User blog comment:Nuclrdmntr/Flamers and tryhards./@comment-4636093-20130817143058/@comment-15244341-20130817203000

I agree with what Krufix said. I've been called a tryhard when I asked my support to use his 1 minute ward at 1:30 minutes on a bush in red when playing Sejuani against Xin Zhao on a normal game. Because, actually, that is tryharding on my and Xin's part. I was prepared so I could escape the Xin and got a kill on him thanks to my mid, but the point that it happened still stands. That was not tryharding. That was trying. It happens on invasions in normals sometimes too, which get rejected for being "tryharding".

In my mind, when a player says someone is tryharding he or she is saying that someone wants to try to play better than the average (or likely playing OK at all if in low levels/elo/league whatever the game uses for skill measuring) in a group of people that don't have any interest in that and are playing "casually".

The one thing you say is the Idiot Expert. That is the asshole that just KNOWS whatever you should be doing every second of the game. He just wont share his or her super informed game smarts with you. Because he is a whiner and probably is trash-talking, like most of that people.

I don't really think people should mind these kind of guys, because they are everywhere and it's impossible not to find them in any kind of game. Just mute them or, if you are like me and think they might redeem themselves/are amusing, develop a thick skin.