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should this be punished?

miightofdemacia·4/24/2019, 7:18:19 AM·1 votes·2,411 views

Just played a game where this new player was running it down and feeding all game. Not sure if it was intentionally trolling or the player was new since they were only level 15, but if a player is running it down in pvp(both ranked and unranked games) regardless of intentional or not, do you think it should be punished?

I personally think, riot should punish or at least give that player a notification to let them know that when they die needlessly and constantly, it is making it hard for their teammates to win and ruins games even for the opposing team. The feeding player is not going to know that their running it down is ruining games and will end up building bad habits of constantly running it down if no one tells them.

But if you tell them in game, usually people and the system says you are toxic. So do you tell them to stop feeding? What if they don't even read chat or ignore it? Again, I feel that they should at the very least get a notification if not punishment so they can realize they are doing something bad and should stop even if not intentional. I just had a horrible game where this player ran down every lane auto attacking minions and not even running when the enemy attacked them despite being 0/8/0 and I think something should be done when these things happen even if it was unintentional.

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Neekoo Neeko Nee4/24/2019, 11:16:28 PM1 votes

I knew someone who was brand new to the game, and I mean completely brand new - didnt even know how to buy items. Only bought health pots. They were playing PVP blind pick games and were being matched against smurfs, and dying over and over again. Eventually, they were reported and banned for intentional feeding, and they were utterly distraught and anguished that they'd been punished when they were simply playing the game. They didn't even know what feeding MEANT.

It's a tricky situation, because while intentional feeding should most certainly be punsihed, unintentional feeding shouldn't be. Perhaps Riot should make it so you HAVE to complete the tutorial before entering pvp matches, and recommending new players to practice against bots before heading into blind pick.