Let 80% Vote Abort During Champ Select
Let a vote of 4/5ths abort a match in champ select.
How many times have you had your League experience ruined by a player in champ select:
- Seriously announcing that they are, specifically and intentionally, going to troll. Not just an honest mistake like jungling an adc, but they're going "AP tryndamere with all mana runes, ha, eff all y'all!" and they're serious, or
- Entering chat by pasting a racist or obscene comment dozens of times the moment the team is formed, which indeed foreshadows his behavior for the whole match, or
- Instalocking a champ that is not their valid position (new champ select, or they are the last to try to call mid), or
- Demand everyone else comply with their ultra-narrow meta "WTF mid take Ignite you n00b! gg!!!!", or
- "Top or feed!!!"
I understand that we can't have people just reporting each other willy-nilly for mild nonsense, like the busybody reporting mid for not taking ignite, or the moment someone says something mean. But we need SOME way of nipping an overwhelmingly bad teammate in the bud, other than actually becoming the badguy who is punished for skipping queue to save nine people from 20 wasted minutes with the immediately-toxic player.
For example, let a majority vote on one team dissolve their team. No harm, no foul.
Or if ALL FOUR (or perhaps three) try to report the same player, let it stick. I think 80% of a pickup team reporting someone should at least automatically dissolve the match with no penalty to the voters, and perhaps a log review to see if the reportee should be punished.
And it could have reasonable limitations, like excluding four-man premades, who we all know will side with a toxic pal over his victim.
This not only would save nine people from some of the very WORST league experiences, but also would serve as a deterrent in general, as players who know this is an option would be less likely to act up in the first place, or to stop when warned by their teammates.
The current system gives trolls a feeling of being able to hold the entire team hostage or force a skip, a sense of power that just encourages spoiled children and pathological personalities to abuse that advantage.
ANY means of halting blatant misbehavior in champ select would be better than none.
is really not a top laner in my view but bronze players will disagree, in some cases sure, but not all the time when not going specifically to counter someone., **
from me bro. Maybe an idea to combat the root of the problem is for the report option be made available in champ select and in game as well. That also has its' faults, but you get the jist. Getting rid of the toxicity altogether should be the main goal at hand- not just playing a game of hot potato to see who's the unlucky bunch to get stuck with a troll.