How I dealt with toxicity
This was a long while ago but I feel like I should share this.
I was playing Aatrox top lane. I definitely wasn't doing bad at all, but three of my teammates kept trash talking me like I was the worst player in the whole universe.
One was a
who got an insane amount of kills (it's Zed. Not much else to expect.)
Another was a racist idiot who referred to me solely as a 'chink'.
Third was a more general douchebag with nothing memorable about him.
The only things that helped me through the game without wanting to reach into my computer and strangling all three of them: we were winning by a good margin and our jungler, a
, was the only other decent guy.
So, here's what I did after the game: blacklisted and reported all three, thanked
for a good game, shut off League, then went out to have ramen. I came back $10 poorer but feeling like a million bucks.
No special moral or lesson here. Just me having a bad game and coping with it.