Why isn't banning a teammates champion reportable?

HungryJack619·12/5/2017, 3:21:32 AM·7 votes·1,795 views

I just had a teammate purposely ban my main, who I had signaled that I plan to play, only because they were made that they got filled and wanted my role. Why is this not a reportable offense? For that matter, why can you only wait until after a game to report another player's behavior? This seems like a rather crucial flaw.

I know what the response will be: "But you can report them for it after the game."

Actually, you can't. The reason they do it is to get someone on the team to dodge, which is what happens nine times out of ten, which means their behavior goes largely unreported. There needs to be an option to report players in champ select.

13 Comments

Final Spark Lux12/5/2017, 3:26:45 AM6 votes

Everyone has every right to pick and ban whoever they want. Words from Riot. Yeah, it sucks if they ban something you wanted to play, but it isn't against any rules.

Jo0o12/5/2017, 3:35:23 AM2 votes

It absolutely sucks when it happens, and I sympathize with your frustration.

Current Riot opinion is that the value of being able to ban highly-contested pick/ban champs, even against the wishes of your teammates, outweighs the troll potential of banning your teammate's champ of choice. There's also a troll potential, though in my opinion a small one, of somebody hovering a contested pick/ban champ to prevent it from being banned and then picking a different champ, should friendly bans be blocked.

I wholeheartedly disagree with Riot on this one. In terms of positive vs. negative impact on numbers of players, there's no way that unilateral bans on contested champs provides more benefit than the detrimental impact of trolling people by banning their pick.

But hey, this is the world we live in, at least for now.

General Esdeath 12/5/2017, 9:30:12 AM2 votes

If they say "I'm banning your champ, give me your role" you can send a report ticket with a screen shot (or without, they can see pre-game chat).

HalcyonDweller12/5/2017, 10:27:03 PM2 votes

Banning somebody's intended pick may not be punishable, but talking about it in chat to antagonize and bully them into dodging or trading roles is.

If the player says anything in chat to indicate that they did it to troll you, by all means report them, because Riot will investigate and their automated system looks for types of behavior that are often reported. If players who get autofilled often ban their teammate's picks and then tease them about it, and this is something that is consistently reported by players, Riot will pay attention and add it to the list of punishable behavior.

Every time a player does this and teases you in chat about it, your should definitely report it. This will help Riot identify if the community thinks this is punishable.

On the other hand if they just ban your pick and say nothing, unless you are first pick you will have no leg to stand on. Because they could just really badly not want the other team to get that champion, and it might be something they are so afraid of that they are willing to ban it even if that means risking pissing you off. You do have to consider the possibility of them just not wanting to play against it.

kaironen12/5/2017, 3:27:33 AM1 votes

Although a report in champ select could potential fix this issue, it would also cause it to be highly abusive. I mean, people would report others just for banning other people's champions when they didn't mean to ban their champion. They probably only banned them because they thought the champion was frustrating to play against or that they are broken.

HerFeatherKnight12/17/2018, 5:12:47 PM1 votes

This happens to me every time someone asks for my role and I say no. Then if I dodge to not play with a toxic teammate, I end up with the autofill after the Dodge timer.

People basically have free range to make the game miserable for you and then you end up getting punished twice for their behavior; Once with the Dodge timer and again by having to spend the next 45 minutes playing their filled role anyways. Meanwhile, they get off Scott free and probably get rewarded with the role they wanted.