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Getting paired with harassing players after reporting them?

Angelus Umbra·4/7/2019, 6:26:21 AM·1 votes·1,752 views

TLDR: got paired with a player that I reported for harassing me, only for him to then encourage everyone else in the game (including enemy team) to harass me as well, resulting in me having to sit through a 30 min ordeal of being harassed by 5+ people. Thanks Riot.

I was in a game of ARAM and wasn't doing so well (1/5/14) as Xayah. I noticed that it seemed like the enemy team was focusing me a lot for some weird reason (given that I was clearly not a threat). So I made a comment about how "I'm apparently the f****** tank" "they seem to be focusing the 1/5 Xayah for some reason". I expected this to get a "lol" or something from my teammates, because it was just humorous for them to be focusing the clearly shutdown ADC. Then the player in question immediately comments with "stop being whiny" (really?). I didn't respond back as I try to avoid clearly toxic players. He then proceeds to continue to harass me through our loss and in the lobby following the game, again I never said a thing back to him and only asked the enemy team to report him for harassment after he left the lobby.

I then reported him myself and qued up for another game of ARAM with a kind of "whatever" thought process hoping to do better in the next game. I get into game, and there's the player I just reported for harassment, and he immediately starts in with his harassment anew. I made the mistake of asking the rest of the team about my confusion in getting paired with someone I just reported. This REALLY set him off. He then started encouraging the other teammates into harassing me by informing them that I was a "whiner" and so forth. This continued into the game it's self as the moment we got into the game he started encouraging the enemy team to also join in the harassment as well as actively trying to sabotage me by using Tahm Kench's devour to throw me into the enemy team (I was playing Quinn this time). Just like before I never responded back and just tried to play as best as I could.

What bothers me the most is how such an incredibly unpleasant event could of been avoided with a simple act of just not letting the players pair together for a short period of time such as maybe an hour. During that time I could of played 2 - 3 games and completely forgot about him (and probably vice versa). Then if we got paired together neither party would even realize who the other was. Riot really needs to look into SOMETHING so that these kind of things (or worse) don't happen.

2 Comments

zPOOPz4/7/2019, 6:41:55 AM3 votes

First off, /mute all that takes care of the harassments and flames. Not much you can do about the gameplay troll during game, but you should submit a support ticket explaining exactly what happened. Look at it from a positive standpoint, you had the opportunity to report him a second time bringing him that much closer to punishment.

You could also took steps to avoid the unpleasant event yourself by either wait a few minutes before get into the game (you seem to have the time since you said you could play 2,3 more games) or you could have dodged in champ select. Next time, wait a minute or two after you had an unpleasant game before hit the play next button.

Rito cannot prevent you from being placed with the person you reported next game because

  1. your report may not be valid and that would unfairly punished one of you by making either of your queue time longer since matchmaking have to find a replacement for you or him as well as find another 9 man match for the remaining person. This may also unfairly punished other players not involved because say matchmaking found a full 10 players match but is unable to start champ select because the support cannot be placed in the same queue as the adc so matchmaking will have to find a different support or auto-fill someone else making the other 8 people queue time longer and possibly force some poor soul to auto-fill support. This problem will be much worse when people start reporting each other and half the player base cannot play with the other half. RIP queue time.

  2. people will polute the report system with numerous false reports in order to manipulate ranked queue

  3. this will not be pretty for the D1+ queue

rujitra4/7/2019, 5:15:35 PM1 votes

I'm going to report you any time I see you so you have longer queue times.