Had someone literally cussing me out, told them to Frick off (but not the pg 13 way) they reported me and I got a 10 game chat restriction wow. League's system for penalties is like a school no fight tolerance policy. Get punched in the face/some1 inting/cussing you out? Both get a restriction unless you pretend that you're fine and move on.
Sorry dude, you didn't get punished for one game of telling someone to fuck off.
Regardless of anything else, the title actually is great advice.
Tell me, what good does it do to respond to toxicity in kind? What benefit is there to flaming someone back?
Yes, there's the obvious of personal satisfaction, but that's not enough to outweigh the fact that you're just exacerbating the toxicity by adding to it.
It's true, I got a 2 week ban for talking back to someone who was flaming me. I don't even remember ever getting warned or chat muted prior to that.
Funny thing is I'd constantly get daily notifications and be congratulated about being such an amazing and honorable player that people love to play with (300% more honors and such), and then minutes later the ban claiming that the majority of players don't like playing with me and find me toxic. A little confusing and contradicting.
But anyways, ya gotta realize that league isn't a social game, so no point in trying to socialize in an unsocial game. It's best to rarely say anything or just give in game calls. Pings and "k" in chat is more than enough lmao. Think of it being like sitting in a tournament match. And if you want to be social, play some WoW or something. Where you get to chill & play and chat.
A game like league is meant to be antisocial, you just queue in with randoms, using each other for elo or whatever and then most of them ya won't be seeing ever again. So no need to talk to anyone. Else you can just call this game league of reporting.
