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Instalocking Truth

Secrios··1 votes·1,562 views

We all hate instalocking... but what is worse is an argument on who is the real instalocker.

There is a horrible chat bug going around where in Normal Blind, if you connect after another person, you can't see their messages. So imagine if you will you wanted to be jungle. You type JG. Some Shaco main comes along and says JG after and claims to be first after. The rest of the chat is literally arguments on who is the real Jungler.

So far the only remedy is to copy and paste chat, but even then any smart guy can type in between his paste to forge a fake first chat. That or type slower in the hopes of everyone seeing your chat without being beaten.

Honestly Riot, if you care so much about reducing toxicity, why don't you change the chat programming so anyone who joins chat can see the chat history to know who real is the first to a role. It will make matches more consistent and reduce the unwanted tilt that breaks games and gets people banned.

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Kei1433 votes

There's no hard rule around blind pick. People are free to go anywhere they please, this includes double top or even double jg.

If you want lane assignments, play a draft pick mode.

Secrios1 votes

It's an unwritten rule that a lot of people seem to hold by. As for draft you run the risk of the system off specing you or getting your champ banned. Not to mention that this is a very small ask. A few lines of code for ease of use.

Kei1433 votes

It's common courtesy to abide by it, but you can rage all you want if someone doesn't respect it and nothing will happen for them.

If that Shaco main wanted to go jg, they'll go jg regardless if the call was made.

Secrios1 votes

But he wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Kei1431 votes

What leg?

There are no legs in blind pick. The system doesn't care where he goes. There's no behavioral consequences even if he goes double jungle.

DrCyanide1 votes

So far the only remedy is to copy and paste chat, but even then any smart guy can type in between his paste to forge a fake first chat. That or type slower in the hopes of everyone seeing your chat without being beaten.

There is another way - a 3rd player mediates, and both players respect their call.

Secrios1 votes

Funny story. One time that happened and the 3rd party players said I was rightfully jungle and the other guy called us all premades and locked in.

DrCyanide1 votes

Which means there was a problem with "both players respect their call." He could have asked the others if they saw the same.

There will always be some players that don't care and will do whatever they want, but that's true regardless of queue.

Secrios1 votes

You can't say there's a "premade" bias with factual data from the chat logs instead.

Xion The XIV1 votes

Why would you play blind pick? It is the most toxic mode in the entire game, because you are constantly with smurf accounts that are leveling up after being banned on mains. If you are playing on a new account or a friend is new and you are duoing or grouping with them play bots until draft. Don't even bother with blind. Will help in the long run, because it will stop them from getting bad habits.

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