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"Calling" for Normals

Dragons5439·6/19/2017, 2:15:39 AM·1 votes·435 views

So a friend and I were queuing into a Blind Pick game and the normal chaos ensued. In order of calls, my friend called "spu" and I called "adc." Then another duo called "sup" and "ADC." It was then that they began attacking my friend for "Ruining the team," and that "We are a duo bot, get out," etc. They continued this harassment in the champion select lobby until my friend decided it wasn't worth it and dodged.

She hasn't played in a month due to this kind of toxic behavior. Why isn't there some kind of report mechanism for the pregame lobby to prevent that kind of harassment? Instead, SHE'S the one with the penalty to not play. Because these players decided to be pricks in the pregame lobby, they're going to get off completely punishment free. I know people don't really want to sit through a full 20 minute game just to report someone for that kind of behavior. It's emotionally taxing and completely unfair to good, honest players who want to just have a fun time.

Is there a way to implement at least a report function for the champion select lobby when someone is overly aggressive? Just so that kind of behavior is at least monitored? Or some way to "opt out" so you don't get a dodge penalty when your team, or a few players on it, are threatening the sanity of the normal League community?

12 Comments

AJStarhiker6/19/2017, 2:57:09 AM2 votes

You can report from outside games by filing a support ticket, there just isn't a dedicated "Report Player" option.

Select "I have a Question about League of Legends/Riot Games" then under Categories select "Games and Features: General Questions" and use the Description box to tell them what happened.

You'll get an email saying it'll be forwarded to the appropriate team and a follow up saying they'll look into it, that they can't tell you what (if any) actions are taken, and a reminder to use the post-game report feature (I know, it doesn't help when you don't even get into the game).

Also, Riot does record pre/post game chat. It just doesn't get included in chat logs due to technical issues.

Miror B6/19/2017, 2:26:30 AM1 votes

See, for me "Dibs" tends to be the ultimate form of childish behavior that tells people's maturity, as adults will always know that actions are the only things that ever truly matter with words being near-meaningless.

As for the actual idea of reporting people outside of actual games, I doubt they'll actively implement it due to the rare occurance of things actually happening. People can't actively int/throw games in the lobby, and while they can be toxic it fails in comparison to obnoxious pingspam/"hostaging" games.

Aeszarck6/19/2017, 2:54:49 AM1 votes

I think that the best way to deal with this is to specify in an end game report that the players are being aggressive in the pre-game lobby, and maybe you can paste an aggressive line from the chat if you copied one.

Telephone Booth6/20/2017, 2:32:48 AM1 votes

Why are they dicks and you two are the innocent ones? Why did she get punished? Just lock in your pick and go. It's blind pick. There's no picking order, there's no bans, there's no counter picking. Don't play blind pick if you want to play a specific role. Or if you do, just lock it in and play... it probably won't work though because chances are someone else wants that same role and they'll probably be stubborn about it like you and your friend. So play draft. I'm assuming that you think if you call what you want to play in the chat, that means that's your role. That's simply not true. Nowhere does it say that you get the role you call in blind pick. Theres no rules, thats why blind pick rules. Nice and quick, no picking phase where you gotta wait your turn.

Escheton6/20/2017, 7:25:25 AM1 votes

Don't play blind pick. Thats where most trolls and flamers gather. If for no other reason than their champion not getting banned. I know, fix the problem, don't blame the victim and all that. But for real, juststart by avoiding blind pick and this happens less.