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Is stealing role punishable?

Wilyum·12/16/2018, 4:28:17 AM·8 votes·4,852 views

Ranked game, first pick player was support and he auto-locked Graves with smite. We asked him if he was playing Graves support, if he was trying to trade Graves to me, and he just did not answer. So I picked a support and was just ready to play the game. He proceeds to die a lot, I don't know if it was trolling or what but he would go into the enemy jungle and just die over and over. If he had played well I wouldn't really care that much but for someone to steal jungle away from my nearly 70% win rate Warwick to play their 50% win rate Graves only to feed irks me. Later in the game, he kept saying he just wanted to double jungle... No communication in pregame about this, not to mention this strategy is garbage and he was supposed to be support. So, is stealing a role punishable? I reported for trolling and feeding (as well as flaming, he flamed our top and mid repeatedly) but I want to know if stealing a role itself is punishable. -21 LP cause I was trolled.

13 Comments

ModPeriscope12/16/2018, 5:17:02 AM3 votes

It's kinda hard to tell if that was punishable; they try not to punish alternative strategies.

However, his not communicating his intentions in the pre-game, along with seemingly going jungle sound suspect, so I would have reported it. That was very good of you to go support, though.

ı Sona ı12/16/2018, 5:52:39 AM2 votes

Yes, yes it is punishable. There have been enough posts on the forum with pictures of reform cards to say that role stealing is punishable.

Vreivai12/16/2018, 4:44:19 AM2 votes

Yes it is, and I have seen a number of players banned for it.

Cravin Ur Cheeks12/16/2018, 4:43:20 AM2 votes

he just wanted to support his jungle. i dont see ANYTHING WRONG with your situation. satire aside. yeah its fucked up and happens every now and then. people on here will say its fine and to keep doing you. best you can do is report.

rujitra12/16/2018, 5:27:42 AM1 votes

You appear to have willingly gave up the role. You took his role as well.

If you had stuck jungle out, and then he played jungle, that'd be a cut and dry punishment. As he saw you take a support, he has a reasonable defense that he was merely filling the role you had left open when you took his role.

Next time, force these trolls to actually do it in game - then they'll get punished.

breakordoom44412/16/2018, 7:05:20 AM1 votes

I assume a bot. most normal people have feelings, respond to ignite trolls. as ranked is not normie mode, roles are very reinforced.

I doubt this was a role steal, maybe just bot fucking up with auto-fill.

Average Gerg12/17/2018, 12:05:40 PM1 votes

Here's my advice for getting action taken on the player.

Take a screenshot in champ select, you can use the Snipping Tool on Windows or press Windows + PrtScrn. If you do the latter, please crop your image.

Report the player at the end of the game for Negative Attitude/Int Feeding. Send in a ticket to Riot Player support with a brief explanation and the screenshot.