Re: When will ratting be penalized

When you see a champion squad like this in Plat II,  would you throw caution to the wind? 

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@OldTreeCreeper wrote:

Reporting ratting is a waste of everyone's time as it is not against the rules, and does not qualify within the game as sobotage.

Clearly how a player chooses to play the game is up to them.

Conversely should "incapable hot droppers" be a reportable offence and penalised?

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Maybe some context here to avoid sounding like some big meanie.  We ping and land on Eternal Gardens.  Another team lands at a different part of the POI.  After looting and a bunch of appropriate pinging, we end up engaged with the other team.  Unfortunately, being apparently 2v3 against a three stack, we both go down.  Cue our view of our third team mate - crouching on top of a box in a corner of a building several hundred meters away.  This is what the guy did off drop, in gold.  That is sabotage in my view.  This person entered a ranked game with absolutely no intention to play with his team.

It's not about whatever ratting the guy did afterwards.  That's not an issue.  That's just what you do in ranked after your team is gone.  I didn't see it because we left after our banners ran out.  A handful of RP in gold is not worth 15 minutes of my time.  In all of my games this has only happened maybe three times, tops.

I do think that you would be justified reporting your ranked team mates if their idea of a good drop is to land directly on top of multiple teams, contesting one loot spawn.  I have not had the misfortune of this happening, presumably because I always duo queue in ranked and we have not had a random third be jump master and try pulling this particular stunt.

@pandareno1999

"crouching on top of a box in a corner of a building several hundred meters away. This is what the guy did off drop, in gold. That is sabotage in my view."

I have to weigh in here because this is me in about 95% of my matches, so I feel qualified to explain exactly what it is that was going through this guy's head.

One, I can guarantee you he wasn't your jm or he never would have landed that close to another squad.

Two, as soon as he hit the ground he got as far away from the other squad as he could. He didn't bother pinging where he was going because he KNEW you wouldn't go with him. He didn't bother hanging around because he KNOWS that early-game fights are 5% skill and 95% luck and didn't want to waste a potential win by relying on luck to get him through the first 60 seconds of the game. Especially when that demonstrates a willingness to allow teammates to continue the entire match in the same way. Start as you mean to continue.

Three, If you got into a gunfight without KNOWING that your third was ready and committed then that's on you, not on him.

So I would say that if you asked this guy who it was that "sabotaged" the match then you would get an answer that might surprise you.

IMO.