PSA: According to Riot, a teammate can in fact ban your hovered champ and it's not punishable.

I memba balance ·2/3/2019, 7:06:10 AM·9 votes·4,098 views

I had a teammate in a Normal Draft game ask if he/she could have my role of Jungle. I told them no. So they banned Lee Sin who I was hovering after they responded with a "fuck you then". I filed a Support Ticket and was told that the only punishable offense that I provided with my screenshots was the "fuck you then". So apparently if this player had just banned away my hovered champ and not said anything, it isn't punishable to grief your own teammates by banning their picks. I was told "all players are allowed to ban any champs that they don't want to play against OR with."

51 Comments

rujitra2/3/2019, 7:16:12 AM11 votes

Bans take pick over priority, so they have the right to ban whatever champion they want.

PH452/3/2019, 7:20:13 AM6 votes

For example if you are last picking and you hover a high priority champion and no one can pick it for you, I bet 99% of people would ban the champion instead of leaving it open for enemies to pick.

In your case however as it was done out of frustration you could just report it after game as negative attitude etc imo.

insomniacjezz2/3/2019, 7:12:45 AM6 votes

That’s correct, a player’s preferred bans trump another player’s desired pick, but only if it wasn’t done out of malice or to grief the picker. In your case, you could report the wannabe jungler via a support ticket.

Lauchmelder2/3/2019, 8:42:12 AM4 votes

Something not being punishable doesn't mean the player doing it is not a dick.

200220122/3/2019, 3:41:05 PM4 votes

Why would it be punishable? What, I can't ban a champion I don't wanna play with or against because someone hovered it? Do you not see how hoverers could easily take the champ select hostage?

If you're an insufferable prick, I'll ban your champion intentionally. There is no need to hover a champion, anyways. Deal with it.

Thats Karma2/3/2019, 9:27:15 AM2 votes

It's perfectly fine. Hell I've been intentionally banning my team out for years. Sometimes its better to have a player straight up INT and get punished cause he said he was gonna INT than have him pick Yasuo jungle and INT without being punished.

Slythion2/3/2019, 7:10:58 AM2 votes

can I get the screenshots of both what the champion select and of your full conversation with the riot employee please and thanks

edit: why on earth am I being downvoted lol

AJStarhiker2/3/2019, 5:11:26 PM2 votes

A while back, I had a guy who wanted my position. I refused, he banned my hover, so I picked a different champion. Someone else dodged and I found myself in queue with him again. I hovered my second choice, he banned that one and another player banned my initial pick (I have no idea if they were duo, or the player just hated my first pick). Someone else dodged, and I didn't see him again. Had there not been another dodge, I have no doubt he would have done the same thing in the next queue.

The guy apparently thought he could ban me out of the position, while I was sitting, laughing at him because I had too many champions for him to ban me out. I also suspect if it had been 3 queues with 3 different champions, that would be evidence of malice, since people don't tend to change their prefered bans that quickly.

The point is, it happens. Sometimes, it's malicious, but not always. If it is malicious, there's a good chance the player will shoot themself in the foot by saying something bannable and I'll report that.

Rolling SEvans2/3/2019, 4:48:20 PM2 votes

And your point is.....? Why should a player be forced to play with a champ they dont want to play with or against. For example, last season there was a time that I always banned Tryndamere cause I just didnt like them on my team or the other team. A couple times people on my team were hovering him but I just hated the playstyle so much that I still banned it. Draft is about strategy and setting up comps you prefer and think will do well. If a player believes the ban is worthy, it should be. Now you cant do it while telling someone off but if I just ban it you just have to be flexible. That's what champ select is about more often than not, flexibility and matchup knowledge.

TrulyBland2/4/2019, 10:01:13 PM1 votes

So apparently if this player had just banned away my hovered champ and not said anything, it isn't punishable to grief your own teammates by banning their picks.

Yes, in the same way that a crime that cannot be proven is unpunishable.

"all players are allowed to ban any champs that they don't want to play against OR with."

Not the first time I heard this, but I will say it's a weird statement to make when the system doesn't even actually allow this [under all circumstances]. If the enemy team doesn't have a champion you cannot ban it, no matter how much you don't want to play with it.

Lhuhz2/3/2019, 11:14:41 AM1 votes

Yes, I like that

Sukishoo2/3/2019, 4:36:07 PM1 votes

And that's why I choose not to show my pick. Never have these issues.

Plus I've banned various picks people wanted cause I didn't want it in the game, didn't notice they picked it, ect.