Can people that afk often get permanently banned?

Elajdza·3/30/2017, 3:14:40 PM·3 votes·19,164 views

So earlier today, i played a game where we were winning pretty hard, until Alistar decided to afk in base, and then minutes later quit the game all together. We ended up losing because of this, and it pissed me off, to the point where i wrote an essay on the report screen after the game xd My question is, do people that do this get permanently banned like toxic players? Because, unlike toxic players, where you can mute them, you cant really reconnect someone to the game.

19 Comments

Kei1433/30/2017, 3:22:24 PM2 votes

i've seen punishments handed for people whom AFK. typically as a 14-day ban and through manual review.

Taliyah Rocks3/30/2017, 3:30:11 PM1 votes

I'm guessing punishment is only given to frequent afkers.

We can't really punish people for going afk when there are outside reasons that might force someone to do so. Sure it sucks for their teammates (and themselves), but shit happens to everyone and you can't control that. There are also connection issues.

Now if that person goes AFK as an habit whenever a game goes sour... yeah that would eventually get punished.

CrazyBear19873/30/2017, 3:30:13 PM1 votes

They get a leavebuster penalty 5/15/30 mins queue disabled.

I'm not sure if anyone ever got permanently banned for doing it too much tho.

BlueThingamajig3/30/2017, 3:46:37 PM1 votes

I can offer two answers. The answer you are probably looking for: I think Riot will occasionally sweep serial leaver accounts for further punishment. This can include 14-day bans, and possibly permanent bans, although I cannot say I have ever seen one. More likely, someone who deliberately leaves that many games is probably also guilty of other actions against teammates.

The technical answer: Yes. Leaving games does not preclude someone from receiving a permanent ban. You cannot prevent permanent bans by going afk.

FKU Yasuo 4EVER7/18/2017, 5:54:22 AM1 votes

Hey, Riot. I enjoy playing your game, But Here is a thing. My house's Wifi or stuff is not good. I always lag. MY ping is always 80+. When i played Draft pick. I cant log in my champ lol. Like you guys should think about this. Sometimes we can't control the situation suddenly come up to us. So we have to close our game. And when we come back we got punish lol. This game supposed to make us have fun, not making us crazy. And also. There is some really stupid player that is salty. After you told them to stop feeding or whatever. They will just calling you names and stuff and say report u. oh yea, the CHAT BAN. There is two players reported me and made me chat banned. And after i look back at the message Riot send me. I SAID NOTHING WRONG. All i said is stop feeding pls play safe. And they keep on calling me Trashuo Yasuo so many bad word bad stuff. Ok i am fien with that. I didnt report any of them. And after that game. I saw i got Chat Banned. Woah Riot. Those are just my feelings. item 3151

MOOOD1/4/2018, 2:48:32 AM1 votes

i got freaking banned cause i left one time and afk one time and i got fucking banned from the game i cant play anymore

DreZzBElneml1/31/2018, 4:32:08 PM1 votes

I think riot Will not do that only low priority queue. Why? Because Riot knows that there are players who can't do anything about that, like PC Crash, LoL Crash, etc.

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Salty Guy Mike3/22/2018, 8:15:11 AM

Idc what your excuses are but for me ppl who are afk in ranked games after the time for remake should be banned first for 14 days for playing ranked next for perm. Game without 5th player is just disaster and not enjoyable and I played a lot of these games, so on I get angry every time when free win was destroyed by someone who's mom turned computer off.