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I'm a bit confused, what is a player supposed to do when...?

464b5552494f54·10/24/2019, 7:27:31 PM·2 votes·2,618 views

... he/she's playing in a game against either a smurfing player or a 2/3 whole tiers higher than him/her player and got so darn hard camped/ganked to the point even he/she got dived so easy under turret let him/her going 0-5 before 10 min and his/her team non-stop flaming at him (this always happens to me at least)?

I mean it, I'm so dead serious about this question bc I can only tell 2 possible things about: either keep playing and end up like 0-20-0 or something and face an instand 14 days suspension for feeding/griefing (this happened me quite a lot in 2 years of playing League of legends) or just go and stay afk in base and spam surrender to get outta there asap and face a leaverbuster penalty.

Honestly I'm so sick of this whenever I go and play a normal game (never happened to me in ranked tho) that I actually need to know how I'm supposed to react to this kind of situation to avoid either of those punishments. This is my 5th LOL accound made already and its ALWAYS the same thing happens to me when playing normals; or got hard outplayed, ganked, camped, etc to the point of going 0-20 or worse and then, boom!, 14 days suspension right in the kisser, or went afk to prevent getting banned and got leaverbusted penalty instead ... and there is no way to get away of this nightmare... SO COULD YOU PLEASE TELL WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?

Thank you in advance.

Btw, I never faced a chat restriction or such in my other 4 accounts bc I never use the chat so I'm not a toxic player (I guess) or flame my teammater, I mean never and yet, when this kind of game happens, I'm afraid that I unevitable have to face some sort of punishment and I can't take this any longer.

--EDIT--

So I've recently played a game which pretty much describes what I've told in this thread (hard camped, dive under turret, etc.):

https://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUW1/4245979242/2312690907466464?tab=overview

This time I haven't got the 14 days suspenstion for feeding but tbh I've even faced worst matches only in normals with this new account, forcing me going even in a worst KDA. If only I could share the vid/replay you so you all can see what I mean when I created this thread.

Also, it's really a shame that any RIOT worker even bother to check this and share his/her thoughts about this kind of situations... not just for me, maybe some other player could be going through the same thing too!

15 Comments

zPOOPz10/24/2019, 7:48:22 PM4 votes

You don't get banned for unintentionally feeding. The feederbuster is more than a little generous when it comes to feeding. If you get 14 days for inting "a lot" in 2 years of playing, you are doing a lot more than just unintentionally feeding.....

Smurfs generally will get matched with other smurfs after a few games. It's only fair to separate you from the truly new players. Of course not all smurfs are created equal so the the matching would be terrible since Rito has no way to tell the level of experience of a smurf account since there's no real game data to analyze. It is still better to group all smurfs together than to match you with truly beginner players and have you steamroll them. The only real way to get out of this situation is to suffer your ways into higher account levels or you tank enough of your normal mmr to play other game modes to get higher level....or quit the game.

GatekeeperTDS10/24/2019, 7:35:40 PM3 votes

I don't know what you're expecting. You're sometimes going to lose games.

Kei14310/24/2019, 7:28:24 PM2 votes

What should you do?

Git gud, play better.

Sinful Succubus10/25/2019, 6:32:25 AM2 votes

bc I can only tell 2 possible things about: either keep playing and end up like 0-20-0 or something and face an instand 14 days suspension for feeding/griefing (this happened me quite a lot in 2 years of playing League of legends) or just go and stay afk in base and spam surrender to get outta there asap and face a leaverbuster penalty.

there's a third option: play defensively, farm in tower range while attempting to freeze, stop worrying about farm difference, stop 1v1ing the person stomping you and wait for late game while trying not to die. that works too.

Get210/24/2019, 7:53:10 PM1 votes

You should learn from your mistakes. If a player is definitely better than you and you don't know your/their limits, build defensively and farm closer to protection and ward aggressively. Make them think you're a sitting duck and use that aggro to your team's advantage by denying it. If you don't know what the enemy is capable of and they are killing you, just stay out of range of them. With good vision and proper positioning, you can manipulate the "ez kill" aggro to your advantage.

If they are going to take a turret no matter what, it means your team isn't helping your aggro situation. It also means your team may not be cashing in on that easy lane. So, just accept your loss if that's what it does and concentrate all you can on (a) avoiding death and (b) what the guys farming your lane are doing so you can get better at dealing with that champion in the future.

Also, play that champion in some bot games so you see what their limits are.

That would be my tact after the frustration of having to deal with that match goes.

As far as the chronic issue of facing this, I have only seen it in promos. The regular matches are more balanced overall.

Downvote cuz true.

iron4playa10/26/2019, 5:45:25 AM1 votes

you should definitely not go afk, you should play the game like you normally play it. If you're not intentionally feeding you will not be punished and on the odd chance the system seems to flag your games as intentionally feeding, with the help of a support ticket you would get unbanned. I've actually seen an instance on the forums where a player came back after a long break and faced a brutal smurf on a hyper carry and he got stomped and ended up with 25 deaths at 21 mins he was teleporting back to lane and getting camped and dove constantly etc. The system banned him for int feeding but he was unbanned by riot after putting in a support ticket after they reviewed the game it appeared that he wasn't intentionally feeding. the system gives alot of leeway when it comes to intentional feeding, just try your best not die, buy wards and stay under tower. Try and farm up and look to do what you can with your team to win the game. I've had to leave my lane before because i simply couldn't lane anymore after my laner was diving me constantly and has a massive gold, level and skill difference xD