Ranked-only bans really need to become a thing

Yenn··9 votes·923 views

Getting really sick of constantly encountering this behavior in ranked.

We were winning this game and Ekko was threatening to AFK if I didn't give him blue, and Nasus got mad at Jinx for going top after taking bottom tower and said he 'was done,' then intentionally fed by running it down top lane twice.

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There really needs to be a crack down on anti-competitive behavior in ranked games. These players should either be banned from ranked for a significant amount of time or not receive rewards, because the number of players who behave like this is getting out of control.

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Bronze 6 Yasuo6 votes

Sounds like your average bronze game

ThisDaThePolice4 votes

I don't see the reason for ranked only bans, if they're gonna get banned from ranked, won't they just do the same thing in normals?

Wolfenstin1 votes

Seriously, I don't want these assholes coming to normals to screw with us unranked folk. I know some competitive players think we're below them, but we don't want your trash.

Get em' out of the game entirely.

Ren Amari2 votes

No the ability for reporting people for doing bad in ranked games then banning them from ranked games until they win a set amount of normal draft games needs to become a thing.

ThisDaThePolice1 votes

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No the ability for reporting people for doing bad in ranked games then banning them from ranked games until they win a set amount of normal draft games needs to become a thing.

I think Riot just needs to raise the bar for ranked a bit higher. Maybe like mastery 5 on three champions. Banning them might even just discourage them from playing, as they would literally be told that they are bad from the company of the game itself.

Ren Amari2 votes

How about we just stop pushing to level winrates at 50% in the game. And just put people from a specific elo all against eachother. So that every time i get a 70-90% winrate on a new account, i don't have to say .... OH GUESS WHAT HERES HIGH GOLD. Time to get trolled to a 50% winrate because well.. thats how matchmaking works

TrulyBland2 votes

That's now how matchmaking works, it's how maths work. You can't have fair matches without winrates eventually becoming 50%. You're not being pushed to 50%. The law of big number simply makes all prior wins negligible once your MMR reflects your skill.

Let me elaborate with an example:

Let's say you win 10 games straight without losing a single one. You miraculously end up with precisely your "true" MMR after this. Winrate so far: 10/10 = 100%

Now that your MMR accurately reflects your skill, all of your matches are fair, which means they have a 50% chance to go either way. You play another 100 games; 50 wins, 50 losses (for accuracy I actually ran a program for coinflips... literally ended up 50/50). Now your winrate is 60/110 = 54.5%

In this hypothetical scenario you were not actively pushed towards 50%, you simply played ten times more fair matches than the initial ones where you were (likely) the most skilled player in the game every single time.

Edit: More mathematically and general, for those who are interested

You play n games, with w wins before you reach your "true" MMR and thus fair matches. Then you play N more games.

After n games, your winrate is precisely w/n. Of the N games after that, you are expected to win half (since they are fair matches). So after the entire N+n games your winrate can be expected to be (w+N/2) / (n+N)

= w / (n+N) + (N/2) / (n+N) = w / (n+N) + 1/2 * N / (n+N) = w / (n+N) + 1/2 * (N + n - n) / (n+N) = w / (n+N) - 1/2 * n / (n+N) + 1/2 * (N + n) / (N+n) = (w - n/2) / (n+N) + 1/2

As N approaches infinity, the left term approaches zero (since the numerator w - n/2 is finite), leaving us with the limit of 1/2 = 50%. It's inevitable. You will end up with about 50% winrate the longer you play, without anybody rigging the matches against you.

e46 Fanatic1 votes

18 cs 13 minutes in, that's rough bro, jk but yeah it'll be a while before they make changes to their ways of monitoring just to suit ranked gameplay only, might as well forget it pimp

Vyr Thirku1 votes

Ranked puts a lot of pressure on people. Some people can't handle it and buckle, becoming toxic. If you bar them from the pressure, you force them to realize what they were doing was wrong and give them a safer, less destructive environment to practise it. Sure, people troll in normals too, but at least it doesn't consume 4 other people's LP and ranked MMR. And personal experience? If you troll in a normals you are 5x as likely to get banned as you are in ranked, seeing as most people who play ranked will say 'kys' and do an empty report for one thing then rush back into queue. Normals, though? Those people will write paragraphs in that report box. Report you for everything you can even conceivably be reported for that game. Get their friends to do it, too. Maybe even silver-tongue the enemy team into reporting you as well. Normals is for fun, and if you ruin that fun they will ruin your life.

Draft players go hard in the paint, man.

Yenn1 votes

Just had this exact same shit for the 5th time in two days. Can someone at Riot please let us know what is being done to fix this problem?

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