What a load of crock.<p>LoL is still easily the most toxic community I&#x27;ve ever laid eyes on, and most of the toxicity is created by the way Riot has implemented  their system.<p>All it takes is 1 person to ruin an hour of your day, and if you try and refuse to allow it to be ruined, riot will ban you (you&#x27;re forced to play a game with someone who is purposefully losing the game because they didn&#x27;t get what they wanted, and there&#x27;s nothing you can do except spend the next 30-40 minutes in a game you know is a loss or get banned for leaving the game early).<p>The result is that the community writes these long articles about the &quot;art of dodging&quot;.  For those unaware, the game happens in 2 stages.  &quot;champ select&quot; during which everyone decides on the role and character they&#x27;re going to play, and then the game itself.  If you leave during champ select you get a penalty before you can rejoin a game.  First dodged game is 5 minutes, every subsequent dodge is 30 minutes (resets 24 hours after your first dodge).<p>Because champ select + game tends to last an hour and a dodge only lasts 30 minutes, you save time by dodging and waiting.  It gets more subtle than that, in that your teammates might get angry at you halfway through the game and then decide to purposefully lose the game for you.  Because of this, it becomes an art to determine how much risk you have of wasting time going into a game.<p>So there&#x27;s these guides running around about how to determine when to dodge as a means of climbing rank (most people will tell you that learning when to dodge is absolutely a skill necessary for climbing quickly).<p>This is all a result of Riot&#x27;s decision not to give players a means of extricating themselves from these games in a reasonable manner coupled with too much leniency in ranked games with respect to people who do this sort of thing.<p>What happens a lot of times is people get really angry because they end up wasting 3 or 4 hours from these trolls in a single day.  A 17 year old off for the summer can play 10+ games a day, a 25 year old with a job cannot, and so that 25 year old can often get very frustrated when he loses multiple games in a row due to trolls.  And when you consider it takes another win to even out the loss, it&#x27;s actually 2 hours that troll took away from you.<p>I stopped playing league because I got tired of just how time consuming it is to play that game and climb rank.