Annoyed by trolls who bother you in online games, flame you, and bring your mood down? A Twitch streamer shows in League of Legends how you should deal with the typically aggressive players in LoL.
Who’s streaming? On the account omg_mom_play_lol, as the name suggests, a mother plays the MOBA League of Legends. She plays at Silver 3 level, roughly in the lower middle.
What happened? On February 9, she streamed LoL matches on Twitch. In a clip that has been seen often now, she plays the supporter Zyra. She is a mage, a hybrid being of plant and human, who fights with the help of plants. Her teammate on the bot lane wrote in the team chat that she shouldn’t stand behind the teammate with her ranged character. After all, the opponent is only Nautilus, a melee champion.
Then he adds a “Pussa,” which presumably stands for “Pussy.” Trolls often use this word to describe that players are not aggressive enough, but rather reserved and passive. He probably wrote it with an “a” to bypass the profanity filter.
The streamer reads the chat to her viewers and has to laugh after she says, “and he calls me a pussy.”
In the chat, a allied player immediately writes that the stressor should calm down. The streamer is trying hard.
The Twitch clip has now more than 110,000 views.
What is a troll in League of Legends anyway?
Mom just laughs off the troll
How does she deal with the troll? The Twitch streamer responds confidently and simply writes, “Okay, then I’ll play more aggro now.”
She also says: “Okay, you want aggro? Then we’ll dance the aggro dance now, darling. That’s no problem at all. We can do this. We can really do it.”
A good troll first made the viewers of this stream groan, then laugh.
Why is this exemplary? Trolls are a problem in many online games. But usually only if you pay them attention. Those who laugh in their face and take them not seriously will leave them running empty with their anger.
Our author Patrick Freese also thinks so:
I played ranked games in League of Legends diligently for a couple of years. Unfortunately, trolls always played a big role. The problem back then was often that people thought they had to justify themselves against the internet tough guys. Instead of concentrating on a game and muting the stressor immediately, heated discussions broke out.
Quickly, one troll, who contributes nothing to the game, becomes a group of at least two players, who prefer to chat and diss each other rather than help the team. Not infrequently, entire games collapse because of this ‘But he insulted me, I have to defend myself’ mentality.
The streamer in the clips shown takes it all with humor. She does not let herself be provoked by the insults and does not justify why she played passively before.
Do you also have a cool way to deal with trolls? Ignore them?
Caution! The worst trolls are even sued on TwitchTV.
