Is there a reason why selecting a champion doesn't cause it to auto lock in when timer runs out?

XxxLumberJackxxX·1/14/2019, 1:07:58 AM·68 votes·16,916 views

Honestly 95%+ of my queue dodges are caused by me hitting my champion then going through my runes without hitting the lock in button. It should only be a dodge if I dont select a champ.

ANyone with me on this?

Edit- I am personally specifically referring to the second click after youve selected on your turn as I almost never hover during phase 1. So the 'afk' check doesn't apply.

38 Comments

LordGeovanni1/14/2019, 5:14:29 AM20 votes

Its an afk check

Crispy0Snake1/14/2019, 5:03:27 AM11 votes

It's bc if you declare your champ and then go and do something or tab out and lose track of time, your team doesn't have an afk at the start of their game

Xedlord1/14/2019, 3:32:05 AM10 votes

Idk, they do it for blind so I don't see why they shouldn't do it for other modes

Who Fed Ru1/14/2019, 2:03:03 PM7 votes

really people?

It's to force people to lock in their champs instead of waiting it out, and it made draft pick much faster. back in the days, like half of the people just let the timer run out and that took too much time to get into a game.

Wolfeur1/14/2019, 12:35:28 PM7 votes

It's to force people to lock, which has two purposes:

  • Making sure they're present during draft, which is an important and often underrated part of the game
  • Preventing them from carelessly wasting everyone's time by waiting for the timer to run out
Monstermushmush1/14/2019, 1:09:24 AM6 votes

Yeah. I think the reason they implemented this was to prevent people from AFKing to get into the game, but they would have to make it through the ready check first... Idk. I agree with you.

Lv60 Retri Pala1/14/2019, 6:04:34 AM4 votes

MEEEEP! All wrong! It's to speed up champion select. They implemented it with the new client because people would on average just wait out the timer and in Riot's opinion it made champion select take too long. I think it's fucking r%%%%%ed but that's how it is. If you made a thread complaining about it in the past people would call you "entitled" and to "stop wasting everyone's time" and downvote your thread to eternity. Oh how times have changed.

The Highest Noon1/14/2019, 5:43:18 PM2 votes

You seem to have missed the past 5 years.

It's because AFKs shouldn't be allowed into the game.

GreenHydralisk1/14/2019, 7:12:42 PM2 votes

take up upvote

ForeverA7X0210/17/2019, 3:12:50 AM2 votes

To be honest with y'all, I had no clue that it was considered dodging when you didn't lock in your champ, so now I've just que dodged on accident and gotten the like 6 min cool down. In the end its not bad, just very aggravating/tilting like i just wanted to take a quick shit while my champ was already selected, I didn't know it was que dodging till it happened, and I'm sure allot of people dont know that either

Eldeazar1/15/2019, 8:40:03 AM1 votes

I think it's one of those client bugs that happen in some systems but not to everyone in the game. I have 2 of my friends that had this issue consistently but it doesn't affect all of us. Here it goes, my daily complaint about this busted client, biggest swing and miss of this game and that is saying much

LiquidPimpSlap1/15/2019, 10:59:31 AM1 votes

All of this and not to mention they throw a queue ban your way as well so you cant even re-queue

SanKakU1/15/2019, 2:05:43 PM1 votes

I agree. We try to let it time out so we have more time to select runes. Since we can't do this, I had to buy all the rune pages possible and I still need more.

dheat546night10/12/2019, 9:10:00 AM1 votes

I see so much people saying how laggy client is. Get a new computer it ain't bout rito it bout you being too cheap to get a proper computer. League aint pubg in terms of system reqs... 6 gbs and a fucking gtx 1050i will do the job just fine. Pair it with intel 3 processor and you got yourself computer to climb league with. But nooo let's hit rito for constantly keeping league alive and updated just cause somebody values his fast delivery and starbucks more then fucking computer. Loose weight get a computer. If you too poor don't play the game or save up for it, but it ain't rito's fault you dumbfucks can't buy a proper computer. They ain't santa claus they a fucking international bussiness corporation. Get it in your head you autistic dumbfucks...

BeornTheBrutal1/9/2020, 11:18:25 PM1 votes

Every time i go to play a match I get temp banned from this stupid pointless problem. Has anyone that works for league ever played the game? They update it all the time. THIS PROBLEM HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

WHY DOES IT NEED TO TEMP BAN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FOR NOT SELECTING THEIR CHAMP A SECOND TIME WITHOUT EVEN A WARNING IN THE FIRST PLACE DURING MATCHMAKING, RIGHT BEFORE THE MATCH STARTS AFTER ALL THE WAITING?"

IS THERE A REASON THEY CANT FIX THIS TEMP BAN FROM NOT "SELECTING THEIR CHARACTER AGAIN?"

sobi9991/14/2019, 1:20:12 PM1 votes

Same thing here man!

2gudaiya1/1/2020, 12:32:45 AM1 votes

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Honestly 95%+ of my queue dodges are caused by me hitting my champion then going through my runes without hitting the lock in button. It should only be a dodge if I dont select a champ.

ANyone with me on this?

Edit- I am personally specifically referring to the second click after youve selected on your turn as I almost never hover during phase 1. So the 'afk' check doesn't apply.

this was implemented to avoid hover afk's. it's not fun when you have an afk on your team who just so happened to hover a champion before life absconded with them.