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Paired with people you've reported/blocked

Còrey·1/18/2018, 12:53:54 PM·3 votes·2,677 views

I wasn't able to find much on this issue so I wanted to bring it up that I think needs to be addressed when being paired with people in champ select. I noticed this in the past where if you were to report someone or block them they still show up either being paired with them on your team or on the enemies side. I think Riot should implement a way where you do not get paired with people that you've reported or personally blocked. I wanted to share my opinion since I've been paired with a few people that I have reported and blocked that would be deemed toxic and immature. I get that I can ignore them in game and try to deal with it but it becomes aggravating; especially when you're in a ranked game and doing placements where wins and losses matter. Paying the price for something you've attempted to avoid in the first place creates a negative impact on those who actually are trying to play the game.

8 Comments

Kitty Cat Tosha1/18/2018, 1:02:29 PM4 votes

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/22/overwatch-avoid-this-player/

^that is why

Butt Ρlug1/18/2018, 1:36:52 PM3 votes

Imagine a master/challenger blocking all the players he don't want to go against, this would be abused a lot in high elo.

Còrey1/18/2018, 1:48:28 PM3 votes

Thanks everyone for the insight. It seems that people would abuse despite it's intentions it if a system was created for precise match making. Unfortunately it cannot be helped.

Leylania1/18/2018, 1:03:38 PM2 votes

This is a bad idea since it can get heavily abused. People would just start to block and report every good player on the enemy team while reporting every bad player on their own team.

InsaneWind1/18/2018, 12:59:04 PM1 votes

problem is if they do that then people can block/report everyone in every game they are in till they start playing in high elo. So a bronze player could try to cheat the system by blocking every single player from bronze to gold, yes it would take a long time but someone who is hard stuck in a rank they feel they don't belong in has the time to do something like that.

EVEning Glory3/16/2019, 3:34:00 AM1 votes

i know this is necro'ing, but this can be fixed by such a easy thing, i have frigging no idea how riot hasnt thought of it. You cant be paired with, as in on the same team, as people you report You can still vs them. This makes reporting good players a bad idea, as its more likely for the enemy team to have better players(when you can be paired with the bad players you report, but not the good ones). This destroys the normal argument of report good players so you dont have to vs them. Infact it makes that worse, in that you now have a higher chance of being vs people that are good as opposed to bad. it also stops you being paired with people who ruined your game(if these people get longer queue times as a result, good, so they should for intentionally ruining peoples games)

Hadhar10/25/2018, 7:06:51 PM1 votes

I'd semi agree with the sentiments in the comments, but I do think Riot could at least make it so that if you report and block someone in a game there should be at minimum a timer before you can have them on you team again. Playing against them, that's not something you could/should be able to stop. (see the linked Overwatch article for details of why).

There's been a few times where I've reported a highly toxic player and blocked them only to re-queue and be unfortunate enough to draw them on my team again. Lead to me dodging a game just to not have to deal with someone that I specifically know is toxic.

I don't think it'd be a good idea to keep you from being able to ever be paired with them, since we know sometimes people just get in bad moods and internet nerd rage at others, but still It would be nice to not have to play immediate games with people you've just reported since dodging in a series can be costly.

Potential middle ground would be to have a cap on how many people you can have blocked in addition to the timer of exclusion. Cause lets face it, if you have more than 10-15 people blocked within say a week... either you are trying to abuse the system, or it may be time to do some self-reflection.