal if it is.

Besides, once the game actually starts everyone will form their own opinion of a player anyway.

 

[OniaPL]

OR you could just play LoL like, you know, a game. for fun. (that happy feeling when you do something)
games are played to have fun - don't take the fun out of your game

But is your fun more important than my fun? I know guys who think it is fun to play AD Annie and AD Gragas, but that just ruins fun for the others who want to win. You might find playing AP Olaf fun, but I can guarantee the other 9 players will not find it very amusing, as they are stuck clowning around for at least 20 minutes.

You can have fun while losing, but you can't have fun when not trying. Too often people can't tell the difference between playing outside the meta/ trying something new and being a troll.

AD Gragas is viable. His body slam gets AD scaling and his drink gives him more AD than Fiora's Riposte does. In addition to this, he gets damage reduction from his drink. The reason you hardly ever see it is because AP Gragas is better and easier to play, people don't use his drink effectively while AD, he has no MR per level and it negates all usability of his barrel roll.

Of course AD Gragas is somewhat viable, but there isn't a single reason to actually pick AD Gragas over all the other bruisers, which makes him useless in comparison.