The report system is to detect and prevent people from breaking rules, not make you feel better
So let’s go over the rules one more time since people have a hard time understanding English.
Unsportsmanlike Conduc - this falls in the line of saying things like GG EZ, you suck, ugh garbage so easy blah blah. Personally I think this option is stupid but it’s a rule and you use it when someone is excessively making you feel bad about your gameplay in an insulting and degrading manner.
When is something not Unsportsmanlike Conduct:
You fight as Riven but die to a Sion who is low HP, but you did not use your windslash execute that would’ve killed him. He days in all-chat “you would’ve killed me if you recasted R again.”
This is a case of advice and just because you were terrible and didn’t use your champion to it’s fullest potential is not an indictment on the other player. This is not to make you feel better about your bad play, it’s to kick douchey nerd ragers out of the game who measure their success on life based upon how they outplay someone in a video game and proceed to rub your nose in it when they do.
Verbal Abuse: really straight forward. Shouldn’t have to explain this one. Telling someone that they’re a rat piece of shit that should be gunned down in the street is something you absolutely should be banned for, no question. I’m all for shit-talking, but this is ridiculous. Dunkey deserved his ban, regardless of what he did for the community.
When it’s not verbal abuse:
You’re a jungler and your top laner is getting dove repeatedly. He asks for some help without being confrontational or aggressive. You lash out and tell him to stop feeding and stop abusing you. Someone communicating in game about things you may not agree with is not a form of verbal abuse, you’re just a sensitive child and need to man up and take criticism in stride. This feature is not here to make you feel better about your horrible communication skills.
Leaving the Game/AFKING: Again, i would think this is straight-forward but it isn’t. I’d argue this has the most gray area in terms of its usage but I’ll argue that it is used for the definition of the word, leaving the game, which means it’s for any possible reason even if it isn’t to fault of the player that left (let’s say it’s internet trouble). Personally, I do not report people when they clearly DC. But I understand why others might based on the fact that a few reports won’t get someone banned if they’re not chronic leavers and just suffered from an internet outage. I think it’s childish to report people for that, but again, I get it.
When it’s not leaving the Game/AFKING:
You’re getting rocked in lane. Your jungler isn’t ganking, their jungler is. Your jungler is only farming and basing and nothing more. This is not leaving the game or being AFK. It is bad play for sure but he may be auto-filled and simply doesn’t want to feed. Nevertheless, this is not a feature you use to report someone because you got matched with a bad player. It’s not here to make you feel better about a bad match.
Intentional Feeding: Oh boy. In my mind this is easy but over the last years it’s been used loosely to describe bad play, which is a detriment to the players and the rules because it marks the waters on what a very simple concept is. It is simple. Someone literally intends to die, generally as often as possible. We’ve all had the T1 wannabes that ran it down mid a few years ago. Before that, it was common to see rammus or nunu rush mobis and run it down mid and die 40+ times. Even when someone decides they’re tired of arguing and they run into the enemy team with no recourse and full intent of dying merely to prove a point, all of the above, is intentional feeding. Someone dying 10 times and having a bad game is not intentional feeding. Someone over-extending constantly, getting caught in FOW, terrible dives, taking on terrible fights or simply dying several times due to chance, is not intentional feeding. They might be bad but they aren’t trying to be and frankly I’m not interested in looking for people who “low-key troll” or spend their time trying to make it look clean because conspiracy theories are for the uneducated and a waste of time. Maybe you should look at your own play instead.
When it’s not intentional feeding: read the above.
Hate Speech: obvious, shouldn’t need to cover in detail. Racist, sexist or degrading slurs or tone of speech that are extremely offensive and below the decency of common folk. If you have to ask “is this racist,” you should stop there because it probably is. Or it isn’t, it depends. Let common sense prevail.
When it’s not Hate Speech: HateDaddy, wow do you hate your daddy? But if you put a space between Hate and Daddy, it is hate speech for sure.
Cheating: If someone is flashing 50 times a minute or getting a penta kill by just coming near you (both of which have been bugs abused in the past), they are abusing some bug or cheating. Report away. However, if it’s a small bug like Nasus Q crit for example (when his stacks were factoring into crit damage), this is an example of someone “abusing a bug” but it isn’t detrimental to the basics of gameplay. Crit Nasus builds actually lowered his winrate that patch, so enjoy your free lose cheaters. Scriptors apply as well obviously.
When it’s not cheating: when you stand still all match and eat every skill shot, they are not scripting. You are just not dodging. Playing pantheon is totally cheating tho.
Inappropriate/Offensive name: obvious.
When it’s not inappropriate/offensive name:
Sepiroth666 or xX420MeMeMaStErXx, while cringey, is not an offensive name.
Let’s hope this clears up some misunderstanding so people use this correctly and not as a button that says “make me feel better about this bad experience.”