Wondering if the "dude I'm lagging lol" griefers ever get punished

ryona·Feb 5, 2018·1 votes·347 views

I would say the worst type of griefing bitch of them all that seems to skip by are the ones that will spam their high ping constantly, intentionally feeding, and laughingly exclaim to you they are lagging. They tend to also claim they will "reset" and come back five minutes later or not at all or go back and forth disconnecting and reconnecting.

I'm wondering if you report these people, despite their claims in chat to try to avoid punishment, will they be punished?

9 Comments

Jo0oFeb 5, 20182 votes

How would you prefer somebody handle their lag?

SparklingLamaFeb 5, 20181 votes

By testing their connection. Not hard. Also if you are prone to lag best advice in probably not to play if its just going to ruin the game for others. Most people also don't upgrade their internet past 3 MB/s

Jo0oFeb 5, 20182 votes

None of which is a sure thing.

It sucks when your teammate is useless due to lag, but nobody has perfect internet 100% of the time. At least, not where I live. Lag happens, and it happens unexpectedly and unfairly. People are going to experience it, and they're going to suck because of it.

SparklingLamaFeb 5, 20181 votes

Difference between it just happening randomly or knowing that its going to happen when you play. One in preventable.

Jo0oFeb 5, 20182 votes

Sure, but why assume that lagging players are doing so out of malice or incompetence?

OP is talking about "griefers" doing what any normal person would do after experiencing debilitating lag (obviously, "intentional" feeding would be simply playing badly and getting caught due to the lag). Once you're in a game and suddenly realize you're rocking 1200ms ping, you're fucked and there's not much you can do to fix it. It's impossible to determine the intent of somebody in that situation, so why should Riot crack down and punish people for it?

Intense lag in multiple games in a row is due to the player being dumb and not realizing there's a problem, sure, but I'm pretty sure Leaverbuster already can pick up on that.

Kei143Feb 5, 20181 votes

bad internet is not punishable.

But intentionally feeding under the pretense they are lagging will be. Riot can already see all the ms in game, so it really depends on what the truth is.

ToxicFatPlebFeb 5, 20181 votes

ask them to show ping then lol.

FOR JUSTICEFeb 5, 20181 votes

I mean, by definition, dying because of shite internet isn't intentional inting, so therefore, isn't punishable.

BUUUUUT

Riot DOES keep track of how high your ping actually is in order to determine wether or not its intentional. kek, just 2 days ago I even found out they track AFK rates PER CHAMP

TheProfezzorFeb 6, 20181 votes

Whether their lag is real or not my understanding is that it is punishable. You are obligated to have some form of decent connection to be able to play the game in a reasonable manner. Report and move on.