Tired of 20min timers

Skyitl·11/5/2018, 7:58:16 PM·1 votes·2,498 views

Every time I DC or I lag so hard in the loading screen of the game to start I get 20min timers and lose 20lp like seriously riot.... How can I appeal these 5 20min timers I can't be asked to wait 20mins for something that can't be helped. I mean it's a remake no harm done why take 20lp and give me 20 min timers? Such bs, Fix your game.

4 Comments

MrFawknSunshine11/5/2018, 8:13:21 PM3 votes

fix your connection/internet and you wouldnt have this issue

Silent Gravity11/5/2018, 11:39:03 PM1 votes

If you think that the time lost by remake for the other 9 players is "no harm done", then the LPQ you are experiencing is also "no harm done".

LPQ lasts for 5 games. 5 x 20 minutes is 100 minutes.

There are 9 other players in the match. 100/9 is 11.11111 minutes, or 11 minutes 6 seconds.

If you wasted less than 11 minutes 6 seconds of time for each other person, then your punishment is longer than the time you wasted. If you wasted more than 11 minutes 6 second, then your punishment is shorter than the time you wasted.

First is que time. That lasts generally between 1 and 10 minutes. For this exercise, let's say it lasted 3 minutes on average across the 9 other players. 8 m 6 s remaining.

.25 minutes/15 seconds for declaring a champion. 7 m 51 s remaining

4 minutes for banning, picking, and setting runes/summoners 3m 51 s remaining

Loading into game takes between 1 and 5 minutes. When someone DCs, it normally takes quite a long time. Let's be generous (to you) and say 4 minutes.

  • 9 s

Now the 3 minutes it takes to remake. -3m 9s

3 minutes 9 seconds x 9 is 28 minutes 21 seconds.

You wasted nearly a half hour more time than you are being "punished". The time you wasted was also the time of completely innocent people, and your time loss is a direct result of your actions.

ModPeriscope11/6/2018, 12:35:44 AM1 votes

20 minute timers cannot be overturned, and only get to that point after a consistent history of leaving.

Try to repair the client first, beyond that, I'd submit a ticket and/or make use of the hextech repair tool.

Laughing Fish11/6/2018, 1:41:33 AM1 votes

Generally speaking, with any connection issue the best first thing to try is the Hextech Repair Tool. This will scan your connection settings, make firewall exceptions, check your installation, etc.


If the hextech repair tool doesn't fix it for you, try checking out the Connection Issues Troubleshooting Guide by Riot Support. It goes over all the most common problems and their solutions one by one.


Should all else fails, you can always get help directly from riot by sending in a Support Ticket.

Important: Before you send in a ticket, make sure to run the Hextech Repair Tool to gather logs, then attach those logs to the ticket. This gives Riot all the relevant info they need to help you.