Ok, i'm just curious how bans work, being an honest player and everything, I just want to know how the system works incase something weird happens...

1: [The leaver's banning system]--------- I have heard that there is a separate, automated, system for banning people who continually leave. I can't remember what it is called, but I am curious how it racks up marks against someone before it assigns a penalty. Does it ban once it reaches a limit of marks, or does it ban if the person leaves a certain amount of times within a set amount of matches?
What i'm trying to ask is if I leave or go AFK, which I only do if it is a dire emergency like if WWIII breaks out, a certain amount of times in general will I be banned? Or if I leave a game every now and then, but between them 50 or so games go by, will I be banned?
This assuming I'm not being reported to tribunal...

2: [Tribunal Questions]---------- So I have some questions about tribunal. First off, can you be banned for being bad, this excludes trolling. If someone is having a hard time concentrating, or is just plain bad or clumsy at video games can they be banned? I mean some of the challenge of the game is compensating for the bad ones, its just a fact of life, if you hate it so much then stop driving, talking to people, ect...
Also, if someone goes AFK but has a completely justifiable reason, and they state it in the chat to all the players, tribunal does take that into consideration right, especially if other players acknowledge, or other people who know that explain the reason too...
If someone has connection errors, can tribunal see and fluctuations in connections to justify whether or not they are actually having trouble and it is not there fault... For example, I have been banned twice in total, both times is because Cox has a stroke and cuts the internet for like 5 hours, and believe me, People and I have left their customer service department fearful with how angry we are...

3: [Punishments] Are the punishments given by Riot or by peers? Personally I think it should be given by riot after they review the verdict come upon by the peers, because I was thinking, couldn't there be a bad apple in the bunch that tries to screw everyone over... For example, there is a guy I know named PhailNinja, I know him in real life. He like to "piss" people off, and he gets everyone banned that he possible can, without even looking at the case, I know this for one because I know him, and two because he makes a public scene bragging about how much he does this...
If someone is banned but they bring attention to the fact that it is a fraudulent ban, can they be pardoned? I know that some people can be banned even when they do nothing wrong, ...humans... , so I wanted to know if and how they are unbanned i that is possible...
How do Perma-bans work? I know that they must do something awfully bad in order to achieve this, but i'm curious what constitutes as a perma-bannable offense. I am nice to everyone on the game, even if they are not nice back, so if it has to do with people's personalities and non-cooperatibility, then how bad must that be? Also, can someone be perma-banned for being AFK or leaving? I think it would be understandable if they go AFK or leave EVERY single game for a really long time and screw up people's days, but if they do it every now and then, and try not to do it, I think it should not be perma-bannable...
One more thing, if someone has purchased or attained Riot points through money, then I don't think they should be perma-bannable, considering they bought an item related to your game through real money... Now if someone doesn't support Riot at all and makes an "arse" of themselves than its fair game bro...

I'm just curious because this whole part of the game's system is kinda in the fog for me right now... Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

1. It's an automated system. It allows for emergencies or power outages once in a while but if you disconnect from mutiple games in short succesion from say a thunder storm you'll still get a warning/ban. It's expected you fix any issues or wait for them to be fixed before playing again.

2. Generally no. However there have been a couple cases of people playing ranked games and claiming to simply be bad at the game but getting banned. This is due to either a) they are lying and are simply trolling or they are making the intentional choice to play in ranked when they do not understand even the basic concepts of the game such as creep score thereby ruining other people's competitive games. Everyone has bad games, even some of the pro teams on the LCS got completly shut out of games with not even a single kill. However multiple games with little cs, builds that make no sense and being in a PvP game can get you banned as they will be taken as troll games.

If someone is trying to reconnect many people will ignore the report since leaverbuster will take care of it if it happens often. If someone obviously ragequits it will usually end in a punishment though.

3. The community votes on whether the player deserves punishment. The punishment is based on how many times the person has been punished before. The community has no knowledge what punishment the person may receive when they vote. Punish spammers have little effect on the system as their votes dont actually count. it's remarkably easy for Riot to tell punish spammers apart from actual voters. Your friend has likely spent alot of time doing nothing.. but dont tell him that. Perma bans are only given out after a minimum of 4 other punishes by tribunal and every single perma ban is reviewed by Riot before it is approved.

As to paying for priviledges.. no. If you buy a movie ticket, pay for a membership at a gym or to a concert or sporting event and begin harassing other customers and staff you will be removed with no refund given. The same goes with Riot.

/shen'd lol


In the end it is not a perfect system. There will be outliers. For some additional reading on both systems

Understanding the Tribunal
Tribunal FAQ
LeaverBuster FAQ

And for some interesting statistics

Facts behind the Tribunal (A Guide with math)!