Question about being reported
Hello, after one of my games I received a warning saying that my behavior was not in line with the community and stuff like that. I guess I was reported by a lot of people in the after-game room. Well that makes sense because during the game people kept criticizing my build and my playstyle. The whole team was losing really hard except for my lane, which was top. The jungler and I got the first tower at top. The enemy team was pushing mid against my team so I decided to split push top to force them to gank me and relieve pressure from my team. I got the second top tower, the inhibitor tower and I almost got the inhibitor but the support and the jungler from the enemy team killed me. Technically, my team should have had a 4v3 and be able to push them back. However, they did not do so, either because of lack of skill or confidence or I don't know. The point is that I was trying to help them, I was not trying to make them lose in any way, I just like helping by split pushing and not by grouping. I usually group once all of the outer towers of the side lanes are destroyed. I was playing Renekton, that's my main champion and I've been playing him since probably 2012, I play it full AD because I think it's more fun and effective to play full AD Renekton like the summoner Neryth does. He is a master tier player who plays full AD Renekton. I used to play Renekton as a tank but then I switched to full AD Renekton after seeing that it is more useful than full Tank or bruiser Renekton. I also use Ignite instead of Teleport because I prefer to kill my lane opponent and dominate my lane than teleporting to gank other lanes. I do this because for teleport one needs rapid communication and coordination and it's impossible to have that through chat. I would use teleport if my team was a premade team and we all are on the same page and communicating through oral chat. The problem is that Full AD Renekton with ignite top that focuses on split pushing and then grouping is not very popular apparently and when people see me doing it and we are losing they criticize me and blame the whole game on me and in the worst cases proceed to report me for trolling as if they also were not responsible for losing. So, will this affect me? I don't like being reported for my playstyle in a video game. You fire people for acting in the wrong way in the workplace, you report people who don't behave well in real life. But in a video game, one is free to do whatever even if it is ranked. Ranked, normals, dominion, Howling Abyss, custom, ARAM, bots, it's all League of Legends. There is not a single difference between those three. It does not matter if you value Ranked more than the rest. You have no right to report others because of how they want to play. I started this thread with a doubt: "Does this affect me? The fact that I was reported for my playstyle." And you know what? I already know the answer to that. NO. It better not affect me at all. I play however I want. If I wanna go Jungle Teemo I will. If I wanna go full AD Annie top lane, I will. And I will do it in Ranked! Because this is a video game where one does what they want where they want. If I want to go Hecarim support, I will. Nobody can report me for my playstyle. If I go Annie full AD top lane and I flame people then I do deserve to be reported. But if I go Annie full AD top lane and we lose because I suck at Annie full AD top lane and everyone loses LP, then I don't deserve to be reported because this is a game and lack of skill or playstyle should not get me banned or reported at all. I got a warning, but I will not be banned because of my playstyle.
