The Worst Game Ever

I'm here today in the board to tell you a story. One of a horrendous game of League of Legends that I had the misfortune of being involved it. This game happened a mere hour or so ago. The title may be a bit of an exaggeration, but nonetheless, it's still somewhat accurate.

This game started just fine. No one spoke in the champion select, so I had no idea of what I was in for. At the start of the game things were fine. Everyone went where they should, no one was speaking still, but I'd rather have silence than witness what was to come.

It all started going wrong when our Thresh died. Our Lucian could have saved him, he did have his heal available, but he did not. This may have been a mistake, I do not claim to know, but our Thresh handled it poorly. He spent the rest of the game sitting in fountain, not doing a thing. From there the Lucian started getting toxic, lashing out against our midlane Ezreal and our jungle Evelynn for their poor performance in said game. I was playing Teemo in the toplane, and was not a subject in this verbal abuse to begin with.

Things only escalated from there on. Our Evelynn and Ezreal retaliated of course, only making the chat horrendous. Why I didn't use the mute function... I honestly don't know. I probably should have, a serious error on my part. At one point, our Lucian, upset with Evelynn, decided to make the claim in allchat that Evelynn had called him a... Slur which has no place in League, but I'm sure your imagination can fill in what was said. He asked the enemy team to report her for doing this, but she had said no such thing. She didn't react well to this though, and asked for reports in return due to how toxic the Lucian was being.

I made a mistake in this too. Towards the end of the game I made one single message in allchat. I stated "This is the first game since the new honor system was added that I'm going to skip the honor screen." Which was a true statement, but a statement I should not have said nonetheless. This only spurred the Ezreal on to attack me in allchat in the few seconds that remained of this game.

This game was horrendous. This game was a showing of the absolute worst the League of Legends community has to offer. I'll normally always honor a teammate, usually based on how friendly they are above all other factors. But sometimes a silent teammate will get my honor if I feel no one else on my team deserves it. In hundreds of games since the new honor system this was the first one where I felt skipping it was the only acceptable option. This shouldn't ever happen. There is no reason to be like this to your teammates. It costs nothing to be nice, but it could cost so much more to be like these players. It goes without saying that I did report all players on my team at the end of this game, as every player on my team flagrantly broke LoL's terms of service and made the game an overall worse experience.

If you take anything from this story it's just... Don't add to the toxicity. Make this game a pleasant one to play.