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What if someone threatens to report you?

Xelnex··2 votes·584 views

I am new to the game, but i prolly know how to play. I am not a noob, nor a pro either, and i searched for a topic covering this, but couldn't find one, so i apologize if this was already replied somewhere.

My question is, what if someone threatens to report you for no reason, (or lets say bad decision). Would i get banned? When you play, you have two options, to win or to lose, either of those two. There may be bad plays, bad decisions and afks that might decide the end game result, but you can either win or lose.

For an example, i was the jg in a game, and i know that most of the time, jg gets all the blame for not ganking/helping, i was busy taking blue and the mid laner got killed by an assassin (which takes about less than 10 seconds to kill and not enough time to reach and chase the opponent). What happened next? i couldnt gank, i dont have super speed rockets attached to my champs to get anywhere (i was playing Warwick). Warding should not be my only job besides i can ward 3 times not 30. Game went down hill from there, he threatened me that he will report me, and prolly did, we lost the game, i didnt get a ban but prolly will soon . (this happened a few hours ago)

The very next game, i was the support. What's a role of a support? First is to protect your adc, second is to poke others and denying them from farming, i would think i did a good job getting my adc to 6/0/0 score , and me 0/0/7 (+1 for helping the jg take kill). I asked the adc to go back and go take some weps, because thats what you normally should do after you get 6 kills and 1 and 1/2 tower (the second tower was half its health). why would i ask to buy weps? because the more weps you buy the more chance you will survive, plus its wise not to let them get fed, pretty much common sense. He didnt buy, got ganked and got killed. (obviously if the bot towers are the only ones taken and ur deep into their area you will get ganked.) So far its all good. Then i suggested something, and he replied that "do i need to listen to you? look at my score", to which i replied "yeah no need to listen to your support when he saved you multiple times" .. plain sarcasm, i get it, but he replied, "yeah i dont need your help, you suck anyway" plus other mean stuffs, etc, and feeded (not intentionally tho, but without support and cc you cant get that far". Game ended in a defeat again, and i was prolly reported, when i was being nice first, and i had a sportsmanship behavior. I wont call him toxic, this was a mild issue but he prolly reported me.

In future i am guessing ill get more reports for no reason, is there any way to stop this? i mean i could remain silent the entire game and carry the game with 30 kills and 5 deaths (as a carry) and still get reported because someone in either team didnt just like me, or just wanted to ruin my day. If i get banned, ill honestly be sad, but what can i do? Stop playing? i mean if i get reported either way (if i play good or bad) what would be the point of playing and getting champs and ips?

i am pretty much sure i got reported as sona because my score was 10/5/26 and my adc was 9/something/12 (even when we won the round). Okay i get it support should never get kills but i cant allow them with 10 health to go past me . . . (when i am alone).

13 Comments

Deep Terror Nami5 votes

I can answer the primary question;

No, false reports won't hurt you. The system is designed to toss them out, and those people will lose weight in their future reports.

Threatening to report, or asking to mass report a player, is a punishable offense though. If they do that, just ignore them and report it. If you've done nothing wrong then you're going to be fine.

Xelnex2 votes

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I can answer the primary question;

No, false reports won't hurt you. The system is designed to toss them out, and those people will lose weight in their future reports.

Threatening to report, or asking to mass report a player, is a punishable offense though. If they do that, just ignore them and report it. If you've done nothing wrong then you're going to be fine.

But i heard that the banning system is automated, and when you get a certain number of reports you get banned automatically by the bots (same as leaver buster system). And they (the riot peoples) only check logs before a perma ban.

Also thank you for replying, that was fast.

Deep Terror Nami6 votes

The system is automated, but it's good at its job (contrary to what toxic players would have you believe). The system will review your case once you've been reported in too high percent or number of matches, but it's able to determine with a very high rate of accuracy when a report is false; if it doesn't find enough toxic matches it won't punish you.

As for Riot manually reviewing your case before a permaban, the Instant Feedback system will still issue a permaban without it. Though, as I mentioned, it is very accurate so you don't have to worry about it if you aren't consistently or extremely toxic.

There are 4 steps to the punishment system;

  • 10 game chat restriction
  • 25 game chat restriction
  • 14 day account ban
  • Permanent account ban

It typically goes in order for consistent toxicity, but extreme behavior such as hate speech or death threats may result in skipping multiple steps for even one offense. It takes 3 months for your punishment tier to drop 1 step.

Xelnex1 votes

That would explain a lot, thank you. But i have another question, at what stage my honors are taken away?
I have a friend, who got banned (i think it was a 14 day ban) and she lost all her honors. Do i get my honors removed at stage 1 or stage 3 (i.e 14 days)?

And lets say (its just an example), i am being extremely toxic, and i do get a 14 day ban.
I wait 14 days, and around 9-12 months, completely silent, and after that i start being toxic again, (not extreme threats), in that case, i would get 10 chat restrictions again, and not a perma ban, correct? (just to clarify).

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

You'll lose your Honor ribbons for any stage of punishment.

For the punishment tier degrading, that's correct; 3 months after a 14 day ban your next punishment will be a 14 day ban again, 6 months it'll be a 25 game chat restriction, and 9 months without getting punished you'll be back to getting the initial 10 chat for your next punishment.

AJStarhiker3 votes

Honor is removed if you receive any behavoral punishment (one in which the notice/email mentions Tribunal, an audit of your chat logs, or mentions trolling behavior such as intentional feeding), so a 10-day chat restriciton would reset your honor count to 0,

As far as the time, yes, it's roughly 3 months of regular play without further punishments to drop 1 tier.

And as an FYI: The "You've been reported" popups are not considered part of the punishment tiers. They simple provide a heads up if you've gotten a spike in reports against you. However, if you find you are regularly seeing the warnings, you might want to check your behavior against what is generally considered acceptable.

Xelnex1 votes

Thank you, so if i don't see that kind of warnings i should feel safe right? i got too worried after those matches that i thought to make a thread about it, and haven't played a game since.

Erdrik1 votes

As far as I know the warnings are only for a sudden spike of reports in a relatively short period of time as compared to what you normally receive. Not getting a pop up does not mean your not getting reported. Otherwise there would probably be a whole lot of spam from false reports.

AJStarhiker1 votes

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Thank you, so if i don't see that kind of warnings i should feel safe right? i got too worried after those matches that i thought to make a thread about it, and haven't played a game since.

Pretty much. Everyone gets reported at some point or other, but unless the number of recent reports is unusually high, either for your normal rate or against the community average (I think it's a combination, because some people seem to get them more regularly than others), you won't see the warnings.

It's not a bad thing to take a break after a warning, but it's also not necessarily a precursor to getting punished.

DunkelDark2 votes

Someone who reports you for how you play (jungling, taking the kills as a support, etc.) has no valid reason to report you if you're not straight up intentionally running to the enemy to give them free kills all the time. From then on you're safe provided you don't flame them back, the reports will be deemed false alarms.

Xelnex2 votes

Thank you. :)

Xelnex1 votes

Also this is the first time i am ever posting in the forum, its like i said, i am new, and i am sorry if this is in the wrong board too.

Phenyxs1 votes

How do you know if you have been reported or how many reports are in your history?

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