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[Rant] I lost my cool for the first time since my two week ban. I'm sorry Lyte.

The Mormonator·3/23/2015, 7:43:26 AM·8 votes·1,428 views

Update can be found in the last paragraph (TLDR turned out to be too long. For summaries, read bolded print)

Ever since my two week ban for extreme toxicity in games (especially ranked), I managed to keep myself under control until this particular game came along. We had a great team comp:

Udyr : Jungle (Me) Akali : Mid Sion : Top Blitzcrank : Support Jinx : ADC

Everyone was getting along in champion select and we starting to explain our gaming styles and preferences when the enemy team eventually locks in this:

Teemo : Top Fiddlesticks : Jungle Ahri : Mid Caitlyn : ADC Ezreal : Second ADC

I personally celebrated playing against a team with few sources of hard cc and no front line that could stand up to a late game Sion or Udyr. We went into the game with high hopes...and then the things started to happen. It starts something along the lines of this:

Sion : Hope you don't mind if I take your chickens Udyr : Uhm...okay? EXECUTED Sion Proceeds to finish off chickens with passive and teleport to lane after respawning

I may have blinked awkwardly at that but I let it slide. Then the thirst kicked in. Confident in their abilities against "not-the-meta" opponents, our top, mid, and bot decided to start the most interesting game of Call of Duty: League of Legends DLC (PC Edition) that I have seen in a long time. To sum it up, the enemy Ahri is now Godlike about 10-15 minutes into the game. We realize that this could be a problem and start to clean up our game. A lot. To once again time jump, we get five dragons with relative ease and start to turn the board around. However, I should note that despite having five dragons, the score was around 19 to 34 in their favor. For some reason. It is also at this time that I notice that** I am almost doubling the farm of the next highest person on my team.** BAD SIGN #1

Now, as a jungler, it's usually our job to keep track of objectives and especially find the best opportunities for said objectives. It was for this reason that we were able to secure so many dragons with relative by taking out key opponents right before it respawned. We manage to take down Teemo (I believe he was their weak link) and all our lanes are pushed up with most of their 2nd tier turrets still remaining. With total vision control of Baron, I made the call. It was very risky but we could take it with relative ease this early in the game. Team decides otherwise and wants to use this advantage to push mid. Long story short, they all died. Rip.

In the retaliation push. Caitlyn gets killed and we use that advantage to finally take baron with no resistance from the enemy team. This leads to a dropped inhibitor and what looks like the end of the game. Wrong.

It's about this time that all the kills we fed them starts to kick in and Caitlyn + Ezreal start to scale out of their weaker start to the game. I made the call that I would split push and we would force them to split up. I discovered during this time that I could 1v1 the enemy Ahri with relative ease. However, **my team started to get picked off repeatedly and I started to show my disdain for their actions and lack of wards or common sense. **

Second baron roles around and this happens. Blitzcrank and Udyr are on the back side of baron. The enemy team knew we were doing it and I predicted Fiddlesticks to ult in from behind baron pit. I saw him come, and figured Blitzcrank would grab or silence him during the channel and we would ruin their chances of a steal and finish the game during the death timers...That didn't happen. Blitzcrank kept punching away at baron and Fiddlesticks entered the pit, shredding Udyr , Blitzcrank , and Sion . After dying, our Jinx managed to secure baron.

With Blitzcrank 's actions, I was pretty salty. And I got the good 'ol "Stfu" from Blitzcrank when I called him out. Most of us have baron and we call another split push and I start to push bot. The idea was to use baron to resecure the inhib in mid and also opening up bot for the second inhib. Had I checked mini map, I would have seen that as my team pushed into their base for the inhib, they suddenly left. Just up and left. There were no pings to back off or anything so I continued my push and got collapsed on and destroyed. I was very bewildered and checked to see where my team had gone. They were doing 6th dragon. How they managed to telepathically communicate that choice I will never know. Now baron is gone.** I'm livid right now, because of how many opportunities to end the game we had but for some reason my team decided against it every time.** My team pushes into base again this time into 4v5 and gets destroyed. This is about Strike 4 for my patience. Now normally, this isn't hard to control because people make mistakes all the time. Bad calls always happen somewhere, however, when I expressed my concerned and legitimately asked people to stop doing things. They got upset with me and started to purposefully troll around.

3rd Baron is another success for us and we start to push again, I once again call to split bot but Blitzcrank and Sion start to troll and run around me while I'm pushing. I sacrifice myself for that turret in bot lane and we get wiped out while everyone is running around making fun of me because I'm obviously salty. I've honestly never been made fun of or purposefully trolled just because I was salty, so this was a new trigger that I didn't have experience resisting. **Now, because I fear the League Gods of punishment, I never swore this game but instead stuck to things like: r%%%%%, idiot, this team, why are you all so r%%%%%ed, so stupid, etc etc etc. **

The enemy team took the advantage (in terms of gold they never lost the advantage the whole game) and pushed into our base and got two inhibs. At this point, I am asking the enemy team to end and get me out of this because no matter what I said, the game turned into a Free-For-All on our team and every man was now for himself.

4th Baron is...another...success...Akali runs mid alone and suicides into the enemy team #HUEHUEHUEHUEHU. Sion , refusing to leave my side because I asked him to leave him me alone, and I are killed in bot lane and the game finally looks over...but instead** the enemy team decided to try for their third dragon** at this point and gives Akali , Sion , and Udyr a chance to respawn. Ezreal is taken out and dragon was stolen away from them at the cost of Akali and Udyr . The enemy team now pushes into our base 4v3 and things are looking grim until they decide to split up and Jinx manages to out range and out damage the remaining enemies and wipe them out. We mad push desperately into their base and end the game. This game took 1 hour and 11 minutes and could have been over around the 30-38 minutes mark. I lost my cool and was uber salty after the game to a point that I reported every single person on my team for assisting the enemy team when they decided to start running around and chasing me instead of playing the game.

There were several other minor things that I found to be really annoying and just led to more salt being thrown around. Thank you sticking around for my rant and I pray that your future games do not contain experiences like this. Ten Dragons and Four Barons later, the final score being 48 to 69 (still in their favor), I think I need to take a break from this game for a time. I'm sorry I failed you Lyte.

DISCLAIMER: Numbers, timing, and order of events are relative according to my memory and may not be exact, however, all events described are as accurate as I can get them to be.

2ND DISCLAIMER: Was I perfect that game? Nope. Did I make every single good choice? Nope. Is this "always my team's fault"? Nope.

I just had a very frustrating game and had teammates that valued kills (or in Jinx's Case, Farm) over finishing the game and supplied so many openings that the whole game turned into a joke where I wasted 70+ minutes of my life. Victory may have flashed on my screen, but that was not a win for me and definitely wasn't fun. This was actually a bit of a build up, I had recently had three trolls as teammates in a row over the course of three different ranked games earlier in the week. (the odds of that being astronomical from my previous years of experience with this game) So being trolled again, but this time by my entire team, was very unnerving.

UPDATE: I'm getting a lot of feedback, mostly centered around people weighing swearing over calling someone a r%%%%% and what they consider to be more offensive. I want to clarify that the point of my statement, "Now, because I fear the League Gods of punishment, I never swore this game but instead stuck to things like: r%%%%%, idiot, this team, why are you all so r%%%%%ed, so stupid, etc etc etc.", was because of my experience with earning a two week behavioral ban from Riot. Upon receiving my ban, I requested the chat logs from player support that led to my ban. Every single chat log showed excessive use of swearing and vulgarity, not the use of words like r%%%%%, stupid, or idiot. So in my eyes and from my own personal, and possibly incorrect, opinion, Riot holds excessive swearing and vulgar language over calling someone or multiple people r%%%%%ed. I am not condoning one from of offensive language over the other.

30 Comments

Laughing Fish3/23/2015, 12:51:51 PM5 votes

http://rs1240.pbsrc.com/albums/gg495/iKyle10/U-mad-bro.gif~c200

PalPlays3/23/2015, 8:12:20 PM4 votes

When people swear, it doesn't even phase me. I'm not exaggerating to say that I find people cussing at me amusing, because it's an unintelligent substitute for a reasonable response. Now when people start to call me stupid, "retarded," or a noob: that I find to be more insulting. You can tell by looking me up on League that I don't respond to those people in kind, but it still is annoying.

As for your predicament, you should be proud of most of the actions you took. Although insulting them shouldn't have happened, you didn't pass blame and played well regardless. I would chalk that game up to counter-toxicity. In other words, people take whatever bad behavior one person shows (you insulting them a few times) and multiply it ten times. Once you learn to be, as another poster put it, "totally zen" about games: you will find being friendly to toxic or unskilled players easy. Personally, it seems that being friendly to those who aren't is the BEST way to deal with them.

BlizzardMOBAsoon3/23/2015, 8:01:51 AM3 votes

Sadly we must suffer in silence or Riot will ban us for saying anything against the trolls who feed/do nothing. If you end up getting banned, dispute your Riot payments with your bank, you will get your money back at least.

3tyson3/23/2015, 7:51:50 AM3 votes

Tl;dr

Daen3/23/2015, 7:04:21 PM2 votes

I never swore this game but instead stuck to things like: retard, idiot, this team, why are you all so retarded, so stupid, et

I understand this game was frustrating, but calling your teammates retards is pretty much just as unacceptable as swearing at them.

Crett3/23/2015, 8:32:35 AM2 votes

a single game is just that; a fleeting period where we all have the privilege of never playing with the same team again. sometimes you'll get a similar team but because of how it works, it's just completely pointless to try to condition the players around you to play how you want (even if rabaddon's deathcap IS really bad on Garen), and you'll only end up stressing yourself out.

if you don't feel like taking a break, but you don't want to deal with this kind of feeling anymore, i honestly recommend Headspace, which is essentially meditation and it will improve your life

we don't condemn people who have been toxic, because this is a game and we're all here to have fun; it's all about your mindset tell your team in their darkest hour: "our most powerful weapon is a positive environment"

Aww Kat3/23/2015, 12:41:58 PM2 votes

I read this whole thing and understand where you are coming from and im sorry but i laughed at some parts. Im sorry for the pain your team put you through.

Drackolus3/23/2015, 6:26:53 PM1 votes

These games are DEFINITELY frustrating, no way around it. But once I read somewhere that, if you never troll, your team only has 4 players who could troll and your enemy team has 5. Odds are in your favor. Also, even players prone to trolling are less likely to troll if nobody salts. I've found that keeping a positive attitude the whole game and constantly joking around and complimenting your teammate's plays (ESPECIALLY the salty or trolly ones) goes a long way towards preventing this nonsense. Unfortunately keeping a positive attitude in the chat the whole time won't stop everyone from getting salty. It takes a lot of practice to stop being salty. Took me about three years to learn to stop completely. But ho man, was it worth it. Learning to not be angry is THE best thing to learn first in the game. Freezing lanes, mechanics, push and pressure strategies, none of that is nearly as important to get out of the way as keeping a positive attitude - simply because you both learn better when you're happy and you will practice longer if you're not upset. And not getting banned is nice. Also, gonna level - swearing doesn't mean &%#$. Swearing OFFENSIVELY is what matters. I (don't read this rito) probably swear nearly every single game. but I never get reported because I'm not swearing AT anyone. The community really doesn't care. "Wow you're an idiot" doesn't swear, but it's a hundred times more likely to get you reported (and banned!) than "Lol I'm ^#@*%&$ dumb XD"

Sirsir3/23/2015, 6:57:51 PM1 votes

Sometimes you just need to tell people how you feel. At least you waited to the end of the game to let lose and didn't let it get to you TOO badly.

Saint Archer3/24/2015, 2:53:56 AM1 votes

the sion suiciding on jungle creeps is a viable play. it gives him an early level 2, puts him ahead in gold, and lowers his worth if killed while not benefiting the enemy in any way except for his teleport being down for the next 4 minutes. which he wouldn't need anyway.

DreadPirateChris3/24/2015, 6:25:40 AM1 votes

I was thinking about this post after a recent game when I wrote this post, http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/Gxccy6Fk-this-game Which I encourage the OP and anyone who feels the same as him to read.

Tsugaga3/23/2015, 7:54:19 AM1 votes

Everyone has games like this, no matter what happens you just have to stay relaxed, mature, and follow the Summoners Code. Swearing isn't a big deal in my opinion, thinking that calling people retarded isn't as bad as swearing is wrong, insulting others is one of the worst type of behavior. Also, stop apologizing to Lyte, everyone who posts threads like this always direct an apology to Lyte. Why? Because he's a Riot employee, who maybe was the one who unbanned you? If anyone ever wants to apologize in this game then it should be towards the community and/or the players whos experience they ruined.

MrPerson103/23/2015, 8:07:21 AM1 votes

Sometimes we just lose.

Get up, dust yourself off, do it again.

LankPants3/23/2015, 11:32:16 AM1 votes

Sion : Hope you don't mind if I take your chickens Udyr : Uhm...okay? EXECUTED Sion Proceeds to finish off chickens with passive and teleport to lane after respawning

This is a completely legit strat. It lets Sion get to lane with an EXP advantage and extra potions. It's generally worth the TP CD and the 1 or 2 creeps you may lose in lane. You don't actually lose anything from the execute, and it's quicker to kill the camp with passive than without.

mvargus3/23/2015, 5:27:43 PM1 votes

I feel for you.

I had a 72 minute game that should have been over in 30, although not for quite the same reason. In my case we were all on teamspeak and a "girl" joined the chat. Two of my teammates suddenly were more interested in flirting with the girl than playing smart and we spent the next 30 minutes throwing just about every fight we could until we finally lost. Both the ADC (Ashe) and me (on Janna) kept telling the other 2 to get their heads in the game. Heck on Janna I ended up selling all my support items and going full AP in an attempt to get us some way to take out enemy champions because these 2 were not paying any attention to the game.

Sadly, the throw was too big and we lost after getting aced.

I can completely understand your frustration. games that go longer than they should are just agony.

Eleshakai3/23/2015, 5:29:49 PM1 votes

Now, because I fear the League Gods of punishment, I never swore this game but instead stuck to things like: retard, idiot, this team, why are you all so retarded, so stupid, etc etc etc.

Those are all still punishable, just so ya know.

warpenguin5553/23/2015, 6:12:14 PM1 votes

meh sometimes you just lose it. it happens