Does intentional AFK in ranked deserve a perma-ban?

Viro Melchior··5 votes·2,818 views

Just got out of a ranked game http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1465568439/180649

Enemy Lee Sin never showed up to lane. Wasn't d/c'd either, though, spent all game running around inside his own base, JUST to prevent the auto-d/c. I'm sure he got plenty of reports (at least 3 on my team said we would report, and I know I did).

But doesn't this behavior deserve something more serious, like an automatic permaban? I mean, this wasn't "oh, crap, I forgot I have a dentist appointment" or even "my teammates are feeding 0/35 at 10 minutes, guess I'll just afk". He was toxic (and, if you believe the enemy team, he was intent on screwing their game over from the first moment in champ select, not their fault at all) for the entire duration of the game.

Also, is the "no name & shame" policy removed, now, due to the public nature of ranked game match histories? Because I can't black-out names on a Riot-hosted web page.

I feel bad for the enemy team. I mean, I feel shitty enough when I'm forced to play a 4v5 (especially in ranked) because some guy never connected. But having to do it, while the 5th player of your team is actually in-game being a dick? Ugh!

6 Comments

Angry Monster1 votes

no name & shame policy is removed for people that call riot out on the forums and try to argue publicly. It is still against the rules for average players to call someone else out.( i do not agree with this rule but I am just a player).

Viro Melchior1 votes

But simply posting a link to a ranked game summary qualifies as "name and shame", because the summoner name is included automatically.

If you post for a normal game, identities are hidden.

That's why I'm curious whether calling someone out for behavior/etc in a ranked game is still taboo or not. (I know Lyte is on today, maybe he'll show up and help out).

Thoroniul1 votes

define intentional, and how it would be detected.

temp ban, maybe only if it consistently shows afk, but its already like that. Permaban is way to harsh of a punishment for something that can happen to anyone once in a while. One time my router broke and was without internet for the entire day.

KingSmizzy1 votes

I think it could be detected if they never leave the base or farm something like <10 creeps in 20 minutes or however long the game is.

For someoen playing the game for the first time you obviously dont want to ban them for just not understanding the controls, but this is ranked, you require lvl 30 to even participate. Meaning you've played over 100 games in normals and should be able to leave the base... If you dont then its obvious trolling.

GerAvos1 votes

I still dont understand how to leave the base ;D

Viro Melchior1 votes

All permabans are automatically reviewed by Riot. So, no matter whether the punish was automated, for a permaban, a Riot employee would have to agree with the punishment.

In this case, a simple review of the game shows it quite well. In the game, I could tell you that he never d/c'd or reconnected (hence, was in the game all game). Included in that is the fact that when we broke past the first inhibitor, we spotted him running around before hiding in the well for the last minute.

However, just from the game summary, you can see:

22 minute game 0/0/0 score, zero Cs (indicates never entered lane) Bought more than starter items (indicates that he was active)

Reviewable by Riot would include: Game chat logs Pre-game chat log

Obviously, I don't think that there should ever be a system that is fully automated to hand out bans. My question is whether behavior like this deserves being permanently banned after the single game (ignoring all other games) is reviewed by Riot.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that this guy will get his just dessert through the system anyhow. If he behaved like this in a game I seen, he has done it before, and will do it again. I'm just asking what everyone thinks is a "proper" punishment for intentionally ruining an entire RANKED game like this (not that its okay to do it to Normal games either).

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