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cheekz·11/29/2013, 7:59:33 AM·1 votes·121 views

Hello community,

So I've recently seen a raise in frequency in what we like to call "troll" games. I usually have a large pool of friends online to pool from and we have a tendency to play as premades for normals (we are just to uncoordinated to play in ranked at the moment). During this time we are practicing our team coordination to see if we can eventually get into forming a ranked team. Someday...

So, anyway, we've recently. Seen a rise in these troll game premades that don't seem to actually want to play. The enemy team will actually just roam around the map not farming or trying to gain levels or any sort of advantage. We'll end up killing them over and over as we gain levels and cash and they stay at level 1. Now I'm not talking about cheese tactics (to me those are considered fair games); I'm talking about no duo jungle or no protect the Vayne, no 2:1:2 or 5 minute inhibs, no anything. I'm talking just nothing with no tactics whatsoever. What else can we do except kill them repeatedly. Sigh...

Every one on my team decided to report the enemy team for unsportsmanlike behavior. What else were we supposed to do? Anyway, community, my question to you is, what is the right thing to do in this situation. Report or don't report? In this case our team talked about it through Skype at the end match screen and we ultimately decided to report them. What is the right thing to do, though?

Now I understand both sides of the situation, which is why I'm asking what the community view may be on the topic. In one case, yes the game is just a game and the enemy team was just having fun with said game. But on the other hand, we were playing normals, not custom and when we queued up for that game we expected an actual competitive game with the thought of winning or losing against fair odds in mind.

As I had said before, we ultimately decided to report them all because we were playing to practice in normals to win fairly and we had felt that the enemy team had simply wasted our time. What would you have done?

Regards, Inokiulus

6 Comments

jwf99911/29/2013, 12:39:51 PM1 votes

honestly its more of a ethical decision at that point. They were just having fun or whatever really don't think you should've reported them.

LilYonsan12/2/2013, 5:24:39 AM1 votes

Okay, I have some interesting views about this.

Personally, in a normal match, I've learned that almost anything goes. The point of playing normals is for practice, not for sport. While the sporty element is still in normals, it's not a competitive environment.

I almost never report somebody for doing something that I disasgree with. If they pick poppy support, who the hell am I to judge? I just hope to god that they do well in game.

That's a normal environment for you. I also disagree with you that it's a troll tactic.

Sure it's unusual, and sure it's probably not well thought out, but at the same time the meta that we have now for League of Legends has not been around forever, and most of the tactics that we use today and consider "meta" today was probably considered "trolling" by somebody about a year ago.

Long story short, I disagree that the report was valid. The meta we have is constantly changing on a day-to-day basis. Without these changes, the game would become stale and stagnant. If your team didn't have any fun, I'm sorry and shit happens, but there are other games out there and you shouldn't let the fact that it just wasn't any fun for YOU get in the way of your overall experience.