Let's say you and your friend are going in as Bot and Support. You get top and your friend gets jungle. You know your friend is a bad jungler and so are you. Can they not jungle and support the top lane instead? I mean, the team is going to flame whether you top duo lane or feed in jungle.
But is it bannable to support a top lane rather than having a high chance of throwing the game?
RallerenP4 votesKind of a mixed answer.
I'll start by saying that you should both learn to jungle anyways. Even if you don't like jungling, you'll learn a lot that you will gain from when playing any other lane aswell.
Secondly, if this scenario ever occurs, definently negotiate with your teammates. Explain that you both really suck at jungling, and that you'd much rather switch with one of your teammates. Often, someone will switch their roles.
But whether or not it's bannable is tough to answer. Stealing someone elses designated role is definently bannable, but doing something completely different than what your designated role usually does, isn't.
For example, there was an infamous case of a player going support Singed with smite. Instead of actually helping out his ADC, he just went around the enemy jungle, stealing camps. Now, he legitimately went this role. He wasn't inting in any capacity, and his strategy actually worked. But he still got punished. Riot stated that his punishment was because he didn't communicate this strategy with his teams. He never said anything, he just left his ADC to 2v1 in his bot-lane. This means that the ADC goes into a game completely unprepared and unknowing, which is a terrible experience to have.
The Singed player agreed to explain his strategy and sometimes not play it, if the game really didn't call for it. In turn, Riot wont punish him for playing his off-meta role.
In short, the scenario you proposed would be VERY rare. One of you should at the very least take Smite, as you'll be at a significant disadvantage without it. Explain to your team what's happening, and if they don't agree to switch, then by all means, play duo top lane.
It's just important that you atleast prepare your teammates for the unorthodox game ahead, but going off-meta, even like this, isn't bannable in and of itself.
heroikc2 votesKind of the issue with autofill summarized here.
Syrile1 votesSooo... Two things to consider. Actively doing something that hinders your team's ability to win on purpose is against the TOS and will get you banned if caught. However, even though Riot does a lot of things to enforce the JG role doing what the JG role does, there is nothing that says you must stay in the JG. Riot does not ban off-meta selections and strategies (as mentioned in a post above) but they will if you appear to be griefing and they believe that is the case. As mentioned, I would suggest you type some kind of explanation as to what you are doing. Strongly suggest someone bring Smite (even if you buy a support item instead of JG item). There are numerous strategies involving duo top, duo mid, funneling (which fortunately they stopped), etc. Including games with three Smites, heh. Even professional teams have games that are wildly outside of the normal meta such as the funnel comps. Main, communicate and explain you are not trolling. More so, do not troll. :) And things should be fine.
