So League is a team game right riot? so why did we stop punishing those who played otherwise?

King Of Ecchi·5/26/2017, 11:24:26 PM·1 votes·697 views

I just think its weird that riot labels this game as a team game but takes away the option to report people for not cooperating with their teams. Should definitely be punishing people who consistently throw games because they don't want to play with their team, just the way they want to play reguardless of the situation and in ranked that shouldn't be allowed, in norms if you're messing around with your friends than sure why not, but i think ranked is the one place this should be enforced.

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Mecha MaIphite5/26/2017, 11:38:17 PM3 votes

Because you can't really differentiate between selfish play and poor decision making/miscommunication.

dakota saturn5/27/2017, 12:06:00 AM2 votes

If my choice is to either try to push as 5 or split push with a team who likes to chase the enemy Lulu through jungle with 4 missing, or a team who blows their full rotations on Alistar, or the team who can't target the enemy mage I just snared in the middle of our own team, then f it, I am split pushing the rest of the game and muting pings and chat. I don't care if you report me, I'm not going to cooperate with idiots who target tanks over the damage threats and get me killed over and over and over. I'm going to spend my resources somewhere that I can actually make progress.

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Verxint5/26/2017, 11:45:23 PM1 votes

That particular report category was probably flooded with "This guy didn't do what I wanted" which is not what reports are for.

Shuyin1785/26/2017, 11:47:26 PM1 votes

I miss the days when our victories or defeats were not tied to our team's stupidity. The days where 1 good player could make or break an entire game even if their team fed.

I understand League is a team game, but at the same time making it where 4/5 of your players have to be doing good in order to do anything sucks for any game's design.

Jo0o5/26/2017, 11:55:23 PM1 votes

What kind of actions would warrant punishment for "not cooperating"? Split pushing?

Anybody who has ever tried a split push strategy knows that your teammates don't always capitalize on your pressure, and if anything goes wrong, you'll often get blamed for not grouping against all reason. Surely you don't think that Riot should individually assess replays featuring split pushes to subjectively determine whether they were a legitimate strategy?

420 grams5/26/2017, 11:26:28 PM1 votes

Because your team doesn't always make the best calls so you make your own call.

King Of Ecchi5/27/2017, 4:41:01 AM1 votes

Let me put it into the exact kind of spectrum that would warrant punishment, if you are an adc, and you are afk pushing bot while your team is ahead, run away when they try to group with you, tell them to leave you alone, and do not participate in a single team fight for your own single minded attitude, then you deserve to have a punishment dealt to you. Unfortunately While yes you may not be able to discern weather or not someones team is to blame or they are, you can definitely tell who the main issue was by checking the in game data, such as gold earned, kill participation, and seeing the points of the game where people died and who was in which fight. If this was a top lane standard and your team was winning then by all means, but when you're asked to group repeatedly and there's chat logs to prove it, and you can see them ignoring or refusing verbally, then they do indeed deserve a punishment for putting their own team at a disadvantage. Even if you disagree with me, if you had anyone on your team that was splitting and losing you the game because they would not group with you no matter what, you would 100% wish you could report them for not communicating and cooperating with your team then. Its really not that challenging to find out if someone is blatantly ignoring their team with all the resources available to riot, and no one can really argue that simple fact, a multi billion dollar company should be able to enforce proper game play in a ranked environment atleast that's not alot to ask for in my opinion.

Dreadlocks5/26/2017, 11:45:16 PM1 votes

Is your team holding u back from climbing xD