League of Legends - Negative Players

I have been playing quite a bit of League of Legends recently (or Leagends as Alice and I like to call it because we don't really like saying LoL for it) and while I primarily did Coop matches, Alice and I have started to get into playing PvP matches more often. This of course has led to finding people that aren't the greatest teammates ever fairly quickly and not in the skill department either, it's that they are simply negative jerks. The most recent one I've had was when I was practicing Amumu on my own while Alice wasn't around to play with and so I could be able to play well with her when she does have time, but that's getting offtrack, so back to the main point; the most recent and probably the inspiration of the post was someone did the following :

1. Arrogantly said “you're welcome” every time they helped with a kill
2. Complained about kill stealing
3. Didn't like that they weren't doing well and said that they were “sucking” which I normally don't have a problem with, however, they also wanted to surrender because of this (the fact that they weren't doing well), right after we killed the entire enemy team which made no sense at all to me.

We ended up winning the match anyway, but it still wasn't exactly the most enlightening thing to see, especially because in just the game before that, I also had a very similar teammate who did the exact same thing, I'm pretty sure they weren't the same person. While we're on a list mode, I've also seen people that :

-Have wanted to surrender after dying once

-Complained about kill stealing (of course)

-On the above point, also complained about kill stealing after winning (because of help) a losing duel between themselves and someone else

-Complained about others while not doing well themselves in a completely unrelated lane

-Not select a champion at the start and not leave the match setup, so they end up just AFKing/Idling the entire match or disconnecting while the game is in progress

-Purposely run in and die against the enemy team to level them up

-(I didn't personally see this one but Adam apparently has) Sit in the main friendly base and use wards to make smiley faces

-And many other things I haven't seen yet

Normally I would be used to this because of my World of Warcraft Battlegrounds experience, however it seems to be much more rampant here, and not only that but for sure, having a “bad” team mate impact the rest of the team much, much more in League of Legends. For those who haven't played the game (which I still recommend trying even if you don't like it to start off with), having a bad team mate I would say... increases the chance of a loss by at least 30% if not more, because if the enemy team is good, there are many more things a team with 5 team mates could do as opposed to one with 4.

In the end however, having bad team mates isn't that great for a non-social person like me who doesn't like communicating with strangers in the first place, but I try to do it as much as possible to be polite or to help the team, at the very least to help the team in any case. It's very disheartening, frustrating, and annoying to try to say something even like “garen mia, possibly going to mid” and then to get a dumb response in return. For me even, it's a huge deterrence to just see other people argue and complain to each other or make fun of each other when a team mate makes a mistake somewhere.

I suppose it's because League of Legends is a Free to Play game and from what I've seen a majority of the F2P (no offense to anyone of course) communities are very bad. World of Warcraft doesn't seem to be much of an improvement, but I've at least had reasonable conversations with WoW players now and then, whereas it almost feels like a lost cause for League of Legends.

However, I can't do much to change that, and the fun factor along with wanting to be better at League of Legends offsets the “dumb” players factor pretty well, in fact despite this entire post right after it I plan on playing another game with Amumu for even more practice, so overall I guess while it is annoying, it's just something that you have to deal with, and this isn't to say all League of Legends players are like that, it's just that a majority seem to be, but of course, only time will tell.