Why when we avoid a player are they often placed on the opposite team the next game? I find too often I avoid a very toxic player only to find them on the enemy team the next game continuing their asshattery.
Even worse is if they recognize your name from the previous match and spend their entire game bullying only you, tea bagging, taunting, trolling in chat, it’s a nuisance. A nuisance that I was trying to avoid in the first place by using the built-in aforementioned feature.
So instead of using the avoid feature exclusively I find myself on the forums venting my anger, taking a time-out from the game so I’m not paired with or versus the same trolls again. I’m basically having to punish myself to avoid someone toxic.
I guess I can go queue now. See ya’ll in 2-3 matches when I run into another.
Often? This seems like an exaggeration because I don’t think it has ever happened to me.
Probably depends on your league though
Better their team than your team right?
Report them and don’t care about t-bagging because it is harmless. Getting upset and tilted is literally exactly what they want you to do
The feature is “avoid as teammate” not “avoid”
You can argue it should be, but you are expecting more than the option says it will do
Taking a couple minutes of a break between games can be very helpful either way. It’s not that big a deal to just wait a bit. Go to the arcade or just queue anyways and not worry about it. Do a quickplay maybe
You have options
While I think many of your suggestions for avoiding tilting are good ones, the OP is right about the avoid-as-teammate list. I’ve had it happen too, but only under very specific circumstances.
If you’re in LFG, and you join a group, and then the group leader decides to merge with another group, and that other group has someone in it that is on your “Avoid” list, the game will not block the merger. Your groups will merge, and that player will be on your team again, even though they’re on your avoid list.
I reported this already on the bug report forum, even though I’m pretty sure Blizzard doesn’t look at those at all, no matter what they say.
The REALLY fun part was that when I saw this other player from my avoid list was now in my group, I left the group while still in the queue, before the match started. Dropped back to the main splash screen, and then about 10-15 seconds later, without me clicking on anything, POOF! Suddenly I’m pulled into a comp match as a solo queue player (the match start screen appeared out of nowhere), even though I was not in any queue. Then we had two leavers on our team, so I got a totally bogus loss on a match that I didn’t even join, but also couldn’t leave, or I’d have lost even more SR.
Reported that bug too. Also got no response. As far as I know, that could happen again, but I’ve only seen that once.
Right, but it’s right there in the name “avoid as teammate” not “avoid”
Again, you can argue it should be, but the fact is it isn’t.
The feature is for the automatic matchmaker. This situation seems like it would be so rare as to be a nonissue, but perhaps I’m wrong.
Definitely interesting. Seems pretty rare.
As I figured.
As long as we’re telling matchmaker stories consider this:
There was one time I was in a match and we were playing normal, you know. After the first round… everything broke. I ended up on a different map in a different game. Someone left and the match was being canceled, but before it could I was able to basically confirm that 3 matches essentially merged into 1. There were some people from my game and people from at least two other games. Everyone was confused.
I have a video of this happening on my main computer actually if anyone is interested in seeing it
I have a question here: Is using the tea bag spray and tea bagging someone after a kill a reportable offense? If yes for what would it be considered reportable. It was no insult or gameplax sabotage or something like that
The feature is called avoid as teammate. It’s used to prevent you from being on the same team as that person for up to 7 days, not in the same game. I felt I needed to clarify just in case. You only ever referred to the feature as “avoid.”
I get your frustration, and I have a solution! If you avoid someone as a teammate, he ends up on the enemy team, and is being rude to you in the match chat: block or squelch him. Blocking or squelching him means you won’t see anything he says. You could also type “/hidechat” (may have used the wrong slash) to completely hide ALL chats, or leave the match chat by opening the social-menu-thing (press the P key on PC) and clicking on the orange text bubble. You should see a slash over the text bubble once you’ve left the chat.
If he’s tunnelvisioning on you or taking the time to tea bag you, you could exploit that or turn it into a funny 1v1. A tunnelvisioned player’s gonna make mistakes, and going out of his way to tea bag you can leave him vulnerable to your teammates.
Please don’t let those people keep you from playing if you still want to!
You ought to forgive and forget about it, or you’ll never be able to move on and just have fun playing the video game you enjoy. Please still report reportable offenses, though.
This is at least the 3rd thread I’ve seen on this. How are people misunderstanding what it does? Do they simply not read it properly or do they not understand it?
Avoided players sure can be toxic to you when they’re on the enemy. That’s why whenever I see someone I’ve avoided on the enemy team I immediately squelch their chat (press “P” and then click the text box icon next to them).
If I avoided them because they were toxic to me, or any teammate, by saying I/they were trash, and then I beat them next match I will un-squelch them just to troll them about losing to the “trash” player. This isn’t necessary, or even a good thing to do, but it usually tilts them a little more and you can hope to get them on the enemy again next time and farm yet more SR. Telling them that you’re going to farm them also helps with tilting them.
The spray obviously not.
Tea bagging someone however, there were no official statements on this as far as I know. That being said, if you ask me its anti sportmanship behavior, unless both parties are having fun with it, and technically you could argue it being abusive and definitely could argue gameplay sabotage. While its not straight up throwing, wasting time and putting yourself at risk to go out of your way to tea bag an enemy after you kill them is kind of the same as standing in plain sight of enemies and emoting. just sayin.
I can vouch for the ‘often’ statement, it seems like the playerbase is so small nowadays that it almost always matches me with the player i have avoided on the enemy team in the next match
Mute them and kill them. If you can’t kill them maybe you were the problem they said you were the game before. And if they were really the troll you said they were, you’d beat them and get your SR back.
If I’m on an account where I can competently play enough heroes to flex I usually try to pick a hard counter to their hero, too. Just so I, personally, can make them completely ineffective.
“Oh, you really didn’t do much that match. I guess we now know who the dead weight was before.”
when I avoid the player who was obviously the one make us lose (like playing Torp and never switch or just keep killing himself for no reason and any kind of trolling in this amazing game) I end up winning the next game when the player in the enemy team.
this once happened to me like 3 times on a row lose win lose win lose win,
I said wow six games of no actual competing .
I felt bad for enemy team because they were in the same positions I was when that one player was trolling my team.
If you avoid someone as a teammate, he ends up on the enemy team, and is being rude to you in the match chat: block or squelch him. Blocking or squelching him means you won’t see anything he says. You could also type “/hidechat” (may have used the wrong slash) to completely hide ALL chats, or leave the match chat by opening the social-menu-thing (press the P key on PC) and clicking on the orange text bubble. You should see a slash over the text bubble once you’ve left the chat.