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MaLife·11/19/2015, 12:43:47 PM·1 votes·1,059 views

This is going to be long. I'm sure this topic has been brought up many times: Dodging in Ranked. No one wants to waste their time in frustration when, by chance, you have a troll on your team, who decides to pick an ADC when someone already picked it and then be like "I called it, I don't care if I see you locking in that ADC because you have a higher pick order". Then your team falls apart right from the pick/ban and everyone just decides to troll along and you end up picking smite on a TF that you already locked in because no one else will. I seriously think Riot needs to address this issue by considering solutions to this, instead of making astoundingly idiotic patches. You all may think 3 LP isn't that much, live with that "chance". But honestly, no one wants to be in the receiving end of a penalty for reason that you have NO control over in pick/ban. People have too much "power". And it just makes me laugh when Riot responds by saying you can communicate in champion select to prevent it. Um, no you can't. Unless you're Emilia Clarke somehow able to blow the guy across that screen, you're not persuading anyone. While, yes, MOBA games need constant updates or patches to keep the game in balance, I really think Riot needs to stop for a few weeks and focus on the system of the game and matchmaking (after the hotfix on masteries and items). And I swear to god, they better not retweak another champion's skill to act as a "heal". Jesus, Ekko's ult, Fiora's ult, Dariu's Q, Lissandra's ult, please Riot, you seem to run out of ideas desperately. I also don't understand how in the world they released all these changes when there was PBE. I'm pretty sure players along with the designers saw how broken some of these changes were but it's as if the whole point of PBE is just there for a tease of what's going to happen rather than testing some stuff out and changing them before actually releasing them on the actual server.

18 Comments

Deep Terror Nami11/19/2015, 12:57:09 PM4 votes

Have you even considered how the new Ranked Draft will alleviate some trolling? Often times a troll does it because they didn't get their favored role; the Team Builder Draft style will guarantee people get their roles more often which will result in less of that.

alasarcher11/19/2015, 12:49:41 PM1 votes

Playing off meta isnt trolling. Its personal choice. 2 ADC isnt trolling. Trolling would be if he picks that 2nd adc and while being duo on lane, opponents engage on one of them and other one just ignores it, without helping , to retaliate for other guys choice to pick 2nd adc.

LynXerf11/19/2015, 12:59:54 PM1 votes

As a counter point, there is nothing more frustrating watching two of your teammates argue in champ select over something petty and trivial, and have one of them leave with 2 seconds to go before the game starts. Or perhaps last pick didn't get the role he wanted so then he trolls for the rest of champ select and leaves just before the game starts. Thanks for wasting 5 minutes of my life. It is for this reason that I think removing penalties for leaving is NOT the solution.

Korillo11/19/2015, 3:14:11 PM1 votes

This is probably one of the main reasons they are doing the new ranked queue system where you pick a primary and secondary role. I imagine it will reduce the issue of people not getting their selected role.

Kazaashi11/19/2015, 10:44:13 PM1 votes

At least you don't have to play the game and lose MMR, which is the only thing that matters, btw. LP is just there a a shiny thing to make you care more about your individual games. MMR is the thing that determines if you climb or not, so it is much more important than 3 LP and 10-20 mins of your time.

Dodging also gives you some time to cool off, grab some water, do some stretches.