Every now and then, I end up in a game with a bunch of terrible players. By terrible, I am referring to people who harass, complain, threaten, name call etc. I'm sure everyone has been the target of these people before... Anyway, I would imagine they report me for "unskilled player", and so, it made me wonder, what does the tribunal look at in those situations?
From what I remember, Unskilled player's purpose is essentially flagging someone as being in an Elo that's to high for them. The Rioter explaining it seemed to indicate it's actually the report they act on the most as well.
It's intent isn't to punish players with a bad attitude, abusive behavior, or ones that intentionally feed.
It's more to re-set someone's Elo when they're in over their head and just can't keep up with everyone else. Maybe they came back after 6 months of not playing, maybe they kept playing in 5-man pre-mades and got carried hard 1 to many times.
All things considered it's kind of a win-win if you get reported for it and things happen. If you are skilled you should be easily able to carry yourself back, if you aren't - you'll probably have more fun against players at your level. If you're doing pretty average in your matches I doubt you'd have your Elo re-adjusted.
As far as I'm aware, Unskilled Player is a very very slight adjustment to matchmaking. I think it's intended more as a placebo than an actual effect, and it doesn't hit the Tribunal at all unless it's very clear a player was intentionally feeding.
Yeah because an unskilled player could be having a bad day couldn't they? It better be more than one referral because I can see this getting out of hand
