Can a player refusing to use their ban/intentionally banning a teammates champion (which nearly always results in a dodge and a poor experience for **everyone **who had to wait to get into that game) would either of these count as trolling, or failing to communicate with their team???
Players are allowed to ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want - even if this is a champion a teammate has hovered or if they wish to ban no champion at all.
“Failing to communicate with team” is not a punishable offense on its own.
Refusing to communicate is not a reportal option. If someone doesn't want to use his ban, so what?
I would be mad at the player dodging for only playing one champion in a game with 10 bans and over 100 champions. Why can't they just play someone else? What is this shit about banning intent picks being a problem? Play someone else! Jesus. Babies.
If Riot added that, we'd have trolls who'd hold you hostage by hovering something like Katarina support unless you ban it, which the trolls would promptly report you for.
It really depends on the situation, for example in one of my teammates wants vayne but he is last pick and nobody can take him vayne i might ban her intentionally to avoid the enemy team picking her.
Choosing to not use your ban is a perfectly reasonable choice, it is your ban after all, and if you don't mind playing against any champion in the game then you have every right not to ban any of them.
Banning teammates' champions is more tricky. If you're doing it to illicit a negative response from them, then it is absolutely be considered trolling and punishable. But if they do it without discussing it is more grey-area, and might fall under refusing to communicate.
And if they did it with a reasonable explanation then it is definitely not punishable. Example of a reasonable explanation, "You're late in the pick order and that champ is OP I don't want to play against it when the enemy team inevitably would have picked it before you could."
If I absolutely under no circumstances want to play vs X, and my last pick teammate hovers X, I'd still ban X.
