User blog comment:Nidhogg101/Musings on the Typical Mindset of League Players/@comment-3466579-20131019183432

I definitely disagree on the "Competitive Players" definition and the overall mindsets views. Every League of Legends player should be competitive. League of Legends is a team based player vs player game: it simply IS a competitive game, so everyone should be a competitive player. Two teams, one against the other, one will win, the other one will lose. If you don't play to win, i suggest you to go elsewhere. If you don't enjoy yourself in trying to best your opponents and win, this game is not meant for you. This doesn't mean that you cannot be "social" or "innovator" as well as "competitive". Let's not make the mistake of thinking that "competitive players" only are arrogant people with a strictly "meta" mindset, getting mad for every mistake made. There's no problem in losing but, honestly, the "it's just a game" refrain is simply stupid and nonsense. This IS a game, and this IS a MOBA: a "Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) in which two teams of players compete with each other in discrete games." You can't forget about competition when you play LoL. You can play and still think that winning is not a matter of life or death, that's true and agreeable, but still, trying to achieve victory is mandatory if you decide to play League of Legends, or any other PvP game.

Moreover, in my humble opinion, i think that those players who likes to play champions in wierd roles or with strange builds (e.g. mid Janna or ADC Anivia) for their own and only entertainment, without caring for winning the game, are just selfish and egoistic people. When you start a game you are ONE of the FIVE members of a team. You HAVE to work for the team's sake and for the team's victory. If you just want to play a certain champion, no matter which role is left in the champion select screen, please, consider that your decisions and actions will impact on the other 4 players' game too. If you don't care about losing, this may not be true for your team mates.