For what? Verbal abuse. For what? Actually telling the other team I was sorry how the game had gone. We blew them out. I mean, we're talking 36-4. And I honestly, actually felt bad because I've been there so I tried cheering them up with a ROcky quote about getting back up. And I got reported. Now I get to live in fear of a possible ranked ban/chat restriction. Welcome to League of Legends.
stokastic8 votesIt's hard to portray tone through text chat alone. In the world of the internet, people are likely to assume the worst tone possible, and there is not much worse than getting stomped and having the winning team give sarcastic apologies to you.
Sadistic Cheese3 votes1: Thank you for having some empathy for the enemy team. It's a rare thing to see these days, and I encourage you to continue to have it. You did a good thing.
2: That said, understand that, as Stokastic mentioned, it can be hard to figure out tone and intentions through text. Your apology was well-meaning, but the situation was probably the worst time for it. Depending on what you were playing, Ranked in particular, the anger at such a score was probably pretty high. They likely wouldn't have taken ANYTHING you said well beyond a simple 'gg'. Again, your intentions were good and I applaud you for them, but you have to remember the context and the situation. You have to use that same empathy that makes you feel bad for the enemy team, to understand how they might be feeling right now: frustrated, angry, and disappointed. In those situations, it's probably best just not to say anything at all.
3: If you do wanna try to cheer them up, while it's not much and it doesn't mean much, give them an Honorable Opponent bump. As I said it may not mean anything, but I rarely if ever get that particular Honor from the other team, and if I do to me it says they either felt I played well, or wanted to make a friendly gesture but didn't want to say anything because they knew how frustrated we likely were. If nothing else, at least you tried to be a good person while minimizing the chances of your comment being taken poorly.
Alljoy1 votesMaybe their sarcasm detectors were broken.
Tebryn1 votesHi BG Xplicit You will definitely not get ban or anything else because of one report. That said you dont even need to get banned or feel any penalty at all if there was no reason for the reports (it doesnt matter how many). Thats what the tribunal first and now the automatic chat thingy is for. The only thing is when you get absurd amounts of reports (like every game) somebody will look into it but if you are TRUELY innocent there will be no consequences at all. Dont bite into all the guys that say "oh i got 200 chatbans but i did nothing!!!11" it already showed more then once that none of these guys where even close of beeing innocent.
Long Dong Wukong1 votesCaring about Riot trying to hand hold people on the internet
Also
Having feelings on the internet
It's not something I comprehend. People have been calling each other noob shitstains for the entire existence of online gaming.
Sadistic Cheese2 votesThat doesn't make it right, man. If you're a genuinely good player, why do you need to call someone that? If it's trash-talking, it shows you're weak because you need to rely on verbal abuse to put the other guy on tilt. If it's raging at some other guy on your team, it shows you can't take a loss and are a sore loser. In which case you're still weak.
If I go mid-lane Vel'koz for example, and crush some poor fool 6 kills to 0, I don't need to say 'get rekt scrub' on the third or fourth kill. (Especially since by then I'm probably just doing one round of abilities and he's dead.) It's just not needed. He knows he just got his socks rocked off, and so does everyone else in the match. They know I'm on a killing spree, they know if I haven't taken mid tower I'm about to. They're probably already warding in case I decide to roam and give some tentacle-hugs to bot or top lane.
I don't need to say anything. The proof is already there, and when you surrender at 20 or I take your Nexus at 30, I can just drop the proverbial mic and walk off. I just killed that game. You know it, I know it, the guy I crushed knows it. No need to say any more.
Long Dong Wukong1 votesYou don't, I don't, but it doesn't matter. Trash talking is a proven and effective way to throw off your opponents game. It works in REAL SPORTS. It doesn't matter if you like it.
When I was playing baseball as a kid the catcher would sit there and talk shit to you behind your back the entire time. It's a part of the human experience.
Fuck all of this politically correct hand holding shit leaking onto online gaming. People would probably die from hurt feelings if they moved to some European country.
Sadistic Cheese2 votesJust because it works doesn't mean it needs to be done, or that we need to allow it, or even that it can't change if we as a community feel like it should be changed.
Sorry, but I don't need to be called names to know of the superior nature of a better player. They prove it through play and I know when I'm outclassed. That goes for real sports, e-sports, whatever. If you feel you HAVE to try to put me on tilt, that means your strategy is weak. it means YOU are weak for resorting to it. Face me and win when both my mind and yours are in the game and we're both focused. Then we know who the better player is.
Demoralization is indeed an effective tactic. It works in warfare all the time. Shock and Awe are time-tested tools that work to this day. However those are blunt force tools. They work when higher strategies are closed off, or they work to open the way for higher strategies to be enacted. It is used in war because in war the consequences for losing and failure are usually rather dire. One takes what they can get and uses what needs to be used. In a sport, losing does not merit anywhere near as drastic a punishment. Demoralization in war can be and in some cases is a necessity. Doing so in sports is an out for cowards unsure in their own chances of victory.
Look at the LCS. There's nothing but respect for eachother in the LCS for the most part. The guys that DO talk trash or rage? Look at where they've gone: Reginald's retired (he knew he had a problem), Saint's running a Curse offshoot team that's struggling to rise higher than Challenger status. Doublelift and his notorious trash-talking ego damn near got kicked out of the LCS entirely this season. Evil Geniuses came into NA talking garbage and they performed terribly and were taken out by even the weaker LCS teams.
Contrast that with, for example, Cloud 9's first appearance on the LCS scene. You know: the season they broke records and stomped faces in. They performed with a clarity and a focus that was unrivaled at the time. They facerolled veteran teams. Never once did Sneaky talk crap, never once did Meteos call another Jungler trash. They didn't need to. They just won, and that was enough.
In real sports, it seems like the same thing holds true. I remember back when the Patriots were the team to beat in American Football. They had a dynasty going and it was absurd. A friend of mine pointed out that he felt like their success was largely due to the attitude that the players and coaching staff took, namely that while some teams celebrated wins that were scraped by, the Patriots, even if they won by a very large margin, remained humble and remarked that though they did win, they didn't feel they were where they needed to be. That they could have done better. In general, it often seems like the teams that are often not as talked about tend to perform best.
True greatness, true skill, true victory, is expressed not by words, but by it's own existence. It speaks volumes about you as a player and you as a person to win on your own skill and strategy against an equal opponent. Why resort to using words and cheap shots when you can simply play the game, and be so damn good at it that you can't be ignored?
Long Dong Wukong1 votesIf you feel you HAVE to try to put me on tilt, that means your strategy is weak. it means YOU are weak for resorting to it.
That's just like, your opinion man. If some one starts raging out and stops playing to type constantly while you win seems like a pretty strong strategy to me.
But you actually think football players don't talk shit when they tackle some one? Or that they have people they don't like that they talk shit to every time they're on the field together? Or that LCS players don't talk shit? You don't get to hear it, but they go GET FUCKED BITCH GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LANE into their mics all the time.
Sorry, I don't agree with baby bear politically correct hand holding. Berating and beating some one into the ground verbally and going "lol rekd" or "git gud" aren't the same thing.
Anyway, giant opinion piece. Trash talking is a thing and you don't have to like it. But it's not going away.
Also, very few people use trash talking to try to tilt some one. Some people actually do, but that's a moderately rare occurrence. A simple "outplayed" isn't some grand strategy to put some one on tilt.
MarrowEight1 votesbro I have been reported while not speaking a word of trollage or insulting people multipul teammates report if you had a bad game and they are raging out
u know wut im talkin about everyone dose
= banned for no reason : very common because they know more people who report u good chance getting ban
Jubbinaut1 votesIf you're saying you got reported because you received an in-client pop-up warning after that game, you should probably be aware that those warnings are not given for single reports, but for "spikes" in recent reports compared to your normal average.
It's also notable that they don't show up immediately after the triggering report, but some hours/games/arbitrary-measurement-of-time later. This is to obfuscate who may have issued the triggering report.
The upshot of this it's extremely unlikely that you'll be punished for that game. I won't offer a guarantee because I don't know if you said other things that might be punishable, but the tone of your post implies that you didn't. However, if your behavior in other games was less than appropriate, you might have cause for concern there. Still, it's not likely to be a problem as long as you keep your nose clean.
Slenderman1 votesSorry about your incoming ban.
