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It's been three years. Why has there not been any explanation on why toxic behavior is tolerated?

Yenn··2 votes·422 views

I first began experiencing this behavior regularly in season 3. It's now season 5, and it's only gotten worse. Prior to season 3, intentionally losing games or going AFK for anything less than an emergency was almost unheard of at higher ratings.

See this recent game, attached. Our last pick started off the lobby with things like 'gg riot giving me last pick in my promos, we lose.' We had no idea it was going to intentionally try to lose the game, but just as the game was starting, it said 'im afking to play hearthstone, ff at 20.' It was toxic as soon as the game started, and around level 6, it just recalled and went AFK. It came back later and just walked around, not doing anything to assist the team, but still collecting EXP. It then intentionally fed twice and went AFK again. It returned a few minutes later, and once again just walked around the map, following champions, but not doing anything.

The player in question has at least seven games where it obviously AFK'd, but didn't get marked as a leave, in the past week. There are more games where I suspect it quit later in the game or just stopped playing, like it did in this game, because the EXP vs. game duration and items vs. gold don't match.

This behavior occurs in probably 1/4 to 1/5 games at Diamond V, and it's completely unacceptable. There should be zero tolerance for uncompetitive behavior like this. This is more toxic than verbal abuse, yet these players can get away with behaving like this for months at a time. I can't mute players to stop them from intentionally losing games, and I can't see a single reason to tolerate this behavior in ranked.

If going AFK seven times in a one week period isn't enough for this player to be removed from ranked, what is? What is the reasoning behind allowing this behavior to go unpunished even once? Why doesn't a single instance of this result in a ban from ranked, or other punishment?

p.s. for bonus points, see http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3355088 from Season 3. +422 and a bunch of examples of this behavior at Diamond I.

EDIT: And I just got into a game with a last pick who was intentionally feeding, because he's at 0 LP Diamond V and has nothing to lose. This was my promo game.

5 Comments

Tomatosx3 votes
  1. Janna wasn't afk.
  2. You shouldn't of acknowledged the troll, because riot's system is so good to the point they ban you other then the troll for defending yourself
  3. You went 0.10. You should of muted Janna by you're 3rd Death since she probably was doing nothing but agitating you.
  4. You were toxic first. Janna was bm first.
Yenn1 votes

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  1. Janna wasn't afk.
  2. You shouldn't of acknowledged the troll, because riot's system is so good to the point they ban you other then the troll for defending yourself
  3. You went 0.10. You should of muted Janna by you're 3rd Death since she probably was doing nothing but agitating you.
  4. You were toxic first. Janna was bm first.

Maybe you should delete your post until you actually read.

Janna wasn't afk.

Janna was AFK, came back and followed champions around to soak up EXP, but did nothing to contribute. No abilities, no autos. She just walked around. You can see in chat where she said she was going to AFK. And the screenshot where she is AFK.

You shouldn't of acknowledged the troll, because riot's system is so good to the point they ban you other then the troll for defending yourself

I said nothing all game, aside from 'He's still half health.'

You went 0.10. You should of muted Janna by you're 3rd Death since she probably was doing nothing but agitating you.

Janna was AFK, not saying anything after the first AFK. My deaths were from trying to defend the enemy team pushing 4v2 with Blitz/Ahri.

You were toxic first. Janna was bm first.

I said nothing all game, aside from 'He's still half health.'

Tomatosx2 votes
  1. When you edit screenshots don't cover your name, just adds confusion when you cover up your name also.
  2. Someones a little cranky
  3. She wasn't afk. That's called trolling.
  4. Maybe you should fix your attitude before posting up a qq post.
Yenn1 votes

God bless. He locked in a second jungle and is denying our Twitch.

Yenn1 votes

Lost my promos to this troll.

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