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How to misuse the "Feeding" report

mvargus·2/6/2015, 3:58:07 PM·24 votes·2,533 views

I played a game last night that had me feel bad for the other team until the postgame when I found someone who did not understand the idea of reporting someone for "feeding"

The game itself wasn't close. My team got ahead and then steamrolled the other team for 38 kills while only dying 7 times. After the match I apologized to the other team because I figured it could not have been much fun for them. They lost every lane and team fight from the start and had to be feeling down.

It seemed fine until the last person on the other team still in the lobby type "report Yasuo". I was surprised by this and asked why. The response was "feeding."

Now here is the issue, no player on the other team had fewer than 7 kills and the Yasuo had 9, so it wasn't like he had died so many times as to make a difference. Also I had been in the top lane facing him in a 2v1. (This was a team builder game and we had set up with 2 top and no jungler, but one of the top laners roamed quite a bit.) The Yasuo had been very tentative most of the game and hid within the protection of his tower. Most of the time he waited for his team's jungler to arrive before risking an engagement. I had not seen him intentionally feeding. He just couldn't compete with my attacks as Irelia when Poppy was willing to tower dive to finish him off. All of his deaths in the laning phase occurred at the edge of his tower's influence.

Worse, the one asking me to report is a level 30 (bronze 5) player who managed to go 1/8/0 on Lucian while facing a level 13 player who was also playing Lucian.

In this case I felt I was being asked to make a false report. Yasuo had not fed, and the person asking clearly did not want to accept that the loss belonged to the whole team, not any one member.

OF course, I can't think of a solution, but it does demonstrate that the reporting system is hardly perfect. A player having a bad game can end up reported if they run into someone else who is in a bad mood and willing to use the report to try to punish them.

(and in case you are wondering, I did not submit a report.)

38 Comments

Only Play Darius2/6/2015, 5:37:28 PM4 votes

Just saying, duo top doesn't work against a team with experienced players.

AJStarhiker2/6/2015, 4:34:51 PM3 votes

Not quite true. Intentional feeding is actually more likely to be punished with Tribunal down because Riot has access to more information than they released for the old Tribunal. The thing is, it has to be intentional (there are other indicators than just number of deaths), and there has to be a pattern of it (multiple games, not just a couple revenge reports). From what I can tell, the majority of reports-- or calls for reports-- of feeding are of the false type.

Everyone has a report weight. False reports drop the weight of a player until they are worth almost nothing. This guy you mentioned sounds like the kind to drop reports for any little thing, so he probably has a very low report weight.

You should also know that asking for reports is reportable. The system doesn't actually care how many people report after a game. It only cares about if there are any reports. That's to protect people from premades and trolls ganging up on them. And report-begging is considered another form of harassment.

While Riot has (rightfully) not released any kind of specific information on how cases are made, my understanding based on what I've picked up over the years says that only the highest weight report actually counts towards building a case.

AuraMax2/6/2015, 4:04:55 PM3 votes

Don't worry the Report for Intentional Feeding option doesn't entail harsh punishments especially since the Tribunal is down. But I see how this could be a problem.

Kage no Kitsune2/6/2015, 10:49:16 PM2 votes

Someone asking you to report someone else counts as something to be reported as well. Glad you had a good game, sorry that the enemy team had to deal with a stomp.

Good on you for being humble about it though. You played a good game, and you didn't rub it in the enemy's face.

OhWicked2/6/2015, 7:15:20 PM2 votes

I'm still stuck on this butt hurt Bronze getting beat by a level 13, possible smurf but still....

GG Beers2/6/2015, 4:17:26 PM2 votes

Was this your first game? At the end of every game the losing team says "report X" for feeding. You have to get reported on a consistent basis to be punished, a few ragers reporting anyone for feeding does nothing at all, ever. Riot has obviously thought about this. Also, people who constantly report people for BS reasons like feeding when they're clearly not have the weight of their reports lowered to the point where they don't even count as a report anymore.

Hrdnipz2/7/2015, 11:23:27 AM1 votes

The reporting system is broken... most of the time the people being reported are being reported by the trolls them selves... alot of people dont even waste their time reporting... if you tell a duo q troll to stop talking shit to someone on your team you get reported X2.

It Hertz When IP2/7/2015, 2:30:13 PM1 votes

It's because the majority of players don't seem to understand that "Feeding" doesn't mean going negative on KDR from being outplayed, it means intentionally running into the enemy for the sole purpose of giving them a kill.

Pørourf2/7/2015, 5:54:04 PM1 votes

I like people like you that don't report people for trying their best even though they're feeding. They're probably trying their best unless you see signs of trolling. It's just a game and there's no need to be mad.

AJStarhiker2/6/2015, 4:52:08 PM1 votes

I lurked and occasionally posted in the TBI and Player Behavior forums before they closed down. There's a few of us still around, but without a specific board, a lot of us have kind of vanished. We aren't Rioters, we're just players trying to help.

AJStarhiker2/6/2015, 5:27:12 PM1 votes

Like I said, there's a few of us still around, but there's no longer a 'central' catagory for these kinds of questions.

Im Andru2/6/2015, 9:20:30 PM1 votes

I never report anyone for anything other than being toxic In a normal, because it really doesn't matter.

slippykitten2/6/2015, 11:29:53 PM1 votes

lol @ anyone who thinks that report option does ANYTHING. Can anyone name one time where Riot punished a player for dying a lot without CLEAR BLATANT evidence they were doing it on purpose?

Spacesuit Spiff2/7/2015, 3:03:23 AM1 votes

I'm fairly sure most of the report options do nothing by design, like an intent feeding report not counting unless you're 0/45. They're just there to filter out idiot reports.