I'm Speechless

sleepy b1tch·6/23/2016, 1:52:33 AM·1 votes·783 views

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.

4 Comments

disregardable6/23/2016, 1:56:23 AM1 votes

It only takes one report for the game log to be sent to Riot. What the rest of your team did doesn't matter as long as you reported him. People aren't punished for a single game, but he will be punished if he continues to troll on a regular basis.

If you don't want to play League, you really shouldn't play it. I find that I enjoy the game a lot more after I wait until I really want to play again.

AraMoOse6/23/2016, 2:05:19 AM1 votes

Try to remind yourself that by tomorrow, this person's overall impact on your life will have been 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001%. So why would you allow them to impact today?

ShinkoMinori6/23/2016, 2:41:36 AM1 votes

Do what I did, get to gold and forget about ranked.

PIMPSMOOTH6/23/2016, 7:23:10 AM1 votes

"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."

If you had zero plans on being aggressive at lvl 1 then you should have told Ekko before he ever went in to try and make a play, and told him to leave the bush so he could be elsewhere. Instead he tries to make a play and watches you sit there doing nothing, and he dies.

When he asks you about it, you gave him a snarky response.

I'm not condoning what Ekko did for the remainder of the game, but you handled the initial conversation very poorly.