In League of Legends, your teammates can cause trouble even before the match officially starts. Some players are so skilled at trolling that they even prepare a presentation.
What kind of presentation is this? In a recent Reddit thread, the user Discrete Paul reports that someone from his own team banned the champion he hovered over. He wanted to play Teemo-Top. When he asked why they did that, he only received a link to a presentation.
There, it explains that they might have banned their teammate’s champion for two reasons. Once for fun, to see how the player reacts, and once because they don’t believe they can play the champion.
Additionally, it provides options for how to behave and says that you can’t actually report them for the ban.
Technically, it’s not forbidden to ban your team’s champions
Can you really not report it? The ban itself is probably not something you can report. You do get a warning when you try to ban a champion that a teammate is hovering, but banning your own team
is not punishable in LoL.
He also posted a screenshot of a message on x.com, where Riot Support addressed this very issue back in 2019. Riot Support explains that banning is not a reason to punish a player. If one subsequently reacts toxic, for example by feeding, then they might receive a punishment themselves.
If you don’t want to play the match after the ban anymore, you can only leave the selection phase. However, you will receive an LP loss or even penalties.
There’s a discussion in the Reddit thread:
- A player (via reddit) writes that this is also the reason why he never shows which champion he wants to play during the ban phase.
- Another player (via reddit) says he would have been angry too, but he finds the presentation funny and says that we should respect the effort.
- A player (via reddit) finds it not funny at all and warns that everyone who finds it funny is part of the problem.
Just rise above it and ignore it
Is there really nothing you can do in such a case? The only way to do something without suffering disadvantages yourself is to play a different champion and try to win the game. You could also manually try to send a request to support through other channels, attaching the presentation. However, that involves much more effort than just pressing the report button.
If you don’t want to constantly dodge, it would anyway be useful to have 2 to 3 champions in reserve, as the opposing team might also ban your champion.
Has this ever happened to you in ranked? How did you react in such a situation? Feel free to write it to us in the comments. Recently, HandofBlood and his LoL team had a little issue related to one of their sponsors, but it was quite different from what you might think: President Knabe introduces a controversial sponsor for his team in LoL, blaming a 33-year-old player for everything
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