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People Verbally And Obviously Giving Up (in Ranked) Should be Punished Harder (or at all)

Xonra·8/31/2019, 12:26:15 AM·3 votes·1,560 views

People who start whining about a lost game at 5-10 minutes, spamming surrender votes, becoming toxic at teammates for not giving up, then just not playing anymore (sitting in the fountain, walking around afk farming to purposely avoid stalling a game, basically open mid without saying it). These people should be punished actively as it is worse than them simply afk'ing as they are tilting on top of things and actively make it harder to come back.

There is no point for these people to play ranked as they will throw a temper tantrum like a child and factually give up. I've played with the same guy this week (just twice) and played mid both times, and both games he was giving up at 10-15 minutes, spamming surrender on cooldown, whining and flaming in chat for not giving up and just stopped trying. This genuinely needs to be punished and it usually isn't hard to spot as these people throw a fit in chat and their xp ends up being far lower as they walk afk in the base and so on.

I don't care about toxic people, I care about trolls/afks/people giving up actively (not just tilting, but stop trying and whining). Please Riot...please. It is getting so bad the more snowbally and faster games get (like this current meta). Comebacks just aren't a thing anymore as people just don't bother trying to comeback.

2 Comments

W is for Wombo8/31/2019, 12:47:09 AM1 votes

It's a team game and the easiest way to make sure this doesn't occur (if they were ever trying to begin with and not just doing this to actively ruin other people's climb), is to make sure they never get in that position in the first place. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made in order to keep team morale at its highest.

If you'll lose two tower plating for moving mid to turn your assassin's poor positioning into a double kill? That's worth it. Teleporting bot lane going to put you behind cs to your laner, but you have your ultimate available and enemy ADC and support are overextended with a prime ward target to make the play happen? You take it. It can be a bit frustrating because it can be hard to tell who needs what and when, but during your back channel always take the time to scope out the goings-on with your teammates' lanes. Regardless of the role you play, a call to help someone out who you think might need it can absolutely save a game, especially when it can be so easy to get tilted with the current state of things in the meta. Keeping all five of your heads level is probably the most important thing in solo queue and one that people tend to ignore due to having no feeling of personal commitment to the current team.

Tried and true, even in the lower elos. A Bronze player who feels like their team has their back will always perform better than the Bronze player who feels like they have to do everything on their own. Sometimes it just takes the initiative to put yourself in the position of caretaker rather than hoping for it from your teammates from the getgo.

Metal Janna8/31/2019, 2:37:52 AM1 votes

Yeah it doesn't matter if you end the match with the best score on your team... if you say "GG" 15 minutes before the nexus blows up you are, at best, not helping.