You’re in a match.
You believe you are doing well.
When all of a sudden, the guy with the lowest score, who is feeding consistently
He demands you switch.
You say nothing and watch as that player runs in 1v5, while blowing ults.
After they die alone, they get more aggressive with their demands to switch.
And then the feeding player rallies the team in a crusade to crucify you.
Up to the point where the player demands the lobby to report YOU.
And then the entire team reports you.
Even though you are playing well, and you tried your best to regroup, combo ults, and communicate CD’s or low hp targets…and avoid toxicity…no ones in voice chat, no one combos, no one listens, everyone typing flames and blames instead of actually playing, and its a report fest.
If this sounds familiar, How do you react?
If it’s in voice, I just leave without saying anything. If anything, I’ll try to pocket them even more just to spite them in a weird way
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A lot of this would depends on heroes/maps/modes situations at hand. Very hard to judge.
If it’s comp: I’m gonna tell everyone they’re stupid, finish the game and queue up next. Probably avoid just to not have an awkward situation next game.
If it’s QP: I’m gonna leave and queue up next.
Though that never happened to me. Usually when the worst player tries to talk down to someone my team is supportive and starts flaming that guy. Most of the times I get flamed it’s because I actually am the worst player on the team for that game.
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Going by what I did last time I’ll have a good laugh, type “I had fun” in team chat, and move on to roll the dice on the next lobby where my teammates are so into me I impregnated them. Their words. 
I don’t take any of it seriously. IG if a teammate is really persistent about typing whatever I report for spamming because at that point it would be losing us fights to type all that.
If I think I’m doing well, and we’re winning, then I ignore it and keep following my plan.
If we’re losing, then I would make some sort of adjustment, but doesn’t necessarily mean in swapping.
But I will figure out what is lacking and what I can do to aid this person to play better. Because I have had games where we can turn it around because I decide to just focus a bubble on them a bit more, suzu, or something depending on my role, and they manage to get out of their performance rut.
Otherwise, I would talk to them and ask (mainly in chat) what I could swap to that will help them and gauge how they reply.
If it’s a seriously request in an earnest sounding way and actually reply well then I will consider it.
But it’s also important to follow through with a plan that the entire team can follow, “Guys, I’ll swap to X thing to see if I can help [person in question], but you need to try to do Y thing or focus on Z thing”. Sometimes the issue is not so much what the team is playing, but how they’re playing and the split focus. So, stating a vague plan that focuses effort is better than assuming what the team is going to do.
If they’re just being angry and doing some troll-like behavior and don’t respond in an appropriate manner or useful way, then I just carry on and as someone above me said: finish the game and move on to the next game, avoid, and I will soon forget it. Losses happen, sometimes people just don’t gel well with each other, whether its in game or elsewhere.
If it gets hostile, I report it and avoid.
Usually ignore them and let them continue to feed. If they’re doing that bad, I don’t think they have a hope in rallying the other teammates to report me.
In a rare case, I swapped to Mercy and pocketed them to show them that even with heals/damage boost, and a rez, they still sucked. After the third time dying while trying to poke with a mercy beam, I bagged him. He rage quit, and we got a better dps in backfill. It was a great game.
File your own report against the instigating player with as much detail as you can concisely provide in the description.
That’s just about is your only option other than shrugging it off altogether.
You can’t stop people from filing frivolous reports - and to a large degree I just wouldn’t worry about that - but it may be useful to have your version of the incident in the system. And this person is engaging in blatantly toxic, TOS-violating behavior.
Whether Blizzard is organized enough to go to the trouble of comparing notes or not, my guess would be this person has done this kind of thing before, and as childish as the behavior is, probably often.
That’s what I would do.
Well, if he’s been a jerk in chat, what happens is that I never see him lead a crusade to report me because I’ve squelched his chat well beforehand. Obviously, I can’t tell if anyone’s reported me or not either. So I let the scoreboard do the talking and GG go next.
I’ve been playing since 2016 and I’ve never had so much as a warning in-game. 
Not familiar at all but my response would be :
“Sure bud, try to not die and get 5 elims in the next 2 mins and I will switch”.
I can guarantee you by the time those 2 minutes pass, that dude won’t remember anything.
I ask what to, and what’s his plan/strategy.
If they say nothing, I’ll carry on as I was.
(That being said, that’s for anyone asking for swaps, I don’t look at the scoreboard(it’s meaningless) so I won’t know who has the lowest “scores”)
I will ask them to 1v1 me in kcd 2 
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Had that happen about 2 hours ago. Guy was too afraid to press W, so I was forced psuedo-tank. We did not leave spawn unless I went out first and pulled the attention towards me. Repeatedly had all of the enemy’s util thrown at me because they realized that if I wasn’t able to do anything, our team wouldn’t do anything.
That went on for the entire match and our tank had the gall to say “DPS do something,” while sporting only half of the other team’s tank’s stats. Next game I got 3 out of 5 of my old teammates and we stomped without the enemy even being able to contest.
I would make it very apparent to them how incapable of thinking they are, but unfortunately this game has an abusable report system so…
Afraid to press W Tanks are probably top 3 of the worst things that can happen to you in a team. And the main issue is, you can ping and tell a “bad” DPS who to shoot and where to shoot, you can do almost the same to a Support (stay here, heal this dude, move this way if someone hits you) but good luck explaining when and how to “claim space” to a Tank real quick.
Thats a 5min+ Ted Talk nobody has time for.
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Just mute them and say “you’re muted”. I find when I do this, they sometimes switch targets (after all, they’re trolling, it’s not about you, unless you take the bait) and other team mates will follow suit and say “muted” and then it’s a cold silent world for the troll.
I hit the mute button and go on with my day
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Communicating w these babies is the worst thing you can do . Try your best to win , get through the game and avoid them . Thats it
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