I've been playing this game for more than 5 years and not once I have accepted one of these friendly invitations... after finishing a game that obviously didn't go well and that guy who was flaming all game long sends you a friend request I just avoid them, but I would like to hear some experiences.
Posted Jul 2, 2019, 7:15 AM UTC
I do it because 2 of my mates are already toxic pieces of shit so I've been conditioned to the point where I basically laugh at others tilting.
If you put your ego and pride aside it's lowkey hilarious how worked up some of these children get.
I accept, see the message and it's like comedy to me, free entertainment.
Bonus points if it is not just throwing bad words around, but actually funny roasts.
i.e.“I’d call you cancer, but at least cancer gets kills”
Its entertaining as hell.
Sometimes they get real creative.
Sometimes it's just stupid cursing for the sake of cursing.
I'll be entertained either way :-)
I accepted one the other day and he sent me 2 links, the first to a stool from Ace Hardware, the second to some rope, also from Ace Hardware.
I wonder what is that for? :D
So you can hang the stool from the rope, just like a chandelier! What a nice boy offering decorating tips!
I have that in my house actually and my non existent cat really likes to climb on it! Super fun to watch and have if you have a pet
Tell them to 1v1, wins the 1v1 and question mark him in chat. Then stay in the game to hold him hostage while watching Netflix with popcorn
I always end the game so it appears in match history and record the kill.
Ok, this is genius!
Ok, this is epic
See whenever I 1v1 these people they’re somehow so oblivious that even when they lose they say no I won because of ____.
A friend of mine who lost his promo to gold(might be silver 1?) who's pretty new to the game had an ongoing flamebattle with one guy on his team. Literally 2 minutes after the game ended he told us in Discord. "Alright, brb guys, gonna flame this guy in his discord, he just invited me." And literally 45 minutes later he comes back all chill "alright done, we ready for another game or what?" Lmao, best day of my life
I told this """smurf""" guy he was taking the game too seriously, as he was insulting everyone in chat. He added me to tell me to get a life and do something other than play League, I told him I was having a uni exam the next day while he was working on his 45% winrate """smurf""". He then goes on a rant saying I was failing the exam and that he hoped I forget everything etc etc.
I keep trying to add him back, I got a 17/20 and want to thank this guy for the luck, and keep him for upcoming exams :(
Well some are keep going with more insults, which made it even easier to get them punished. Others calmed down after a game and wrote some sincere advice on how to improve or sth. The later was obviously a much rarer case.
I've also had people apologising after flaming ingame, that was really nice
IIRC they don't ban/punish off of private messages.
Depends on what they write to you and you can still submit those tickets
you delay accepting until the guy is ingame again, then when he's about 10 minutes ingame you start spamming the private chat so he can't use the chat in his ranked game.
I mean that's just as bad as the guy flaming. It's the same thing.
classic 👌
That's pretty evil man. Exploiting riot's spaghetti code just like that. Not cool.
Fighting fire with fire
I usually accept to ask them if they're ok, i think half of the flamers just have hard stuff to deal with irl, and need this to cope
This is extra level BM and you win either way. Either it calms them down and you're the better person, or they get even more worked up and all you had to say was one thing.
I really don't mean it as a BM though.. just maybe they need to take 5 minutes to talk to someone.. so if I can be here for this, I'll be happy !
And if they just feel like insulting randoms well.. sure ok * removes friend * :D
I figured you don't actually, it's respectful enough that you make it an effort to actually comfort people. Living up to the Soraka flair.
I'm just a support IRL too :D
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This was what we call a 'joke'.
the joke card lol
I made around 7 good friends, that I keep in touch with still, by adding them after they "enjoyed ruining games". Most of these guys are either damaged socially (2 of them are 30 year olds without social capabilities and their only available option to vent is trolling) or having a tough time in general (a 16 year old with a non functioning family, a gay 15 year old in a homophobic environment, a failing 17 year old about to repeat another year in school etc.)
I figured that if I had the time to play child psychologist at ranked games I'd do better without the additional pressure of the game/teammates.
And I just love how a few days of talking turns them from constantly cursing/emotionally abusive to absolute sweethearts. I also like how especially the teens love to update me with how their life is changing, ask for advice I have literally no authority to give etc. It feels nice to be needed I guess :|
It feels nice to be able to help in general !
Good job with your great work man :D I hope you feel good yourself and are not just "coping" this way ?
In a way I was doing it for myself. As a kid I was constantly pushed away because I was a 'nuisance' so I kinda tried my hardest to be helpful to others and it kinda stuck. When I don't do enough to be thanked to I feel like I'm not being helpful aka deaf weight, even though it's not true.
Now it's getting better :) I finally have actual friends who value me as a person instead of my actions, so I always feel welcome and even got to rely on them once in a while which was pretty alien to me!
I can definitely relate to this! I'm glad you found those nice people too :D
I will accept the next person invitation and I will try to be supportive. Honestly, I don't accept these people because I just avoid being flame/flaming others but if I can help then it might be worth a shot.
You just gotta bear through the initial death wishing and angry lash outs :)
One guy that I beat 2-3 months ago in ARAM spammed me with friend requests until I decided to accept it and block him immediately, and recently I got a friend request from someone who had my former DUO's name but with one special character and I thought it was my former DUO and so I accepted it because my DUO used to make a lot of alt accounts and I thought it was him but it wasn't, I got a message from the guy that was spamming me friend requests going mental for once again and telling me that I thought I could hide from him by changing name, he sent me a screenshot telling me a lot of stuff like telling me to go kill myself, I do not know if this is bannable but I reported him the first time he started spamming me with friend requests for the first three days and Riot all that told me was to block him which I did but this time he took it on another mental level.
Some people don't realize that it's just a video game, holy shit.
lmao that perseverance to flame, you gotta give him credit for that
I accepted it to get screenshots and get him banned.
lol 8 year old account in diamond/masters every season, he bragged about having pretty much every purchasable skin in the game.
Sent in a ticket and I kept track of his op.gg for a few weeks, last game played was 2 games after I added him and let him flame me.
After a day or two of me sending in the ticket started getting spam adds from different accounts with similar names to the old account.
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That is fucking evil dude, was he ultra agressive in a sense of death threaths and racial slur or just friendly banter?
It was bad enough to get him banned so use your imagination.
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Iwilldominate added me after a game cuz he was pissed and flamed me for the most random shit. he wanted to go over the vod too..wasn’t even streaming.
A pro doing that is just straight harassing. I understand kids but a professional oh well
Well, I sometimes add the flamers myself, because they were decent after all, and invite them to play together. I'm kinda lucky, since it seems they're the ones that calm down after that game and overall pretty chill guys. Somewhat.
I've added only two people that way, though. And since I moved to another server (from RU to EUW) I didn't play with them since.
I was told to get castrated so there is that. I accepted it cause I thought he would be like “I was just joking in game bro. Just a game.” Boy was I wrong.
I accepted one not too long ago, and surprisingly he was adding me to apologize.
You accept, shit on them, and block before they can say anything
That's not shitting on them, mate
Maybe, but they are childish enough to send a friend request just to fight with their keyboard. Might as well get the last word and peace out
One time I went in game as support, had a random adc. After I got a kill in laning phase, we were walking back to lane from base. ADC said something like, don't take my kill or I will kill you. So I just trolled the rest of the game, didn't respond to ADC's comment, and ADC didn't say anything else, but I think we played fine and won the game, I just trolled and still carried. I was just thinking throughout the game how should I respond to that ADC, and our team was able to win despite being me being unfocused. Anyway, afterward in post game lobby, I added that ADC, they accepted, and I messaged them to say, don't send your support death threats. They didn't message back right away, then I removed them from my friends list.
You are toxic my friend. It could have gone wrong.
Imagine he goes afk because you troll. Imagine ur decisionmaking or winchance decrease you troll at all. You punish you 3 other mates with that behaviour. Just report that dude in the post game lobby.
You can be flamed by 3 people. As long there is an innocent player in your team ypu habe to play your hearth out and try your best.
I at least gave my best effort to win the game. It's still trolling to take a random sentence from chat, and interpret that as if it's an actual violent threat outside of the game. Even if my gameplay didn't suffer, my teammates still suffer because, if I had just told them "get your own last hits" then at least the issue would be resolved somewhat verbally in chat. Instead my approach to ignore them until after the game, created the impression that teammates don't know what my reaction would be, and implies there could be lingering animosity. So in that sense, it was trolling to ignore chat and prioritize winning, I probably should have said something to lighten the mood, because win or loss people don't want to play with the backdrop of having teammates feeling threatened or thinking their lives are at stake.
Because it’s funny watching a trash toxic player devolve even more. It’s pretty entertaining
He greeted me with ‚Hello cocksucker‘. Honestly i was just laughing my ass off with my mates on discord because of him.
they usually keep it up and ill just go "you doin good buddy? get it out" and theyll block after they say their spiel for a minute. a few times ive had people say "i have your ip and know where you live ill kill your family youre going to fucking die etc" and once i actually talked to the guy and made friends with him. we only talked a few other times so theres no holywood redemption, but sometimes flamers are just people having a bad day and are kind of sensible
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holy shit thats pretty desperate :D
Haha yea so desperate, whats your summoner name gurrl? Trynna hit me up on the rift?
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Sounds like people from OCE servers
Or just any gamers on any server.
Yeah lol how’d you guess
I'm curious. Did he just start messaging you and figured it out through context clues? Or did he invite you to a game and you both joined voice comms?
Context cues, I don’t like using voice chat
Then that's even funnier. Theres no way he could have picked up on that super quickly, so dude have to have done a hard 180 after he was well committed to his argument.
I know right it was hilarious
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Oh man, I can try this one :o
In all seriousness I've invited almost every single one of those people to play a game with me. And then just played normally and didn't troll. I had a premade on the enemy team call me toxic tell me I was reported and say I was gunna be banned. (I had literally said nothing all game I was just smashing their team 1 v 5) and so I added them and joined their lobby to play. lmao they kept flaming me in voice chat thinking I couldnt hear them. It was pretty hilarious.