Reporting players from lobby

Swalotstreet·3/9/2019, 7:02:20 PM·20 votes·14,469 views

Hi everyone, so there has always been an issue with trolls in pre-game lobbies and there has never been any sort of solution to the problem either proposed or even addressed. Players are expected to either waste their own time playing a game where someone has explicitly set out to troll and lose the game or create a poor experience for their team or dodge. There are only two options for players currently 1: Dodge and accept the LP loss and save time 2 Play the game out and report the player after

Neither of which are fair solutions to the players who have done nothing wrong.

The two immediate solutions i have to this problem which by no means are perfect but are far better than the what are currently in the game

1: Have some way of reporting people in pre-game lobbies, this means that even if players do have to dodge they can at least report said players which hopefully will flag these accounts and punishments will be delivered. hopefully with this it would disincentivise players from acting in such ways. 2: have the players in lobby go to the recent players tab in the social section whilst also adding a 'report' button to said tab again allowing players who are forced to dodge a way to report trolls.

I KNOW that there are some problems with implementation of both of these suggestions but i believe the benefit would outweigh the downsides. I am also very aware that other solutions could be implemented to fix these problems.

Thanks for reading, if anyone from riot has an queries about my suggested solutions let me know i'd be more than happy to help analyse the pros and cons, explain why i believe this is something we need or any other questions. thanks for reading and i hope this post garners some sort of notice because this has been a problem for far too long

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65 Comments

ModPeriscope3/9/2019, 8:17:47 PM11 votes

I removed your image as it is naming and shaming another player.

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rujitra3/9/2019, 7:30:11 PM9 votes

Players are not and will not be punished solely for their champion selection, and/or their spells selection. They will be penalized if they enter the game and troll. Trolling is an in-game action, and Riot has explicitly said that no combination of "off meta" is punishable unless they are actually trolling (i.e. in game).

Imperial Pandaa3/9/2019, 7:20:46 PM6 votes

If you edit the names out of the image, that would be great as the forums have a no name and shame rule.

MustardTigerMK3/11/2019, 2:12:14 AM3 votes

I've had games where people jokingly said they were trolling and then the guy played like a god! I feel more reporting options aren't the solution. A smart person would take LP loss if they were THAT sure or the player being a troll...Not sure how you would ever punish anyone for saying "hey guys, imma troll this game!" the only reports should be about fowl language and that doesn't warrant a dodge, maybe just a mute. So all that work would be for nothing.....in the end you still lose LP and the person would never receive punishment for talking about trolling....

Talthara3/11/2019, 7:39:22 PM3 votes

I would 100% support this. I've had my hovered pick banned more than once when I wouldn't let a duo play together.

Absolutely childish and completely indefensible, and there's no way to catch things like this.

Swalotstreet3/12/2019, 12:00:48 AM3 votes

Thanks for all the engagement on the post regardless of a lot of you not understanding my points however riot clearly don't care about this and i've lost all faith in them as a company. Best of luck out there on the rift