I'm Speechless
I'm a calm person. I don't normally rage, and I deal with people who are impatient or hostile or irritatingly slow to understand what they need to do. I keep my calm because people around me don't, and usually it works out for me. I'm in Bronze II, so it's inevitable that there will be trolls who don't care for other people, but usually I accept the loss and move on.
But not today.
I won't name this person, because then it will be a callout post. But this person was playing Ekko support, which I was already skeptical about. But I let it go, hoping beyond hope that he would be good. He decides to go mid lane level 1, and sit in the side bush. I'm in mid lane, and he pings for me to go in and try to kill my enemy laner. I don't go in, obviously, and he gets upset with me and asks why I didn't back him up. I told him to go back to his lane and leave me alone.
You know what he does? The exact opposite.
He camps my lane. He sits there, trying to steal CS, COMPLETELY abandoning his ADC who is, of course, dominated due to his lack of support. I tell him to leave, I rage, I call him names, I beg him to go, my teammates beg him to go, but nothing works. He just stays. I am so unbelievably heated at this point I have to leave my computer and just breathe for a minute. When I come back, somehow my teammates are now on HIS side, because I was raging and he wasn't. That was it for me. I stopped trying. I went to whatever lane I could and got farm and counted down the seconds until the game was over. I was so unbelievably tilted and I didn't want to be in the presence of that Ekko longer than I had to. We lost of course, but ranting is not why I'm here.
I'm posting here mainly for two reasons. Number one, I'm worried that this player will not be punished. My team was on his side because I raged and he stayed silent, and I don't think they reported him. The other team was unsympathetic, and if I'm the only one who reports him, nothing will happen. That kind of toxic player CANNOT be allowed to continue how he is. He ruined the game not only for me, but for our entire team. I get I'm only Bronze II, and it doesn't really matter. But I just can't stand knowing that he got away scot free.
The second reason I'm posting this is to address the problem of toxic in game behavior and trolls. People who are fine in champion select, pleasant and normal, but when they get into the game all they do is troll. There's no guard against them. Reports can be effective, but you still have to suffer at LEAST 20 minutes of that game, and you still lose that LP. It's the worst feeling, not being able to do anything. I'm an emotional person, I admit, but honestly this person makes me want to abandon this entire game that I have loved for a long time. I know he was part of a small percentage of players, but he's enough for me to want to leave.
TL;DR People suck sometimes, and they don't get punished for it. Maybe I'm being idealistic and hoping for the best in people, and probably nothing is going to happen to this person or people like him. But I can always dream.