It's hard to admit being inferior. "Pro" & "average" players don't differ on that point. Except if the guy/girl has enough brain and humility to admit he made lots of mistakes, he/she will usually find reasons to feel better after a defeat.

Let's say, among others: premade opposing team, lags, "my team mates suck", etc.

Conversely, not all premades teams are guaranteed pub stomps, so don't cry just because the other team happens to be 'familiar' with each other.

I played with this guy NeptunePisces who blamed me and my teamate every time he died... which was often.

Played against him a few weeks later and figured maybe he had hopefully learned to play by then but honestly didn't think so.  I probably shoulda warned the other team but I'm really not a good person deep down so I just told our team the the other team's UB wasn't very good and was gonna blame his teamates for sucking.  He did and my teamates tripped out on how accurate my prediction was.

Saw him try and enter games I was in sometimes... he would get the immediate boot treatment... I didn't have to say anything, other people were experiencing the joy of playing with him.

Long time later saw him as the examble Frogboy gave about overlay updates and showed how he put a personal note down about him being a rage quitter.

My point is that there is a breed of demigod player out there that cannot get any better because they never have any responsiblity for their team losing.  It was either they played against premades, their ally didn't save them after they chased the enemy past 3 towers, someone on the enemy used the dreaded "cooldown hack" (played a game where my teams reg got so many kills he bought Slayer's really early and the guy thought his critical hits were snipes), or my personal favorite "You only won because QoT is overpowered."

I don't think referring to someone like this as "playing like a spastic bathtoy" is a bad thing.  Its not contructive, but people like this have something very wrong with their brains, so you can say whatever you want about them because they really don't care what anyone else thinks about them, because they're always right, and everyone else is a bunch of idiots.

I think that there are alot of PUG's who are learning standard team based tactics now.  Before you would only see things such as drawing someone into a telegank with premade teams.  I am starting to see things like that more and more in PUG games because so many people are familiar with standard team based tactics now.  In general this is a good thing because it diminishes the advantage premades have over PUGs.  It also means that people may think that a team is premade just because they know how to do things like telegank.

It's a point, but I guess the thing for me is I have a 50% win ratio and I'm not going to be explaining away my losses..sometimes I'm playing an alt against an unexpectedly good team, sometimes I'm just sucking, but usually it's just that the other team is better than my team..I'm happy to admit that I am playing terribly or using the wrong strat if it means I can get better as a player, and I'll happily play a game through to its grim conclusion if I'm getting something out of it..  I'm happy to accept the title of spastic bathtoy myself, if it means I learn not to die the same way three times in a row...

- nothing in that is about being L33t zomg nub l2p so much as getting frustrated because as soon as "that guy" calls hax or premade or whatever it is you know he has turned off the learning part of the process and that none of the curve you or anyone else is imparting on how to get better is going to make it through the wall

I get ego when you have played 500 games and really know your shit

I don't get it when you really *don't* know what you are doing..You get dragged through alot less muck when you have some humility