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A Friend of Mine Falsely Banned

SkyblazeHydraX3·2/23/2018, 7:24:14 AM·5 votes·1,099 views

I know I know, this will surely seem like another crocodile tear post, but believe it or not this one is legitimate. A friend of mine was recently banned yesterday for "intentional feeding". Specifically, he played three games as his best and favorite champion in a row, one game being ranked, and in all three he did.... well, completely and utterly terrible. But being one of several people who knows him, I can say quite surely that he is not an intentional feeder.

You see, the aforementioned favorite champion is Katarina, which I'm sure a lot of people know very well for being an all-or-nothing high-risk champion (like most assassins), who if she falls behind has a really tough time clawing her way back. The scores were terrible, but as a Kha'Zix main I'm certain I can say what actually happened, as it's happened to me as well and many other players too- namely, he started doing badly, and as a result got tilted and kept making bad plays in an attempt to get himself back in the game. That lead to a cycle of getting killed, getting even more tilted, getting even more desperate to do better on his favorite champion, and thus the cycle repeats. And then the tilt would carry over into the next game, in a very "I need to redeem myself, I am not that bad at my favorite champion!". I mean c'mon, we've all been there, right?

After those three games my friend got two messages, one almost immediately after the other; the first was approximately a 14-day ban, then without so much as a game in between he got the second message saying he was permanently banned. And this was his first time being punished on the account, so being given an outright permaban is quite severe. He's already tried sending in a support ticket to plead his case, but he's gotten a stalwart "no" for his answer.

Because of that I'm here trying to bring some attention to this excessively and unusually harsh punishment, hoping that a red poster might see it and offer some help. My friend is a very passionate League player, and being permanently banned for doing badly (very badly, I will openly concede, but still) has left him feeling very depressed. I'm hoping there's something I can do to help him out by bringing public attention to this, especially since it actually validates the fear many people have that just because they did badly, they could get reported and banned.

29 Comments

OnlyYouCanHearMe2/23/2018, 7:39:45 AM3 votes

That is quite unusual. We've seen cases like this before, where a player will actually get reported and issued with a ban for something during one match, but if they have already hopped into another match, it doesn't catch them until after that match. On rare occasions, if something happens in the second match, they can actually earn a second penalty in it as well, but generally speaking, Support is willing to remove the second penalty because the player is not actually given a chance to serve their punishment and demonstrate any reform.

It might be a bit easier for us if your friend would be willing to post here, so that we can go through his match history and take a look at it. Sometimes there's things in there that can be used as a sort of defense when pleading his case to Support. Alternatively, sometimes there are things in a match history that make it absolutely impossible to get a ban removed. It might also help us a bit if your friend would be willing to post the logs of the tickets that he sent and received from Support, so we can know what reasons they gave for why they would not consider removing the permaban and allowing him to simply serve the 14 day suspension and then focus upon reform. I'm assuming that he would prefer to have all the bans removed completely, but without seeing his matches, we can't really say whether that would be feasible or not. Having the penalty reduced might be the best that he can aim for, depending on what is in the matches.

TheProfezzor2/24/2018, 1:22:50 AM1 votes

Link his matches or name and we can be the judge. This should have been done first...

Seth Sonson2/24/2018, 7:13:32 PM1 votes

my best friend loves watching pro play and the game in general.but this is the reason he won't play pvp mode.he's scared that his account will get banned after putting well over a hundred dollars into this game then playing poorly.there should be a rank where they put "trolls" and "feeders" that are really just bad players who love this game as much as the rest of us.

what other game makes you play well or not play at all?

korppi tuoni2/25/2018, 2:01:48 PM1 votes

65 games with a negative KDA in 20 days is not "having a few bad games." That's averaging over 3 bad games A DAY. That right there is 260 people who's games he ruined by being their team mate in less than a month. That's ONLY counting the games with a negative KDA, not the myriad of games he went even. Running my own history back over 2 months I only have like 6 games with a negative KDA, running your history back those 20 days and you have 20 games with a negative KDA.

Yes, he probably should have gotten a better warning, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that this isn't a saint you're defending here, he has ruined a lot of peoples games and he should be punished for it. Dude made it to level 30 and really hadn't come to the conclusion that having more deaths than kills/assists is possibly a bad thing? You lose game after game after game because you go 0/10/2 but you still need somebody to step in and actively tell you that maybe you shouldn't be dying that much. Why does Riot need to step in a tell you you're losing games because you go 1/13/5?

YerroFever2/27/2018, 1:32:10 AM1 votes

The best you can do is ask your friend to come on the boards and post for a review. Tantram has been known to review cases personally and watch replays so it's not out of the question that one's games get reviewed, but if a support ticket has already gone through and people have already re-reviewed the games, I don't necessarily know what else to tell you because those are basically the two steps I have seen as a possible solution to the issue.

I wish I had a better answer for you but unfortunately I don't.