@Riot ranked team - if that's a thing
Hi, back in Feb/Mar, I got a streak of 2 "LOVELY" weeks where 90% of my games were auto-losses. As in I could outplay a 1v2 camp of toplane even with enemy having counterpick and ignite, and be 4/0/0 without any assistance; and I would lose. As in, after 20 games over the course of days, I would have ONE bad game where I lost lane; and I would lose match. As in 1 in 20 games if I were lucky, I would get teammates who would not go something like 1/6/1 in a lane where they got all kinds of jungle help and only were ganked twice. And in that 1 in 20 game, I could have intentionally fed all game, and we'd still win. And the rest of them - giving my team a 4v3 opportunity, a gank-free laning phase, my jungler the chance to 2v2 counter-gank top and get FED beyond reason, and doing more warding than the rest of the team combined... it all meant nothing. I just lose. Cuz enemy bot has around double digit kills in a 2v2 - no ganks from their jg required. Mid either losing but not badly (until camped by enemy jg and fed enemy sup), or feeding their ass off and trying to roam bot to "help" only to feed. It's one thing if a lane gets camped, gets repeatedly tower dove, gets 0 help, and feeds. They should probably just back off or group, but this is low elo - so I give them benefit of the doubt. It's another to give away 5 kills for 0 and keep forcing fights by the enemy tower or in river with ZERO vision and feed more 2v2 or 2v3 (cuz you didn't ward). The latter is intentional feeding and NEEDS to stop. Either demote these people a full tier or two to where they belong since they don't have the macro and intelligence for this elo, or ban them for doing it on purpose. It's one or the other in such a scenario. Either they are boosted, and deserve to be against people of their caliber; or, they are intentionally feeding to throw the game even though they have the intelligence and macro to play much better. Griefing is a valid report option; just because I report someone in most of my games doesn't mean my reports are invalid. If I have a lane or 3 who are doing their best to play stupidly agro vs people who beat them when they weren't ahead items and levels, they aren't going to magically win now that the enemy is fed. Unless... they got some really good backup; but they don't. They're fighting an even numbers fight or even forcing outnumbered fights. Notice I said FORCING. Not - trying to safely farm by tower or grouped and hugging tower and defending where they have vision; forcing where they have no vision, where they know they are engaging vs at least EVEN numbers for enemy team - possibly going to be outnumbered.
And it's not just that this happens once or twice. If it happens here or there - I get that. But literally over HALF my games ONE OR MORE (generally more) lanes just go full int mode. In over half my games - I stress this because it means the matches are nowhere near balanced. Do you know the percentage of games where the enemy team has even ONE such intentional feeder? 5% if I'm being generous. Sure it's like 15% where they have a losing lane (more if I wasn't stuck 1v2 almost every game and never getting ganks from my jungler), but that 10% (15-5=10), the guy who is losing lane is smart enough to play defensive, hug tower, not feed their ass off, and let their team HELP them. They don't dive enemy towers to force 1v1's and 2v2's. They don't run in river to fight a 2v4. Thus we can see - matchmaking is in a horrid state AGAIN.
Anyway - back in Feb/Mar I got chat restricted because I had a situation like this where I got demoted from S3 to S5 from 90% auto-losses. This when I am perfectly capable of winning a game in G3 if my team doesn't int. So you see how horribly unbalanced the teams are and how stacked against me EVERY match is? Back then, I'd tell bot to just hug tower and farm. After them dying from FORCING horrible outnumbered fights another 3 or so times - I started calling them "idiots" or "retards". Obviously not nice - not something I enjoy doing either. But honestly - what am I supposed to say at that point? I told them nicely and was patient with them when they were 0/4/0. Now that they ignored me, continued to do obviously bad plays, and feed another 3 kills for no reason, how is what they are doing not idiotic? How are they not being idiots? Notice - I said BEING. Not THEY ARE IDIOTS - they are BEING idiots. As in - what they are doing is logically not intelligent and they clearly have more than enough experience (the last 6 times they died doing exactly what they are doing the next time they die) to know not to do that. Sure, I probably shouldn't say idiots or that they are being retarded because it's not nice. You know what else isn't nice? Losing 80% of my games or more because teammates throw the enemy a FREE impossible to overcome lead in laning phase while I'm being camped 2v1 top and my jungler refuses to gank. Getting flamed because I die to a flash 3v1 gank by the fed enemy support joining in the camp of my lane while bot finally "takes my advice" and sits under their tier 2 refusing to push out or punish the enemy adc for farming at their tier 2 in a 1v2. Getting called toxic for asking my team to ward our jungle so we stop getting picked off by invades and roams through our jungle. Getting called trash by my lane opponent when even after being camped and flash ganked by fed enemy mid and jg for 15 min straight I still wreck them the one time I get a 1v1. That's not nice. That's not following summoner code either. Or when I teamfight, die to set up the perfect fight and win my team the fight even after they all fed and never once lifted a finger to help me. Then get called noob idiot for dying to set up that fight and get no thanks post game - whether we win or lose the match.
So yeah, I'm being a toxic jackass again. Because having over 50% of my matches for the last 3 weeks be auto-losses while I'm camped and vs a counter-pick with ignite vs my tp so I can literally do nothing but try to soak xp and grab a bit of cs is really really really not enjoyable. Because telling the team nicely for over 10 min to group so they stop dying from being split up only to be ignored, called toxic for this, or harassed is not enjoyable. Because watching my jungler run 3/4 the way across the map to die 3v2 when they could come top (the closest lane to where they were) and get a free kill (I can't go in 1v2 with how low I am) isn't fun. Because never getting equality in matchmaking isn't fun; I don't want a match were I could int the whole game and still win, and I don't want a match where all my outplays, teamwork, good advice/shotcalling (gets ignored 95% of time; when it doesn't we win the fight or go even where we should get destroyed), and warding gets me nothing but losses, a laning phase that makes dyrus's pro career look like his lane was never ganked, and hate from my teammates and opponents. I really, really enjoy league - when it's reasonable. That's why I keep torturing myself with all these games - for the rare one where you actually get to have an impact on the outcome. Where the teams are evenly matched. Where I get to show how positive and helpful I can be - playing for the TEAM and not just myself. Where my teammates recognize that instead of flaming me for trying to help them and give good advice/shotcalls. So... if you want a non-toxic community, maybe punish the real toxic players. The ones who screw their teammates by inting all game for no reason. Who hate on people for trying to give them good encouraging advice. Who harass teammates for making good shotcalls because "this isn't lcs" or some shit like that. Get rid of these people who ruin the game or if they are not intentionally feeding (most are), demote them instantly a full tier (as in g5 to s5) until they find their proper rank. Start doing that instead of targeting people who have to put up with their shit game after game after game and be harassed equally harshly by those players (and sometimes opponents) as anything people like I have said. They might not say "stop being idiots" or "that was a retarded engage", but they are no less toxic. And they are so in both what they are saying AND by intentionally feeding.