"You Take Norms Way Too Seriously"
I was just playing a game as Warwick on my alternate account (TrueSteel Scizor on EUNE) when I had the displeasure of meeting a particularly nasty Vayne. From the start, she was showing signs she was going to be a nasty teammate, but it got exceptionally bad.
I was having an extremely good game, snagging an early level 3 kill on Veigar, rotating into Riven's jungle to kill her too, then rotating mid again to burn Veigar's summs. I ended up with about 10 kills before finally dying in a teamfight. Ganks were regular and invades were happening. The only objective I didn't snatch was Rift Herald because I was rotating around far too much to take it.
However, Vayne wasn't happy. Her lane was going poorly, she was doing badly, and she needed a scapegoat. She had 1 kill for most of the game, so it must be Warwick's fault for the immense pressure on the enemy team all game, right? So I quickly became a punching bag for her while she ignored the fact our Veigar was losing mid pretty badly and we had Ahri top getting dumpstered by Mundo. (I was duo with Ahri and the pre-game chat was a pretty bloody brawl for mid. I wasn't happy with the Ahri autolock myself.)
She went off like a bomb and sustained it the whole game. The fallout was tangible, since she would just run into the enemy team and die multiple times. When I told her to stop throwing a tantrum and play? "You take norms way too seriously, lmao. This isn't LCS you fucking noob, I'm just here for fun and teaching you how to play"
So let's use this as a springboard to make one thing clear: "It's just a norms" is no excuse for doing poorly and flaming. If you are feeding and being toxic, I don't care if it's Bots or LCS-level play, it is no excuse for being an asshole.
I take Normals at least semi-seriously. I try to win because that's the point of the game. Not trying to win is equivalent to griefing/trolling if your entire team isn't on board with that plan. (And 99 times out of 100, a PUG isn't going to be happy with that.) If I were, say, drunk and with 4 other friends and wanted to try on-hit Dead Man's Plate Bard, then yeah that's fine for screwing about. But that's in a casual setting with a full team of drunk-off-their-tits mates. On any other occasion, I am going to do everything in my power to win the game. (legitimately, of course, cheaters are no fun.)
If that makes me a "sweaty tryhard", then so be it. At least I respect the game enough to play it like the competitive PvP game it is, and my teammates enough to give them my best effort.
/rant
