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[CLIENT] Ranked Champion Lock-in Countdown Delay/Lag/Stuck at 0

MarthiniL·2/3/2016, 9:42:15 PM·8 votes·5,052 views

Happened multiple times today in Ranked Q while playing with my friends causing me to lose 20-30 LP... I haven't tried to recreate the bug since it happens in the new Ranked Q/Normal Draft Q (I don't want to lose more LP or get a ban for not picking/banning champions), but I am pretty sure that my ideology behind what's causing it is correct.

Basically, when a lag spike hits my network, or it disconnects for a really short period of time (only 1 second can be the determining factor, DC's happen a lot with my crappy ISP) the countdown for the Ban Selection/Champion Pick Selection get's crazy bugged.

Basically, if someone's picking and I get a DC, even if I reconnect, the countdown for the person picking/banning the champion will go all the way to 0, basically it will look like if he had not picked a champion, but most of the time the champion is actually picked but it is not shown, and the countdown timer just stays at zero.

My friend has confirmed that this is a bug since the selection on his screen kept going, all other people were able to pick just normally, while the countdown on my screen for somebody elses pick stood at zero. Basically, when it came for me to pick a champion, the countdown for the other random pick, basically whoever was picking at the time, stood at zero for me, again, just as if he didn't pick a champion... But, when my friend confirmed that I had only 5 seconds to lock in my champion (was playing LB at the time) after 5 seconds I was thrown out of the game, and I lost 10 LP as if I actually haven't picked the champion (Which I didn't, the Banning and Selection process never continued from the point when the bug occurred), but I was able to get in the game again...

The problem is, that in one day, it happened 3 times to me so I basically lost 30 LP. So, if Riot finds a cause of this bug and fixes it, I would also demand my LP back :p ... I don't have the proof in form of a video, but I will try to record some of my Champion Selects to see if the bug occurres again...

My ideology of how we can replicate the bug

  1. Get into Ranked/Draft Champion select
  2. Have somekind of a huge Lag Spike or a short DC hit your network
  3. Watch as sombody elses Champion Lock In/Ban Lock In countdown goes to zero, and kick you after you've supposed to pick your champion, but you're not able to.

Very happy to help the community, I will try to somehow record this occurring and upload this, but Rito, you better fix it, because I'm sure somebody else has this issue.

As I've said, this doesn't exactly NEED to be the reason of the bug, but, it does happen... I also have a very slow laptop and that may be a contribution to it.

I am using Windows 10, and this has never happened to me before today.

MarthiniL

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EDIT: This can be described as client freezing in some way

16 Comments

Sir alim12/24/2016, 11:27:00 PM2 votes

it's still a problem 11 months later... getting ban for riots malfunctioning champselect

MarthiniL2/3/2016, 10:07:01 PM1 votes

A guy is describing a simmilar bug but in much less detail, if he can confirm, maybe we are talking about the same bug?

Here's the link: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/7EfO5RNU-champ-select-dc-bug

It's by a guy named @Somewhat Evil

wolf646002/4/2016, 1:36:04 AM1 votes

i was in champ select in a rank match and it was one of my promos and it was the other teams turn to ban but them the timer hit zero and apparently i got disconnected or some thing and he did ban and i couldn't ban cause my game was acting up and said it was still there turn to ban so i couldn't ban and got a penalty and lost lp and one of my promos

MarthiniL2/4/2016, 8:06:32 PM1 votes

So this is a widespread problem, BUMP

MariosTheLemur2/4/2016, 9:30:33 PM1 votes

it happened to me and i can confirm http://i.imgur.com/FAANLOr.jpg

Jacob2/6/2016, 6:03:55 PM1 votes

Hello confirmed same bug

Save The Turtles4/7/2016, 6:51:59 PM1 votes

I am also having this problem. But it has only happened since the new champ select. It's making it so hard to climb or just play normals in general. Although if you are having this problem sometimes clicking through all the champs when the timer reaches zero can help you catch up. Sometimes

Aomamne5/17/2016, 7:56:00 PM1 votes

BUMP More info - while im "rage clicking" in the client my friends see that im choosing champion to ban/pick, but actually connot due it, since i cannot clik lock in/ban due to 0 stuck.

Its really annyoing, please help.

Sylum5/24/2016, 4:46:27 AM1 votes

I am having the same problem. I just lost 10 LP because on three accounts I waited until I had round 4-5 seconds left to lock my champion and at that mark the queue just cut me off saying I hadn't picked a champion.

Can this be fixed please?

It is really obnoxious.

Jac2hip6/19/2016, 9:51:14 AM1 votes

Same here! I was banned 3 times in a row because of this. And I need to wait for 30 seconds to reconnect. Banning champ stucked to 0 on my screen. 😔

Nabudis7/10/2016, 10:05:45 AM1 votes

What the hell is wrong with RIOT? It is such an old problem and still no fix??? I'm just coming from Alt-F4'ing my game after this thing happened. I've even posted a separate thread about this ( http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/yQ98KdBd-client-stuck-in-champ-select-at-countdown-0-cant-lock-in-can-chat-penalized-for-no-lock-in-s6 ) but still no solution from RIOT.

I have spent tonnes of Riot points and time to this game like a million others, and they show this neglect in return?

NOW I HAVE TO WAIT 10 MINUTES FOR 5 QUEUES FOR SOMETHING THAT IS RIOT'S FAULT! And not to mention another 15 minutes that normally takes the matchmaker to find a match. Useless!

Korvos11/5/2016, 9:53:09 PM1 votes

This seems to be still an issue, has happend to me multiple times today causing me to lause around 18 LP in total now.

remigis1/1/2017, 12:37:11 PM1 votes

I have the same problem i lost like 200 lp this season i dont know how many matches i dodged like this. GG no Victorious skin this season :(.

Arphotrea5/18/2017, 12:45:23 PM1 votes

And still, this remains a problem, completely reinstalling the game, repairing the client, doing windowsupdates (windows 10) doesn't help a bit! RIOT has been extremely lousy with this problem and they should take action in getting this bug out! Disgusting!

MarthiniL2/3/2016, 10:03:31 PM1 votes

BUMP

BotLineBling6/29/2018, 11:38:38 PM1 votes

WHy is this still a issue? 2 friking years