Top 10 Toxic Players and How to Deal With Them

Ten types of toxic teammates you'll meet in solo queue, and the CRAPIT method for dealing with every one of them.

Top 10

Toxic Players and How to Deal With Them

Solo Queue Survival Guide

Formatting refreshed for readability; the original list and mitigation tips below are unedited.

Ten types of toxic teammates you'll meet in solo queue, and the CRAPIT method for dealing with every one of them.

What is Toxicity?

Four years ago we put out an article titled "Top 10 Types of Negative Players and What to Do About Them", and many of them are still around. Some have phased out like the AFK player, who isn't nearly as annoying now that we have the remake button. Lobby trolls still exist, but they've also toned down a bit with role select.

Meanwhile, new ones came to life as we broke the 100-champion barrier, like the "It's Cuz You Picked" player. So how do we deal with them?

Use the CRAPIT Method

This is a Nerfplz (patent-pending) technique that will stop toxicity in its tracks, commonly named the CRAPIT method:

• Control: Control your emotions. Responding emotionally only makes them stronger.
• Respond: After you've cooled your head, think about the best way to reply before responding, which can be broken down into three main strategies:
• AVOID (Flight): If you're still in the lobby and determine that this person is not worth your time and sanity, avoid them by GTFO.
• PACIFY (Fight): If you're already stuck with them in-game, trying to pacify them and finish the game may be your only hope of saving your sanity.
• IGNORE (Fight/Flight): This one's a bit of a hybrid. You're passive-aggressively choosing to pretend they don't exist, which isn't the best scenario, but if you're unable to control your emotions, a simple /mute all may be your best bet.
• TRIGGER: When you're finally at your wit's end and on full tilt, given up all hope of winning the game, but want to have a good laugh with your premade, here's how to really rile them up.

The Top 10 Toxic Players

1

The "I Gotta Do Everything" Player

Also known as the center of the world player, this player needs a ton of hand-holding and a team that's able to execute his brilliant game-changing strategies. If you don't do exactly what he wants, you'll be sure to hear about it.

PACIFY: "I gotchu, NP bro." "My bad bruh."

TRIGGER: Tell him he can't carry and he's gotta go somewhere with kill potential.

2

The "LAG" Player

While ping is a legitimate concern, some players blame everything on lag, including their decision-making process.

PACIFY: "It's okay dude, you good now?"

TRIGGER: Ask if his brain is lagging too.

3

The "Split Push FTW" Player

Generally seen from Teemo or Tryndamere players, sometimes you get split push players in the form of your ADC. If this is the case, the only way to get them to team fight is to bring your team to the split-pusher and force fights there. On the other hand, it might be a viable strategy if he can stay alive or kill whoever comes to stop him.

PACIFY: "We need you bruh."

TRIGGER: Point out you have more CS than him.

4

The "It's Not My Fault" Player

Some players make every play about themselves, and nothing that ever happens is their fault. They'll explain at great length why and how they did everything right, and cry about how this game is impossible to win despite being perfect.

PACIFY: "Sorry dude."

TRIGGER: Tell him he's mad cuz he's bad.

5

The "That Champ is Busted" Player

Some players are super triggered when they die to another champion and blame their entire experience on Riot's game design.

PACIFY: "RIP, yeah she's busted."

TRIGGER: Tell him how low the win rate on that champion actually is.

6

The "My Jungler Is a Monkey" Player

Similar to the not-my-fault player, some players want to blame their jungler for their every failure in lane. Your jungler could be 10-0, but they would still be annoyed that you're not helping their lane and they've been getting ganked 24/7 with no wards up.

PACIFY: "Be there in a sec bro."

TRIGGER: Tell him you don't gank losing lanes.

7

The "No MIA" Player

Despite the fact that everyone can see the mini-map, people still seem to think that a failure to ping MIA makes whoever's lane it is instantly at fault.

PACIFY: "My bad brah."

TRIGGER: Tell him to open his eyes.

8

The "GG We Lose" Player

For some reason, there are players that spam surrender after first blood. Worse yet, they spam surrender before the lobby even finishes loading. Whatever the case, you can either try to avoid them or use the mitigation strategy.

PACIFY: "We got this, we have late-game."

TRIGGER: Tell him you're holding him hostage because he deserves to be trapped forever.

9

The "It's Cuz You Picked..." Player

Similar to the GG player, this player loves blaming a champion pick for a loss and saying it was guaranteed from the start, despite the roughly 50% win rate across the board for all champions.

PACIFY: "Chill, we got this."

TRIGGER: Tell him his champion's the one that sucks.

10

The "You Sucked Last Game" Player

This is one of the few times we'd genuinely suggest dodging in champion select, if someone else isn't already dodging. When you have two players bickering over how much each other sucked last game, it might be time to get out.

PACIFY: "New game guys, all good."

TRIGGER: Ban whoever he's hovering.

Which One Bugs You the Most?

Got more mitigation or triggering strategies to share? Let us know in the comments below.