Riot, can you do something about the "boosted" harassment in normal games?

SIayton··1 votes·1,073 views

I was D5 last season and currently Plat 2 for this season but whenever I play ranked it matches me with Silvers. Which wouldn't be bad if I didn't get singled out EVERY game for having a Diamond border. The past two games I've been harassed right out the gate, literally before the first minute mark I was being called boosted by the people on my team without even having a chance to prove my skill. This also causes the enemy team to camp your lane after you get lolkinged and is generally a really toxic experience.

So, "boosted" and other general harassment really should be a more heavily enforced verbal harassment punishment. It would also be nice if normals elo reflected the ranked skill of the player a little more. I'm not even asking for an exact 1 for 1 but why is a S5 diamond getting matched with silvers every game? It makes normals a really unfun experience overall.

10 Comments

AeroWaffle2 votes

Why should it be more heavily enforced? What makes it so much more worse than being told "uninstall" or "you really suck"? Just report them and move on.

SIayton1 votes

I'm not saying treat it that much worse, I just don't think it gets punished at all. Never gotten an " a person you've reported has been punished" notification when reporting it. I'm just saying put it up there with all the other verbal abuse / hate speech stuff. Especially since it's so common place atm, would be nice to curb the trend. Literally can't play a normal game without being harassed.

AeroWaffle1 votes

From what I understand, that little notification would only pop up if your report specifically triggered the ban.

For example;

Player A is reported for various bad behavior over 10 games. After the 10th game they got punished. The people who reported them on the 10th game would get the notification, but not the other people that reported them in the other games.

grug1 votes

harass them back and do it hard.

Fizpocalypse1 votes

Did u get boosted? no? Ignore and move on its really REALLY that simple

SIayton1 votes

wanting to not be harassed while I play the game is pretty normal I think though. Would be nice to not have to mute everyone in normals lol

Surr20plz1 votes

Boosted

Awkward Couch1 votes

For whatever fucking reason, your MMR in normals is different from your MMR in ranked (which I don't understand). So that coupled with the fact that the higher ELO you go the less people play normals means you're going to get matched with lower rank people. I'm Silver myself (I've only played about 30 games of ranked this season but I'm trash at this game) and I've gone up against plat + players in normals, and it just ruins the experience for everyone.

On an unrelated note, why do you take thunderlords on Arelion Sol? I've taken Deathfire Touch.

SIayton1 votes

I feel like he needs help in his laning phase more than late game and deathfire touch has reduced effect on AOE abilities, much better on champions like Vlad with single target spells.

I've seen people run stormraiders surge which I guess makes sense but I usually run movespeed runes on him since positioning is everything for him. If you don't wanna run move speed runes I'd probably go stormraiders instead.

Plus star > auto > star is a really easy proc.

Awkward Couch1 votes

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I feel like he needs help in his laning phase more than late game and deathfire touch has reduced effect on AOE abilities, much better on champions like Vlad with single target spells.

I've seen people run stormraiders surge which I guess makes sense but I usually run movespeed runes on him since positioning is everything for him. If you don't wanna run move speed runes I'd probably go stormraiders instead.

Plus star > auto > star is a really easy proc.

Interesting, thanks for the reply man!

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