Was it worth all that? (Ye Olde Wall-o-Text)

Story time friends, pull up a chair and listen to my needlessly long tale of salt, "justice", and me getting stuck on the unimportant details. It'll be like pulling teeth reading this, but honestly it's not like you had anything better to do considering you're on Player Behavior. In case your time matters though: TL;DR @ Bottom

Preseason is here, and many of us haven taken to ranked to test new runes in a more serious gaming environment. Of course we understand preseason doesn't matter in terms of the climb, but at least we avoid the 4 man premade in normals who are just testing out fun things. Having unlocked all of my BE rewards with my game of the day on my main, I decided to get done my daily on all of my other accounts. Unfortunately for me, I didn't realize that you could simply do a bot game, so I spent a lot of time on accounts idc about. Enter THIS account. Been quite a while since I played a game on it, but it was the account where I practiced and learned to play my main doggo after his rework (sorry for all the people I angered playing WW support) so I don't own many champs. Autofilled to top, I instalocked my mutt (for lack of other options) and proceeded to craft a new rune page. That's when I knew I was about to be in for a rough game. My Brand support, and Tristana Adc informed me of what a shit champ I chose for the toplane. They pointed out my garbage win rate with him. I didn't bother to fight. I didn't even respond. I could have linked two of my other accounts where I have an equal amount of Warwick games played but a significantly higher win rate (58-65%) to try and reassure them. Truthfully though, I wanted to simply show them that I wasn't as much of a shitter as they thought I'd be.

Unfortunately I had a bit of a rough start. With new runes comes changes in damage output, and damage taken. I'd yet to learn how much I deal with X rune page, versus how much dmg I'd take when versus a champion with Y rune page. I'd grown so use to being able to 2v1 with my old build I'd gotten too cocky. The result was me stupidly dying to ganks I could have easily disengaged from. After the 3rd death I realized this attitude wasn't going to work, I'd have to roam for a kill to get back into the game. Of course the entire time I was being flamed by my wonderful duo bot. I was a inter, I was stupid, I was trash. My KDA did nothing but justify their flame in the eyes of my allies. At least I assumed as much since they question marked me quite a few times. I attempted to TP bot during a 3 man gank. While it was extremely close, my Brand (full hp and half mana) decided to recall rather than back me up. The mistake was mine for tping into a fight before knowing what ultimate/SS had been used though. Turns out in spite of Trist dying and everyone being extremely low, not a single SS had been used. I found that out the hard way. Whew lads, I tell you I believe if I was standing next to a drum of oil this Tristana would have lit a match and watched me burn. I was worthless, I was garbage, I was scum, I was disgusting. Did it bother me? Truthfully no. I was playing like a monkey. I'd made repeated mistakes and continuously overestimated my abilities. But was she right? Not in the least.

You see I may have been playing that particular game poorly, but the insults she was hurling at me were very wrong. I'm very proud of the accomplishments I've made in my life. I am very happy with the man I grew up to be, especially in spite of conditions that should have me out gang banging and looting stores rather than playing League after a morning of work. You see I grew up playing HALO, COD, CS, and numerous MMORPGs. I know what she was saying was from a place of frustration, and I am not the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. Normally I'm down to give it as good as I get it, yet with Riots toxicity policies I've learned to tune out the rage and not retaliate. But then she called me a retard. I'm certainly not a retard. I pointed out that she's risking way more than I am by flaming. Then she told me she was honor 0 already so she didn't give a fuck. Alright, I can respect that. You're honor 0, typing essays of rage with your duo partner dick riding off your every word and seriously think you have nothing to lose.

The thing about the automated system is, certain keywords really do autoban you. Anyone who has spent 10 mins on these forums can tell you that. When you have someone so toxic that they're flaming you in champ select for your champion choice how hard do you think it is to bait them into saying one of those phrases? Not very. Sometimes it is as simple as saying "Riots automated system has been in overdrive lately, you might want to watch what you say bud". That was all it took. I suddenly went from being a retard to being a ft. A SJW ft to boot. I had a laugh at that, no I really did. The bigger laugh was yet to come though.

Trist would not stop talking. She didn't give a fuck. Riot wasn't going to do anything to her. I'm just a whiney SJW cry baby who rides Riots cock because I have no friends IRL. While she was talking, I picked up a double kill, double shutdown gold in my bank. Hell yeah, back in the game now boyz. I ran top and pushed out a stacked, fatass wave. Backed, finished my first item ran back to lane and killed the enemy Shen. Now I was 3/3. Things were looking up. Tides were turning. Trist was still raging and I was about to fuck myself all kinds of up. I said "Dude". What I was going to type after that? More than likely some hate speech, followed by some terroristic threats, finished up with a lot of stupidity (much like this sentence, but you know what it is). Maybe my guardian angel Amumu realized that and stopped me before I could press enter. "Just mute her, she isn't worth your time". Yeah he was right and it felt better now that someone on my team had backed me up. I tell him "Yeah I guess, I just wanted her to cross the line so the automated system catches her immediately for that 14day". Trist laughs and says you don't get a 14 day for a first offense. Amumu points out that if shes honor 0 then she's been chat banned, so this is her second offense. Suddenly our Fizz chimes in telling her how hate speech is an immediate 14 day. This triggers the Trist. Her and Brand decide to spend the rest of the game being passive aggressive. Trist refuses to come to teamfights, opting instead to sit bot lane all game. The duo is passive aggressively complimenting our plays and apologizing for our deaths. She knows she went too far, and she knows she's getting reported.

All the while I've begun to pop off. Suddenly I go from 3/5 to 7/5. Im taking towers and killing anyone who steps near me. Do you know the joy of killing an adc while their Janna is forced to watch, powerless to intervene? Can you fathom the euphoria of popping that range abusing pos while her pet wind fairy desperately tries to blow you away? Almost as good as killing the Janna right before the surrender vote goes through on the enemy team. But out of that game, where I ended 10/5/2 with top dmg dealt/ top dmg tanked on my team/most gold earned, the best part was closing out the post game lobby to that instant feedback message.

So wall of text is nearly done. I want to ask that duo a single question. I mean come on, they hurled insults at me, went out of their way to attempt to tilt me, and eventually turned on the entire team for not supporting their behavior. They went through numerous lines of text harassing me for playing something they didn't like, and then further for telling them something they didn't like. This duo went so out of their way to spend 21 minutes shit talking ME (the player who carried them) that they're now sitting with either a 14/15 day ban, or a permaban (wouldn't surprise me considering honor 0 and casualness of admitting it). After I post this thread and return to the game I'll no doubt forget about them shortly after. 3 days from now I'll forget this ever occurred. That mark is permanently on their account though. A week from now I'll be spamming mastery 7 badge as I miss my ult and die laughing at my misplay. A week from now they'll still be banned. Even if it was only a 14 day, that Trist is a single infraction away from ye old PERMABAN hammer. I know it feels good to shit talk. It feels good to vent your frustration. Hell, sometimes it even feels good to be a fucking dick to strangers you'll never meet. That is if you're in a position where there are few if any repercussions for being as such. Clearly not the case here though. So I totally want to ask them "Was it really worth all that?"

_Tl;DR- Duo que flames and rages, gets carried by scrubwick and subsequently punished after. _