TLDR: The worst thing we can do when we see toxic behavior is be toxic in return.
I think for every one game I play with a toxic person, I have one to two without. What I've noticed more of is a lot of people being toxic because they think they know how to play the game better than someone else, or their constructive criticism will come over as being too harsh or flaming. Or in other cases they get mad for legitimate reasons, and forget to take a deep breath or realize that the person trolling probably doesn't care that you are mad, and is probably getting more entertainment out of you raging than they are playing the game. There are also a lot of players that when they go on tilt, don't want to look for mistakes they made, and just want to blame others, thus becoming toxic. There are also some flaws in the detection of toxic behavior outside of chat logs. There are no video reviews, which could be used to determine intentional feeding and possibly weed out more of the trolling, which should also merit a ban. Sometimes people's internet fails and they end up AFK, sometimes they AFK because they are straight dodging. There are a lot of factors that can go into why people become toxic. What we as Leaguers need to do is shut down the toxic behavior when we see it. I have friends that like to flame people when things don't go their way, and I actually will have to calm them down in game. With people we don't know that start flaming a teammate, the worst thing we can do is flame that person back. Instead offer to help them with an objective or something. I played one game and was Wukong in the jungle, our TF mid was down 2 kills in mid lane, and was starting to get down and go on depressed tilt a bit. I offered him my blue buff, then he went and helped bot lane get a double kill, thus turning around his tilt, and potential toxic attitude before it really got started. I know a lot of junglers that would be like, "Mid lane 0/2, not getting my buff." He obviously could use the boost to help him get where he needed to be and it paid off. A great deal of toxic behavior comes from the inability to realize that we are all human and League is a game that forces humans to work together.
