What's up with the toxicity towards high level players?

Yesterday, me and one of my friends were playing. I picked Winston, he picked Lucio. It was Volskaya Industries on Attack. It's also worth mentioning I was level 3 Promoted (103).

We captured the first point easily. No problem. My friend speed boosted us and we got it with 9:07 left to capture Point B. This is where the issues started.

Lucio and I kept trying to go capture, the rest of our team was trying to flank, but they would just kill one and then die, making their efforts worthless. Somebody switched to Zarya. This will be relevant later.

Since our efforts seemed futile, I leaped onto the point alone once we were at 3:00 left (Lucio got sniped, and our other approach was not working) and I had my Primal Rage ready to go. It's also worth noting I said "Group Up" probably about 8 times in the 6 minutes passed. Nobody but Zarya and Lucio listened.

I hopped on the point, with Laser Turrets, Normal Turrets, Bastion, McCree, and a Reinhardt all attacking me. My health dropped from 500 to 31. I had to act fast. I popped my ultimate and tried to destroy all of Symmetra's turrets and possibly knock Reinhardt off. I destroyed 4 Symmetra turrets. I then heard "Fire at will!" and saw Zarya there, Ulting! I sprayed my Tesla gun in that black hole, 5 of them were trapped. Zarya and I both got a Quintuple kill.

Then, I heard the Russian Phrase Zarya says when she ults. I was pulled in, and so were 3 other people. The point was basically captured now, but she was contesting. She was fully charged from her last battle she had with our Reaper. She wiped us all, just a split second before Lucio finished dropping the beat. Time was running out. We were at 2:21, and if we didn't capture there, we weren't going to capture for the rest of the game, as they would set up again.

I saw a spark of hope. Our McCree with his ultimate ready was still in there. It was odd though. He didn't use it. We saw his arrow try to go into the middle of the map, where the Bastion, and the Turrets could clearly shoot him. Then, we heard "Step right up" followed by "Guaaagh."

McCree symbolized our momentum, which came to a complete halt. We ended up losing that game, but I got a message. Not a "gg" or "nice push" but one of malice. Of all people, the person who was playing McCree said:

"Worst prestiger I've met LOL"

I responded with (which I admit is a mistake)

"Who came on top of kills and objective time?" (it was me)

He then said:

"Who solo alted a full team as WINSTON LOL"

"Trash"

Just to mess with him I said:

"I've got a full team of scientists working full shifts trying to decipher what the fuck you just said"

and ironically added a:

"LOL" in a message after

He said:

"Solo alt?"

"Meaning you alted by yourself"

I said:

""Alt" is not a phrase commonly used in Overwatch"

Then, the real gem of them all, he said:

"Ult. My b. Still absolute garbage for your playtime. Go back to cod"

There's more. A lot more if you want to see it.

TL;DR: I met a divine individual in Overwatch.

/r/Overwatch Thread