Pre-Game Report System: Why You are Losing Two Players

I want to disclaimer my story with this: Please do not discuss why I shouldn’t play the game; instead discuss how you could make a better community for players. I am new to posting on boards and I in no way mean to offend anyone and I hope that this will generate a real discussion about toxic behaviors.

I will be telling two stories today; mine and my husbands. I apologize for the length of this post though I feel it is necessary as there is never a face put to the problem; now there are two. I am new to League. I am a bronze player and with all jokes aside, I understand I am not the most knowledgeable about the game. I do however, have a large amount of knowledge with depression and anxiety. I remember watching a video, one of the spotlights Riot featured about a boy who used league as his lifeline to handle his depression. This game was a way for him to deal with his stress. I wanted to believe there was a community of warm, generous, and loving people that existed in this game. I was highly mistaken. This is where my husband comes in. He has played league since season 2, he has put over 2500 hours into this game and well over a few hundred dollars, he’s been bronze and been high plat. I know I sound as if I am bragging, but I want you to understand how long he has been in this and how much has been invested in this for him. I decided to play support, since he was an ADC main it seemed the natural choice. Things seemed fun at first, playing with him was generally great. I learned what to do and we spent time together. Then ADC’s started to decline, they were useless and my husband wanted to try other roles. I was encouraged to play other roles as well. That’s when things become bad. Since I had played with my husband in a role he was great at, things were fine. When we played roles, we weren’t great at we got made fun of. At first it was just whatever but it progressed. I want to detail two experiences.

1 The Jungler

My husband has started learned top lane, myself mid. We haven’t played in a while since our main roles aren’t very good. We decided to play today, and today is the day we quit league. We get into champ select and all goes well, a little confusion for our jungler on not knowing who to pick. He settles on Voli. We get into game and I play Annie mid and my husband Riven Top. We aren’t doing bad, but not as well as we could either. It’s a normal game so who cares right? Wrong. We both separately asked for the assistance of our jungler and both times something goes wrong. I am not blaming our jungler, I want to make that clear. The ganks went south and I ended up dying as well as my husband when Voli attempted to assist us. The part that makes me angry is the comments that ensued. Voli says he’s “Just rusty” okay, it happens I am too. I picked Annie, playing into a Veigar, it’s not going well Veigar got an early kill on me and when our gank went south he got a second. I’m 0 for 2. Well, Voli pings me to go in I don’t. I’m low on mana and Veigar can one shot me at this point, it’s clear he knows what he is doing. Voli dies, and I get pinged, and pinged even more. Voli ask “Yo wtf why’d you do that” like somehow that was solely my fault, maybe it was. Who knows. The game ensues and, of course, Veigar is massively fed and we lose. Oh well. Post-Game screen the ADC, Cait, types “Thanks a lot Annie f-ing feeding the Veigar.” Reported. But It doesn’t stop there “Go back to bots you f-ing c-nt.” The report was sent but I know nothing will happen. No one came to my defense, no one else reported this person. Why should they? What’s their incentive too? I was bad, she is mad that I lost her game for her. What can they do to fix it? The report doesn’t make me feel better, doesn’t make me feel like I am proud to be a member of a community that allows this type of behavior.

2 The Pre-Game Champ Select

This followed exactly after the Voli game. I preface this with I know what I did was flat out WRONG. What they did was as well. I get to champ select with my husband. Okay blow it off, it doesn’t matter though I am still hurt at the awful things said of me simply because I didn’t win a video game. This is a fresh start though, I’ll try. I hover Corki, my husband Riven. Then, the ADC and Support who are obviously duo-ed together ban my husband’s champ, Riven. I type asking why as does my husband I say “Yo wtf, he had it hovered.” The support types back “Oh, did he?” and then bans Corki, who I have hovered. Next in chat “I didn’t notice.” I am furious how Is this allowed? How am I supposed to play with people who enjoy hurting others simply because it’s funny? So, I pick Janna and my husband picked Azir since the ADC had hovered Azir. Now they are angry, the jungler gets involved saying they banned our champs on “accident” it wasn’t intentional. Oh? I suppose it’s a trio makes sense as to why his champ didn’t get banned. Again, I understand I was in the wrong and I admit that. I should have picked another champ and moved on. We get in game since I am forced to play with these people or I have to suffer a dodge timer because I didn’t want to play with two people who enjoy hurting others for fun. In game they flame, I int, it’s a mess. They call me names such as “C- nt” “B-tch” and many others. One even said I deserved to die for what I did. Now, tell me is that okay? Is it true that I deserved to die because I picked a bad champion? Now, we both know it was intentional, but think for a minute? What if it wasn’t what if I was new and thought this champion looked cool, and wanted to try her? Do I deserve to die then? We get in post-game where I am called numerous things and one person even types “Go back to bots and then KYS.” Now, both me and my husband reported these people but who do you think will get a punishment? I know I got reported, it was made very clear by the three on that team. I was subject to rude and unjust comments simply because of two people wanting to be rude, Is that fair? Is that ok? I could have dodged yeah, and then got penalized for dodging. This could have been fixed. I believe if there was an ability to report a player before going into a game, then maybe I’d have been spared those awful things. And maybe, you’d still have two players.

I don’t want this to focus on who was right and who was wrong. I want to be transparent. I understand that I was in the wrong for acting how I did. I just wish that Riot would foster a community that supports helping instead of hurting people. I know I mentioned it before, but please think on this. A Pre-Game report system so that if something goes wrong, a good player doesn’t have to be penalized for not wanting to spend at least the next 20 minutes playing with people they don’t want to play with. I don’t know the logistics for it, or how it should work. I just think this. You ban a champion your team has hovered? Not Okay. You insta-lock a champion because you didn’t get your role? Not okay. Rude comments? Not okay. I believe if the MASS MAJORITY vote that you are not good to play with then you should be the one who “dodges” and gets a wait timer. That should be automatic. I know that having people qued makes this more complicated but I don’t have all the answers, just a suggestion. I hope this suggestion will not only allow for an escape in a situation you don’t want to be in, but also foster better behavior for players.