I must say the journey from 0 to daimond was a rough one and over time I learned things the hard way. The bottom line of this post is this: PvP doesn’t matter. Do not take this the wrong way as I will explain what I mean by that.
Having reach ruby for the first time in the flash of about 2 days worth of work from amber was pretty frustrating. Dealing with ruby on its own proved to be a challenge with a guild party, but on solo queue it was less of a hassle.
However, the focus of this post is about being able to control your anger. More than often it seems that players decide to bash each other for not doing something or for foul motive to disgrace a player, but in the end, the reality is just as I said before, it doesn’t matter.
In ruby there are players that constantly push your anger by spamming emotes, saying you suck, that you don’t know how to play your class, dancing on top of your corpse or simply saying you are a loser, and overall being bad sports. I myself have done this to many people ankitten ow hated by sooo many people that my block list grew by an extra 300 ish people. And the last thing you want is for you to end up in the same team with the person you bashed and for them to tell the whole team “F*** this guy.”
On one occasion I argued heavily with a season 3 legendary about something that happened in a match, basically a necro had gone for our lord in legacy and I was open to respond but when I did, the necro had already brought down our lord, so it was up to me to either finish the necro off or rez the lord, and I had to pick one quick so I killed the necro and in doing so the necro finished killing the lord while I tried to finish him off using his minions to take out the last bit of health the lord had. The former legendary quickly argued that I was the reason we lost the game and naturally I responded by fighting back. Throughout the entirety of the argument he stayed calm and kept calling me stupid and brutish.
To this day I still don’t believe it was my fault we lost the match, but after consecutive death threats and private messages with people telling me nasty things and such… I just stopped and realized that none of this really truly matters. Getting a little rock with a V which I did get (hehe daimond), looks good because in a way it shows that you have a good standing among other players. In reality you could be total garbage at fighting but you managed to help your team win every fight, whatever the reason, but what I’m truly getting at here is get to daimond or don’t the game really is just king of the hill and nothing more, there is no winner for who has the most kills, or which team is the killer frenzy, that pebble next to your name simply says, you’re good enough to play against these kind of players at king of the hill, and that you’ve worked hard to attain it.
Another thing I wanted to talk about is loss streaks. Eventually the more losses you have the angrier you become, and this is a good thing because you develop a point where losing or winning doesn’t mean anything anymore, you simply just stop caring about winning or losing, and instead about having fun.
So the next time you know someone kicks dust on you, the next time you lose a match, and you are angry with the team. Don’t blame other people, don’t lash out at anyone person, don’t spam disrespectful emotes when its not a clear 1v1 and try your best to respect competitors. Remember that to a title you should at least follow some sort of etiquette, most former legendaries at least the higher up ones that I’ve met so far have been people who really don’t do much of the things I mentioned before. Just remember that this is not a fair game, the metas for certain are not fair, people are not fair, life is not fair, and that at the end of the day, this is just but another video game and that like most in the end, it doesn’t matter.
I guarantee that once you reach say legendary you get some achievements with some titles and nothing happens except for the fact that you’ll be recognized a little more by the community, but that’s it.
