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Banning a teammates declaration should be instant feedback right?

Abraxis·4/23/2018, 6:39:09 AM·1 votes·1,322 views

I just played a game with some toxic jerkbag who bans my Kindred after I declared her.

(Nice guy) joined the lobby Abraxis joined the lobby (Toxic jerkbag) joined the lobby (Nice guy) joined the lobby (Nice guy) joined the lobby Abraxis: the fuck? (Toxic jerkbag): yeah no Abraxis: Guy i am a kindred main (Toxic jerkbag):ur mid (Toxic jerkbag):no

To explain my choice, I main Kindred, and have nearly never lost a game I've taken seriously in mid with Kindred. Half of the benefit of picking off meta picks is that your opponent has no idea what to expect or how to deal with you. It is a valid strategic decision that you don't want to discourage, and I know you don't because I've watched you break meta after meta. Especially with Kindred's mark system, only I know how valuable they are to me and this forces bad plays from the enemy. I am very good at exploiting that. Mid is the best spot to do this from because it's equidistant from everything and they never know where I've left to, which ripples out to affect everyone whether I'm targeting them or not. A fear I can control better than from the jungle because I know roughly when an MIA ping gets called, and I watch how that affects people. I use that to control every lane, and if they do not react, I teach them why they should. I have been playing this game since just a few months after it left beta, I know what I'm doing, and anyone who spoke to me about it would see that.

But all of that means nothing, none of it matters. He never even asked me, he just banned her. This is toxic behavior, cut and dry, no matter my intent or reasoning.
If I were trolling, banning my pick and pissing me off more would not solve anything. There is no conceivable situation where a player behaving like this is positive for any team. The evidence is in the system. I clicked a button to declare her, he clicked to ban her, and then taunted me about it in the chat.
How much more evidence does a system need to make a determination and confirm a thing happened?
There is no question about intent here, this should be automatic, instant feedback on my report.
This is an easy solution, two lines of code would do it, and I see no reason why it has not already been implemented.

or you have some explanation why I should be punished for wanted to play my Kindred in mid?
I don't really think that's something you endorse RIOT. I don't think your coders are this incompetent either. So what is going on here?

-Abraxis Kindred

5 Comments

Infernape4/23/2018, 6:42:02 AM6 votes

It's not punishable. It's a dick move, but won't get you banned. If it was, Riot probably wouldn't let us ban people's pick intent.

LateCustomer4/23/2018, 6:59:32 AM3 votes

You said he taunted you in chat. Taunting your own teammates might be toxic. Also, next time don't bother flashing Kindred mid and avoid this. Kindred hardly ever gets banned, and very few people pick for Jungle, so you're relatively safe.

Silent Gravity4/23/2018, 6:53:01 AM2 votes

If someone is banning your pick to be a jerk, they're going to do other things to be a jerk. Those other things are against the rules and can lead to a punishment.

If someone is banning your pick because they want to ban your pick, they are allowed to do that.

VoraciousX4/23/2018, 6:46:42 AM1 votes

Agreed, they should make it where you can't ban player's intents. For your case though, Kindred never seems to be banned, which means you could just not show your pick intent, wait for the banning phase, and pick her. I do that generally when going off meta because there's always some jerkwad and I honestly don't even think reports do anything against people who do that. I've gotten tons of reports saying that I helped punish bad behaviors, but I've never gotten one from someone who banned my pick intent(probably because it's not some high red flag, but whatever). If they ban my pick intent, they see my Soraka mid, my AP Tryndamere top, etc etc. I still try to win, but I know it will get under their skin if they see me doing it, which is a bonus on top of the report I send.

Automated Riven4/23/2018, 7:14:33 AM1 votes

People have been begging to make it against the rules to ban pick intents. But idk if it will happen. I always play out the game and report them going that eventually it will be outlawed.