Good game, full of toxic players...

Game has become too frustrating to play. I enjoyed it when draft mode was available to all skill tiers. Now it is only available to skill tiers 7 and above.

I rise and fall between tiers 5 and 6 so I realize I may never get to tier 7. Im an old gamer with a family so I dont have time to play all day long, but I hold my own when I do play and I like the gameplay when games are fairly matched.

The game lately just gets extremely frustrating when players insta-lock in their hero choice during blind pick and we end up with a worthless team composition. On top of that, inevitably one player will abandon the game and it becomes a waste of my valuable time to even play.

At least in draft mode I could see how the enemy is choosing and adjust my hero choice accordingly to help influence a win. Now I just end up teamed with players who are clueless yet ping me non-stop like its my fault they died when they keep taking on all three enemies by themselves. How is that my fault, Mr. Purple-Pinger? Its a 3 vs 3 MOBA right? So why do you possibly think you can win 1 vs 3?

The game is unfortunately filled with toxic players. This morning I tried to get in a couple games before my daughter woke up. First game was a battle royale match where one player abandoned after his first death.

Second game I played a regular match and first guy chooses a jungle hero so I choose a lane hero. Third guy chooses another jungle hero. I think well maybe he has some super new support build for that hero. Nope he wants to jungle too. So I build support items to at least try to help in some degree. Doesnt matter, the guy quits after his first death and the match is wasted.

Third game is a better team comp, but one guy decides he is the man to take on the entire team by himself. Needless to say he dies consistently and pings us constantly like it is our fault his brain doesnt work properly. He ends up with 12 deaths so its a pretty lopsided loss when one guy is feeding gold to the other team by dying every 30 seconds.

These are just a few examples, sometimes a guy like the last one will want to add you as a friend just so they can lash out at you even more through a chat conversation. Better to just delete them than deal with their temper tantrum. Better yet to just delete this game altogether and take up underwater basket weaving.

CNote44 about Vainglory, v1.18.1