A Broken System

I normally do not use these discussion boards except maybe occasionally looking for a duo partner or a group. I felt that this concern was worthy of creating a discussion. It has to do with the ranked systems and reporting, and how completely and utterly broken they are.

To first go to the ranked systems and how the current ranking system is not an accurate predictor of your rank. Take for example, like everyone has experienced, when any lane feeds their enemy 4 kills within the first 15 minutes and that snowballs all the other lanes because they can now roam and snowball the other lanes. This happens, probably more than Riot would like to admit, and it leads to losses for players who may not have necessarily been worse than the enemy team, but one player on the other team could take advantage of it and that is the game at 20 minutes. This is where the main problem comes in with ranked: Losing is an inevitable loss of LP. This is not a rewarding experience for the rest of the team, which is now being punished for a single persons errors. Now Riot will inevitably make the argument that this is a team game and it is the responsibility of the team to compensate for this. This does not happen. This never happens. A feeder always leads to toxicity.

This is where the second problem comes into play: The Tribunal does nothing. It is at this point a joke. I can report people for days and still receive the same "thank you for your submission for the Tribunals Review blah blah blah." And that is it. That is the end of the entire transaction. No follow up, no continuation, no results. Another issue is that reporting players, even if all the other players in the lobby report the player, there is never loss prevented or even a mitigation of LP loss. Even worse, you can only report players at the end of the gaming, meaning that there is no system to actively alert Riot of problem players. It. Is. Broken.

My Potential Solution(s):

1. A Mercy Rule: the enemy team is allowed to vote at the end of the match whether or not the players deserve a Loss Prevented. This can occur when the enemy team has an AFK or a feeder which compromises the other teams chances of winning. These reported games can be sent to a select number of Rioters who will look at the evidence and declare if it should be Loss Prevented or LP loss should be mitigated.
2. Active Reporting: Allow players to report other players in game, which would then notify certain Rioters to monitor these players activity, ideally, in that specific game. This allows problem players to be identified and dealt with in a rewarding manner to the players making the reports. This would make it feel like reporting players actually does something.
3. Losing a ranked game is not equal to losing LP. This is a really simple concept and would be easy to execute with a simple equation. Factor in KDA, Damage Dealt, wards placed: USE ANY OF THE DATA YOU GIVE AT THE END OF THE GAME. Do something to mitigate the damages of losses. Once again, these things should not occur during every game, just games where reports are made. This is why we need a Tribunal which actually works, to fix these problems.

I hope it doesn't sound like I am ranting, I am just trying to bring up legitimate criticisms of the system, hopefully to be implemented in Season 5.

If you agree with these ideas, please upvote and comment. Get Riots attention, for all of our benefit.