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You could solve the troll problem tomorrow

RookPusher··4 votes·325 views

If you just gave players the ability to choose who they didn't want to queue with. And to me, it's completely reasonable. You want to "ban" every person who doesn't play to your standards? Fine, have a 50 min queue time. For me, it's pretty simple. I dodged 2 games tonight, one in which a toxic person (in the lobby) off-meta picked a champ and I said "I'm not doing this for my first game tonight."

I played a game after my 6 minute timer. Took a break. Hopped back in, and I got the same guy in the lobby who was jungle. Tried to take Yas but the enemy banned Yas. Tried to take Nasus but the enemy team picked him, and then finally went IN meta. But the support was acting up and I just dodged. Looking at his match history was confirmation that this 30 minute timer I'm on - because I didn't want to waste time and LP - was sadly the right call. Now I'm waiting for 30 because this guy chose to be a jerk. Ramifications? Probably not.

Not that it matters, but I work full time and am in grad school part-time. Blowing 30 minutes isn't efficient. I play this game to relax and instead I'm now weighing whether to stay up late and roll the dice on tomorrow's commute for a match (with maybe no obvious trolls), or just go to be now. Why does it have to be this way? It really doesn't. But the indifference toward the low brackets, brackets where everyone "can climb if you're good" has to deal with these people down here with zero help from management.

If I wanted to clean up other people's messes with no help from the people profiting from it, I'd find a second non-profit job.

11 Comments

Leylania1 votes

If you mean with your idea that you should be free to dodge if you are unhappy with your team then no, definitly no. The time you have to wait in the lobby because someone dodges are already long enough as they are, it's okay if you would be willing to wait a bit longer but other people aren't. The only thing your idea would lead to is that someone who is on a losing streak or picks off-meta would never be able to get into a game, creating an unbelievably toxic enviroment for those players.

It's completly normal to have someone with a low winrate on your team and a troll from time to time will not stop you from climbing either. If everyone could chose who to play with they would just dodge until they get that super high winrate smurf that carries them into an elo they where they don't belong in.

YokoNomi2 votes

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If you mean with your idea that you should be free to dodge if you are unhappy with your team then no, definitly no. The time you have to wait in the lobby because someone dodges are already long enough as they are, it's okay if you would be willing to wait a bit longer but other people aren't. The only thing your idea would lead to is that someone who is on a losing streak or picks off-meta would never be able to get into a game, creating an unbelievably toxic enviroment for those players.

It's completly normal to have someone with a low winrate on your team and a troll from time to time will not stop you from climbing either. If everyone could chose who to play with they would just dodge until they get that super high winrate smurf that carries them into an elo they where they don't belong in.

Plus, people who'd rather dodge a troll or toxic player, than report them, are only allowing an already apparent problem with the community to continue to persist. Not telling any player to just suck it up and take one for the team, but turning a blind eye really isn't any better. In fact it's actually a lot worse.

RookPusher1 votes

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If you mean with your idea that you should be free to dodge if you are unhappy with your team then no, definitly no. The time you have to wait in the lobby because someone dodges are already long enough as they are, it's okay if you would be willing to wait a bit longer but other people aren't. The only thing your idea would lead to is that someone who is on a losing streak or picks off-meta would never be able to get into a game, creating an unbelievably toxic enviroment for those players.

It's completly normal to have someone with a low winrate on your team and a troll from time to time will not stop you from climbing either. If everyone could chose who to play with they would just dodge until they get that super high winrate smurf that carries them into an elo they where they don't belong in.

Following me around the boards now, huh?

Edit: also, no. That's not the idea.

Leylania1 votes

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Following me around the boards now, huh?

Edit: also, no. That's not the idea.

Uhm what? Who are you?

Then what is the idea? You said you want to be able to decide who you want to play with while in champion select, what is it supposed to mean if not "let me free dodge if I don't like someone"?

RookPusher1 votes

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Uhm what? Who are you?

Then what is the idea? You said you want to be able to decide who you want to play with while in champion select, what is it supposed to mean if not "let me free dodge if I don't like someone"?

Anyone who checks your comment history can see. Here's the deal. This is the last response you get from me. Go harass someone else.

5050BS1 votes

If I block someone I never EVER want to see them again. I dont care if I have to wait 10 more minutes to get in a game if I never see one of these toxic people again.

RookPusher2 votes

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If I block someone I never EVER want to see them again. I dont care if I have to wait 10 more minutes to get in a game if I never see one of these toxic people again.

Yeah, exactly. I'd rather wait a lot longer to have a decent match than take whatever jerk comes down the road.

And if enough people froze these guys out, they wouldn't be able to play very often. If anything, it's the best behavior changer in the game.

R31W1NG1 votes

says playing game to relax but is playing ranked....

says is grad student but can't do 1 + 1

how bout you try no being so tiltable and realize you should play ranked to climb. Ranked isn't for bitching why you can't climb and it isn't for relaxing. Unless of course by relax you mean doing your best to ignore or work past all the things other people do to piss you off in ranked.

You want to climb in ranked learn to: A. Be carriable (with any champ) 1. be untiltable B. manage how tilt your team is 1. swing your neck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flUruPbPi8U a. don't tilt your team or risk aggravating someone already tilt b. make your team happy via any all encouragement possible C. know how to carry (with any champ) D. Start practicing this shit now 1. Start tilting that neck right now and give me a thumbs up cause i already returned the favor

RookPusher1 votes

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says playing game to relax but is playing ranked....

says is grad student but can't do 1 + 1

how bout you try no being so tiltable and realize you should play ranked to climb. Ranked isn't for bitching why you can't climb and it isn't for relaxing. Unless of course by relax you mean doing your best to ignore or work past all the things other people do to piss you off in ranked.

You want to climb in ranked learn to: A. Be carriable (with any champ) 1. be untiltable B. manage how tilt your team is 1. swing your neck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flUruPbPi8U a. don't tilt your team or risk aggravating someone already tilt b. make your team happy via any all encouragement possible C. know how to carry (with any champ) D. Start practicing this shit now 1. Start tilting that neck right now and give me a thumbs up cause i already returned the favor

Yeah exactly. This is the sort of person I'd say is too toxic to queue with for me personally. But then again I'm a sensitive person. And I also like consistency.

R31W1NG1 votes

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