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Being Held Hostage in Champ Select?

Statikin·3/22/2017, 7:04:08 AM·1 votes·1,238 views

So I'm in promos. I enter a champ select and we have a support Galio (rework) intention. I ask this guy- "Hey, have you played him before? Are you confident with him?"

He proceeds to respond with: "why not"

I check his profile and it turns out he had played one game of reworked Galio before and went terribly. So I tell him: "Sorry dude, but I don't want one on their team and i don't really feel great having you play him too"

He replies: "wow %%%"

Me: "Look, I'm all for you playing him but there is a gamemode for everything. Go play him in normals if you want to but ranked isn't the place." Him: picks Udyr support enjoy ur loss %%%

By this point I already knew I was gonna be held hostage and there was no way out, so I dodged after continually trying to explain to him my reasoning.

I now have a loss on my promos with one chance left. But I guess to be fair we probably would have lost anyway. When will there be some sort of report option for this sort of trolling?

7 Comments

Magical Player3/22/2017, 7:07:40 AM2 votes

support ticket I guess? any category that deals with the game for the report option

but they won't tell you if he was punished or not

Sorry it happened in promos best of luck

VladCuzBad3/22/2017, 7:18:19 AM2 votes

Honestly it is your fault, despite of what you thought of his pick. You turned an already garbage pick to an even worse one. HE should not have trolled, but you having low confidence in your supports pick isn't a reason to ban. ** and also, the galio rework aint out?** So um, no one would have picked him. Don't act like the support pick is moderated by the adc. You wouldn't want your support saying "Well I don't think urgot is agood adc pick. I also don't want one on the enemy team so, I am gunna ban him." Yea urgot is A horrible pick, and even if he did perform poorly in his last game, you are going to tilt him and make him perform WORSE.

Lesson you should have learned, NOT that people are fk heads, but that you shouldn't ban other peoples picks without their consent. It doesn't matter what you think. You can scream at them or say it nicely it wont matter, if they do not want u banning them, DONT.

Aptest3/22/2017, 12:49:05 PM2 votes

I don't know what to tell you. You know banning the other guy's hover is a douche move. I mean you can still go for it, but there's a chance the other guy's gonna get back at you. If he does he's definitely not going to reward you with a good, warm "I forced him from this crap pick into a pick i like, yey me" feeling. And hey man, you kinda deserved it. So drink your medicine, bitter as it may be, and don't bring this kind'a talk to our shoulders we ain't gonna let you cry on it since what's fair is fair.

Great Muta3/22/2017, 2:40:55 PM2 votes

We've been asking for years that Riot temporarily ban new champs or reworks from ranked for at least a few days and they refuse. Overwatch has now done it and the world has not come to an end.

I'll never forget losing my promos to an "expert" release day Tahm Kench.

There is no way you are ready on the same day to play a champ in ranked. And not only are you not ready, your teammates aren't ready to play with it either.

DJ Left Shark3/22/2017, 6:29:22 PM1 votes

I have been apart of a situation where I had banned yasuo because a teammate suggested it so that we wouldn't go against one. Well, I failed to look at my whole team and see that another teammate had hovered over him for top lane.

The result? Justly so, the player got upset at me.

It was a mistake on my part, and though I apologized it's hard to convey an honest mistake over chat.

However though this circumstance is different from yours, it's important not to 1) ban a teammate's pick or 2) try to coach them on what they want to play. Sure you can suggest, but you should always be open to letting them play their champion. Yes there is a 'meta' but players are free to play the champion they want to play.

I've gone into ranked with some champs I had little to no experience with, which though it may have been a bad idea, I did it because I thought my pick was good for the team. You win some, you lose some. Sometimes a pick works out, sometimes it doesn't. The important thing is to have a good relationship with your team from start to finish. Banning their pick sets an immediate negative relationship, which could lead to a lot of other problems down the line.

My advice: Respect their pick, play as best you can, be positive, and trust your team. You can always report post-game for any sort of behavior that violates the Terms of Use.

Good Luck in the Fields of Justice :)