Really tired of losing games because of someone else's connection problems.

SeraphielX·10/25/2014, 3:12:09 AM·23 votes·2,108 views

Sometimes you're a liability to the team and have some areas for improvement.

Sometimes you're tested on your ability to carry someone else who's being a load.

But it's just irritating to do everything correctly, have everyone on the team coordinated and performing well, only to suddenly have the game turn into a 4v5 at a critical moment. There needs to be better detection/forgiveness of these situations. I'm sick of being punished for something that has nothing to do with the game or anything I did in it.

17 Comments

B0DA10/25/2014, 8:03:35 AM10 votes

The issue is that lately it hasn't been a lot of people's faults. A lot of people have been experiencing connection issues where there haven't been before. I understand your frustration, and trust me, those who are getting disconnected are just as mad if not more so. Hopefully Riot does something.

Xonra10/25/2014, 3:31:19 AM8 votes

Yyyyyup.

The problem with this game is the biggest strength: it is a team game.

Fun when it is 5 v 5, not so fun when you are screwed by one of the 5.

1 person can rarely win a game for a team but 1 person can EASILY lose it.

GROMMI10/25/2014, 9:52:44 AM5 votes

Logged in just to upvote. No excuses, Riot. Your matchmaking system is not fair when you allow anything rather than skill to determine ranking.

Siachi10/25/2014, 5:21:34 PM2 votes

As someone who tends to have connection issues because of a shitty ISP... I agree with you. Part of the reason I don't play ranked is because I never want to be in the situation where I ruined someone's promo series because of said ISP.

Kowe The Ewok10/25/2014, 1:34:13 PM2 votes

I do understand that some people can't afford a better connection or computer. But I consider it extremely selfish to ruin the game for others. I just wished they'ld ban such people from ranked games who were afk / disconnected for more than 10 minutes from ranked for a day or two.

SpakeRaw10/25/2014, 4:34:11 AM2 votes

honestly no point of saying anything. Its not like RIOT IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING

Junkο10/25/2014, 11:02:13 AM2 votes

Can we please just add snowball back tot he game? This way ranked may actually be bearable to play with all the rage quiters and random dcs.

CupcakeTrap10/25/2014, 6:27:24 PM1 votes

Implicit in this statement is the assumption that winning a 5v4 is less fun than losing a 4v5 is unfun. Otherwise, it balances out. (Actually, if we're assuming that you don't have d/cs yourself, there's a higher chance that the other team will have a d/c: they have 5 potential d/cers, and you have 4 potential d/cers drawn from the same pool.)

MindReaverNA10/25/2014, 8:26:44 PM1 votes

And yet you probably love it when your enemy loses because of a reconnect and you get an easy win.

Zydron10/25/2014, 8:27:07 PM1 votes

I recently played a game, our Galio dc'd 3 times, and our aatrox once, it was ridiculous because we were winning by so much in all lanes, and just because of someone with a bad internet connection, we lost. we didn't even get loss prevented

AbodyHUN66610/25/2014, 8:40:18 PM1 votes

I really think matches shouldn't start when there is a player who didn't connect while the game was loading. Since it might just be some minor DC and not happen at all later in the game they should be given the same punishments as dodging qeue. Also they should give us the option to vote for pause.