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matchmaking is just bollocks

Raijin Bokun·3/8/2016, 2:40:35 PM·2 votes·632 views

ok riot you need to address matchmaking in a big way particularly in normal 5v5 games. auto lockers need to be banned or given a way to report. everyone always forgets by the end of the game and they are the reason I have been locked out of two games today. people cant leave a match once its in the champ picking stage, which is ridiculous when someone auto locks or you run out of time trying to figure out what position is left because half the idiots who play have locked champs without a word or just wont communicate pre match. They ruin games before they have even started and even if you pull out because someone is clearly a bot you get a time penalty which is ridiculous when you cant surrender for 20 min and often a small minority of the team refuses to meaning your in for a long game with no chance of winning ...how the hell riot cant block bots is beyond me and aggravates me to no end. the 5v5 format is great however it does not give room to leave a game that looks like its filled with assholes without incurring a penalty. if you cant fix your community at least fix matchmaking so people don't have to get stuck with the scum who troll and selfishly ruin this game. most matches are decided at team comp particularly if you don't have all 5 basic positions filled, how riot cant acknowledge this fact and act on it is beyond me. ffs enforce a captcha pre game to weed out bots I don't mind filling one out to save the time spent in a game with one asshole just their to farm ip. and have an opportunity to punish those who auto lock please ive played enough games now that I have called gg before even getting into the loading screen and it has come to pass generally at 35 mins when you've tried to surrender for 15 mins and two of your team refuse to accept its over as you have a bot feeding or a Muppet playing along like a fool.

6 Comments

Iqqi3/8/2016, 3:09:49 PM1 votes

Please use paragraphs when posting on the forums. It is incredibly difficult and plain annoying to read huge blocks of texts like this.

TeemoJenkins3/8/2016, 3:15:30 PM1 votes

Glad you brought up several points for us to address.

  1. "Auto locking" - it's the responsibility of the humans in the lobby to agree on lanes / positions if you're doing Blind. "Auto lockers" are terms used by kids that can't talk it out, and thereby want Riot to parent other players - not their job.

  2. People that say GG and psychologically give up before the game even loads, but then blame Riot for "not letting them dodge" goes back to the same problem as 1. - Man up, put on your big boy pants, and act like a good human. Sometimes people make picks you don't agree with, your best option is to play it out, don't flame them, or do a passive aggressive whine mode of "GG" less than 5 minutes in and you'll have better games.

  3. Riot Does Not Want To Enforce a Meta. "all 5 basic positions filled". If you're playing Blind - expect the unexpected, that mode is there for crazy lanes to happen, to see what works. Buckle up or play Draft.