"You said something mildly annoying in Champion Select, so now I'm gonna take your farm and while I won't walk into lane to die, I'm gonna ruin the game for you and make us lose to teach you a valuable lesson about annoying me"
Why isn't this kind of behavior punished more frequently? One has to beg these players to please play correctly, but to them, to "teach" their lesson is more important.
I read an article about online gaminings anonymity and they basically compared it to 'Lord of the flies'. Behind a comouter screen people can lash out and act ways they would never act in front of someone.
Plus some people are very childish
Here's something that happened a few days ago in a ranked game I played.
Context: We did a 3 man swap around to give a guy jungle who had good winrates, I gave up mid to go support
Champion select goes well and we seem set to go into the game insert aforementioned context we're a few minutes into the game and our mid Ahri dies to a jungle gank, but it's still just whatever and I think nothing of it, we tell him to just maybe play safe before 6 since it's Karma mid and he can get rooted fairly easily, but for the most part we think nothing of it. Fast forward a bit, and our Jungle(Graves) ganks mid. It seems like a secured kill, but Ahri misses a key charm on the Karma and tries to go dive for it but dies. This was slightly questionable judgement, but the game is still fine as our top is doing very well and we're going fairly even in the bot lane.
So clearly, Karma escaping there though was the Ahri's fault, she missed a charm, but she proceeds to whine a bit and blame Graves for Karma getting away. It turns into a full blown argument, and our top laner comes in and just tells our Ahri "Look, you missed your charm dude, move on." This Ahri INSTANTLY is not having any of it though, she immediately responds, "Im done with this, I dont care anymore and you're all annoying." And she just proceeds to run it down mid and tells me, the person who gave up mid for her, "Sorry Taliyah, but these guys deserve to lose for being toxic, maybe they'll stop being toxic after this."
What the fuck??? How does this make me feel better, what lesson are you teaching them?
Had a game where I asked midlaner why they didn't come help me when their laner left to attack me in river just outside their lane(lasted about a minute before I died). The mid-laner then immediately goes for my blue and I ask them kindly a not to, saying I need it because I don't build mana on this build and they have plenty of both mana and mana regen items, I then start frantically pinging them to stop as they get closer to kill it finally asking in chat why when they took it anyways. After that the Top laner and Mid laner(I assume they were in a duo) decided I was toxic and stole every single jungle camp of mine as soon as they spawned.
I couldn't gank because I was behind, I couldn't cs because bot lane was losing and they wouldn't let me farm top, mid, or my jungle. It was the most frustrating game I have ever played in my life. For a good ten minutes there was nothing I could do except try to take Scuttle Crab, try to steal camps, and make worthless ganks in the hopes I would get a kill and catch up a bit. Eventually bot lane died for a double kill but got the enemies really low, so I killed them for a bunch of gold. Before that I had actually just started going afk because every time I tried to do anything they would either leave me to die when I ganked them or steal a camp(no matter what the situation on the map was) as it spawned. I still can't believe over something so little that two people would actively sabotage me to the point where it was putting them behind as well(top would roam to bot side jungle just so I couldn't have grump).
Just so you know, things didn't get better after the double kill. I went from feeling like I just wanted to curl up into a ball and cry, to that plus seething anger. They continued to refuse to help me, they continued to take every bit of cs and camps they could to deny me any farm.
The worst part is I don't think they got banned. People that so completely harassed me that it made me want to just curl up into a ball, continue to cry, and stop playing the game(which again I did do for a little bit before I saw that chance to recover from a double kill bot lane), those people don't get banned, not even a penalty, whereas a person that clicks decline can get penalties. How do people that do this and say in chat they're doing it not get banned? Thank goodness that they're adjusting the automated system to try to catch more people.
i mean riot doesn't care about being told to drink bleach or kill yourself in 60+%of cases so why should they care about that.
We all just need to keep reporting them and eventually they will get some kind of repercussions. I feel you though, about 90% of my losses are from toxic people who think it makes them cool to throw temper tantrums. :\
Not sure if this is relevant or not but, I know when I play flex or solo/duo and the premade team goes 0-35, which ruins my league experience, rank and overall fun, I tend to speak up in game saying something like "you guys do know there are three other game modes to learn/bs in right?" I truly do feel that there is no way they could have a combined score that bad and thus just wanted to try new champs out and learn. Yet they picked a rank game to screw others over in, which I feel makes them the toxic ones, the ones that need to be reported and should have something said to them. What makes it worst is when they are verbally blaming others.
To me they're the childish ones, the ones with the egos, imo this should be punished!
well actually champ selection chat is monitored aswell so if the mildly annoyed player reports u, u will get what u deserve :D
Sounds like IWD fans :0. Not shaming them but this is what I generally notice about a lot of IWD fans, they taxed your entire wave, they take everythign for themselves and when you get in a arguement with them, they troll
I DO IT all the time!!! <<<< cause its fun to punish people for being mean . i love to int and flame back and troll
Yep I remember a couple years ago I said "hi fam" in champ select and a guy called me an angsty teen and said that I should kill myself, then proceeded to run it down mid. Haven't had any other run-ins like that again thankfully lol
The word you are looking for is "egomaniac" and yes, these people need to be stopped.
There are also players who will do this in champion select to punish their teammates for not doing what they want, such as swapping roles or picking / banning /not banning a particular champion.
Yet, I leave one game and riots leaver buster system gives me a 10 minute wait time before I can start queue for a game.
because unless they do it almost every game/type exactly how they are doing it in chat, it's pretty impossible for it to be picked up.
There are outliers of this that get punished, but its only once riot manually reviews the account due to massive amounts of reports but no punishment.
If it is not done regularly and/or all people in that specific game don't report the player, it won't rank high enough of a "threat" or "priority" or whatever to get further investigated. As a real life comparison, it would be like if you speed once a month and a police officer reports you and writes you a ticket, the court says you don't have to pay and treat you as if you never sped. Only if you got 50 tickets in one day or you got one ticket every day for a month would you have to pay. That's basically what reporting people is like sadly. Maybe one out of 50 who deserves a warning or punishment actually gets it and some people who don't deserve it probably do get it because they speak out about players inting or trying to ruin the game for another player (like you describe) and get reported as toxic by half their team and the enemy team who all side with the inting player because apparently telling someone to play safe or ward or just hug their tower and stop dying is inappropriate and uncalled for.
