Trolls and AFKs get real punishment in Wild Rift?
I know that the situation is different for every server, and that there are already a gazillion posts like this one, but, man, Riot REALLY needs to do something. We always think it's a little worse right now, so I try to keep it real and remind myself that matchmaking always sucked. But, it IS a little worse right now, isn't it?
I don't know how you guys are doing. My win rate sits at an all-time low of 43%. I fell from Emerald IV to Plat IV, while improving at the game. Looking at the game's scores, two things pop up:
i) People are dying a lot. We can't post pics here (this subreddit would become a gallery of KDA scores), but I have a sequence of 3 defeats in which we lost by 1\~3 dudes on my team dying A LOT. Like, 10+ times in a 16 minute game. I don't know if this is a indicative that people are playing champions and roles that they're wildly uncomfortable with. I just feel that there is a little bit more feeding right now.
ii) Trolling and AFKing. That one is REALLY serious right now. In about 50% of matches (I kid you not, I looked up my games for this season) I got someone on my team that picked a high-risk-high-reward one-trick type champion (Yasuo, Akali, Irelia, Fiora, Katarina, etc.), lost lane and quit, or lost lane and then proceeded to troll the game, like, dying intentionally. It's not a game, it's not two games. This is happening a lot.
I think that Heroes of the Storm came up with a nice punishment for this type of behavior. If you're caught being THAT toxic, you're demoted to (a) not being able to play ranked games for a number of matches (b) playing your PVP games only with people who, like you, have been caught up in toxic behavior.
And, for people who end up being victims to other people's whims, damn, we really need some kind of shielding from losing rank this way. I say that because of the climb, but also because you pretty much can't win a 4v5, and people refuse to give up because they know they'll lose a point if they give up. So you often find yourself stuck with 2 other tryhards trying to defend your Nexus while the opposing team uses their numbers advantage to secure objectives and win anyways.
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How is it going for you guys, and what do you think we can do, as a community, to try to change this stuff for the better?