ranked solo queue leavers

Srednal·11/13/2015, 6:29:58 AM·1 votes·571 views

There should be loss forgiven (+0 LP) for team with leaver / afk player. The leaver / afk player should be punished with some number of required normal games (10 sounds good) before playing ranked again. It doesn't matter if someone disconnects or is just a jerk. The same punishment should apply if the client has detected an afk player or if enough afk / trolling reports are received. Ranked should be a privilege for people who play through games, not the default game mode. There is inadequate punishment for AFK's and leavers currently.

Additionally tying in champion mastery as a prerequisite for ranked games would also be a good idea. I'm tired of losing ranked games because some top teemo with 2 games as teemo went 1-12.

1 Comments

masterdragon48111/13/2015, 6:52:36 AM1 votes

First of all, I have to say no way to the champion mastery prerequisite. People can have multiple accounts (and therefore practice on a champion without having the stats on that account) or can farm the mastery level over the course of many, many games. In short, there is really no reliable link between mastery level and skill level and tying ranked games to it wouldn't have the desired effect.

Other than that, I completely agree with you. Afkers should be punished more heavily. I definitely think that the other members of that team should receive loss forgiven. That being said, I do think there are some acceptable reasons to quit a game. "Real life" is an acceptable reason to quit a game, but not every reason fits into that description. For example, someone having an accident and you needing to rush to the hospital would certainly count (at least in my book) as an acceptable reason to leave a game. As a result, I don't think afkers should be punished with 10 normal games, or something like that. It seems like an unnecessary punishment for someone who may have had a good reason to quit (and don't normally have such behavior).

Instead, I'd like to see players who disconnect from games receive an additional -60 to their lp or a loss to their series immediately. Why? Because this will discourage people from rage quiting, etc because of how quickly they will lose rank but will not greatly affect players that disconnect for "acceptable" reasons.