Revoking Imp's Championship Title

LesAnanas·Nov 8, 2014·1 votes·1,529 views

League of Legends has had a notoriously toxic community. This is fact, this is simply how the community has come to be recognized. However, we, as a community, are attempting to better this image and player to player interaction overall. Don't get me wrong, I have my fair share of raging as much as the next guy, but nonetheless, we are attempting to create a more friendly, positive community. However, this cannot be done while players, like SSW Imp, are openly inappropriate and unfriendly towards other players in the professional circuit. Imp has openly bragged about making players cry. Last year at Worlds concerning a certain player from SKT T1; remained unnamed on purpose, if you want to know, look it up; and again this year at Worlds. Professional players are supposed to be the highest of the League of Legends community, and I believe this to be true in both mechanics and attitude. Reginald had controversy surrounding him concerning his actions towards his team members as well as other players, Reginald has improved greatly and is again a respectable coach, and player. Imp, on the other hand, has not improved at all since the incident last year at Worlds. I believe that ignoring the issue of toxicity among professional players only because they have won a World Championship, will not better the community as a whole, nor does it look good for Riot or players. What I'm proposing, while extreme, is plausible, at least to me. Imp's title as World Champion should be revoked. An example needs to be made that both Riot Games and the League of Legends community will not stand idly by while players are harassed. At the very least Imp should be suspended from professional play, but that is no longer possible since he is now "taking a break." I urge you to read this post and comment with constructive feedback. Toxicity is a serious issue in League of Legends and should not be tolerated at a professional level, even for those who are "World Champions." Let's the LoL community and the toxic image surrounding it. Yours, Zerin451

7 Comments

MrBuffingtonNov 9, 20142 votes

Reginald had controversy surrounding him concerning his actions towards his team members as well as other players, Reginald has improved greatly and is again a respectable coach, and player. Imp, on the other hand, has not improved at all since the incident last year at Worlds.

Reginald and Locodoco had a pretty substantial incident a few months ago regarding some twitter posts where they were bashing Montecristo and Doublelift. I honestly don't think he's improved; he and Locodoco are honestly the only things preventing me from rooting for TSM

On the other hand I haven't heard anything from Imp recently. I know the initial incident you're talking about but I haven't heard of anything especially toxic since then (he might not be the most outstanding member of the professional scene, but I haven't heard of any missteps from him recently). I didn't see you mention anything in OP, either, if you have a particular instance go ahead and bring it up.

LesAnanasNov 15, 20141 votes

I did mention something a little. This year and last year at Worlds. Imp was bragging in an interview about making another playing cry (someone from SKT T1). And it happened again this year with SHRC.

MrBuffingtonNov 15, 20141 votes

Again, I know the incident you are talking about last year; I don't know what you're talking about with respect to SHRC: the only interview I saw with Imp talking about them is him saying he really respects Uzi as a player.

I'm asking for specifics here, a link if possible. I have no idea what you're referring to when you talk about Imp being toxic to SHRC members, since I haven't seen or heard anything of this.