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Allow us to add a reason for us dodging

SH Azykan·11/20/2016, 2:59:59 AM·5 votes·831 views

Just had to dodge obvious trolls, and there is no way to report it other than to go through the game with them. "Do you mind if I afk for the first 2 mins of the game" - support person "no he doesnt mind" "nah why would he" I was locked in as ezreal adc, enemy team had locked cait zilean as their bot lane I ask why queue if they cant play Immediately flamed by all 3 of the people (including the support who was going to afk) ... Obvious premade, no I am not cool with you afk'ing. I dodged because not going to waste 20+ mins with them when it is already going to be a loss before we even finish champ select. BUT I cannot report it, nothing happens to those players. I get a wait time before I can queue again. I get punished for not willing to play with them. And they are free to do this as much as they want (pretty sure they wanted to force the dodge because one got an off role). They won't get a report, they won't get punished.

So I ask, when we select to dodge (clicking the X) please dodge the game and ask if we want to give a reason for the dodge. Make it work similar to reporting. Tired of this happening on a far more frequent basis than it should be.

9 Comments

Sarutobi11/20/2016, 7:55:01 AM1 votes

So whats stoping someone from lying about their reasoning to dodge? this seems like its too abusive and would hurt more than actually save the community because if anyone can dodge for any reason (valid or not) without any type of punishment. Yes it sucks that trolls are this in champ select, but it shouldnt be that easy to dodge especially if all you need to do is write anything to validate your dodging!

LÆV11/20/2016, 7:27:33 PM1 votes

I see both sides, dodging for good reason is an issue that you are often justified in doing, but the solution provided is not really going to produce the intended results, and will create a LOT more issues and work for Riot-eers.

Like when the last ban on your team, bans the character you have pre-selected, even when you are picking 1st or 2nd. Completely a **** move. Totally would not want to play with the kind of incredulous person and/or troll who would do that. But how much time and effort would creating a report require?

Some possible solutions that could limit queue dodging/dodging penalties:

do not allow team members who are banning, to ban a character that another teammate has pre-selected prior to the banning phase. The pros far outweigh the cons.
do not automatically boot and re-queue everyone else if someone decided to not ban a character, or doesn't ban a champion in time.
If a player if forced to into a role they did not select, in an effort to lower queue times, allow them only a 5 min dodge penalty instead of 15 min. If you are not comfortable in the role you have been forced to play, you shouldn't be punished for doing your teammates a favor and dodging.

Bídoof11/20/2016, 7:35:02 PM1 votes

I don't think there is a fix for dodging

There HAS to be a way to get out of the game that the one guy says "oh im just going to feed" and locks teemo with cleanse smite.

On the other hand it wastes a bunch of time and effort when people dodge

mustafa288111/21/2016, 2:40:06 PM1 votes

then everyone will be abusing it... and they wont get punished for it...