"Is it too late to get a refund on that skin?"

u totaly wastd yur $$$ - toxic league player, 2013

 To be honest, unless you are a pro, and I'd even imagine they've heard it before, this line is something almost every league player has heard when they're playing a champion with a bought skin:

"Is it too late to get a refund on that skin?"

It's likely one of the rudest, most irritating things to say, and is the toxic person's not so dickheaded of a way of telling the target person they sucked something awful that match.  Of course, there's three types of people that use this kind of toxic behavior.

1. Completely Irrational

You give up first blood, miss a skill shot, or ult someone in the wrong direction.  Immediately, if you have a skin, this toxic person is going to flip out and ask you the question above, and likely stick with it for the rest of the match into the after game chat where they likely will ask the enemy team to report you.  Even if you played the rest of the game fine, or only made one or two other small mistakes.

2. Irrational

This toxic fellow isn't as bad, but everyone has their off games or days.  You end up playing poorly in the match you're teamed up with this person, not at the top of your game, and toward the end they'll pop the question.  There's a good chance they won't take into consideration you're having an off game/day and report you, likely after a lot of raging either in chat or verbally at their computer screen.  Doesn't matter that you've played this character 7 out of 10 matches in your match history and won 6 of them.

3. Rational

But Tal, there's a rational person that uses this toxic behavior?

Answer is, yes.

If you bought the latest skin on the skin sale and the champ to go along with it, and after 10 games straight of playing this champ with 10 straight losses, your game with this person being no better than the last 9, not even I would feel sympathy for you.  This is likely the one time where the person asking you this question is legitimately trying to help you, if anything, at least save up RP for a skin, for a champ, you know you can play well and will utilize more efficiently, even if they come off the typical toxic asshole we all have come to hate in the league community.

Making Friends on League

To be completely honest, I'm a pretty anti-social introvert.  I don't care much for actually talking to people, and am completely content just sitting in the same room as my boyfriend.  Pretty much, I crave human interaction, but usually not a very direct fashion.

In result, I think the friends that I have made through League are the best kind of friends, considering I'm very selective on who I deem a 'friend'.  No excessive cursing, no excessive raging, and they can't be a complete bore when talking about anything that isn't League related.  Pretty much the friendlier, considerate part of League are the people I care to interact with beyond one game.

As mentioned back in my original League of Legends post, I actually have made one of my best friends through the game.

But Tal, there's so many toxic players in the community!

Trust me, I won't disagree with you there.  It seems like every other game you get one of the many types of toxic players, whether it's the quitter, rager, spammer, rude commenter, all chatter, etc.  That's why, when you do manage to pull a friend out of this group, it's like finding a gem among coal chunks.  You may have had to jump into a few volcanoes and swim across a few oceans it seems, but in the end, it's all worth it when you find them.

Sometimes, those gems end up being diamonds, like my best friend Calvin.  Met him a year and a half ago through some games we played with a group, and we ended up chatting and playing many more games together.  Now, that year and a half later, we play together on almost a daily basis, and more recently have felt prone to gifting apparently, no matter how much the other thinks they shouldn't.

None the less, check out the awesome mouse pad that was made and sent to me, by my best friend who I found through League!

I currently have a custom made set of prayer beads I've had made for him for a year, but between misplacing them, then finding them only to be dead broke and unable to send the beads, my return gift is gonna be coming hopefully sooner than later!