Frequent client crash in champion select leading to dodge timers
I was queued for four games today, and twice, the client crash while I am just sitting in champion select before picking my champion. The result, first a 5 minute dodge timer, and then a 15 minute dodge timer for my fourth queue. Once the bug happens, I am sitting in a blank screen with a spinner after sending the bug report, while hearing the champion select timer counts down. If I kill the application and restart, it did not reconnect, and simply put me at the dodge timer screen when I enter the next lobby.
Now I have seen this bug for at least a month, and click send bug report every single time. I also never dodge games. For such bug as fundamental as crashing during champion select, and happening at this frequency. As a software engineer, my recommendation is if this bug is hard to reproduce and fix, then at least when sending the bug report, temporary set a flag in the payload to not trigger the dodge timer for the next queue for the player. That should be relatively safe an easy fix, that would improve the customer experience while working on the real fix. Thanks.