What is considered toxic?

Potato Doc·12/7/2014, 8:51:35 PM·1 votes·772 views

So I just played a game as irelia vs a malphite top. After getting a kill which was really close I said in all chat "XD" the malphite said in all chat "Dont think that you are good just because of this"

Later on in the game I had snowballed and was doing well so naturally I felt rather confident and silly so I tower dove their lucien getting the kill. I made it out of the tower with a bit of health when suddenly the enemy malphite launches across the lane with his ult and kills me entirely ignoring his thresh and taric and syndra who were fighting the rest of my team. Laughingly I said "Malphite so good, he ults just one person" I admit yes it was a snarky comment but it was more in light of malphites comment from earlier. it instantly resulted in him saying that he muted me and that he was going to report me for being toxic. (pretty sure he was the only one to report me) Aside from what I mentioned before the only other all chat comment I made was about feeling bad for killing thresh so often.

My question is was my comment really toxic? To me it doesn't feel like it was, but I want to ask others. If so I guess ill stop being so Id just like to hear from the community. What is the minimum of "toxicity" We all know easy examples of toxicity from the lyte smite threads, but what about the minimum?

TL:DR got reported for making a snarky comment based off something an enemy said earlier

9 Comments

Jubbinaut12/7/2014, 9:00:52 PM2 votes

Eh. It was rough, and probably unnecessary, but I don't think that it's punishable by itself.

I suppose the best thing to call it would be "borderline". If you had game after game full of this kind of comment, then it could fall into the realm of toxicity. If it was an isolated or uncommon incident, then not so much.

Of course, I'm basing this on the assumption that you didn't continue to harp on the issue, as that tends to bring things into the realm of toxicity fairly quickly.

Torpedosheep12/7/2014, 9:06:49 PM2 votes

I would not consider your comment toxic. But you should always be careful of what you say. Sore losers want to be treated like little puppies. I think the origin of toxicity is about one player making a stupid comment, (for example: Irelia, you suck) and others getting dragged into this behavior as well. So if a team ends up flaming each other because of one or two guys. They are considered toxic. Of course the original meaning drifted away a little and the word toxic is now used for any kind of flaming or in your case just to find a reason to report the well doing opponent.

Tannhäuser Gate12/7/2014, 9:57:15 PM2 votes

Teemo is quite toxic

also Singed and maybe Cassiopeia but she got stashu'd

Leafie12/7/2014, 9:45:45 PM1 votes

If you have to ask, assume it's toxic.