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Real or fake toxicity

youcandobetter·7/2/2016, 6:42:23 AM·1 votes·530 views

So a lot is said about toxicity, and people trying to reform their behavior and such. But what about the other side to the story... The people that get accused constantly of being toxic and have no idea why they get attacked in such a way. There's no way for me to know how much i get reported, but I can guarantee you I hear (read) a lot of people accusing me of being toxic after one sentence. After this they are likely to band together and agree with each other, "yes, you were toxic".

I'll give a quick and simple example. I was playing mid lane and had a Yi jungler taking the top scuttle around level 4. Lux was my opponent. As it looked like Yi was coming toward mid lane after scuttle, I pinged an overextended Lux just to point her out to him. At this point I had typed nothing. He proceeds to come into my lane, and we burn her flash and she sits under her turret. I ping him to get back. After several seconds of him farming my lane, he then dives her at her turret and gets CC'd and gives FB. My only line was "Why chase someone with that much CC under their turret? We got her flash."

So the next ten minutes was a support Annie bashing/berating me nonstop about how I was extremely toxic. Like I was supposed to hold the Yi's hand and console him for walking right into a turret? I can see there's probably always a gentler way to say things, or things typed can be perceived a lot different than if spoken, but I don't think my two sentences were harmful.

I really didn't say much to defend myself, other than stating that it was a question to Yi. The rest of the team was silent. Annie would not let up, instead making it as if we were going to lose the game solely because I started team chat with that line. By 15 minutes and later, it seemed like she was getting the rest of the with her and against me, so essentially no one was playing as a team. I guarantee that even though things like this can be upsetting, I in no way responded with anything toxic, just questioning her as to how anything I said sounded malicious.

So this kind of thing happens all the time, and my teams all fight among themselves and fall apart even after a decent start. Sure others get called toxic, and the word is thrown around way too much, but does it really have to be bad enough that the people claiming to care or be sensitive can turn right around and attack the one they think is toxic nonstop? What is more "toxic"/harmful to team play, my questioning Yi as to why he didn't realize Lux had cc at level 4, or Annie repeatedly dying from typing?

The very next game I muted my entire team at the game start, and won soundly. So without racial slurs, calling names, swearing, etc., are people really saying THAT BAD of things that their entire team attacks them in return? Who really cares? I play for a win and participate as a team player. This whole "TOXIC! TOXIC! YOU'RE BEING TOXIC!" is a bunch of BS, and gets spewed out far too often.

So this is just my two cents. Are there others like me out there that feel they get beat down all the time being called toxic but don't feel anything they have to say is in any of the hate speech/berating/racial/sexual/malicious categories? People are so easily offended if what I have to say is toxic, in comparison to what I see others typing.

8 Comments

Deep Terror Nami7/2/2016, 6:51:43 AM1 votes

When you look at a phrase like "Why chase someone with that much CC under their turret? We got her flash." on the boards of course it doesn't seem toxic, but in game when things are going bad pointing at the mistakes of your team can spark an argument because they already know they made a mistake and it just feels like you're rubbing it in, or they may simply be looking for someone to blame and vent their frustration.

Instead of bringing up past mistakes, try to say something beneficial in present and future and keep them focused on what they can do now. If you are still as positive as you can be and they don't want to hear what you have to say, just don't say anything.

Sarutobi7/2/2016, 6:53:24 AM1 votes

The thing is we can't really go off of what you say. You can claim all you want that this is how you interpreted the match. But for all we know the master yo could have had a different opinion on the matter. How do we know you weren't spamming pings? Maybe the Yi thought you were going to help in the turret dive? You don't say who you were playing as except that you were a mid laner, you could have had some type of CC to help and get the kill. But again we are only going on with what you said and not anyone else in the party.

But I do agree a lot of people spew out "toxic" behavior from nothing. But if you truly did nothing wrong no matter how many times people say toxic in chat the chatlogs will show proof!

Magical Player7/2/2016, 7:13:38 AM1 votes

Simple solution, stop typing go to a voice chat program(discord/teamspeak) make a dynamic queue party of like 10-15 people and then just goto town whenever enough of you are online.

Not saying this is the right way to handle it, but I know from my personal experience i was "warned" enough times so i stopped typing in league entirely and to this day, i type less than 15 lines of info. which include gl/hf/friends,etc/gg wp,thanks for playing,was fun. The chat is just a reason to be distracted in the long run.

Ahtsuko7/2/2016, 6:20:16 PM1 votes

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