How to play League of Legends without being flamed and reported?
Fair warning, this is probably going to be more of a rant than anything else. I decided I'd just go mid because I hadn't done it in about a month - huge mistake.
I picked Heimerdinger because I had played that one in the past and like it. I developed my own kind of strategy where I would make a barricade of turrets - but the strategy is really dependent on me being in-lane near the beginning of the game because turrets take a long time to respawn, and I've essentially lost the lane if I leave for more than a second or two.
So near the beginning of the game I start my traditional strategy - I buy the beginner's items and sprint out to the center of the lane where I set a turret and wait for a new one to respawn. Meanwhile one of the players (I'll call him Steve because I don't remember his name) runs straight into an enemy ambush in the jungle and there's a huge teamfight. By this time, minions are just about to spawn, and I'll essentially lose that mini-turret, and therefore be at a HUGE disadvantage by leaving. I expect them to all dash out of the fight because they're so near their base. A 4v4 right out of the gate - neither side should be really winning it in the first place.
The fight subsides and everybody goes back to their lane. If I remember correctly, the exchange went something like this: Steve: Report Heimer Me: lol why? Steve: you didn't help us Me: you can't get reported for playing the meta Steve: lol yeah you can (at which point I chuckled a bit)
Throughout the game I kept getting ganked and chained in and killed, and every time he reminds everyone to report me. At which point I decide not to feed the troll and just ignore him for most of the game.
Later on, they just took a baron and I'm holding at the mid inhibitor turret and I start placing a turret barricade. I believe Steve died at that point, and he began just flaming me again with another player (I'll name Phil) with something to the effect of: Steve: We're all reporting Heimer right? Phil: he's worse than afking Steve: i know right
At this point I just mute both of them, because I died while I was distracted.
Needless to say, we lost. Post-game lobby shows up: Steve (before the lobby loaded): Report heimer Me (before I realized Steve posted): Report steve for doing nothing but flaming me the entire game Steve: lol I was just giving you advice Me: HOW THE **** DO YOU CALL THAT ADVICE?
Phil chimes in a bit and they won't let me get a word in. I couldn't even bring myself to listen to them for another few seconds so I left without reporting them.
So seriously - what am I supposed to do? Never try anything new? Just go back to playing co-op vs. AI? Find 4 non-douchebags and form a team that we play with all the time?
