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I was playing\u00a0League of Legends<\/em>\u00a0one day (big surprise), and I was in a game with a teammate of marginal talent, repeatedly dying.\u00a0 Eventually they blamed their performance (or lack thereof) on\u00a0the royal lag<\/strong>, which is\u00a0obviously<\/em>\u00a0the reason why anyone has a bad game, because everyone is extremely talented at League of Legends and the only thing that can suppress their immense talent would be uncontrollable ISP maladies.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, my natural response to someone whining about lag was to basically tell them to stop playing, because let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s not fair to their current and their future teammates to repeatedly enter games with\u00a0their true talents inhibited by connectivity issues<\/em>, and not necessarily said to (entirely) antagonize them.\u00a0 But naturally, since 95% of LoL\u2019s player base are functioning deadbeats, they naturally took it personally and decided to spend the rest of the game antagonizing me as best as they could, which is to say pathetically and completely ineffectively.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among their onslaught of weak insults was making fun of my LoL \u201crank,\u201d which is a Silver II.\u00a0 Which is basically saying I\u2019m among the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0from the bottom tier of the supposed 25 tiers of rankings there are in the ranked mode.\u00a0 Honestly, I probably don\u2019t even belong in Silver II, probably lower, since I was pretty putrid in most of my provisional ranked games, but the fact of the matter is that I won enough games to place Silver II, and not end up in Bronze, the more or less, five lowest tiers of ranked mode.<\/span><\/p>\n However, despite the fact that he was a Gold ranked player, I was still handily the vastly superior player compared to them in this particular match in terms of KDA (kills\/deaths\/assists), but that didn\u2019t stop them from taking all of their (often) respawn time plus actual game time to make sure they could look up my account for fuel to try to attempt to rank shame me.\u00a0 Needless to say, we lost the match, no thanks in part to their inability to get over their fixation with me, and all the details encompassing my ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n I will be the first to admit that I\u2019m far from simply an adequate-skilled player, in spite of how much I play and how much I talk about League of Legends.\u00a0 It\u2019s an ever-moving game, and for those not simply gifted with immense video game talent like me, it\u2019s also a game that really needs a lot of practice and time to keep up with the rapidly changing metas and styles, much less grow as players.<\/span><\/p>\n Rank shaming is about one of the most common and frequently used forms of harassment that League players go with when they feel like trying to antagonize other players.\u00a0 Short of hacking or excessively researching other players by their handles (AKA tryharding) and hoping to find corresponding uses in other outlets, players\u2019 ranks are really the only thing trolls really have to use to antagonize other players with.\u00a0 At least the ones completely lacking in antagonistic creativity, which basically is the 90% of League\u2019s player base.<\/span><\/p>\n Utilizing rank shaming is almost more detrimental to the person trying to use it; to me, it just makes them look like the bigger tryhard, especially if they\u2019re becoming so fixated with the pursuit of rank shaming that they actually use their own time to look up the players they wish to flame, in order to rank shame.\u00a0 Then, it\u2019s not really clever or slanderous as much as it\u2019s well, sad.\u00a0 Frankly, I\u2019d rather just make assumptions that the other players are fat nerds, call them as such, and then be on my merry way.\u00a0 It\u2019s like 3\/5 times, it\u2019s probably true.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, not only does rank shaming not work on me, it just makes me feel kind of sad, that there are so many people out there that are not only poor(er than me) at LoL, but have absolutely zero ability to hurl a good insult, or say something witty in game.\u00a0 Calling people bronze or silver is about as useless and dated as saying someone is an outdated jab, like calling a person \u201cgnarly\u201d or something Michelangelo would have called the Shredder in the classic TMNT cartoon.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m hoping for too much expectations from a game that has so many retards in its ranks like LoL, but I\u2019ll be the first to admit that I often give praise, or at least click \u201chonor\u201d for those who actually demonstrate some clever wit in-game.\u00a0 Wit, is something worthy of praise, regardless of the skill of the player.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was playing\u00a0League of Legends\u00a0one day (big surprise), and I was in a game with a teammate of marginal talent, repeatedly dying.\u00a0 Eventually they blamed their performance (or lack thereof) on\u00a0the royal lag, which is\u00a0obviously\u00a0the reason why anyone has a bad game, because everyone is extremely talented at League of Legends and the only thing … Continue reading Rank shaming is basically the lamest form of flaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,154,15,124],"class_list":["post-40102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-og","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40104,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions\/40104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}