Players who intentionally let themselves be killed (feeding) will face harsher penalties in League of Legends. Riot is planning an improved system against trolls.
Good news for fans of fair play in League of Legends. Trolls or feeders are expected to be better recognized by the system in the future and receive harsh penalties.
The so-called feeders intentionally die in the game to give the enemy an advantage, causing frustration in their own team.
Penalties for Feeders in LoL
In the League of Legends subreddit, Comms Director Ben “draggles” Forbes spoke out. There, a thread reported a feeder who, despite multiple reports, continues to wreak havoc in League of Legends and ruins games for summoners.
Draggles explained to the frustrated players that there will soon be some changes regarding this issue in LoL. He wrote that Riot itself is not satisfied with the current system that is supposed to recognize intentional feeders. Flamers are already being recognized better than before. However, trolls are not stopped quickly enough.
In the coming weeks, there should be changes to this system, which keeps the trolls in check:
- There will be changes to the automated system that Riot hopes will allow for quicker detection of intentional feeders. While it will never work “perfectly,” the team expects to catch more intentional feeders this way. The rate of reported innocent players shouldn’t increase.
- Until the improved system is in place, more manual reviews and bans will be conducted.
- In the long run, they want to change the system more profoundly to make trolling harder. However, this all still needs to be developed and won’t happen in the coming weeks.
Riot understands the players’ frustration and takes the issue very seriously: “We haven’t said anything about this topic for a long time. It’s unacceptable that players ruin matches by intentionally dying. We are taking the planned improvements to the system very seriously and hope that we can better stop this behavior.
