Players banning teammate's pick intent need to be addressed

The Deckowner·5/28/2016, 8:14:11 PM·21 votes·1,784 views

Just had a in my team who intentionally banned our support's and said very inappropriate things about sona players. This is not ok, the content he said was not ok, his act of banning teammate's pick intent was not ok.

Rito please address this issue, intentionally trolling teammates in champ select is extremely rude and need to be punished.

(I have seem this a lot and I reported them all, as far no notification was sent to me saying someone is punished.)

44 Comments

TTK Dreadnought5/28/2016, 11:45:46 PM7 votes

One game the other day our jungler (fourth pick) banned our top laner's prepick (first pick). we asked why. "didnt want to fight it"

Really?

BeMyFriendPlease5/29/2016, 3:30:16 AM6 votes

I always laugh when they ban your intent pick then want to report you for not liking your off-meta pick.

League of egocentric children ftw

Krigjer5/28/2016, 8:31:01 PM4 votes

It's a form of griefing your teammates, pure and simple. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

(This is different from banning an OP pick when the intent is at the bottom and first pick does not own said champ to trade. )

71883083DEL15/29/2016, 8:49:41 AM3 votes

I feel like Riot's PR doesn't give a damn, honestly. It's all about that net income of $ bro

Remlap12235/29/2016, 2:14:52 AM3 votes

It's pretty simple. You ban a champion that your teammate wants to play, and your justification isn't "I wasn't paying attention" or "The champion is super popular and you had zero chance of getting them", you deserve to be reported for greifing your teammate.

Lycanoon5/29/2016, 3:33:44 AM3 votes

Solution to Pick Intent being banned by a dumb, egocentric, piece of trash, scumbag team mate... #Dodge.

Go smoke a cigarette or whatever it is you gotta do while your dodge timer counts down.

Maximum Morde5/29/2016, 10:29:09 PM2 votes

I'd just switch to trolling by intent picking cancer so you couldn't ban that. Either way, your match is gonna be a bad time if I feel like making it a bad time. The sooner you learn that you can't fight it without ruining the game, the better.

Eyyy its Sogole5/30/2016, 10:37:46 PM2 votes

While I don't agree with the ''inappropiate things about sona players'' Think it's legit to ban out your own teammates.

ZedOrBruh8/6/2016, 11:56:36 PM1 votes

I wish that riot could make that you can not bann your team mate pick intent because its completely ignorant and rude to bann your OWN team mate champion. Saying exuses like "All Yasuo players are feeders and noobs" or like " Teemo is shit champion and the people who use him is trolls" is the most provoking shit ever and causes unrelevant tilt. At the very least check their winrate on lolking, you are worse than Donald Trump Taliyah saying all "Mexicans are drug users and they steal jobs". like cmon games was made to have fun but just now it feels like work and i have to spend 40 min of my life with you, acting nice.

TrueNoxusMight6/1/2016, 1:31:34 PM1 votes

this has happened to my friends and i more in the past 4 days then it ever has, people find a game, look when they have to go back on the game and go look at facebook or something, when they come back they either automatically ban a champ wich half of the time is a allied champ they have been sitting on or they wait till the last few seconds and "panic pick" as they like to call it wich is more frustrating because they were even looking at the screen longer,luckily i stopped maining one champion but its still very annoying and %%%%ish to ban an allied champ just because you are lazy, like you said half of the time my champ gets banned by a team mate they say the same thing you said "i dont want to fight one" even tho i have counters to my champions i play and sometimes im even first or second pick, its dumb, what my friends and i do and you can call this rude or whatever we either ban his champ or choose it before he does,wich results in him getting salty but its not like we care...

Nik Nikerson6/1/2016, 3:49:37 PM1 votes

I'm starting to think Riot giving those messages that someone they reported has been punished may be a mistake. I understand why they did it, and in a vacuum, it's a good idea, but now everyone wants to get them all the time, and get upset when they report someone and don't get it.

WoonStruck6/1/2016, 3:52:52 PM1 votes

If you do not trust your teammate using a specific champ because they are risky, especially at your MMR, what's wrong with banning them? (kindred, graves, Nid, etc based on your comp)

However, a warning confirmation should definitely be introduced. There are no downsides to implementing one, and it will make sure that you second guess the ban for cases like what Technolians mentions.

When people banned Kass, it was both because they didn't want to play against one and did not want to play with one that fed early. Same with Lee. Same with Shaco. Same with Leblanc. It was not wrong then, it is not wrong now.

John 13 346/1/2016, 4:14:16 PM1 votes

I just started a similar thread, about how I ban Taliyah when someone wants to play it support. Sometimes banning weak champions from your idiot teammates is okay. Any associated trash talk, however, is not.

BlueThingamajig5/29/2016, 3:50:49 AM1 votes

I recognize that this is an issue, but until Riot addresses it, there's a really simple workaround you can do: Use your 'pick intent' on a champion that is NOT the one you want. Maybe choose one that has a similar playstyle, or go with a vague statement about your actual champion choice being better for the team composition.

It's like Matt Parker's recent video on mapping 3 indistinguishable dice to 2. There are several 'duct tape engineering' solutions that might not be pretty, but they work far faster and more conveniently than a perfect mathematical formula. Reference Video