Help, my friends are unjustifiably banned when we tried to do a strategy that includes inting

Charlotte·8/3/2018, 5:55:29 AM·9 votes·3,739 views

My friends and I just played a premade 5s normal game and we wanted to try a new strategy that we took inspiration of the game where the 0/35 Nunu and 0/40 Rammus won. The game can be found in this Pants R Dragon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYv6HdiLnMQ&t=542s

My friends and I wanted to try a similar trick for fun to where my bait the enemy team into grouping 5 mid by having 2 of us intentionally feed kills and pretending that we are giving enemies free kills. Inside the game our strategy did not work because the enemy team knew what we were doing so we decided to ff at 15. Our inting friends inted solely because our whole team decided on it since it was part of the strategy, they did not intend to ruin our gameplay at all. Shortly after the game, both of my freidns are been suspended for 14 days and have lost their honors etc. I understand that we may have ruined the gameplay for the enemy team but we really did not mean any harm by the intings. We did not know that this would happen and we only did this because we truly thought it could be a viable strategy as shown in Pants R Dragon's video in where the 0/35 and 0/40 players won the game. Please unban my friends because they do not deserve to be banned since this was part of our strategy that we planned out in a normal game. Riot can check our chat log that we told them to int in the chat and that we tried to trick the enemy team into thinking that they have free kills in mid lane. None of the players in our premade party reported our two inters and none of our gameplay was ruined by the inting. I am very sorry if there were any other rules that could've been the reason for their immediate bans and I want to make clear that we did not intend to do any harm, it was a legitimate attempt at trying out a new strategy.

27 Comments

Umbral Regent8/3/2018, 6:50:52 AM9 votes

Why in the world would you consider a strategy that involves breaking the rules? Intentionally feeding, of all things. Whether you intended harm or not, you still ruined the game for the enemy team with that asinine strategy - depriving them of a fair match through intentionally feeding for the sake of some half-baked "strategy".

I don't expect Riot would lift the suspensions on your friends' accounts, but in the off-chance that they do:

Never pull something like this again. For real. If you're gonna try new strategies, stay in line with the rules.

Automated Riven8/3/2018, 1:08:28 PM7 votes

I am seeing alot of talk about how feeding is against the rules.

This is NOT true if the purpose is to win. 5 people trying to win are not breaking the rules no matter which strategy is employed so long as it is not deviating from the design of the game (IE no hacking)

What is against the rules is griefing your teammates and assisting the enemy team. Neither of these apply if your entire team agrees to an unconventional strategy.

That being said. If your teammates got banned it likely wasn't due to just that one game. Bans will almost never escalate to an instant 14 day ban from 1 game. Unless it has hate speach or agressive stuff such as 'kys'. Typically it's reports from multiple games and the punishment system has a progression period.

zPOOPz8/3/2018, 7:06:39 AM7 votes

No one wants to play with or against an afk or inter. You still ruined the game for your 5 enemies (who likely reported your friends).

Just like when you are in a premade 5 and someone afk, no matter if your entire team has no problem with 4v5 afk, that person would still be punished.

Using inting as a strategy opens a door most people will not want to see opened and it is explicitly against the rules (unlike off-meta picks and off-meta builds).

I'm not entirely sure I would support your friends' unpunishments be lifted because this is a game of 10 people, not just your premade 5.

redniwediS8/3/2018, 5:57:31 AM6 votes

You had a full premade, yes? No randoms at all?

Have your friends make a support ticket and explain this. Tell them to be polite and make sure to clearly state that the entire team was on board with what you were doing.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us

Ph03n1xb1rd8/6/2018, 12:44:11 PM2 votes

So you all 5 were premade and everyone agreed on this? Because then i see no problem with this...

But remember, Rito tends to ban for playing OFF-meta too, so i don't really know what will they do. Anyway, try a support ticket...

AJStarhiker8/3/2018, 12:57:21 PM1 votes

I'd suggest everyone from the team fill out support tickets, not just the punished players. That would make it clearer to Riot it was a full team decision.

Oleandervine8/3/2018, 7:24:54 PM1 votes

They're only suspended for 14 days. If they come back and they're on their toes and keep out of trouble, things will reverse for them.

VindicatorOFThey8/3/2018, 6:14:10 AM1 votes

Did it work tho :o