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Matched With Reported Players

logana10··2 votes·745 views

No one wants to be matched with the same team if they were abusive. Nothing to bizarre about that. So why does it happen? I did a few practice games than decided it was time to do a couple ranked games and right off the bat I got matched with a team of four players on my team. One of them was really good (probably a smurf carrying his/her friends) and the others were, like me, bronze league. I'll be honest, It wasn't my best game. However, The chat spam I got was incredibly hateful so I muted most of them. A reminder, these were my teammates and I got a little bit of hate from the other team. We managed to pull off a win b/c of surrender, but I was done with that team. Even after the game they were talking about how I should uninstall and other incredibly hateful things. I reported them and then I waited about five minutes to que up again. if you read the title than you can guess what happens next.

League has one of if not the largest player bases in the world. Does anyone else have or have had the same experiences? Riot, Is there any discussion about not being in the same game with people you JUST REPORTED for being abusive/negative or aft?

7 Comments

LostFr0st2 votes

Riot has already explained why they wouldn't do this. It would inevitably create a 'prisoner's island' within matchmaking and would incentivize false reports towards less skilled players.

UnwardiI1 votes

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Riot has already explained why they wouldn't do this. It would inevitably create a 'prisoner's island' within matchmaking and would incentivize false reports towards less skilled players.

See, this is bullshit.

When I mute and report someone, I fundamentally do not care what happens to them, I simply don't want to be put in another game with them. I don't care if they inflict themselves on someone else I just don't want it to be me.

You could do away with the entire reporting system if there was just a "don't match me with this player again" button.

LostFr0st2 votes

I fully realize that. I don't want to be matched with them again either (which is why I wait a full queue time after such a game before queuing again).

Such a button wouldn't do crap all. People would report others for simply having a bad game or sucking so they would have less "unskilled" players in their matchmaking pool. Don't even tell me people wouldn't do that.

GaleWinUnleashed2 votes

In an ideal world this would be fine. But this isn't ideal. Players would report others they didn't want to play with for any and all reasons, not just poor behavior. At very high levels (Master/Challenger) you would be able to report players that you simply don't synergize with in order to artificially stack the odds in your favor.

https://i.imgur.com/1HvNiEO.png?noredirect

UnwardiI1 votes

{quoted}

In an ideal world this would be fine. But this isn't ideal. Players would report others they didn't want to play with for any and all reasons, not just poor behavior. At very high levels (Master/Challenger) you would be able to report players that you simply don't synergize with in order to artificially stack the odds in your favor.

https://i.imgur.com/1HvNiEO.png?noredirect

And if you did that, you would very shortly find it impossible to find matchmade games through your own carelessness. What's the problem?

GaleWinUnleashed2 votes

It becomes a problem when enough players do it that it affects the queue times of those who didn't. Maybe for one reason or another no one in Master wants to play with a certain champion that is deemed underpowered. Hypothetically, I'll just say Teemo. So say there's a Master+ player that only picks Teemo. Regardless of their own personal record with Teemo, their pick just rubs everyone the wrong way, everybody reports them because they don't want to play with Teemo on their team, and sooner or later the Teemo player is shut out of matchmaking despite doing absolutely nothing wrong.

That's a pretty extreme scenario, of course, but it's still entirely possible.

https://i.imgur.com/1HvNiEO.png?noredirect

Cordel8a111 votes

This does happen quite a bit more often now, with the new queue type, you were a solo while they were a 4 man looking for someone that wasn't already in a group. Therefore you were placed with them again. Most players now go with groups of friends that will carry them, or be carried by them, thus leaving us solo queue players with but little option of being placed with them as someone they can collectively blame for everything. So I'm not surprised.

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