Pre-Game Lobby Terrorists
So idk how everyone else is feeling about autofill this season, but I hate it for one reason. Pre-game lobby terrorists. As I wait out my 30 min ban (4th in 2 days because...wait for it....terrorists) I want to know everyone else's thoughts about this.
What do I mean, by terrorists. Its a pretty inflammatory word to be sure, but that's exactly what these players are doing. Ill give a example.
Load up into a game, get mid, positions start to shake out and our jungle picks Tryn. Ok awesome, objective control, late game monster lets do it. Right before the game loads I gently suggest that he takes smite. Another player suggests it, I ask him again and he just keeps his TP and is ready to load up, I dodge bc thats a loss 99/100 times. Smite is too crucial in the jungle. Game today, load in, jungle straight up says Im going mid. Locks in Zed. Mid locks in jungle Vayne. I dodge.
Now this isn't my first time playing LOL, this shit is and has always been around. But autofill really seems to have brought out the ability to just troll the fuck out of the pre-game lobby with all the consequences landing on the people who don't feel like playing with a terrible teammate intentionally trolling. The kicker being that troll gets to load right back up into the game, if he doesn't get his position, well holding the lobby hostage has already been shown to be a effective technique, so he just does it again.
I mean Riot seems to offer 0 counter-play to this issue aside from to simply dodging and eating the penalties (ironic) or join the troll brigade and hold future lobbies hostage so someone else eats the dodge. I really hope thats not the solution because Im not trying to add to the toxicity, but Im also sick of dodging games purely because of autofill and a lack of accountability on Riots part stopping people from fucking trolling.
Perhaps it wouldn't be so hard to add a little pop-up when you dodge that asks you "did you dodge because someone was trolling pre-game lobby" Ik Ik thats a joke, no one will ever waste time doing that or going over those bans. Its pretty much like post-game chat, unless someone's using language a chat-bot can filter out these players just continue to do what they do.
Maybe we can kill that 30 minute timer, keep the 3lp/10lp w/e just stop making me wait 30 minutes because I wanted to avoid a troll lmao.