What's going to be done to prevent 4 man troll teams in ranked from surrendering for laughs?

Dehitay··3 votes·685 views

While being able to play with more people you can actually trust in ranked is a huge blessings, it's obviously a double edged sword. It also means people who are too selfish to reason are going to come in droves instead of duos at max. There's going to be those who are incredibly selfish, demand their role, and then have all their friends blame you for their own selfishness. But most concerningly is the fact that 4 man premades have complete surrender control. While it's going to be annoying enough that one person in their group can decide when to end the match regardless of whether a game is truly lost or redeemable, I'm more concerned about the trolls. I am without doubt that 4 man premades are going to come along and play normally till 20 mins and then screw over their random and laugh about it. Have any plans been made to counter-act this form of trolling?

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Grashnim3 votes

Nothing will be done. Just as nothing is done for any troll.

NoobLearninGame2 votes

I guess this could be a realistic fear at times in Bronze for the most part (if it's going to happen intentionally anywhere, since people may not care about their rank)? Might make it an even more hellish climb, though I was never there for long to know what it's like in detail (Silver 3 first time I did preliminaries season 4, got Bronze 1 when I did preliminaries season 5, and climbed out almost immediately).

My bigger concern is the attitude premades can often have of singling out others who aren't in their premade, blaming solo queuers for their failures (or at least not acknowledging their own).

If they insult people like Twizzlerz described, their reports likely won't matter, but your single report against those who are offensive among them will likely matter.

Anomander2 votes

What stops 1 person from intentionally throwing or a duo for that matter. What stops a person form just playing bad and getting caught and losing you the game.....

NOTHING.

Kãtãrinã1 votes

i highly doubt 4 people would get together just to FF at 20. i never would want to do that personally. i play ranked to climb, not to troll others.

SeekerofSilence1 votes

We're talking about ranked, most people take that queue rather seriously.

However, I do see your point. I had a 4 man premade for a normal draft on euw the other day, portugese. They ended up having a disagreement in their language, and the jungler went afk in base and spammed surrender, his premades refusing to agree with him. I can only imagine the horror of going through something like that in ranked, and simply be a bystander.

For ranked next season, I'd want the max amount of people allowed to queue together be 3. That way if the two remaining players wants to continue playing, they can do so by agreeing to reject the surrender-vote.

I've been in a 4 man premade, and my premades started flaming the poor lad that came into normals with us. After game the worst flamer of my premade wrote "enjoy your 4x reports, that's what you get for not having friends" (tbh I did worse than the victim, but being part of the premade made it "alright"). This guy was Diamond. I promptly reported him and one of the other people of my premade (last guy was alright, really) and refused to play with them again. Being a premade does not mean you're best of friends, forgiving of everything they do, I'd definitely report my irl friends if they wrote offensive things in chat like these folks did. Not all premades are bullies defending each other with claws and teeth. :)

Dehitay1 votes

Now that you mention it, I guess gathering 4 different people who want to tank their ranked stats is going to be a bit rare.

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