Is Team Communication Ignorance Considered a Reportable Offense?

ItzSwane·11/28/2016, 9:13:08 PM·2 votes·1,022 views

Ok, so League of Legends is a team based game which requires communication to some extent according to Riot and their recent debate with AdelaideSkyhart and his 'Lack of Communcation' when playing Singed Support. Increasingly over the past few weeks i'm experiencing this lack of communication with 1 or 2 players every game. Of course i'm sitting in middle Silver Elo and i don't expect much from my team mates but i would like you're opinions on the matter and if it's really a reportable offense if my team mates are ignorant to callouts that would win us the game! Feel free to let me know if ya'll been experiencing the same things. I've probably lost around 7/20 Games lost recently due to Ignorance in team mates.

7 Comments

hunterspec11/28/2016, 9:15:50 PM1 votes

you won't get in trouble if you say nothing in chat/the person starts the game doing /muteall if that is what you mean?

LostFr0st11/28/2016, 9:23:57 PM1 votes

The singed player's problem was that his communication was one-sided. If your team simply doesn't want to do your call then it's completely fine.
You have to be pretty flexible, but if you use the right wording/pings you can even get people to follow calls in bronze right through gold for most games. I've never experienced where it's every game though, maybe you need to tweak how you're giving the calls.

Judge Steven11/28/2016, 11:29:48 PM1 votes

In my opinion, pinging is usually good enough communication for most situations. In ranked especially, I'll usually just end up muting my teammates and focus on doing my best and winning. I finished the season in Silver, so quite often my teammates won't have a good knowledge of when to group, when to stall, when to take baron/dragon etc. Due to this, I'll usually pick a strong split-pusher/duelist such as Jax Tryndamere Nasus Yorick and try to snowball my lane then split-push the enemy to death if our team is losing.

In a lot of games this strategy has led to frustrated teammates ("This stupid Nasus never leaves top", "Jax why are you split pushing? Group with us" etc.) If I feel like my team is actually making a decent call, then I'm happy to group with them briefly to secure objectives.

At my current elo, I feel like communication between teammates (ranked especially) can be solved with just pings, as more often than not trying to communicate via chat just ends up in extended flame wars that decrease team morale or you dying to the fed Vayne you couldn't react in time to, because you were mid-sentence explaining to your 1/8/3 ADC why you're split-pushing instead of grouping.