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Riot Ban Policies

UMonky·5/2/2019, 9:37:17 PM·1 votes·3,171 views

Hi all, I just wanted to voice my concerns about Riots ban policies on here. Let me give you a little bit of backstory- I made the account UMonky around December 2018/January 2019. After I got to level 30 I became a little bit toxic in a game and was willing to take a chat restriction (I don't believe I said anything too bad) and instead of a chat restriction I went straight to a two week ban, which I thought was pretty ridiculous. Fast forward to mid April of 2019, and since the 2 week I had no prior run-ins with Riots rules, and something that happens when you play a game like this everyday, is you get a little toxic. So over the course of two games I get super tilted (but don't even feed) and say some things im not proud of including the N-word at some point. Knowing I fucked up I expected a pretty long chat restriction, because again I didn't feed, int, or troll at ALL, and next thing I know my account is permabanned. I feel like this is an abhorrent overreaction on Riots side, and I was wondering if anybody agreed.

TL;DR Got toxic once on a perfectly clean account with only 1 minor run in with Riot and got permabanned from it with no chat restrictions at all (no trolling, inting, or feeding took play on my end)

21 Comments

Kei1435/2/2019, 10:31:04 PM7 votes

It takes on average 3 months of playtime to drop 1 punishment tier. 14 day ban is tier3, so you might have dropped down to tier2 (which means your next punishment is a t3 punishment), but the use of Zero Tolerance phrases skips 2 tiers of punishment, which brings you over t4, which is permaban.

I'm more concerned about for your punishment, where you called it a minor incident when you used a Zero Tolerance phrase. It means you have no idea what got you punished and probably will use it again, and the same would happen.

zPOOPz5/2/2019, 10:28:49 PM6 votes

TL;DR Got toxic once on a perfectly clean account with only 1 minor run in with Riot and got permabanned from it with no chat restrictions at all (no trolling, inting, or feeding took play on my end)

It wasn't a "perfectly" clean account

I went straight to a two week ban

and it was not "1 minor" run in with Riot is it?

So over the course of two games I get super tilted (but don't even feed) and say some things im not proud of including the N-word at some point.

Isn't TL:DR supposed to be a summary of the entire text, not contradicting your body text.

GatekeeperTDS5/3/2019, 12:23:15 AM4 votes

I knew this was going to be "Rito ban policies are shit because they applied to me."

bluefire mark 25/2/2019, 10:54:05 PM1 votes

Agreed. From experience, from others, and statistics and logical reasoning, the system is too harsh and strict for a competitive game like league.

ModRowanstar5/3/2019, 2:14:08 PM1 votes

I notice you mentioned you said a racial slur. Those are zero tolerance which is why your punishment was much higher. Also a piece of advice: if you get titled in game have a soda with you that you can drink (that helps me when im upset) and maybe use humor. I understand people can be unfair in game.