Why would i play League when I can go have fun
It is fun, that’s why so many players play it. The issue is a toxic userbase. But playing in a 5 stack with friends is great, as long as your friends aren’t toxic dicks either. You can mute the chat and not worry about the other team saying anything.
It’s the same phenomenon as road rage. You expect certain actions out of people without communicating, and when they don’t conform to your expectations, you wonder why they can’t just see the most obvious thing (to you).
There are different reasons for each, but very similar feelings.
I don’t personally get road rage because driving isn’t competitive. But I do react poorly to others raging at me (which is also a childish problem I should get over.)
Game specific diatribe incoming. Stop reading now or forever hold your peace.
Partly it’s that I have some unique ideas about how support can be played. Partly it’s that I’m absolutely more inclined to support somewhere else if I’ve lost confidence in my “partner”. Partly it’s that I’m actually bad at very obvious parts of the game, while it’s easy to overlook what I am accomplishing. I’ll take too many risks to maintain vision, for example. People get mad when I die stupidly, but don’t see how they’ve had better than professional vision for the entire game. (Because I take too many risks for it, and bad players are even worse at clearing vision.)
Learning to support others when you realize your carry is bad, tilted etc. is indeed one of the best skills for a support. Providing vision and general support to the one (or two) good players in the game is totally a winning strategy.
Also we don’t say “I died stupidly to grant vision”, we say “limit testing”.
I promise to stop taking risks once everyone settles down. I want to be clear about something. I’m not taking over the world, I’m un-taking it over. And you’re right I often don’t know what to do and that can get plenty wild, but its only because I keep being presented with impossible false dichotomies.