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Perm bans need to be enforced in ranked queues

ClassiK·6/3/2017, 5:34:25 PM·1 votes·244 views

I've been waiting for a while to post this but every time I attempt to create a discussion on the boards I always end up deleting it so bare with me on this one because its my first time posting something on the boards. This discussion will include gameplay and player behaviour.

I've started this game around the time riot released lissandra. I've been stuck in bronze for 1 season, silver for 2 seasons and reached gold last season. Now I'm currently at gold 2 trying to grind my way up to platinum by the end of the season.

Before some of you down vote this discussion and move onto others because of my rank, please read the remainder of the post. League of legends isn't rated with one of the most toxic communities no reason and riot seems to be heading in the wrong direction when banning their players. They fail to realise that unenjoyable gameplay is not due to toxicity but trolls. If you have seen Dunkey's video ( i'm not supporting him, just to be clear, but he makes some valid points ), he explains everything crystal clear. Feeders/trolls/Rage quitters don't get banned but players who flame trolls gets banned instead. It makes no sense. Having a bad game is understandable, but staying on the fountain spamming abilities to charge up the tear of goddess is not.

During season 3,4 tribunal is an actual thing where players get punished for feeding/flaming/death threats. It tells us whether they are banned and if they are, what the punishment is and the duration of their punishment. It seems that the current report system currently implemented isn't achieving anything. Of course from time to time a message will pop up saying that a summoner is banned for X behaviour but that is probably 2 out of the 20 reports I made and I have no idea what they are banned for and what is their punishment. Most of the time I even suspect the intentionally feeding report does nothing and the verbal abuse/negative attitude/leaving the game function seems to generate reports and punishments at a much faster rate.

Trolls run rampage in solo queue for seasons and there aren't any significant improvements throughout the years. For example, I played 8 games today and there are 3 out of the 8 consists of trolls and AFKs. Typical examples involve one of them dying 7 times at bot lane pre 15 minutes, blamed his entire team, flamed his support and left the game when the surrender vote failed at 15 minutes. Another one will be the thresh support who bought 2 pairs of boots running around the jungle doing nothing while flaming the ADC for not ulting the wave to clear the minion wave during 1 fight, he then stays on the fountain from time to time and occasionally click an ability to avoid detection from leaverbuster.

I'm sure the majority of you who grinds through ranked always run into these kinds of players who says "Oh I have 6 accounts", "I don't care, its just a game", "Whatever, I just got promoted, I can afford to lose." Games are really uneven when such players exist and most of the time it is a one sided stomp. Its players like these that makes the community so toxic. It prevents players from climbing the ranked ladder from reaching games that match their skill level.

This just shows that the report system isn't doing its job. Trolls don't get banned, toxic players do. If things are to change perm bans or harsher punishments needs to be enforced in ranked queues specifically. Majority of my friends don't even bother to grind the rank ladder and switch over to normals because its simply unenjoyable when they consistently get matched with trolls who run it down mid or feed because 2 lines hurt their egos ( they are all around plat ). I've also noticed over the past few weeks I've become more and more negative within my games and some of them are so toxic that I can't believe I actually wrote when I watched the replays. Things were slightly better when Lyte was here because he manually reviewed these cases and handed out their punishments respectively, but when he left things just got worst over time.

3 Comments

archerno16/3/2017, 5:38:25 PM3 votes

Well, tell me, how to PREVENT trolling? And dont say Riot doesnt ban them, u used Dunkey example. Why dont u use Tyler1 example? He was toxic, trolling, inting, afking and got perma bans.

Riot punishes trolling, but most of the times, its hard to discern whether someone is trolling or just playing bad. Toxic players get banned faster because its easier to catch them. THere are thousands and thousands of reports daily, its impossible to check them manually.

Tribunal during seasons 3 and 4 was ineffective and very slow way to punish people. Current system is 500x better.

KORGtuners6/3/2017, 8:37:42 PM1 votes

I don't imagine many people would like the idea. If everyone had to vote a tribunal case after every game, that would solve the inefficiency problem. I believe the time out after games is a good idea. I don't have much faith in the community to uphold reasonable standards though. Especially for chat offenses.