Hey, I was chat restricted back in feb and while I deserved it, I hardly deserved the teammates I was put with. Giving people like them a reward when they should have been punished as hard as me if not worse hardly seems the right solution. So let's take a look at what I was dealing with and why I had started calling people idiots and stuff.
Reach s3 after climbing from bronze 2 - I was gold 5 last season and had extraordinarily poor teammates in 6 placement games making them auto-losses. I get 2 WEEKS straight of the following in nigh on EVERY game.
Bot lane - losing lane 2v2 - down 5 kills to the enemy duo. Ask them to play safe, hug tower, farm, and it's going to be ok. They continue shoving to the enemy tower, and enemy jungler goes bot to join the free kills feast. Bot lane is easily 0/8/0 APIECE in first 10-15 min of laning phase. The jungler they fed is now camping me. My jungler is making poor invades of enemy jungler - feeding the jungler who is camping me more. The rest of the time, he is camping for our feeding bot lane or losing mid lane - losing bot lane fights despite having a 3v2. I could start getting kills top and carrying if I got ganks, but naw, screw that guy for asking bot to PLEASE JUST FARM AND WARD; let him rot 1v2. And when that's not enough to keep him from going even or winning lane, let's have fed support join or fed mid and make it a 1v3 camp of toplane. And when that happens, wow, now team listens and plays safe. Except they are 2v1 or 2v0 or 1v0 and hiding under tower, not farming, not pressuring tower even though 20 sec ago when it was 1v1 and 2v2 in their lanes, they were more than willing to shove tower and feed. Now all of a sudden when there is zero threat of them dying, they won't push tower to relieve pressure on me top or trade objectives. And they repeat back all my solid advice (that I said nicely the first 4+ times) back to me in a mocking manner and salt me. So I stop saying things nicely. Repeat this for 2 weeks straight and drop me from s3 to nearly falling out of s5. Every game. And instead of the feeding teammates who flamed and salted me at LEAST as hard and rudely as anything I said getting punished, I get chat restricted. I deserved my restriction, but these people I was stuck with deserved much more and got 0 punishment. So I ask you, would you like to play with such people game after game after game after game after game after game after game, etc. and have them be rewarded because you lost your cool from dealing with people like them for 2 weeks straight and see them get rewarded for doing everything in their power to make your game as miserable as possible just because you TRIED telling them nicely to play safer and ward? I don't think so.
P.S., given a streak of decent teammates, I am finally g5 again. So yeah, I don't think I deserved a 2 week losing streak in s3 and I don't think that loss streak was my fault. People shouldn't have to deal with toxic intentional feeders who only think about themselves at cost of everyone else being able to enjoy the game on that level of regularity. I've had games where I went 3/9/4 and won or lost games. But I played as safely as possible after dying maybe twice in lane due to one early mistake and the enemy exploiting their lead. I made them work for it and gave my team the best possible chance to carry me without playing stupidly agro and feeding more. I know the difference between inting and having a bad game. And the difference is not always the kda - it's the decision making. I forgive people having a bad game. They adjust their play to hurt rest of team as little as possible. They listen to teammates who make valid points/offer solid advice. They are able to work with team and come back after having a rough start. Not always winning, but making it competitive and enjoyable. My favorite game this season was a loss. 4 losing teammates and a fed crocodile that put the fear of urf into 4 fed enemies and stalled out a game twice as long as it should have taken the enemy to win based on their lead. Because my teammates listened, adapted their play to become BETTER players with smarter tactics and we nearly turned that game into a win. Seeing my teammates grow because they chose to be TEAMMMATES not solo queue selfish players and watching them become better players than the enemy team was - players who only lost because the enemy team's lead was too great - was the most rewarding league experience I have had this season; better than reaching gold 5.
