Where are the bans on the players that make games unwinnable?

Dominator137·Aug 27, 2016·3 votes·692 views

Riot has been banning people like crazy lately, and handing out mutes like candy. But the game is still going to shit, most bot lanes i see refuse to group, acknowledge any teammate, push for any objective other than bot lane tower, completely ignoring dragon, ignoring the 3 enemy team members walking up river past 3 wards to gank that are being pinged, pushing to tower nonstop the entire game, never grouping, never saying anything in chat. These players ruin the game for everyone, and in being silver i feel like 90% of games are decided by which team has this type of bot lane. Why are players like this never banned? Why does the new reward system reward players for never speaking because if they say just about anything they will get muted and permanently no longer receive rewards? This game is no longer even remotely fun, riot needs to do some serious cleaning up...

7 Comments

Deep Terror NamiAug 27, 20163 votes

Those are mostly disagreements in strategy. Being bad or disagreeing with you isn't a punishable offense. I recommend the following article for guidelines on reporting players;

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752884-Reporting-a-Player

As for why chat offenses are punished so easily compared to gameplay offenses (even the legitimate ones), it's simply because it is much more easily detected. A chat restriction is also a pretty minor punishment, while gameplay offenses skip right to bans.

Dominator137Aug 27, 20162 votes

you might want to read your own link... its not a disagreement, its "4) Report a Summoner for not focusing on the team aspect of the game" as they say in that link you posted. if they sit bot and never help the team, that is a reportable offense according to riot. and gameplay offenses dont have to skip directly to bans, now with the ineligibilty to earn loot, and it would not be hard for riot to come up with a new punishment, such as increased queue times or something. I didnt say it would be easy for riot to clean up their game, obviously they need to put in some effort

Deep Terror NamiAug 27, 20162 votes

There is a difference between choosing to push a lane and intentionally leaving your team to lose while you afk farm. More often than not it is just the former, but I was not addressing any specific scenario anyway. If you want to create or show one where it is the latter then obviously you could report it, you just need to be aware that it's usually not the case.

archerno1Aug 27, 20162 votes

No game ever punished bad plays. Nor it will

Dominator137Aug 27, 20161 votes

Theres a difference between punishing a bad player and punishing a player who isnt even playing the game. if you sit in lane the entire match repeatedly picking a fight with the enemy that just killed u 8 times in a row you arent playing League

BlueThingamajigAug 27, 20162 votes

The system you are looking for is called Matchmaking. Players who fail to group at the most opportune times, don't take dragon, and miss mias will lose more games than they win until they reach a matchmaking tier appropriate to their skill level.

Banning players for playing poorly would destroy all semblance of competitive integrity.