Darkbladex96 said:
But what did he do wrong? Now banning players for not makimg cookie cutter builds of popular ov erused, and possibly played out games styles is a bannable offense? Are you saying that its fair for the community to have its head so far up its ass that they can get me banned for having a suboptimal build if so so... LoL is the only game that deserves to die.
What did he do wrong? We don't know. That's one of the points I was making in my post - he only posted about that one game, and you can't wind up in front of the Tribunal for one game. You can't. It doesn't happen. You have to have been reported in multiple games by multiple people for it to even have a chance of winding up before a Tribunal. However, when people get suspended or banned, they tend to drudge up one game where they did something wrong and point to it saying "I was banned for THIS????". No, you weren't, you were banned for consistently being a dick over a longer period of time.
As for that one game and the question of non-cookie cutter builds - it's not, as you put it, about a community with its head so far up its arse. First of all, this was a Ranked game. In case you aren't a LoL player, Ranked games are the tryhard section of the game. This is where people are expected to bring their A-game. Sure, unconventional picks are a thing, but players picking unconventional stuff are expected to be proficient with it. If you want to practice, you go and play Normal games or Bot games. There are plenty of platforms for you to perfect something you want to play, but if you take it to Ranked, then know what you're doing.
But the player in question picked Mordekaiser. Now, Morde is at the moment not the best champion, but a valid pick. However, he is picked as a solo laner, NOT as a Jungler. In fact, he is objectively an inferior Jungler. It's not a matter of there being two or three champs for each role that are considered valid picks, it's about him ignoring a few DOZEN champs that are suited for the role and picking one guy who kinda sucks at it.
But it's not just that - he then declares it's his first time playing that champion in that role. So he's playing a champion unsuited to the role for the first time, which means he likely doesn't know what he's doing. He's intentionally screwing four other people over, some of which might be counting on that particular game for a promotion to a higher league. So yes, people were upset.
If you don't want people taking the game seriously, if you want to play for fun and/or fool around, go for it, that's what Normal games are for. If you play Ranked, then don't fuck around and waste people's time.
