Your problem comes from the fact that you still believe he's reported because he didn't do what his team told him to do.
He was reported because he did not comply with what the team wanted the support role to mean. He was reported for playing a style of play that was not acceptable by the other team.
His team didn't pressure him into anything or demanded that he plays something that suited their needs.
of course they did, we have their reports as proof.
but what he doesn't have a full choice with is to play the role he was assigned how he wants to play it, especially when that meant literally doing the exact opposite of what his role should be doing.
Who decides what the "support role should be doing"? You are acting with the idea that RIOT should determine this, or otherwise "the team" should determine this. In your view the function of the 5th player and his contribution is dictated to the 5th player by "the authorities".
What support should be doing, what the role of support is bringing to the game, the style of game-play that is used, the champions and summoner spells selected, the lane assignment and the supported player, if any, should ALL be ultimately determined by the support player. The team should be allowed to expect, and to ask, and to discuss... but NOT to coerce.
Like I said in my reply to Wuks. This is an edge case where there is no possible compromise. What you think is reasonable is that RIOT writes a play by play definition of how everybody should play, and then enforce it. Which is B.S.
There are no supports who duo jungle
Just like with the support MF case, There apparently is at least one. And soon, there will be more.
The bottom line is that his behavior was in no way negative. Despite that, it led to his two week, UNJUST suspension.
Copy-pasting things into the chat isn't communication.
You seem to not understand what communication is. Communication is not to run a Q&A session every game. It is to pass the necessary and useful information. Which is did. That is fact.
Considering most of us only say 2-3 words to the team in most cases, as far as I am concerned he has gone above and beyond.
this game works as it works because there are rules of conduct
There seems to have been an invisible and deplorable shift in what those rules of conduct are. I have played for years using the old, good version of the rules. As you can see by my Avatar.
The rules of conduct used to mean, you play the game. You try to reach a consensus on how to play but at the end of the game you as a player have the authority to determine how a role is played and what the responsibilities of the role are.
Now we are presented with a different, and much more toxic and negative set of rules: it is determined what the role of support are, by someone else, and that determination is enforced by a combination of people who are not you who agree among themselves what your role should be, and "the establishment" who which supports them with bans.
And while the summoner code clearly states that players must permit differing play styles and that the game should be played in the spirit of cooperation, the "Banning body" clearly twists it into a pretzel to appear legitimate in throwing innovative divergent players under the bus.
Not every action in this game that doesn't follow the meta is considered off-meta. Because then i can also say that being AFK is off-meta, disrupting gameplay by invading my teammates' lane is off-meta, even if these actions are a clear violation of the Summoner's Code.
not all of these actions are against the summoner's code.
Invading your team mate's lane is LEGITIMATE.
Because what you love the most is to go against the grain because of your own convictions
My conviction is that people should be able to play this game in a variety of ways and have fun. Also, that one player does not get to coerce a style of play over another player, and failing that, argue that the other player is "ruining the fun for other people" though lack of compliance.