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Can we make picking meme champs in lane a bannable offense?

JayisthenameDFA··2 votes·1,136 views

Is personal MMR a thing in that we don't have to win games to get a boost in MMR, but just do good personally? Getting sick of getting matched with people who wanna play Soraka jungle, Lee sin support, Teemo jg, Kha'zix top etc. I want to have non meme games where people actually try to do well. These people feed, throw the game and I lose a good chunk of LP because of it.

I do well personally as my stats will confirm, I feel I belong in a higher elo but can't push past because someone is always feeding like a MF. How do you guys break through gold (I know this is trivial for some people but it's clearly not for me, do you just get lucky and not get trolled by your own team)

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Cannellini8 votes

Yeah let's make having fun a bannable offense

Pika3102 votes

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Yeah let's make having fun a bannable offense

It's called Gameplay Sabotage. If you're intentionally throwing the match and trolling your own team to "have fun" at the intentional expense of your teammates' enjoyment, this should 100% be bannable.

Matter-of-fact, it technically already is. Although instances of it actually happening are genuinely rare, it has happened. The most-infamous case I'm aware of being a pro picking "Jayce Support," which resulted in him being kicked out of pro play and receiving a hefty monetary fine.

Although I don't think Teemo jg or Kha top will result in any action, Soraka jg might very well cause a disciplinary response.

Timethief491 votes

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It's called Gameplay Sabotage. If you're intentionally throwing the match and trolling your own team to "have fun" at the intentional expense of your teammates' enjoyment, this should 100% be bannable.

Matter-of-fact, it technically already is. Although instances of it actually happening are genuinely rare, it has happened. The most-infamous case I'm aware of being a pro picking "Jayce Support," which resulted in him being kicked out of pro play and receiving a hefty monetary fine.

Although I don't think Teemo jg or Kha top will result in any action, Soraka jg might very well cause a disciplinary response.

Thats not what op posted about though. They posted only about the picks, not how the person is playing them. If they are sabotaging their team sure, its bad. If they arent then I dont see a problem.

ModIts Yuu and Mi5 votes

I have a friend who literally wins Plat ranked games as Soraka Jungle.

Edit: Also there was a dude who hit Challenger with Teemo Jungle. Repeatedly.

Darkdemon6533 votes

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Is personal MMR a thing in that we don't have to win games to get a boost in MMR, but just do good personally? Getting sick of getting matched with people who wanna play Soraka jungle, Lee sin support, Teemo jg, Kha'zix top etc. I want to have non meme games where people actually try to do well. These people feed, throw the game and I lose a good chunk of LP because of it.

I do well personally as my stats will confirm, I feel I belong in a higher elo but can't push past because someone is always feeding like a MF. How do you guys break through gold (I know this is trivial for some people but it's clearly not for me, do you just get lucky and not get trolled by your own team)

While those people are indeed twats and should be punished, they're not preventing you from climbing. Unless you're one of the people doing it the enemy team is more likely to have one of those people than your team. With that said, you should probably dodge when you do run into those people. You get punished for dodging, but the penalty for the first dodge each day is minimal and much less than the punishment for losing. Yeah, you shouldn't have to take a punishment for the actions of others, but what should be isn't relevant to what is.

JayisthenameDFA2 votes

Ofc i'm not against doing stupid things in normals, never have been never will be. But I don't believe ranked to be the place for it, everyone should be playing at 110% and giving it their all in ranked with meta champs in lanes they belong. Am I the only one who feels this way...?

ModIts Yuu and Mi2 votes

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Ofc i'm not against doing stupid things in normals, never have been never will be. But I don't believe ranked to be the place for it, everyone should be playing at 110% and giving it their all in ranked with meta champs in lanes they belong. Am I the only one who feels this way...?

Like I said, I've seen some of the picks you mentioned succeeding in Plat and even Challenger.

AlienPrimate2 votes

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Ofc i'm not against doing stupid things in normals, never have been never will be. But I don't believe ranked to be the place for it, everyone should be playing at 110% and giving it their all in ranked with meta champs in lanes they belong. Am I the only one who feels this way...?

So you are saying that I should be first timing Camille top rather than playing Taric top when I have 1.1 mil mastery on Taric?

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