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Trying to Make Sense of the Banning System

TheGeneral8·10/27/2018, 11:14:32 PM·2 votes·1,587 views

I just wanted to create this post in order to try and wrap my head around the Ban system in League. I, by no means, am a super competitive player. I'm only in silver for ranked, but i have been playing since the Beta. What has happened in Ranked league games...?

In my experience in the lower ranks and more recently my last 3 out of 4 ranked games, I have been on a team with someone who is out to ruin the game for everyone else. Griefers, Trolls, whatever you want to call them, just queue up for a game and then try and tilt one person or the entire team off the face of the earth. My last game for example, the Soraka said one thing in chat to our ADC, "you're going to lose, because you don't have a Support.". he then proceeded to say nothing the rest of the game and not once heal our ADC or JG. As Soraka, he split pushed all game, continually getting picked off and refused to team fight until late game when we had all but lost.

In the upper tiers of ranked, as shown in the Link from IwillDominate's YouTube channel, there seems to be a similar issue, with people throwing games and trying to tilt their teams, but with a purpose of boosting or win trading.

These two examples lead directly into my point, why aren't these people, the ones who seem intent on ruining the LOL game experience for everyone, not receiving a more severe penalty. I understand that racial or sexist or whatever kind of negative slurs your can come up with to call people, have no place anywhere, not in the real world and not in games. But how is it that the penalties for calling someone a name in chat are much more severe than trolls throwing or tilting and ruining the game experience for everyone else. I would like to think i have a thick skin, so maybe I just don't think this is as severe of a problem as throwing. If anything, why not make these both on the same level of punishment.

I love playing this game, and have done so since the Beta, but I am absolutely fed up, especially this season, with getting people who just want to throw a game and ruining my game experience. Why cant these people be monitored as closely as the people who spew toxic language. It has seemed like every other game, there is someone in the game, whether it's my team or the enemy team, out to tilt or throw. It sucks to win a game like that, and is even more tilting to have it on your team.

Again, I would just like to know your point of view on this, how the bans work and if you have any plans to improve the system to try and eliminate as much of this as possible.?

11 Comments

Imperial Pandaa10/28/2018, 1:10:12 AM5 votes

Well, technically the griefing is more so as it starts with a 14 day ban. Whereas chat usually starts with restrictions before reaching a ban.

Sarutobi10/28/2018, 2:13:11 AM3 votes

I wouldn't consider it more severe. You are confusing that with it being easier to catch. All they need to do with chat is look at the chatlogs and can determine if you use X-word.

But when it comes to trolling or other means. You need to be 100% sure, because that moment you ban innocent players is the moment you lose a lot more players! Sadly thing like this will be hard to catch and the people doing this will only make it harder once they know what Riot is looking.

This is why people need to only report when they know it's 100% that the person is trolling and not just having a bad game.

zPity10/27/2018, 11:41:46 PM2 votes

Players who "hold games hostage" should be punished brutally. Just my opinion.

Malzatittiez10/27/2018, 11:38:21 PM1 votes

truuuu, nothin pisses me off more than a whiny little baby refsuing to play the game correctly because they die to an obvious gank, or misplay in lane and blame others. RIOT do something for the love of all that is good and holy.

BanPorJugarSion10/31/2018, 3:14:07 PM1 votes

Who is downvoting this ? Stupid chinese booster %%%%s, they are in EU now in all ARAM matches calling people DOGS.

Faneseeker10/31/2018, 3:53:28 PM1 votes

I think it is harder to judge whether someone is inting, feeding, or just trolling suppose to toxic chats. Sometimes people just have bad games, and once they start to tilt they can't un-tilt. Toxic chat is 100% controllable, just don't type. You can bang your table, cuss at your wall, or smash your screen, whatever makes your boat float, but as long as you don't force your behaviour on other people via chat you are typically safe. I voted for the toxic chat because I assume it has a more defined matrix for the engine to pick up suppose to whether someone is throwing or just having a bad game..