[IDEA]An Extra Reporting Option - Way to Good

Thahrin·Oct 3, 2013·3 votes·784 views

When i started playing League of Legends I had a terrible time after getting out of bot games. It seemed like every game that I played my entire team got destroyed because there was a smurf or two on the enemy team.

The whole idea is to put only an extra option into the report menu, and that is to let the system know that an account is a smurf or is way too good to be playing at that level. The intent is not to ban the account, but rather use the matchmaking system to place them in games that more suit their skill. This would be helpful to the lower level players in the community that hate to deal with smurfs or people that learned how to play faster than most. An example is a level 8 smurf that is platinum 5 or something. If it is clear that the player is way too good, the matchmaking system can use the recent games data to put a player into a more suitable queue.

I am aware that the system does it's best to avoid this, but it is way too frequent, and not fair to lover level players. I am currently level 21 (yeah i know, i'm a noob) so this doesn't affect me as much as it does the lower levels but the point is to try to give the lower level players help when they get into the vicious world of PvP.

Just Food for thought Riot.

6 Comments

TortferngatrOct 4, 20131 votes

I like this idea of a reverse "unskilled player" report option.

That being said, I'm not sure how useful it would be for new players--what about the possibility of a "permasmurf" sadistically reporting players for "overskilled player" for no other reason than to get matchmaking to treat them as smurf accounts?

ThahrinOct 4, 20131 votes

This is a valid point, so riot would have to find a way to avoid that. the loop hole is no different than if a person were to report an unskilled player so they can never get into queue's with good teams. It would need to be used appropriately in order to get the correct function, so it will only work if the community were to use it only when it is necessary, and not to troll Thank you for your input on the idea and I will think about a way to have the loophole minimized. I will post an update soon

ThahrinOct 4, 20131 votes

Update The system will be checking a players match history accordingly, so it shouldn't be that easy to abuse

NightmareRavenOct 4, 20131 votes

Nope, because then you will get buddies to keep on reporting for being way too good to boost their MMR and get out of elo hell just to create a higher version of elo hell when escaping is impossible because it's now everywhere.

ThahrinOct 4, 20131 votes

If you are referring to me, i am not in elo hell, as i am only level 21 and I generally get good teams. The whole point is to have the matchmaking script check the players recent games history, and if they are doing insanely good, to move them up a bit, it can't be used to get out of elo hell that easily, it would require actual skill that is too good to be that low in matchmaking. Thanks for the input though.

IM A MOUNTAINOct 12, 20131 votes

I don't think it would necessarily make people raise in their elo, if they don't perform to the MMR they're raised, then their MMR will drop of course, placing them where they'd need to be.