Banned for "Defending" myself.
Just a little pretext about myself, I've been playing league for the past 3 or so seasons. I play 3-4 games a day with friends and I'll be the first to admit, there have been times I've been toxic. For some reason, something about league can create a "tick" in me. I'm not usually the one to start raging, but, if someone starts calling me "bad" or flames me, I'll go off on them.
I've been banned in the past and admittedly I deserved those bans. Last season I was ALOT more toxic than what I consider myself to be now. When I got banned last season, and lost out on my end - of - season rewards I told myself I'd make a attempt to be less toxic. It's been working out for me decently, most of the time I just try to say my comments out loud and I've noticed a huge improvement (compared to how it used to be) as a player (becoming WAY less toxic, and just talking less in general).
Anyhow... Fastforward to tonight, I was playing with my friend all day and in our last game we had a Amumu on the other team who was trolling his team (he gave up pretty early and would walk into our team 1v5 purposely, and later towards the end he didn't even group with his team, he just split lanes as we were taking inhibs). Eventually he said something in all chat to the effect of "youre bad, youre not even good" or something like that.
At that point I decided to reply back saying "come on now, why are you so toxic". From then on we were exchanging conversation and he purposely just kept egging me on. I said a few things to him (only directed at him) and before the game ends his team politely asks to report amumu for trolling, which we all happily did. After that game while in queue for a new game I was banned. I mean I get why I was banned but at the same time I didn't initiate conversation with him, I wasn't trolling like he was, and I didn't say anything that bad.
Players like that amumu are what makes this game so toxic. Trolling his team, trash talking his opponents for no good reason. No one egged him on, no one said a word to him, nothing. I get it, I shouldve muted him, but in the heat of the moment, being the type of person that I am I just HAD to reply.
TLDR - Was toxic in the past (very), made good improvements, being way less toxic from before (dont say a word unless someone flames me first). Have one game with a trolling opponent trash talking me, decide to reply to his trash talk, get banned.
