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Is Dodging Somewhat Accepted by Riot?

Zaryelle·5/16/2017, 7:52:26 PM·2 votes·400 views

Let me begin by saying I'm pretty sure everyone has dodged at some point. When people are freaking out before the game even starts, sometimes it's better to just dodge. Or if no one is going the role they selected and randomly take my role after I already locked (I don't autolock either, I wait at least 30s), or trying to do some bs like 3 mid, then I may consider dodging.

I've only gotten low priority queue once from this, so I'm wondering if it's somewhat accepted by Riot that dodging is acceptable if it's not too frequent. The way I see it it's much better to have to wait a little longer than to have an AFK during the game. Especially when I see a lot of people turning on their bots/AFK scripts when they don't get what they want it's even worse than an AFK cause it's not usually detected.

One of the most annoying things that give me a high incentive to dodge, everyone's picked a role, most people have locked, 12s left on timer, then suddenly 2 people say 'Duo x lane' that I already called. Like why didn't you say anything when I said bot support assh*les, I called it 20s in the game so it's not a matter of them not loading yet, if I see shit like that after I already called bot and locked a support I'm definitely dodging.

Duos PLEASE call your lane so everyone knows, don't just assume everyone's going to let you do whatever you want cause you're duo. Especially when someone else calls the lane you're going and you don't even say anything to them, knowing full well you're going to duo and take their lane anyways.

6 Comments

Aptest5/16/2017, 7:55:35 PM4 votes

I think it goes like this:

  1. dodging is acceptable.

  2. dodging should be discouraged to keep it from being abused. hence, the punishment.

BlueThingamajig5/16/2017, 8:06:53 PM4 votes

I believe Riot's stance with dodging is that they recognize it is sometimes necessary. Essentially, there is little to no punishment if you dodge for a good reason (i.e. real life event, deeply screwed up champ select), but the punishment scales up rather quickly if you dodge for poor reasons (Person doesn't trade champ in ARAM).

A 5 minute queue lockout means literally nothing if your pool catches fire and you need to spend the next hour ironing your cat out. It means a whole lot more if you want to play a quick ARAM.

HalcyonDweller5/16/2017, 8:27:20 PM2 votes

Dodging is ok when necessary, forcing others to dodge is not.

Zaryelle5/18/2017, 2:42:14 AM1 votes

I just find it to be kind of refreshing that their punishment is actually working as intended. I never dodge maliciously, such as getting a bad ARAM roll, I just dodge to avoid what appears to be a potentially negative game without teamwork, so I'm glad the system is not punishing me for this.