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Please Stop Matching Us With Someone We Just Reported

9001·7/5/2016, 5:00:27 PM·177 votes·4,981 views

The enemy Xerath from one of my Hexakill games last night was being really rude and salty for literally no reason. After the game I did my civic duty and reported him and then queued up for a new round. Imagine my surprise when I see that now he is on my team and I'll have to play with the jerk.

I picked and he selected . I so desperately wanted to be that beast Zilean and save lives and wreck fools but sadly I couldn't for him. I remember the indignant words that he spoke to me one time he noticed that I deliberately sped myself away from him and left him to die while holding onto my ult.

After pinging "Enemy Missing" furiously over Zilean's head "Uhhhhh ULT???"

"It's not for you."

"Wow, I didn't know salt carried across matches."

"Salt preserves all things."

Now I didn't want things to be that way Rito. But by throwing me back into the ring with a sour little miscreant like that, you placed the power back in my hands to take care of business. Please fix the matchmaking so that when we report someone we won't have to deal with them again.

76 Comments

PhDs Nuts7/5/2016, 5:49:05 PM30 votes

I've wanted something like this for a while, but I just realized how much it would destroy high elo matchmaking.

Goatfish7/5/2016, 5:49:07 PM25 votes

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ModWuks7/5/2016, 5:44:01 PM16 votes

I understand that it's frustrating getting matched with players you've found to be toxic/negative; however, if the Report feature becomes used as a "Do not match me with this player" function, then it could potentially have a negative impact with regards to matchmaking and furthermore cause an abuse of the Report feature.

Overwatch had rolled out this feature and recently removed it. For the story on that, check out the article linked below:

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/21/11992934/overwatch-avoid-this-player-disabled-matchmaking

Gosh Darn7/5/2016, 9:37:34 PM8 votes

There's no reason they couldn't give us at least a 1 match probationary period where we can't get matched together with someone we reported. If it was infinite, there could be problems in high elo where there are fewer players, but if it was like this we could avoid those 2-3 games in a row being matched with someone we despise and having it ruin the game for everyone. After 1 game apart the chances of being matched together again are super low, and even if you were queued together you'd have that 1 game to cool down.

Being queued together is actually super likely right now. If you both leave the post game lobby and queue at the same time you stand a high chance of being matched with or against the same person.

Ryzing2Diamond7/5/2016, 7:56:56 PM7 votes

I'm going to be honest, you sounded more toxic than he did in your example.

Raeyxx7/5/2016, 6:44:05 PM5 votes

This would be awesome. I had a really rough Kayle game a couple of days ago. We had a very toxic Riven (I know, shocker) in the top lane that would NOT leave me alone about it. Kept calling me a feeder and telling me that I was trash.

As expected, I filed a report on her immediately after the game and moved on with my life.

Except I couldn't. Because I get into the next game and there she is midlane. She recognizes me immediately and instantly starts to tell my team that I feed and that they should dodge. :/ Like wow, just shoot me at this point, please.

I didn't want to dodge because I didn't want to lose the LP I had earned. So I muted her the second we got into game and filed ANOTHER report on her as soon as it was over.

(The silver lining here was the fact that I actually dominated toplane in this game and SHE fed mid. Oh, the irony.)

TLDR: It's really not fair to get lumped in with someone that you already KNOW is going to give you hell. It's basically tilt before you even leave champ select.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

Sukishoo7/5/2016, 6:48:49 PM5 votes

Don't jump right back into Queue then and that won't happen.

Nebuul7/5/2016, 10:19:06 PM3 votes

They should at least implement this for bronze through platinum. The player pool is large enough in those elos that it wouldn't affect competitive integrity or queue times that much.

At the very least, if you report someone, you should be protected from teaming with them for an hour. After that, statistics say you won't have to worry about it anymore.

Hyrum Graff7/5/2016, 11:10:18 PM3 votes

Overwatch had something like this. They just removed it because it was being abused at high elo. Here's a quote from Overwatch's design lead (source):

We recently realized that “Avoid this player” was wreaking havoc on matchmaking. One of the best Widowmaker players in the world complained to us about long queue times. We looked into it and found that hundreds of other players had avoided him (he’s a nice guy – they avoided him because they did not want to play against him, not because of misbehavior). The end result was that it took him an extremely long time to find a match. The worst part was, by the time he finally got a match, he had been waiting so long that the system had “opened up” to lower skill players. Now one of the best Widowmaker players was facing off against players at a lower skill level. As a result, we’ve disabled the Avoid system (the UI will go away in an upcoming patch). The system was designed with the best intent. But the results were pretty disastrous.

Umio7/6/2016, 5:51:54 AM3 votes

"Salt preserves all things."

justice

Meanie407/7/2016, 1:24:00 AM2 votes

Yes. Make the no match cooldown short (15 minutes is enough to avoid an immediate re-pair) and restrict it to Platinum and below (due to the small player pool at high Elo). But there's no reason to not put this into place.

Bagguette7/5/2016, 8:30:00 PM2 votes

I hate people like you but i agree with your opinion. We join a league game to win not to throw just because you don't like someone.

I Go Pew Pew Pew7/5/2016, 10:25:12 PM2 votes

But why were you a dick to him? He might have been willing to put everything behind and try to win. But then you just intentionally let him die? That's pretty childish to be honest.

Spôôked7/5/2016, 11:04:02 PM2 votes

I had a Twitch on my team last night that was really toxic for absolutely no reason. When he recalled and I was in lane, I took some CS and he pinged me to fall back. When I didnt do what he pinged me to do (I didnt listen because he was toxic towards me for no reason), he got even worse

-This is part of what went on in chat- Twitch : Honestly, fuck you. Go kill yourself

Syndra (me): Muted

Twitch : See if I give a fuck. Kill yourself

All over some CS.

I reported him afterwards, and I havent gotten a notification that he got punished at all, so hes still out there in someone`s game being an asshole.

I want the old Tribunal back tbh. It felt way more responsive than the new one, and toxic players were actually dealt with.

5050BS7/5/2016, 11:07:01 PM2 votes

This is somthing that really gets me. I NEVER want them on my team.

MonkeyMadness7/6/2016, 3:45:07 AM2 votes

As nice as this sounds, people would abuse the shit out of it by reporting players that they view as "bad" simply so that they won't have to be matched with them again, and this would utterly destroy matchmaking. But maybe a brief reprieve, like maybe 30 minutes or so, of not being allowed to play with them would work.

Cressilia7/6/2016, 4:20:06 PM2 votes

+1 for "miscreant"

EWBS Mithilesh7/6/2016, 9:10:05 PM2 votes

Zilean "I've seen your death and its painful"

Cyndercat7/6/2016, 11:47:59 AM2 votes

Even a 5-10min do not match would be better. Wouldnt ruin high ELO as if there really arent any other players to match with, after 10 minutes the system could give up and just put the 2 players together, but it would really reduce the chances of OP's scenario.

Spoofghoul7/6/2016, 4:15:44 PM2 votes

but you get to report them twice and you can troll them while ur at it

i think its wonderfull sometimes egtting the chance to carry out true justice

Sejeo7/6/2016, 6:55:29 AM1 votes

Well this was an option for reporting people for unskilled but they must have removed it for a reaosn

TotalJerk7/5/2016, 8:01:01 PM1 votes

Overwatch had to recently remove the ability to avoid certain players. The issue was that really good players were being avoided so often that they got fucking huge queue times.