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My own take on "Riot's Rank Punishment System." Hope you agree.

Masked Pariah·12/2/2019, 6:25:17 AM·7 votes·3,709 views

I hate to say it, but I think there is a good reason to why NA's rank isn't taken to seriously and its because we don't punish the players who don't play competitive in a competitive league of legends environment (not to be confused with professional league of legends). How many times do competitive players have be punished for casual players going into rank to AFK/DC or give up. To that I say no more with my idea on how we should punish players for each offense._ (will not cover toxicity, extreme trolling, and intentional feeding as I think banning them with riots current way is the way to go). _

My idea is simple. Players that afk, dc, give up, or doesn't try to play the game will receive a 1 , 2, or a 3 week ban from RANK PLAY depending on the situation! I personally don't think players have a excuse when they do this stuff in rank because they should already know that what they are doing is wrong as you must hit level 30 before even playing rank and a Riot themselves state that rank is for competitive players looking to improve and hone their skills! Though if Riot wants to give out a first time warning, then I guess I'm ok with it as long as their next offense is a long term ban from rank only.

My reasoning for this is it would show players that there is a more distinct difference when you play normal games (casual) and rank games (serious big boi time). Not only that some people have bad games in league and decide to give up. I don't think giving up should be a complete ban from league. Just a "Hey, you know you are not supposed to do this in rank. If you don't want to take rank seriously and waste time for nine other players then just go to normals". End goal is to move players who don't take rank seriously into normals and have a healthy rank matchmaking for those who do.

30 Comments

zPOOPz12/2/2019, 6:32:58 AM13 votes

Why should other modes have to bare the burden of these people? You know what happened to people who are barred from the game mode they want to play but still able to play other game modes? Rito knows EXACTLY what will happen too. They take their frustration out on the other modes until they are able to return to the mode they want to play (in this case ranked).

People who play other game modes just as likely to buy skins and other stuffs as people who play ranked. What business sense would it makes to piss off every other game modes?

If my memory serves, sometimes in the 2014 (give or take a year of two), Rito already experimented with ranked restriction for a very brief amount of time. If you were toxic or reported a lot, you had to play X amount of games in normal draft (the version before TeamBuilder) before you are allowed back into ranked. You know what happened to that normal draft queue? Take a guess.

https://kotaku.com/league-of-legends-restricting-toxic-players-from-ranked-1638305092

This did happened in live servers. Rito probably still have data from this horrible experiment even though it did not last long (I remember it went away just as fast as it was implemented). I somehow doubt they will want to go back to ranked restriction ever again (even officially said so that they don't want to do Prisoner's Island).

Sinful Succubus12/2/2019, 7:42:38 AM7 votes

Players that afk, dc,

so if my power goes out for some bullshit reason out of my control, i get a ban on rank play for the next few weeks? yeah. seems totally fair!

iMidg3t12/2/2019, 8:49:27 AM1 votes

I would agree with ranked restrictions if a player is reported A TON of times, but only if there are punishments for players who're spamming reports. And I would make punishments shorter at the start, myb like 1,2 and 3 ays for the start, and then ramp it up.

Or do anything that will separate competitive players from casuals in ranked, be it honor levels, or something else. Or we should gather a good portion of competitive community and migrate to 3rd party sites through which we can play league while using that site's ranked ladder (ex. Faceit)

Mradr12/2/2019, 9:11:39 AM1 votes

Wouldnt it be better to add a redo system instead? For example, I assume the BIG reason to punish anyone for is because of promos - wouldn't it be better to offer a redo if you have done your promos a few times already? Thus giving you a free retry and over all over coming the problem anyways? For example, if you get to your promos - but lost them - you get a point reset on one of the games of your choice next time you get into promos?

Another thing they could add is you have to have soo many hours of PVP under your belt before you can play rank PVP. That should at least keep some smurfs out of games and newer players as well until they get more experience in PVP.

Keep in mind - how would you even know that someone just having a bad game/still trying vs giving up? I mean you could say deaths - but how do you know they are not just that bad in the first place? The system would have to put players that are new in different level of games to test the waters with them just a bit - so it is possible that there is another problem going on as well.

Masked Pariah12/2/2019, 3:35:47 PM1 votes

Noticing a lot of hate for my idea. Again that’s fine, you dont have to agree with me but in all honesty it seems like the people who don’t like my idea are those who again go into a competitive environment in a more casual mindset. The game is technically a sport and should be treated as such in rank. Players need more self responsibility and to one post saying it’s unfair to be punished if your internet DC, do you really not see how it’s unfair to your teammates? Again take responsibility.

Baby Ghoul12/2/2019, 8:10:55 AM1 votes

The only issue I see is that Riot's client is kind of the elephant in the room that they're not addressing.

I have no sympathy for people suffering from internet issues. If you don't have reliable internet, and you know that, then you're making a selfish choice to ruin the game for others. There's normals for a reason. Go play it. Competitive is not for you.

However, a lot of people genuinely DC due to client issues. It was a major problem in this past season. People either would not connect at all, or they'd realize that the tiny indicator at the top left corner of the screen froze 2-3 minutes too late. After that the game could already be heavily in the other team's favor, especially if the people that didn't connect are in bot lane or jungle.

Before they implement stricter punishments, they first need to address that their client is subpar to put it mildly.

Tokishi712/2/2019, 7:26:58 AM1 votes

Riot makes such a huge deal about the pro scene, but then completely forgets that competitive is still a sport, well esport. If you pull this petty bs in real on a team, you're done. Damn, you're having a bad day but you purposely let them score to prove a point, smell you later bud. Griefing and rage quits should be automatic restrictions that should be contested with support staff later in the case of a bug. There is no reason to see players griefing in higher elos still and their punishment is -10 lp

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