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Do you ever have "that" game that makes you want to cry?

PalPlays·4/19/2018, 6:25:01 AM·3 votes·2,915 views

As a disclaimer, I'm not making this as a statement about Riot's report system AT ALL. Things like this just happen, and I just want to vent about it.

So, we start off the game. I, playing Skarner, ask the Fiora for a leash. Just for some insight, I am high honor level 3, was five before the season changed. I have never been banned, and the stats say that 70% of my honors are GG <3. I'm not a bad guy to be around. Anyway, I ask the Fiora for a leash while I'm in a videochat with my sweet girlfriend (she's such a treasure; I'll marry her someday). I barely have time to register that the Fiora asked for my help in the lane to come, since the Kled has ignite before she cusses Thresh out for asking if Jhin wants to play safe or go ham in lane.

I scrolled up to see what Thresh did to her...and he has ONLY said that. Wanting to diffuse the situation, I say "Whoa whoa chill." Apparently that was a bad move. Fiora types "chill" as she leaves me without a leash as red spawns. Before I can even react, she walks straight into lane, all ins the Kled with ignite in his minion wave, and dies. Not one second later, she quits and NEVER comes back.

Cool, I honestly don't mind. The enemy team, who I've been chatting with, is nice and they give their sympathy. I then offer that BOTH teams just play around until 15 minutes, when we can do an early surrender. I would like to draw special attention to this next part: both teams agree.

I walk around from lane to lane, dancing, flashing over a wall to dance at someone. Everyone is having a nice time, and my team has taken to using me as bait to kill people here and there. Both teams are talking in allchat and we're just killing time until the 15 minute mark. At such time, the surrender vote.... fails.

The Thresh then starts flaming me for "inting," when I only died intentionally once, when I flashed over a wall to dance under a turret (their Amumu somehow got credit). Otherwise, I've been farming casually just for fun, and they've gotten kills off of me. The rest of the team follows suit, flaming me constantly out of NOWHERE. The surrender vote fails again. The Sivir then utters the phrase that tilts me completely. She says "Yeah, you're stuck with us." Thresh then says, "we can win this man, why are you inting?" To state again, I have not been inting. They also have 5-6 turrets to our 0, and 20 kills to our 7. Upset, I bid my girlfriend goodnight. I have to work soon, and I had been hoping to have a quality game before I had to work. I'm starting to get really depressed from this toxicity from my team, and I state this in the end of game chat (I'm not a naturally depressed person. It honestly takes a lot to get me down.). Thresh, who was the main proprietor of this toxicity, seems genuinely surprised as I say, "Thanks for ruining my night, Sivir."

The other team was SO encouraging. One of them even requested that I add them (which I did). I teared up a bit as their encouraging words and empathy for my situation came through the screen.

It happens, I know. It's not anyone's fault, I know. I'm not complaining about the report system because it's actually really good. Some people are toxic in outlier cases, and the system isn't going to ban anyone for one or two instances of toxicity per year. While this post was originally just intended for me to vent, I think I do have a point to make. When people are toxic, try to be the person that makes the victim feel better. Sure, it's just a game, but the people on the other team, on your team, are not. While winning and losing doesn't make a difference, you can make the difference in ruining their night or making them tear up with gratitude they see the entire enemy team tell them that they feel their pain and wish that the rest of their...my...night is better.

I hope you have a good day, and I hope that you help make someone else's day better too.

6 Comments

Baka Red4/19/2018, 7:26:14 AM3 votes

Sad story. I cannot say that something similar has happened to me, maybe because I don't do deals with the enemy and I tend to fight to the end (until a nexus goes boom), no matter the odds "3 vs 5 with two inters, so be it. A handicap!" and in practice only surrender if everyone else wants to surrender. I guess that the situation you describe cannot really happen to me. Also, this is 'only a game' so losing one isn't like someone just lost his life and thus hardly a matter worth even single tear. (And I tend to cry easily while watching anime/tv series - occasionally even on happy parts - but losing games or meeting bad people there doesn't affect me like that. Win some, lose some. And mute & report are for the bad people.)

14cminurmum4/21/2018, 1:00:13 AM2 votes

Weird, I just had a game where my client bugged and took pred on yi and I said "sorry guys my client bugged and I couldn't change runes, but I will be alright," ourcait types "well..." and leaves the game. I say, "so we wanna ff 15?" and everyone says yes. So we all run around doing jack all until 15 and i put up the ff vote. someone declined. I say "I thought we were going to ff at 15?" and this when our thresh (duo with the adc btw) said "i voted yes must have been this yi" I said "i started the vote buddy, it is fine we can wait til 20 I suppose." I didn't mute him because I wanted to see how far he would go. The next 5 minutes I was told in graphic detail how rich he was and how much of low life scum I was, how worthless I was because I didn't gank bot for him in a 4v5 ( i did and we got 2 kills) and then explained vividly how I should, and the methods I should use to rape my mother. All the while, no one has said anything in chat. Post game rolls around and he keeps going on, I said "yikes looks like this guy won't be playing much longer" and 3 people in post game say "im not going to report him, not his fault" as he continues to explain how my tongue is to be inserted into my mother's orifices. I am shocked by two things. One, other players said they didn't think he did anything wrong, and two, that it was awfully weird how this is the first time they have ever said something like this in chat on this game, because surely they would have been permabanned by now if they had done it before.

EL HAMSTERO4/19/2018, 7:32:51 AM1 votes

/mute all

Invidie4/19/2018, 4:20:48 PM1 votes

their game, their rules : )