There is close to no sportsmanship left in Silver.

Since the moment I started playing ranked in League, I do the yearly grind to gold for the skin. Every single year I try to improve as a player in mechanics, macro, attitude, etc. Over the years I've grown accustomed to uncarriable games and have tried to just make the best out of the experience of a losing game to learn as much as possible and actually get better at the game while having the most amount of fun possible.

It's so hard though.

I tend not to mute anyone on the enemy team or on my own team because I like to give them the benefit of the doubt, that being said I don't think there's more miserable, frustrated, or just plain angry people in any other section of ranked. Me not muting them is me being stubborn, and due to that it just runs me through these people that think being a bad sport is part of the "psychological" game that goes on in every league game. The whole point of a competitive game, on paper at least, is to have a enjoyable experience in which by going against more skilled opponents than the normal casual game will net you a much more challenging game where a victory would be amazingly rewarding, not only in knowledge from the game but also for the feeling of winning. All I see instead if people with a mountain of salt overbearing their every judgement that its no longer any "GLHF's" or any good "GG's", its more a "You suck rubber duck titties" or the 2+ "GG EZ". No one improves from that, not even yourself. It's no longer a bout of mechanical prowess leading to those extensive outplays that make you feel so good, no, its just a bunch of shit talk meant to screw over the enemy team's (or in many cases your own team's) experience because some people's only goal is to win and anything that gets them there faster is fine with them. Honestly speaking though, that's completely fine if you want to ignore the entire journey just to reach the destination, whatever floats your boat right?

Just know that the simple "GLHF", "GG"(not the gg at 5 minutes in), and even the good job here and there can make the journey a lot more rewarding and the real gem to the game.

Also, for the love of everything that is good and innocent in the world please stop the constant quitting of the game at 5 minutes and learn to enjoy the game gracefully in defeat, and humble in victory.