My experience with 'Toxic' people

Okay, so before I tell you about the toxic experiences, I AM going to say I am relatively new to League of Legends. I've been playing for around 4-5 months which isn't long to most people on LoL but I still feel like I should have an opinion on this. This also means I am not great at every champion! I usually stick to 3 or 4 champions but if I'm forced to I will play a champ totally new to me.

So the other day I was playing LoL just joining SR games after I had just bought some RP. Now, I noticed that I had a mission to play with people who had certain skins so I decided to buy a few of said skins I liked. One of which was Syndra SKT T1. Now, I had Syndra before I bought the skin, I never played her much though since I don't feel comfortable playing public games with new champs I had just got. So I was playing Syndra with the new skin I had bought, not 100% confident playing her. And obviously, I died quite a few times. I think i died 3 times before I finally got a kill but it's not like I was trying to feed. I had a Jax on my team who was, putting it truthfully, one of the rudest people I had ever met. They didn't yell at me, or tell me to kill myself ect. But they kept telling me to 'AFK for the team' or 'Just leave'. To you guys it might not be that hurtful or rude but to me that really upset me. Now I know League is full of toxic people who don't care about others feelings and this stuff usually doesn't bother me, but when someone says to leave to help the team, I really felt useless. I get that I was being killed quite a bit, I had around 5 or 6 deaths before I decided to leave (I was in the game fore around 10 mins, so I died like every 2.5 minutes >.<) but this Jax just wouldn't stop asking me to leave. So I'm going to be honest. Sometimes I feel like some players could do better or not feed as much (tbh I'm not really one to talk) but I never upright tell them to leave the game. If I actually say anything I try to be positive and motivational (which doesn't work that much). I'm never rude to anyone. So eventually, I left the game. I wasn't that upset about leaving - just angry that I didn't talk back to him/her.

Now for me, I usually meet at least 3 toxic players a day, thats around 100 toxic people I've spoken to or played with - But not all of them were **just **mean to me. Most games, and I'm sure everyone who's played League has met at least one person like this, I usually come across that one rage-crazed person who at the end of a win/defeat always goes: "Stupid Team!" or "Noobs!!". For me this doesn't really mean anything, but I'm here to complain so might as well mention it. These kinds of people are usually bossy or quiet during a game then rude af at the end. I just think it's childish to say that at the end of a game -.- and thats coming from a 14 year old.

Finally, I'm going to talk about people who yell at you for no reason. By 'yell' I mean use full on caps and say pretty rude things if you don't do what they want/expect of you. I understand some people might accidentally have caps on or word things in a bad way but some of the people I've come across are just plain rude. If you mess the littlest thing up they call you a "noob" or curse at you (which usually comes up as '****' anyway). Some people just want to play without getting scolded for playing badly. For me League used to be a relaxation from school but now its just added even more stress. As someone who has anxiety and already feels bad about themselves, that 'safe haven' is usually meant to be a nice place. Which LoL was until recently because of all the stress has built up and started to get on my nerves. Now I'm not saying I don't rage. I'm sure most people do. But if I rage I do not yell at others or blame them. I usually stay quiet in games, trying not to be sociable online is kinda my thing. I find it easier when I'm not talking to people.I'm sure I sound like a kid's mum posting on Facebook about how their child is being 'bullied' or mistreated by others but I assure I am not trying to be that way.

I'm gonna finish this off by saying that there should be some sort of punishment for this kind of attitude/behaviour. Maybe not major, but the report system rn isn't the best. Usually ends with a small warning or nothing at all. Riot could at least try to make it so it detects an insult and warns them more offen. There probably is a system like this but I am not seeing its affects if its there.

So yeah. LoL is not a bad game, nor is it a great one. The people on there really ruin others experiences and hurt their feelings which drives them away from the game itself. I have no clue how to end this as I usually don't write things like this. Sooo... yeah.