Leaver Buster is Busted

Zarsin·7/30/2015, 11:10:10 PM·6 votes·951 views

Hello all and Riot staff,

To me it feels like your leaver buster is a little over the top. Its totally great for players leaving in game. However the fact that it screws players for leaving during champ select is not a great idea. Players get to meet each other for the first time at this point. At this time things can become frustrating if your teammates are trolls or they auto lock and ignore the rest of the team. I feel Riot shouldn't penalize players for leaving the Que when dealing with unpleasant teammates before the rift starts.

best all, Zarsin

7 Comments

Biker Josh7/30/2015, 11:11:50 PM4 votes

I agree with this! I have had many of times where players don't even communicate where they want to go as far as roles and just auto lock and next thing you know you have 2 of one role because of a lack of communication. If someone does not select a champ I think it should be less of a penalty. People don't get online just to ruin a game. People want to play but they don't want to play with a team that won't communicate.

Lord Thrashmouth7/30/2015, 11:11:55 PM4 votes

I've been running into this a lot recently. When people Auto-lock it really makes it difficult to form a good, welcoming and malleable environment. The selfishness that these players exude makes me feel like I'm not going to be respected and even potentially subjected to verbal abuse if our team starts suffering from bad champion selection. So instead of being in that situation, I'd rather be able to leave and find a more nurturing environment for my gaming experience. In short, please reduce these times because we do it for a better game experience, not to be rude.

goodog347/30/2015, 11:17:53 PM3 votes

I totally agree, it is so dumb that you will be punish for trying to avoid a game that is just going to be no fun for anybody. Usually this happens when someone just autolocks making everyone pissed or when two ppl want the same postion. Then instead of being able to avoid the game you have to play through an entire game where your team is fighting and usually someone decides to troll and feed the other team cause they want to punish their own team. WHY CAN"T I JUST QUITE BEFORE WE ENTER THE GAME!!!!! RIOT SHOULD LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT POST HOPE THEY LISTEN!

Aerilus7/31/2015, 3:15:52 AM2 votes

Yeah. There are few times that I've actually dodged, but I only do it if I am fairly certain the experience was going to be a pain in the ass.

Last time I dodged was after a previous game with a certain player. I was Nidalee and he was Fizz. He claimed I kept intentionally healing the rest of team and not him, probably because I was mainly healing Shen who was actually going in and dealing damage. I told Fizz he was just imagining it, but that only inspired him to rage for the next two games. He was one of the worst Fizz I have ever seen. He would dive like crazy and barely even attack and suicide. And he trash talked me all game saying he will report me for trolling and shit.

Then he appears in the next game and says 'I should dodge for your in game trolling last game'. Then I say 'You are the only troll. You dove without our team, killed yourself, and raged for no reason when you were practically useless to our team, there is no way I'm playing with you again.' and then I dodged.

It's one thing that he was a terrible Fizz, I don't care about that, but to rage and blame others the entire game when you are pretty much feeding the other team and not doing shit for our team is a whole nother story.

There is little enjoyment out of playing this game when idiots like that fill up your chat screen with their blaming raging nonsense the whole game, and if I have to get punished by LeaverBuster for avoiding a game like that then I don't mind the punishment.

DarkPhoenix24207/30/2015, 11:16:26 PM1 votes

If they don't punish this behavior, how many time do u think people are going to leave during champ select? I rather report the troll for refusing to communicate with team rather than have everybody ditch their game. Sometime people just flat out leave whe u pick a non meta champ.

CaptainGlorious1/31/2016, 1:20:59 AM1 votes

I was in a 5 man que with people from Chatrooms. In order to encourage a player to stay I was going to switch roles from top to adc. I clicked to make the change and leaver buster popped up stating that I was going to be put in low priority que for "leaving" and that in fact I had "left the lobby". I had not left the lobby nor did I leave. I clicked the button to get out of the popup and began to wait in the que, still in the lobby again. Once more leaver buster popped up. This time with a longer punishment timer and it did actually kick me from the lobby. At least it looked like it, perhaps the owner of the game disbanded everyone due to frustration. So in the end, trying to be the nice guy, promote positivity I end up with the "riot police" on my back. I feel this game has gotten overly complicated for very little player experience improvement. Starting to feel negative towards League of Legends. Frustrated.