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Playing When You're Being Punished, and How It's Hard to Reform

The Yetii Rider·5/20/2015, 9:56:35 PM·1 votes·605 views

Okay, so I admit, I've had a rough week. I've had feeders, I've had trolls, and I've had lag. I've rage quit one or two games and just plain lagged out of a few more, and I wake up this morning to find I'm being punished by Leaver Buster. I also got a warning about Negative Attitude, so I figure the best thing to do is to simply play through my low priority games on a low profile. I queue up for ranked, wait the 5 minutes time, get my main and get into game. I inform the team that I want to focus, so I'll be muting all of them. I'm playing jungle, but I'm not planning to gank much anyway (as I'm Nunu) so I just start playing. My team gives up a double to the enemy jungler at 4 minutes, but I don't say anything. I wait until the jungler has backed and sneak drag, so it's a pretty decent trade. Then my top laner gets a kill and I say GJ to him, even though I can't hear his response.

I gank mid and top a few times, and pick up an assist in bot. Next drag comes around and I ping it a few times thirty seconds or so before, but no one comes. So the enemy team groups and I try to steal, die and lose the drag. I say in chat "Please group for next drag" and leave it at that, even though my bot lane was sitting there farming while the enemy team stormed me 4v1. (I didn't start drag, I was just warding, positioning and waiting for my team).

Anyway, we lose the next drag, bot goes 0/5 and 0/5, and we lose a few more team fights. At 20 minutes I just type out a surrender and the team votes against it. Getting annoyed, but still not saying anything because I want to reform my behavior and not get reported again, I keep playing. The enemy team gets a kill in mid and pushes up, and knowing that my presence isn't going to stop them from taking inhib I push out and take second bot tower. My team pinged for me to come help them but I ignored it (admittedly, that might be Refusal to Communicate on my part, but I don't think ignoring the one ping is worth a report).

Game goes on a little longer. They push to end after they kill my team and I don't bother going to defend. Game ends, I say a gg and go to the stats screen, where my top laner says he's reporting me. I get another bleep on my screen that says I've been reported for Negative Attitude, when I barely said 10 words to my team all game, all of them polite except "FF at 20". They were mad that I muted them at the beginning, that I didn't gank bot and help, and that I was ready to surrender at 20 when we were 13 kills, 2 drags, and an inhib behind (and I have 4 more low priority games to get through).

So, Lyte, if you're still around, tell me how to defend myself here. I mute, I resist the urge to flame and rage all game, I don't afk when my team keeps me prisoner in a game we've already lost. I played with the most toxic team that fed, refused to group for objectives, and voted down a surrender. And I didn't say ANYTHING to them. I still got reported. How do I avoid this? I want to reform, and it seems like flat out saying nothing (and rendering myself immune to any potential flaming in game so I don't retaliate) is the best way to do it, but that's its own section of reporting.

4 Comments

OhBoyItsaMegaman5/20/2015, 10:48:15 PM1 votes

Saying "FF at 20" is somewhat negative. Saying "FF at 20" and then—after your surrender vote fails—pushing a lane while the enemy takes your base can be interpreted a certain way. Whether you intended it or not, it carries the connotation "We don't stand a chance of winning, and I blame you guys for that. In the interest of having the game end as soon as possible and with my K/D/A intact, I will intentionally allow them to win." I can understand how you had a reason for pushing that lane instead of recalling, and you shouldn't be punished for doing something that YOU thought gave you the best chance of winning the game, whether your strategy turned out to be right or wrong. But what you're doing isn't reform. Muting everyone and then not being a team player is not reformed behavior. Most of the time, you won't get reported for doing that. But becoming a positive player or even a neutral player requires a little more effort than that.

The Yetii Rider5/20/2015, 10:57:50 PM1 votes

Sure, but I figured when I got reported for Negative Attitude that I was on tilt, so even if I'm a neutral player normally, I am probably more irritable and easily frustrated right now than usual. Muting to prevent getting flamed and baited into yelling matches shouldn't be a problem, should it?

DestructoDave5/20/2015, 10:59:07 PM1 votes

Once you get in trouble, you stay in trouble. Thats how the system works. Its stupid, but you are just going to get rekt over and over once you get in trouble. Anyone with a couple accts knows this. I have 2; one stays in trouble, one has never been trouble. Problem is, once you have got into trouble, its like every single trash report counts against you. So its a never ending cycle of automated garbage. Whereas a clean acct wont have that issue.

Example. I know every game I lose as a jungler I get reported for not ganking somewhere. Pretty sure those count. One of the reasons I think, if you want to not get in trouble, just play top lane, stay on your island, and keep your mouth shut. Every other role gets blamed for something, and once you get restricted all those trash reports start adding more days on your time.

At least this is my take on it, having 2 accounts that I play.

Protokai5/21/2015, 5:22:35 AM1 votes

why do you not gank as nunu its all i do as him along with stealing camps. but on the other side of things i thought people couldnt see your messages when you mute them am i mistaken in this? and the game just sounds like a bad game you have every now and again just kinda ignore it if possible we get bad teamates people who are trying new champs or just bronze players at heart like me half the time lmao i make so many mistakes esp since i was playing with a broken wrist bone for awhie. addicted. dont worry about it to much when you get reported right now i think you mentioned your in low priority que from leavebuster that is from going afk in general not being toxic i had it happen to me once when my internet went on the frits for like a week it would work just fine a game or two then it would die i got put in 5 min ques not big deal. it left in a few days just use the extra time to find some good music and chill my bro have a nice time on the rift