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Surely, Riot can do something about this...right? Right? RIGHT?!?!?!?!

Reddigulous·12/10/2019, 5:57:20 AM·2 votes·1,647 views

I am a really chill guy so the fact I'm even taking the time to write this post should indicate the level of my frustration.

First, let me say the following. I don't care if you have a bad game. I'll never flame if you throw the game. My minimum expectations are as follows...try your best and be respectful of others. Everyone can live up to that. But if you don't, I typically don't waste any more of my time on you. I just move on.

But what is increasingly frustrating to me is how poor behavior goes unpunished even when it is easily correctable and despite the impact it has on others.

Here's my story....

I'm stuck in Bronze ELO hell. That's not the end of the world. But I've recently improved significantly and I truly feel I should be high Silver, maybe low Gold (FYI - My MMR almost always has me matched up against Silver players and I am usually the lowest ELO in my games and I carry more often than not). So I decided to put some time and effort in and make that push. Made it to my next promos with no problems. And after throwing my first promo game (it was an epic throw btw....my bad) I am really needing a win. And while I do win my lane up top the rest of my team is getting crushed. And so my promo dreams are dashed. Which would be fine, truly it would. But the real reason we are getting smashed beyond repair is because our Yuumi support has decided the lane was lost at 4 minutes and therefore she wants to move on to the next game. So she spends from about the 5 minute mark until our eventual demise hiding in random bushes, hanging out in our base, and basically refusing to do anything even remotely close to playing the game. So, as you may expect she receives many reports including one from me.

But here's where I really get angry...in her most recent 10 matches (one game as Blitz, nine as Yuumi) her team has won once and she is a combined 8/61 and it is painfully obvious from her history she gives up really quickly (she is level 9 in a 28 minute match, level 10 in a 36 minute match, etc - ALWAYS 2-3 levels below the next lowest in the game). And I look at OP.gg and she already in another flippin game. THIS IS REPEAT BEHAVIOR FOR HER AND SHE IS CONTINUALLY GOING UNPUNISHED!

AND she's SILVER ELO while I am still Bronze 3????????

My point in all of this is the reporting system does little, if anything, to discourage this type of behavior. So the result for most players (not me, my mental is strong and I refuse to flame anyone) is to feel their only recourse when they come across this bad behavior is to flame and vent. Then Riot will turn around and ban those players for being 'toxic' - It's worth mentioning there was some name calling by some of my teammates but mostly it was very civil and we just repeatedly asked Yuumi to try because we felt, with my lead, we could really make something happen.

So Riot - please, please, please....do something about this. Do not let individuals hold other players hostage and then go unpunished. There is absolutely no deterrent for this Yuumi to ruin the next guy's promos. I'm not angry that I lost my promos, but I am extremely angry in the fashion with which I lost. And knowing I have no recourse whatsoever is extremely frustrating.

10 Comments

Tilt chan12/10/2019, 6:03:53 AM9 votes

Rank = skill x consistency a player who has 1 bad game doesn't mean that she's worse than you

giving up is punishable, just report her for unsportsmanlike

NF Remilia12/10/2019, 9:55:44 AM3 votes

First of all let me say that the Bronze is not a Elo HELL. You can get out of bronze with just basic game knowledge. In fact if you are good player enough you can go up to diamond in few months. For example good players can go from bronze to diamond in less than 24 hours. I think Gosu made it to diamond from bronze 4 in 17 hours or something. The other thing is, as adc in low elo you dont really need support to win the game. As i said just basic game knowledge will get you out of bronze. Sitting here blaming your team is just low :X Now about the true ELO HELL. The true elo hell is plat 1 / diamond 4 .... dude you can't imagine how furstrating is to play there. Even pro players saying when they are on smurf and climbing to challenger they spend the most time in high plat and low diamond. Players there are few types , a type of player that is plat 1 and its super neverous in his promos to diamond feeling so pressured and flaming for every single mistake etc. The boosted guy that bought a boost to d4 or bought account and playing 1 game so he can maintain his rank and has no idea what is he doing. The guy that is tired of the 2 other types. etc.... This is the elo hell not bronze , i can say that iron bronze silver and gold are elo heaven cuz you dont really need the team to win a game. I was diamond 2 but i recently spend most of my time on accounts that are silver gold and plat because its way more fun to play there. Im super new to jungle i have like 12 games in the jungle. I never played it before and i never played Vi before and yet i still have 70% win rate since i have the basic gameknowledge. Again just learn how the game works and you will make it to plat without problem :)

pst: Dont expect the support to sit at botlane 24/7. Especially if he plays roaming support. IgNar one of the rank 1 supports in NA spend more time roaming than supporting. In fact once in a 45min game he stood at botlane like 4 minutes. The rest of the time he was roaming , thats how he hit rank 1.

RhastaFhasta12/10/2019, 6:04:22 AM2 votes

Sorry but riot don't care about the game anymore. unless its ESPORTS they will not listen to other people.

Reddigulous12/10/2019, 6:15:30 AM1 votes

It's also worth noting....

In the time it took me to type this post (maybe not quite, but close), she has played another game, gone 0/6/0 - was the lowest level in the game - got 4 CS - was 3,500 gold below the next closest player - and can I highlight the fact that AS YUUMI SHE DIDN'T PICK UP A SINGLE ASSIST IN A GAME WHERE HER TEAM HAD 57 KILLS?????

Tell me she didn't do the exact same thing in this game as she did in mine. She is not deterred from doing it again and again. Seriously - Riot should fix this.