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Penalties are not harsh enough for griefing

h4344·7/7/2019, 2:18:21 AM·2 votes·2,607 views

Everyone's probably tired of reading these but I gotta do it.

So I don't know what its like in higher ranks, but in bronze I find myself constantly being frustrated by players who have zero intention of playing the game and are just there to grief. Nothing is more annoying in a game mode that's supposed to have a competitive element than some random edge lord joining EITHER team and they just run down mid all day because they wanna throw a "Pity Me" party.

This has NOTHING to do with performance, I would rather have my whole team off meta and go 0/30 than get matched with one of these people. Otherwise, whats the point of ranked? If I have to stay in Bronze for the rest of my life because i'm not good enough for silver, so be it, but with how many griefers are running around its getting to the point I don't even wanna play, and this game is pretty fun so its my last option.

The reason I bring up other ranks is because this has not only happened once or twice, its consistently the case where in the lobby i'm praying the first thing out of my teammates keyboard isn't "Trying to reach Iron 4" then they proceed to ban a teammates selected champ.

I can totally understand this is probably a difficult thing for Riot to have to deal with, but you have your lower ranked players who are PISSED because they cant even go to the competitive game mode of their favorite game and have it be competitive, in Diamond I imagine players hope for a good teammate, in Bronze, you just hope for ANY teammate who will play the game.

TL;DR - Dodging isn't a long term solution to griefing.

14 Comments

Imperial Pandaa7/7/2019, 2:44:51 AM6 votes

The issie isn't that penalties for griefing aren't harsh enough, it is the difficulty of issuing said punishments with hitting too many innocent players too.

mack91127/7/2019, 3:03:57 AM2 votes

Your definition of griefing is probably flawed

Telephone Booth7/10/2019, 2:34:07 AM1 votes

You cant rely on strangers to treat the game with the same seriousness and competiveness as you. The real solution, is to stop playing on teams with completely anonymous strangers, especially in iron-bronze. You may literally be playing with 8 year olds.

You should start adding tons of people. Every person who doesnt troll. Start playing with people you're pretty sure arent going to grief. You dont have to become friends with them and "click" with their personalities.

Like you said, you see how difficult it must be for Riot to moderate. So try other ways to alleviate it. Find non-trolls and after a while you'll always have a few people to team up with. I never play this game solo for the reasons youre talking about. I play with a few people i know arent going to troll me, and now I very rarely see trolls in my Elo (silver).