Getting matched with players on your block list?

BulimicSpacePug·1/3/2018, 8:08:34 AM·2 votes·2,567 views

So I'm sitting in a Discord call with my friend and his roommate, and we're loading into a normal match. As I'm tabbed out, I hear my friend read the enemy ADC's name out loud, as it's a pun and he's probably amused. This would be great and all, except that the summoner name in question was that of a girl I went to school with. A girl who, after a year or two of her psychologically torturing me, convincing my (now ex-)friends that I'm the root of all evil and getting them to make a game of literally trying to get me to kill myself, and making mule account upon mule account on social media to stalk and harass me, I blocked on Leauge of Legends. Judging from what our mutuals have said, she also has me blocked.

I freak the fuck out and tell my friend I need to dodge. He realizes what's going on and consults his roommate, but by then, we've loaded in. So we play the game, I'm completely fucking out of it, the girl from school gets fed, and we lose. Cue the drama and shit talking and backstabbing and threats over three different Discord servers for the next fucking hour. Shit's still going now and someone just made an actual death threat over this nonsense.

I get that blocking could be abused in ranked, especially in higher elo, but is it _really _ that unreasonable for one to not want to end up in a game with someone they blocked? At least in norms? If someone is toxic—in real life or just in game—or feeding or has a history of AFKing or whatever, then of course people don't want to end up in a match with them. And if it's a mutal block, too, then clearly, it's not just someone blocking a player for being too good and not wanting to play against them. Is there really no way this could be fixed?

11 Comments

EL HAMSTERO1/3/2018, 10:35:17 AM2 votes

no one is going to believe you randomly got matched with that girl. do you know how many people play league? you didn't get randomly matched to play with someone at your school and you never will.

Arammus1/3/2018, 10:12:07 AM1 votes

i'll just answer your title question cause the thread is too long and i dont have much time now: overwatch made it so that you dont get matched with blocked players. a very skilled streamer thus had q's taking over 1h cause almost everyone blocked him. so yea.

GalacticBears3/21/2018, 11:57:21 PM1 votes

Matchmaking has been and is flawed. This slipping through the cracks while frustrating and wrong, is not surprising. I'm sorry you've had to deal with this awful person.

Sir Prepuzius5/23/2018, 12:38:10 PM1 votes

A girl who, after a year or two of her psychologically torturing me, convincing my (now ex-)friends that I'm the root of all evil and getting them to make a game of literally trying to get me to kill myself

maybe i lack imagination but i just can't see how a thing like this is possible

ModPeriscope2/9/2020, 6:07:54 PM1 votes

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