Solo Queue Kick/Ban

I know this has been brought up many times before, but I figured I would throw my 2 cents in. Perhaps I have an angle that hasn't been considered before.

Let's face it, this is the rudest, most childish community I've ever been a part of, and I've been playing competitive online games since Unreal Tournament and Quake in 1999. Is there any way to control peoples out of control children online? Nope. Can we give those who have a good work ethic, great teamwork, and the desire to advance in the rankings a fighting chance, or at least some hope of one day getting out of the "worst of the worst" division. I think so.

I am a professional adult who was spending approx. $50 a month during S2 and S3. I quit playing at the end of S3 partially due to solo queue frustrations. I have returned for Season 5 and I think it has gotten worse. It really does instill a feeling of utter hopelessness when you play well and still manage to lose 6 games in a row when you were sitting on a promo game. Why did you lose? Because there's always one...

My new moniker is... "There's always one" , because there is always one player who screws the team, and 90% of the time you know they are going to in champ select. Everyone does, but no one wants to dodge and lose LP, nor can we kick the suspected troll, so into the fray we go, and guess what...? We get rolled. Just like we knew we would.

To be honest I'd be happy to dodge, as would most people, except no one wants to lose the precious LP.

I can see how a kick/ban feature might be abused at higher lvl's. You would end up with people using it if they all agreed that a certain player didn't "counter" correctly, had a reputation as a douche (even though he plays well) they didn't like his summoners, etc, etc... Or they simply didn't like their chances with the players they had.

However, those players who have never been in ELO hell really have no idea how bad it can be...

How many times have you seen a player proclaim "First time (insert champ here)" in a high elo game? It happens in about 50% of my games. I've had a Warwick whose only form of communication is "BARK BARK BARK!" over and over again in queue, and then in game as he feeds then /ff's at 20. I've seen 3 adc's troll picked in the same queue. Countless "mid or feed" proclamations. Countless instalocks. Countless last picks begging for bot lane because they're duoing, only to feed then rage quit.

It's funny, Dyrus' win percentage is 55% and he's statistically top 10 in the world. My win rate is currently 55% and I'm statistically ranked 1.3 Milllion +... He loses games because he's playing vs the best in the world. I'm losing games because my team never had a chance. The funny part is, the truly "elite" don't care about solo queue. Their practice games are scrims vs other pro teams, where they don't have to worry about any of the solo queue bs ie: allowing them to actually practice what they are best at. More like "Team Builder". Imagine if Faker ended up having to jungle in the LCS because his teammate announced "mid or feed!"

We call ranked solo/queue and ranked team play the groundwork of becoming a "pro" but it really isn't. Has anyone EVER worked out of Bronze and ended up on an LCS team? Season ending ELO resets are only "soft" resets. Meaning that you get re-buried over and over. You never truly get a fresh start. Do you think if Dyrus or Faker went 0-10 in their Season 6 placement games they would be Bronze? Do you think if i went 10-0 I would be anything higher than low Gold? Nope...

My point there is that we're comparing apples to oranges.

You can't compare what DOES happen in ELO hell with what MIGHT happen at higher levels. Why is it that we have to "deal with it", so that they don't have to potentially deal with something else?

Team Builder turned out to be a great idea, and people use it. The kick feature works fine there, not sure why it can't be tweaked and instituted in solo queue. Change the parameters of the kick/ban as the games MMR gets higher, so that essentially it doesn't exist once you get past 1500 ELO (or some other number).