Banning Intended Picks: Griefing/Negative Attitude?
People are getting auto-filled to a lane they do not want to play or they are getting their secondary role and because the team isn't letting them have their way or switch lanes, they are purposely banning a team members intended pick. Banning any champion for any reason isn't reportable/bannable but maliciously banning someone's intended champ because a person didn't get their way should be considered griefing the team? Negative attitude?
The point of intended pick is so the champ has a higher percentage of not getting banned by your own team. It's actually in some cases, doing the total opposite. So the only way to combat this is to pick a decoy champ as intended pick so if it's banned, it wasn't a disservice to the team lol Either that or don't show who you are picking at all. The same is said for "Don't ban _____" more often than not, that champ WILL be banned because you said don't ban them. It all shows that no matter what RIot implements, some if not most of it's community is immature.
Now, of course my immediate reaction to all of this is "oh well, move on, pick another champ because that person is probably miserable in life so they come into online games to transfer that negative energy onto somebody else; misery loves company" but it is becoming more common in draft mode and it is becoming a persons go-to method of getting back at a team for not letting them have their way. This person is on a small scale, sabotaging champ select and on a metaphysical level, he or she is bringing down morale that is already fragile in a toxic game like this already. It's like the person is basically saying "I'm a 12 year old." Now the team has to prepare for the possibility that there is a cry baby on the team that has to be carried in-game.
I would much rather judge a person by their gameplay, but it is becoming more apparent that I have to judge them by their actions starting in champ select. It seems like no matter what, someone is going to force negative energy into the game whichever way they can. I just don't understand why people like this even log into a game in the first place to be honest. There are way better things they could be doing with their time - like getting their emotions in check and growing up.
Banning intended picks on purpose is up there with the people who will afk farm the entire game as to not get punished by LeaverBuster or because they didn't get the gank they wanted. It's up there with the people who last hit jungle buffs as you are trying to take them. The person who watches you die while they have full hp and mana because they are trying to get back at you for something they feel you did to them at another point in time.
It's almost to the point that actually trying to play the game and/or win the game isn't top priority. It's actually getting through champ select, laning phase, taking objectives, closing the game all while trying to give constructive advice without harboring toxicity, because 9/10 people feel backed into a wall when you tell them to do simple things like stop feeding, stop afking, ward, play safe, etc. It's not even about playing the game anymore. You spend more time having to mediate meaningless trivial things between strangers because fully grown adults act like babies.
Now, the only answer I see to this, is to premade. No it is not the solution to everything, but I am enjoying more games with friends or friends of friends than I am with strangers even if I am not engaging in toxicity or even typing back, strangers seem to be a lot more arrogant, ignorant and falsely entitled, all while probably throwing the game and being overall unknowledgeable about the games mechanics. (Premades aren't always better but they lower the probability of seeing certain toxic behavior(s)). The cost is of course Honor because premade honor is meh.
So even though there are many things that just simply aren't reportable/bannable, people are finding new ways to ride the fence on what they are able to get away with that is reportable in nature but not by law. This is just an analysis of the unnecessary but very prevalent conflict that happens when just simply trying to play one game of League of Legends Tanks.