Do intentional feeders actually get banned?

True Godhand·Sep 5, 2016·3 votes·2,011 views

Or is Riot just trying to make us all feel better w/ a report option for intentional feeding? I had a Vayne/Fiddlesticks bot who in all honesty ran down bot and fed at least 7 kills before the 5 minute mark. They continued to do this for the rest of our short-lived game. When I asked them to stop feeding, they told me that "It's just a game, don't take it so seriously". Mind you this was ranked. If I want to have fun, I play norms. When I asked the Vayne why he fed intentionally, all he said was that he liked to troll on his "smurf" account for fun (he had 900+ games in low gold/silver elo).

So I asked myself, if this guy has trolled several games like this before, how come the reports haven't done anything? Does Riot really not take intentional feeders as seriously as toxic people? And why doesn't this sort of behavior warrant a permaban?

12 Comments

ZUltimateWarriorSep 5, 20167 votes

Rito Logic my friend , they ban toxic people (people who chat alot in game ) and leave those trashes ro ruin people`s game

ModWulf HelhammerSep 5, 20164 votes

Yes. The reason you never see anyone post about it is because they know what they did wrong.

However, it is much harder to track and definitively prove that someone is actually doing it (and not just having a bad game). They have to establish a well defined pattern in order for Riotnto finally punish them, so as to make sure they don't punish someone innocent.

For chat based punishments, they have empirical evidence that what the player did was wrong, so they can set up a system to check for that

WolfChasesSep 5, 20162 votes

Exactly ^

Its really hard to make a difference between a bad game and intentional feeding unless someone says that he is trolling.

If you check my match history, you will notice that I either have good KDA or equall with other members of the game and than BAM that Draven 1/10/5 game when I had troll Illaoi support who dived them sonstantly since level 1. Everyone in enemy team was fed and i could either afk and not die or play and die a lot, so, if someone reported me for intentional feeding i could get punished for nothing. Not to mention that I got a 1st blood that game but enemy Jinx killed Illaoi under their turret 4 times till 10 min mark lol...

True GodhandSep 5, 20161 votes

But the thing is that this guy has almost 1,000 games, and he told me that he enjoys trolling. So I assumed that he must have racked up quite a number of reports for intentional feeding or unsportsmanlike conduct. I've read some other posts saying that Riot has a way to track your mouse movements/spell usage timings, so I'm wondering if that's false.

I realize that it may be hard to track, but I don't think that gives Riot an excuse to not be able to deal with trolls who ruin games like this.

ZombiemasterSep 5, 20161 votes

If a player says that they enjoy trolling, it may seem reasonable to assume that they done this a lot and have received a lot of reports, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the assumption is correct. I mean, they very well could troll in a lot of games, but if we are only in a single game with them, it can be difficult to know for sure.

I do agree that something being hard isn't much of an excuse for Riot not to deal with intentional feeders, but they do actually deal with them, it's just not as easy to see as players who are punished for toxic chat. I don't know what exactly Riot's methods are, but I have seen some forum posts about players getting banned for intentionally feeding.

As others have said, intentional feeding can be quite hard to detect and definitively prove as it can easily look like someone having a bad game. Not wanting to punish any innocent players for having a bad game or two, Riot wants to be absolutely sure that someone is indeed intentionally feeding before they issue a punishment. Unfortunately, this does mean that someone could very well intentionally feed for a while before being caught.

S0kaXSep 5, 20162 votes

Of course they don't.

CystSep 5, 20162 votes

It isn't that they don't want to it is that it is impossible to detect and not get people that shouldn't be banned false banned.

Blast DeadliftSep 5, 20162 votes

Nope

78750242DEL1Sep 5, 20162 votes

I think Riot don't punish them. I've seen some int people who only get restricted or banned because they're toxic in chat.

67981646_DELSep 5, 20162 votes

They don't. You can intentionally feed or AFK every other game and the worst you'll get is LPQ.

Feelsbad, because I'm losing games because of teammates that run down lane, die 5 times then AFK with no words typed.

CystSep 5, 20161 votes

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Or is Riot just trying to make us all feel better w/ a report option

There has been two cases of intentional feeder getting banned I have seen on forum.

To your other question that is what ALL reports are and that is what THIS part of forum is all about.

I reported person that sat all game "F you N" , "F you F" ect ect. Reported them they got 14 day ban. (how I know? They came to this section crying)

I played with a team that ran down straight to tower suiciding four man premade. No assists, no kills just ran all game.

Day later saw one of them, week later another.

There is somethings riot doesn't ban for.

AquaCura FawkesOct 25, 20171 votes

I think they generally track where and how you died also having a very very high amount of deaths is also needed. I just recently saw a post where a person was banned for going 0/14 where most of his deaths were by jungle camps and he was the support. Though it is hard to track and Im fairly sure if someone just keeps running into a champ to be killed while never saying anything they will never receive a punishment. (sorry if this is to late to post btw)