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@Riot Tantram Clear case of trolling is not getting banned by Riot Support. I guess its allowed.

TKP B1lly·6/18/2018, 11:17:15 AM·51 votes·16,886 views

Ranked game. Guy is assigned Jungle. Declares he is going to play support non the less. Our team refuses to swap but he does not care and picks soraka. In game, we end up having no jungler and 3 people bot, one adc and 2 supports. The guy never took a single jungle camp, never made a single gank (as if he could with soraka.. xd), and basically built and played like a typical support by supporting our adc and staying bottom lane entire game.

Now then, according to Riot, its a case of pure trolling/greifing and its punished instantly with account suspension, just as intentionally feeding. This case differs from intentional feeding cases, as in those cases, many of them are not 100% clear if they do it on purpose or if they are having a bad game. However in this case the negative behavior is crystal clear 100% of the times, you dont even have to see the game replay, yet the player support agents refuse to punish it.

The guy is still out there playing games. Also, it happens that he is Challenger 740 LP. Maybe they think he does not deserve it because his rank and because he still, despite his trolling, played to win the game (and we did win). However, thats totally irrelevant.

In the ticket i sent regarding this, the player support agent replied to me with the typical : "I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. I will look into it. Keep in mind that I can't share any actions taken against other players for privacy reasons."

In the end, i can only conclude that as long as you play to win, you can refuse your assigned role, and no matter what your team says (agreeing or not), you can go and play whatever role and lane you want in the game. Whether that means you are going duo top, duo mid, duo jungle, duo bottom/adc with a support, or duo support with an adc.

158 Comments

DrCyanide6/18/2018, 11:24:35 AM11 votes

In the end, i can only conclude that as long as you play to win, you can refuse your assigned role, and no matter what your team says (agreeing or not), you can go and play whatever role and lane you want in the game.

Yes and no. Look for the post on Support Singed (I think there was a similar thing with a Support Nunu). They were playing to win, but they accumulated enough reports from doing what you described that they were manually suspended and told to clean up how they act. I suspect the same would happen to them.

HalcyonDweller6/18/2018, 6:44:24 PM6 votes

I'm leaning to your side here, but did the person tell anyone else to jungle instead? Or did they just refuse to jungle themselves?

This very much pertains to the issue of meta enforcement. It's possible that 3 bot could be viable, I wouldn't know though and I'm not willing to make a snap judgement about it.

Not ganking isn't grounds for punishment, some junglers farm up for a long time without ganking, and that's not considered trolling.

NocturnalSheild6/18/2018, 11:57:32 AM5 votes

You dont get banned for a single troll game.

How does no one understand they base shit on percentages.

Play 1000 games you need to troll at least 1-2% to get banned. (Think its actually 5%)

I mean god he obviously doesnt troll all the time or he wouldnt be challenger...

OneTrueSango6/18/2018, 6:23:20 PM2 votes

Riot wont do shit unless you type in chat