User blog comment:Nuclrdmntr/Flamers and tryhards./@comment-11603965-20130816232546

You have 2 kinds of so-called 'tryhards':

-The friendly type, that creates an uplifting atmosphere and delivers good teamwork. This person is very serious about ranked queue, but is still able to accept a loss and is humble in victory. This is probably the best kind of person you can get queue'd up with in solo-queue: this kind of 'tryhard' usually performs really good.

-The angry type, that always blames his teammates for losing a game and bans 3.65 teammates per lost game on average. This is the kind of person that doesn't seem to understand how toxic he/she is, and is most likely not even good at this game (in other words: really bad). This is the person that really wants to win, but 'isn't really a tryhard. 'That's right. This person really wants to win, but isn't really trying at all. That's why he/she is most likely to go AFK 70% of all games. This is the kind of person you mostly talked about in this blog.

So called 'tryharding' isn't a bad thing. In fact, I would even call myself a tryhard. It only means I try to win. I'd rather have a tryhard on my team than a person that really doesn't care aboout winning a game.

In my opinion, if you actually try to win in ranked but you can not handle losing a game resulting in flaming, it's probably best if you stop playing for a while. Negative attitude can cost you A LOT of games. I recently started playing ranked and I'm in bronze 1 now. At first I was really positive because I was having a lot of fun and I had the feeling that together with my team I could turn every loss into a comeback. But then I started losing. A lot. I think my worst losing streak was 7 games in a row, and it started when I was up for promotion to Silver 5. Out of the 25 games I played so far I lost 14, so I decided to stop playing LoL, maybe play some DotA 2 and then start with a fresh new view in a few weeks. Anyway, I reckognize the problems

P.S.: Please, if you want to experiment, do it against bots or in a normal game, not in ranked. Ranked should be the place you use strategies you trust yourself with. :P