Cycle of Blame
I'm starting to get kind of sick of the blame cycle on League. It works kinda like this: Player having a poor game blames someone else that is having a poor game. That person blames someone else that is doing poorly or not particularly well. Then that person blames the person/people that is/are doing well. The person/people doing well get(s) mad and blame(s) the ones doing poorly.
In the past 10 games or so I've played, I've been blamed for my team losing in three of them. In the past 10 games or so I've played, I've lost 4 matches.
I've been blamed for losing in 3/4 of the lost matches among my recent matches, and I was the one carrying in the 3 matches I lost. In fact the only one where I wasn't blamed was the one I fed in (2-7-3 as Azir). In my most recent match, I was playing Vayne and I finished 15-6-? (forgot assists) and destroyed a decent number of towers, and I tried to backdoor as it was our only chance at winning- every member of my team had just died due to overstaying their welcome after getting an inhibitor. The enemy Orianna realized I was going to backdoor and probably pinged it, so Aatrox backed off as well as I was hitting the Nexus. The Nexus was 10 hp away from dying, and I died. My Q was down since I flashed over the wall to the enemy base to get there then used Q, and I didn't bother hitting a minion to bring it back up. As a result, Aatrox knocked me up which lead to my death. I, the one whom was carrying the team, was then blamed for our loss when we were going to lose because of the poor decisions by my teammates even if I didn't try to backdoor. (If you want to look through my match history, feel free, but the Vayne match isn't showing up at the time of this post). Yes, I screwed up. I saw Aatrox on his way back and instead of auto attacking one minion to get my tumble back up, I kept hitting the Nexus. I also gave us our only chance at a win. And no, I wasn't rude at all during that match. I barely said anything until the post-game chat where I asked the enemy team to report my teammates and was promptly ignored, then flamed again by my teammates.
If you want to blame someone, blame yourself. Don't harass your teammates, believe it or not it actually will make them perform worse. If a teammate makes a mechanical mistake, don't harass them. If they make a mistake in decision making or positioning or something, offer advice. You don't need to be super friendly, but offer advice. If you aren't gonna bother to give them advice, then at least be polite about it. Also, unless you're losing 23-8 against a late game scaling comp with an early game comp at 25 minutes in, you don't know if the game is lost yet, so don't start preemptively blaming others for your loss.
responds "ima mute you." and continues to hook Alistar. This happened in a ranked match once upon a time - did the Blitz player not deserve blame? Is any players' frustration or the unsavory things they might say not, at least, somewhat justified?