Originally Posted by
Shamanic
Woah now, now you're saying that being toxic is okay if someone else does it first? Really? You can't see why you should be different if someone "famous" does something bad?
Riot has been working really hard the last year to keep the idea that pro players are role models, that pro players can, and will be banned for bad behaviour, and along with the fact that people will get dropped from their sponsors, I'm not sure that many of the actual members of the LCS are toxic. After every single Pro match I've ever watched - which is a lot, they shake hands and move on and in the interviews afterwards, I've never heard anything disrespectful. Maybe we've seen very different LCS matches because all the interviews and matches I've seen in the LCS, people have been pretty respectful of their opponents.
Occasionally something bad may happen on Reddit or Facebook or Twitter but then it tends to get blown out of proportion and that's not during matches, gameplay or official interviews and I'm not saying pro players are perfect in soloq either.. but the fact is just because they do it, I can do it, is an awful reason. Pro players aren't gods, they have personal problems and lose their temper too but I think the world would be pretty shocked if WildTurtle just shrugged at the end of a match and said "easy" to the cameras.