Does Riot place people who have been punished for toxic behavior with other toxic players in ranked?
Title says it all. Do they do this?
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Hey Icemelt, the concept is usually referred to as "Prisoner's Island". We don't use it in our LoL disciplinary systems.
Lyte made a post describing why a few months ago, you can check it out here:
Lyte, does prisoner's island exist in League? Does toxic behavior (past or present) influence which players you are matched with in ranked queue?
Prisoner's Island does not exist in League, as we don't believe it's strong game design.
Matchmaking toxic players with toxic players only encourages more toxicity, and seldom do you see reform or player behavior improvement in these contexts. It also creates a situation where toxic players will want to create a new account to "get out" of Prisoner's Island, so they are now interacting with the new players and creating even worse experiences for them.
Prisoner's Island designs can work for more binary behaviors such as Leaving, where players know exactly why they ended up in Prisoner's Island and exactly how to get out of it (i.e, play games without playing). However, with more subjective behaviors like verbal toxicity, Prisoner's Island designs aren't very effective reform.
Prisoner's Island sounds like an amazing concept already in place whether Riot admits it or not. If your too toxic you don't win. Thus, less mechanically skill toxic people fill bronze up and the mechanically skilled toxins infect platinum.
GG prisoner's island exists whether you want it to or not.
Yes, they do, but only for promos :P
It's called low ELO. Which sucks, because even "average" players get to deal with toxic people a lot.
"It also creates a situation where toxic players will want to create a new account to "get out" of Prisoner's Island, so they are now interacting with the new players and creating even worse experiences for them."
I like the way he accidently gave a reason for Prisoner's Island in his reasoning not to implement it.
Which Riot says they don't but sometimes it sure feels like they have.....
Either way no real way to prove where or not its true.