How Do You Guys Deal With Korean "open mid"

F O R F I T Z·Feb 16, 2017·5 votes·2,650 views

Hi all I have a question for the League of Legends community, how do you really handle other players using the "korean open mid" method?

last season I would get players saying "gg surrender at 20" to a few "open mids" however hardly any of them would actually do it out because of fear of getting banned by Riot, this season its like none stop "open mid" and players actually doing it like it's not an issue. Really who's going to report 3 players on your team doing this? the enemy team doesn't care because it's a free win for them 9/10 they just leave lobby without making any reports. Now I hear pro players on stream saying quote "should we open?" I don't support the "open mid" method it's toxic for the entire game, players having issues understanding that Riot shorten game times down by 15m... back in season 2 we'd get games that last 35m+ now players think they have enough knowledge to know when a game is "open mid at 8m" I can take the toxic community, honestly over the years I learned how to deal with players typing garbage in /all chat, I just ignore my team before the game starts and use pings, sadly with the open mid method i'm held hostage until the enemy team wins the game playing 1v5 or how many go along with the open mid method......

Coming from a season 2 veteran player Riot please step-up your game for combating this issue, and for pro's to say "should we open?" it makes me disgusted. In LCS when the enemy team has a huge lead I don't see early surrenders coming threw because Riot prevents teams from doing it, imagine how toxic it would look on the big screen every pro game they are behind and it was a for sure loss they just open mid......

All I can do at the moment is move on from each game this happens, is there a post of Riots plans for dealing with this issue?

12 Comments

Reaper SorakaFeb 16, 20174 votes

People want to just open mid and move to a new game because Riot has made it more difficult to come back in a losing game. I'm one of them. I don't feel like wasting an additional 15 minutes fighting to keep two inhibitors alive while my adc fights super minions in the third lane 16 minutes in. Meanwhile the enemy has full control over our jungle, dragon and baron. Yes, I know; "the enemy isn't very good so you can always come back." It's just not worth an additional length of a game to me.

What's the point? Just move to a new game and try again. There's no shame in cutting your losses.

Sorry I couldn't be one to agree with you. I'm sure the downvotes will rain on me all night long. :P

Kei143Feb 16, 20173 votes

If it is clearly a stomp (and the whole enemy team is super fed), sure. Theres really no coming back, but open mid or not, that game will just last like .. 5 more minutes anyways.

If it is just 1 person that is fed, and the rest of our team is ahead or even, then there is no reason to give up. People in my ELO (bronze / silver) don't know how to push an advantage and normally throw during mid game. Those that say "gg, open mid, fizz with 4 kills" are just so short sighted that they can't see the bigger picture of how their lanes are doing.

F O R F I T ZFeb 16, 20171 votes

for sure, i've started seeing it near plat v i'm sure every tier is somewhat alike. That's why I play to my fullest its solo queue anything can happen, believe me I'm sure we've all experienced the enemy team throwing. I have actually come back with 3 inhibs down ace the enemy team pushed mid and won funny thing was it happen to me the next game, never learn from certain mistakes >.<

anyways hopefully player behaviour team comes up with solutions, I'd like to see a better debuff for staying at base well just moving cursor around pretending "not to be afk"

Kei143Feb 16, 20171 votes

Oh those afkers get detected.

Claiming open mid is also negative attitude and can yield to punishments.

LimmieFeb 16, 20173 votes

Really who's going to report 3 players on your team doing this? the enemy team doesn't care because it's a free win for them 9/10 they just leave lobby without making any reports.

If they actually stop trying when it's not an unanimous decision, you can report them. You don't need the enemy team to report along at all. 1 report is as good as 9, so yours alone will do.

Mig89Feb 16, 20173 votes

I'll report anyone who says open mid. I like late game champs and in my low Elo anything can happen. I take the ass whoopings as a learning experience

F O R F I T ZFeb 18, 20171 votes

You sound like me, I bet you hide your surrender vote screen also :)

Mig89Feb 18, 20171 votes

yeah, I dont say anything. I dont say much when i play other than calling locations of people or ask to take objectives.

Telephone BoothFeb 17, 20171 votes

Yeah, I don't get the open mid. I've seen threads about it, but I have yet to see anyone threaten it in my games. Weird that it's so common. Are you higher elo? Cuz maybe it just doesn't happen down here in silver.

F O R F I T ZFeb 18, 20171 votes

I get it every few games, near plat aka high gold 1. Last season tons of players would joke about it but I have never seen anyone act upon it cause of fear of getting banned, it's actually starting to become a thing. Like I said i hear pro players talking on stream when they should "open mid" because of being stomped early. Mind you I have never seen any pro player do it, however when you have a huge group following them it might be in the games best interest if they hadn't talked about it at all by promoting open mid it opens up this game to a whole new toxicity...

that is why we currently have a vote system for surrendering, because 3 players shouldn't be able to determine if a game is a loss by 8m.

I think Gbay99 recently did a video the other day talking about when you should surrender, I wish he would have discussed how players created the "open mid" method to avoid surrender vote times.

AMYS GRAVEFeb 17, 20171 votes

Join them. If it was close then report them but if they are just gonna afk a ruined game then they've removed any hope of a comeback. If you were so behind 5v5 that they quit you're going to lose for sure 4v5. The real problem is with all the increased snowballing the lockout on ff till 20 is an outdated concept. Really should be 10 minutes these days if they aren't going to fix their pacing problems. 5 min ff for an afk for any reason, and 3 for the remake.

F O R F I T ZFeb 18, 20171 votes

I completely agree with you, season 2 veteran the old voting system is outdated it was designed for 35+ min games when Riot reduced game times down by 15 min it started this open mid method in korean slowly moving towards eu/na, Gbay99 made a video talking about how Riot wants to decrease surrender vote times by 5 min however Riot said it would require that 5 players agree.

I strongly believe in come backs, it happens at least 1/5 games I play, but its like you said if they are going to ruin a game its completely out of my control and I will just report them after game.