Penalties for autolocking?

knowalot·Jan 21, 2016·3 votes·333 views

Not really sure who to email or where to put this but I have had this issue for a while now. Throughout my league experience (since S3) I have always noticed that occasionally people would autolock if the didn't get the role they wanted, to be clear I'm not talking about misunderstandings but blatant disregard of of calls and sometimes just obvious trolls. The point i want to make is that often I will want to try learning a certain champ in a certain role but will be unable to because of an autolock. Then I am left with a choice, play whatever is left, or dodge and serve a penalty. I find this a fairly flawed system and was wondering if there could be any changes to penalize autolockers instead of forcing players attempting to be courteous to adapt to them.

5 Comments

Kei143Jan 21, 20161 votes

there is no penalty for autolocking.

and back then there was team builder for a scenario like this. too bad they removed that feature. Though i think (don't quote me on it) they'll bring it back later after they've gotten enough statistics / fixed all the bugs with the new draft.

knowalotJan 21, 20161 votes

This is my point though, I feel there should be and was more wondering how difficult it would be to implement. Its not fair to other players and encourages people to autolock, a "if you can't beat them join them" attitude.

FuntaCJan 21, 20161 votes

Some say courteous. Some say too slow to pick. Some say pushover.

You people that say "autolock" make exercising my player power by selecting the champion I want faster all the more satisfying. Also, can you point us all to a post the describes the "system" implemented to which autolocking justifies a penalty?

knowalotJan 21, 20161 votes

I think there is a misunderstanding, I don't mean those who call and lock, I mean this who after roles are called, lock something that was called, in most of my instances I will even have my champ highlighted before someone simply locks in over my previous call. There is no such system in place, rather I would like to understand what prevents a system like this, and maybe have one implemented in the future.

FuntaCJan 22, 20161 votes

Gotcha. Players should respect pick order. We agree on that.

Riot does try to enforce a designed meta, but that does not always go as planned. Even more so, Riot can not force players to pick or play according to an open-select team builder. The dynamic queue was an attempt to enforce position selection, and inform about champion selection intent. We saw how quickly that got taken away. Hopefully it will return. It did help some.