Ugh, sometimes the MOBA community can even get to me.
Today I was playing a ranked HOTS game with 4 other randoms.
I was Kerrigan, a tank/assassin (perhaps would be classified as "bruiser" in LoL) who thrives in the thick of things but also has trouble disengaging from a fight if things begin to turn sour. As such, her main role seems to be putting out as much aoe damage as possible before she expires in a fight, something which she can perform very well under the right conditions.
We also had a Muradin and an Illidan on our team. For the first half of the game, everything was going well. We were clearly ahead, winning all the team fights, joking around and being friendly in chat. In fact, my team was saying some really funny things, and I was enjoying their company more than I had enjoyed a team's company in a long time. It looked like we were on top of the world.
Then suddenly, we lost a single teamfight, and I swear to God, the entire team turned on themselves like cannibals. What was once friendly banter turned into outright rage and insults about how stupid we were and how worthless the team was. The transition was so dramatic that even after 10+ years of playing these games, it even surprised me.
Muradin was a decent player I guess but had chosen Haymaker, a far inferior ultimate in almost every way to his Avatar, kept talking about how bad we all were. Maybe he was half joking, I couldn't tell. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish trolling from actual insults (does it really make a difference?). Though I found it ironic that he was blaming us for losing (even though we weren't losing) despite the fact that the main reason we were losing fights is because we didn't have a tank, since he had elected to skill one of the most utterly useless ultimates in the game. I didn't say anything though.
Then Illidan, who is colloquially known as the most overpowered hero in the game, a burst assassin who has no mana and infinite chasing ability, as well as putting out insane amounts of single-target damage, and who has powerful engagement and disengagement abilities, began yelling at our team to stop dying, calling us feeders, and blaming all our deaths for the fact that we were now losing (even though at no point in the game, were we ever losing).
So anyway, this goes on for about 10 minutes as the game swings back and forth, until we finally take two of their Forts, which is like the LoL equivalent to an Inhibitor and the Smite equivalent to a Phoenix. We're clearly ahead at this point, but shortly after we lose another major teamfight and the insults and ceaseless berating gets worse. "GG" begins to be confidently typed out in allied chat, since apparently our team is convinced everyone else sucks and we're going to lose (for the record, we never even lost a Fort).
Illidan continues to go on his tirade about how everyone else is a feeder and that not dying is that hard and blah blah blah, "you're feeders and you suck". At this point, I've had it, and a take a quick glance at the scoreboard. It is true, Illidan has about 1/3rd of the deaths of some team members, but he also has the lowest hero damage in the entire game. In fact, his hero damage is even lower than our Brightwing, a healer who basically does no damage whatsoever. So in other words, his contribution as an assassin and in a teamfight is almost non-existent, which perfectly explains which he never dies - he hasn't been doing anything. I blatantly point this out, point out that our healer is more of an assassin than he is, and that he should shut his mouth and play the game, at which point he desperately exclaims, "I can't take this anymore, I'm going to mute you."
Despite all the childish stupidity and infighting, we eventually win, once again, without even losing a Fort, and I seriously consider pulling a pistol out and making a meat pie with my brain.
Oh by the way, today is my birthday!
