Entering Summoners Rift For The Very First Time

At the beginning of this week, I had downloaded and created an account on Riot’s League of Legends. This is a game I have always heard about through word of mouth and ads on Youtube but have never decided to “enter the rift” myself. However, I was spurred to play by just how interesting and deep the game sounded. If the viewing numbers had reached almost 100 million in 2018 according to the numbers provided by Riot themselves(https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/12/2018-events-by-the-numbers/). Then why not let me dip my toes in? The first thing that I can appreciate about the game is when it its first launched you are put into a few games against the computer opponents to learn the basics. The basics consisting of;

Learning how to move your character called a Champion around on the map

Learning about different Champions and their abilities in combat

Generating gold by defeating enemies

Spending said gold on items that power up your Champion

And finally learning how to use your skills, that are attached to the Q W E and R keys

I stepped into my first game on unranked and form a team with 4 other random people I have not met before and began the fight. I figured as a courtesy I would let my teammates know this was my first match and that I was excited to play. That was my first mistake of that game.

My team instantly labelled me as a liability and stole any chances at generating gold away from me. I was being called crude and demeaning things over the in-game chat. And once I had fallen to an enemy champion I was called a #@$! Feeder. After looking this term up, it refers to a player who gets themselves defeated by the enemy giving them more gold and levels each time they are defeated. And once we had lost the game I was told that I was useless and should stop playing.

Most people would stop there but I knew what I was getting myself into. 

In any competitive sphere whether its soccer, hockey, or ESports, people get very heated about the teams they like their favourite players and winning. Winning is everything in any competition. 

NO ONE EVER WANTS TO LOSE

Yet in League of Legends, it is a 5 vs 5 team fight. The keyword being TEAM 

If you lose, you can blame it on someone who was just plain bad, or in my case, new to the game.

League of Legends (a.k.a. LoL or just simply League) has been perceived as a toxic game even three years ago as seen on the League community boards in 2017(https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/io2VaEMR-why-is-the-league-community-so-toxic). 

But instead of being deterred by the negativity, I am instead motivated by it to become even better and stronger in the game to show that anyone can go from a complete novice to a powerful asset in any game. I have much to learn so please join me in my adventure to go from N00b to Pro.