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This behavior is present in 1/3 Diamond+ ranked games. This needs to be made zero tolerance.

Yenn·8/30/2016, 9:16:34 AM·6 votes·2,103 views

Look at this example from my last game.

We were winning and had just taken an inhibitor. We wanted to group bottom. Graves didn't group, he got caught, and he died. The enemy team engaged on the four of us after, we killed three of them, they killed two of us, and we disengaged. Janna told him that he needs to group with us:

http://i.imgur.com/0kWPTls.jpg

So, Graves get extremely defensive and decides he's just going to stop playing, because his bad decision was criticized. He spent the next 3 minutes in the jungle farming, refusing to help us push. We managed to catch two enemy players out, including their jungle, and took Baron without him. After we took Baron, he ran directly into the enemy fountain and left the game:

http://imgur.com/pvteNc4

We continued trying to win 4v5, then he rejoined and continued farming the jungle about 3 minutes later. We lost a 4v5 and the enemy pushed to end the game, while Graves continued farming in the jungle. The enemy team ended the game, and we asked them to report Graves. To which he responded 'lol for what? because i dc'd?'

This is fucking stupid. It's reaching the point where the game isn't even fun, because of these fragile douche bags being in virtually every moderately high rated game and making their team lose at the drop of a hat.

I've been playing at Diamond since season 1 (Platinum before Diamond existed) and I've had the pleasure of watching this behavior happen more and more often as each season progressed. This kind of behavior was basically unheard of prior to season 3, and now it's reached a point where it's almost in more games than not. It's happening so often that I barely even want to play anymore.

Enough is enough. This is not acceptable behavior and shouldn't be tolerated even once. The fact that this type of bullshit happens so often indicates that there is little, if any, punishment for it.

To make this post even more exciting, this particular player is not new to me. I've been playing with them and watching them act like this for the past two seasons; they're S4 Master/S5 Diamond. This means that they've been getting away with this behavior for over two years.

I actually submitted a support ticket with screenshots of this player doing this last season, because I'd been encountering them so often. Considering they're still doing it, it's obvious that the ticket was ignored. Why is this behavior not high (if not the highest) priority for putting an end to?

25 Comments

Shifune8/30/2016, 2:37:32 PM3 votes

Maybe if people kept their mouths closed, this wouldn't happen. I can almost guarantee that if Janna and Garen didn't say anything, you would have won that game. I stopped caring about what my teammates do a long time ago. Hell, half the time I mute my whole team anyway.

Oleandervine8/30/2016, 5:41:11 PM2 votes

It's funny that because Janna and Garen decided to be assholes about 1 death that didn't result in an ace either way, they lost the game. 1 death. Sure, Graves shouldn't have been a dick either, but then, flaming people only leads to tilting. This is exactly why people who are hostile to their teammates lose more games.

Gary B Enkelis8/30/2016, 1:38:26 PM2 votes

This is why you don't act condescending to your equals? @ Janna Garen

Graves got caught, admitted he made a mistake, and got bullied?

Why did nobody encourage Graves to play? Offer some positive words, instead of calling Graves stupid or encouraging Graves to leave?

TheOminousTwinki8/30/2016, 5:39:31 PM1 votes

I know those feels, you get a player who makes a mistake and then either says they were feeding on purpose hiding their mistakes under the veil of trolling OR refuse to own up to it then get butthurt and ragequit. Now the players who are venting their frustrations through chat are punished. What were we taught as children... "use your words" well riot says fuck all that sit their and take it and maybe the person trolling might get punished but if you say anything bad to them our language bots will ban you 10 seconds after the game ends.

TLDR; Riot Fix Your Shit.

Morality Coach8/30/2016, 11:33:41 PM1 votes

A Jarvan did this yesterday in my Silver 2 climb for the same reason.

Stop tilting people in ranked. Some people just play ranked like norms and don't try to climb much and will throw.

Itankyou8/30/2016, 9:23:14 AM1 votes

After we took Baron, he ran directly into the enemy fountain and left the game

Rekt.

But seriously, people in this community get triggered now over the silliest shit. I hate this game. Retards run amock.

BTW, I've only ever seen one person get banned for doing this. If you aren't obvious with it though u will never get banned.

Ada Wong8/31/2016, 2:11:54 AM1 votes

Try having a team that just runs around all game getting the enemy fed no one groups and ends when you are seriously winning so they make a game go on like 50+ minutes wasting everyone's time just to lose.

Another game same bullshit after...

Unstoppable Monk8/30/2016, 1:43:12 PM1 votes

I don't know why people disrespect diamond elo by griefing like that.

DrCyanide8/30/2016, 2:20:28 PM1 votes

Is it too much to think that you should lose 100 LP for that kind of behavior? It's not "zero tolerance", but it pretty clearly shows it's not acceptable.

... I can't tell if people intentionally doing it to drop divisions would OK or not. On the one hand, if they wanted to drop, then they were going to throw far more games, but on the other it could still be encouraging them to throw the games because it's easier to drop their rank...