If someone intentionally bans your hovered champion is that griefing?

LiL Bunnie FuFuu·4/13/2018, 9:37:45 PM·2 votes·1,265 views

I'm a Thresh main and sometimes I like playing some off meta stuff with him - mainly Thresh top (either full AD or off tank) in ranked.

Usually it goes OK or even really well and I tend to win roughly as many games as I lose. Most games lost are (seriously) because of either mid/jg/bot feeding early or just poor coordination mid/lategame. But a lot of people I play with (silver/bronze lul) assume it's awful since Thresh is played as a support. It's actually pretty decent but because people panic they either 1) flame at me, 2) skip, or 3) ban Thresh

This has happened twice and its really annoying to deal with. Is it griefing if they intentionally ban your champion?

11 Comments

5d0x4allx04/13/2018, 9:55:54 PM4 votes

Let's be honest, we've all banned Yasuo because we don't want that hot garbage on our team.

HalcyonDweller4/13/2018, 9:39:56 PM3 votes

Unfortunately it's not considered griefing. Your best bet is to just do what I do and hover something similar to what you plan to play, that way if someone bans it then you are still free to pick the thing you actually want.

Or just don't hover anything, no need to show them thresh for top lane if you think they might ban it.

5d0x4allx04/13/2018, 9:52:59 PM1 votes

It isn't griefing AFAIK, but the idea behind banning a hotly contested "pick/ban" champion dictates that just because you've hovered something doesn't mean the enemy won't take it first. So say you're 4th pick and highlight x flavor of the week overpowered champion (say Kai'sa or whatever) - the likelihood is decent that the enemy team will nab it first and it would've just been better to ban it.

Obviously this doesn't take into account that the courteous way to approach that situation would be for your first pick to offer to lock it in for you and then trade, but that doesn't always happen, so you kind of have to take the good with the bad (i.e. the occasional griefer mixed in with people just playing the ban phase the way it's intended). I used to have the name "Best Brolaf NA" a couple seasons back, and would have Olaf instantly banned out by one of my teammates who thought they were hilarious. It isn't fun, but how do you really police it?

You can report them on the end game screen as griefing anyway if you want - can't hurt.

Hellmaximus14/13/2018, 11:48:42 PM1 votes

I ban jhin if I see my adc hover over that hot garbage of a champion. I'd rather have yasuo, than the 10-15k damage jhins. I'd at least come into the game with my expectation for yasuo being low.