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Make Instalock (Blind Pick) Reportable

Agnostos92·11/24/2016, 5:17:59 PM·3 votes·1,757 views

We've all had that annoying teammate that instantly locks his champion of choice in the 1st second of the champion pick in blind draft. Not only he does this but he also starts laughing when the whole team blames him for that and ruining their game. In the end you end up playing the remaining role, for the sake of the team composition, and pray for the best while the instalocker plays his desired champion in his desired position just like that. And you know why? Because he CAN!! Instalocking is not reportable!! Something has to be done!

And you will say to me: "Man, just play Normal Draft" And i will answer to you that normal draft in some regions is deleted by RIOT. So i have to deal with all those instalockers...........

So please community and RIOT tell me what i can do to cope with instalockers.. A fed up player from EUNE.

Note* I saw that RIOT put a chat limit in Blind Pick chat in champion select (EUNE) so people can't spam. RIOT THANK YOU that was good! Spammers are out of blind pick. What is left is Instalockers, flamers and trolls. I know RIOT can't do anything about flamers and trolls, but maybe do something for instalockers??

7 Comments

Zaryelle11/24/2016, 10:31:47 PM3 votes

Although I am strongly against 'instalocking' because it is counter-teamwork, it doesn't make sense to be reportable since the game allows you to 'instalock'.

Instead what they should do is just make you wait a little longer before you can pick/lock, say 10-20 seconds. Additionally, you could make it so someone can't lock their champion until ~5 seconds after selecting it.

ModPrandine11/24/2016, 10:33:06 PM3 votes

Is it annoying? Yes. Is it punishable by itself? No.

Nahui11/24/2016, 5:32:22 PM2 votes

No?

Belormoroth12/4/2016, 1:18:58 PM1 votes

If you always cry or troll because someone instalock you should consider uninstalling this game.

People instalock in every game because they can.

Community have invented "position calls" to avoid people instalock but now its instacall&lock that makes thing even more fkin annoying.

Instalock is not reportable, never was, never will be. If you will still cry about it then you should really uninstall this game and play something on Single Player.

Ace L92/2/2019, 12:48:43 PM1 votes

Just play ranked and avoid normals