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Someone from Riot please read this...... Solo Que Issues

RumpledTiltSkin··2 votes·652 views

Alright so basically I have been playing ranked for about a year now, and ended last season in Gold. When doing my provisionals this season, I was trolled by at least 1 AFKer per game for the first 6 games, placing me in Silver 5. Currently I am attempting to climb the ladder to Gold again after such unfortunate games, but I keep running into a wall. Every time I complete my Silver II promos, I consistently get trolled by chronic AFKers and leavers. I am more or less giving up on League now, I have been demoted back to silver III about 6 times now (and please no one feed me that BS about "ha well maybe you should get better and carry your afkers", that's just dumb). I have carried 4v5 games before, (lost more than I have won, obviously, it doesnt matter how good you are a +1 man advantage is a massive advantage) but the issue is that no one should experience a one-sided or unbalanced game.

Please consider implementing a system that takes into account AFKers (right now all you do is acknowledge that they are AFK, and then do nothing whatsoever to compensate the players who were forced to lose a game and LP for another player's trolling). I suggest giving teams the option to forfeit a game without losing LP IF they have a person on their team who has AFK'd for more than 10 minutes. Give the opposing team LP for the win so that no one wastes their time, while completely banning chronic AFKers from competitive play (for each game they afk, restrict them from playing 10 ranked games, adding 10 on every time they AFK if they have a history of doing so).

Although this may be a lot of work and programming, ultimately I believe Riot would benefit a lot from implementing a system along those lines. AFKers have ruined my league experience so far, and I don't think that I plan on playing again until something is done about it, and I speak for many people (I have had so many league friends quit league over the past year due to the same problem, it just takes all of the fun out of the game).

Please give it some thought, a reply from a Riot Mod would be greatly appreciated.

See you all on the Rift when I'm guaranteed a 5v5!

Cheers.

P.S. - If this post is not in the right forum, please let me know!

9 Comments

mvargus2 votes

My feeling is that Riot needs to stop avoiding the real issue which is that someone going AFK in a team game must be 100% unacceptable at the competitive level. You would never find that on any football/baseball field. A player who took huge parts of a game off because they "didn't feel like playing" would be benched or even kicked off the team permanently. Here they get a slap on the wrist and allowed to keep playing at their current level.

In my opinion anyone who goes AFK in a ranked match should immediately get a 2 week ban. Not just from ranked, but from all games. I know some people have spotty internet, but they can play normal or ARAM if they aren't sure they'll stay connected. If they AFK a second time in ranked, they are permanently banned from ranked and Riot checks for smurfs/other accounts used by the same person. ALL accounts get banned from ranked.

I know its far too harsh, but I bet after only 2-3 weeks there would be no more rage-quitting in ranked and anyone with connection issues would avoid joining a ranked match. However, if Riot wants to fix the problem that's what they have to do. They can't use wrist slaps, but have to bring down a big hammer that says going AFK is not acceptable EVER and that they mean to ensure that it halts.

bunglyfe1 votes

It all balances out in the end. You're just mad because you lost the last few games and are now on tilt. Like how do you think you deserve to go back to gold when you're dying 12 times as an adc in silver 2-3? Or going 0/3/0 as annie? This annie game in particluar says to me that you went on tilt and refused to help the team. It is extremely rare for me as a mid laner to EVER be without at least one kill / assist because even if I am losing lane I will still roam and be involved in fights to help out.

You arent back in gold yet because you keep going on tilt and hitting losing streaks. I am gold 2 now, but finished last season plat 2. It took me the entire season to climb up because I needed those days where I played amazing to balance out days where i played poorly. So stop whining and if you're on tilit stop playing. Otherwise expect a long hard grind to climb.

bunglyfe1 votes

just noticed on the annie game you had 38 CS in 16 minutes. Looks to me like you were one of the afkers you so strongly dislike hmmm

RumpledTiltSkin1 votes

Yeah it's slightly ironic that I had to leave that game, but there was a family emergency that couldn't be helped. Also, in that game if you look at the SHaco, he was AFK for the entirety of the game, and has a 8% win rate in ranked, (he was a chronic offender that only plays ranked to troll games, the 8% is where he was carried as an afk). I have never intentionally AFK'd a game without reason, plus the other 3 people on my team were my friends and said they understood no hard feelings involved. Also, I don't think that I'm on tilt, I was upset that I lost those games due to AFKers but it's a game and I wasn't furious about it, I just decided that if I wasn't going to get anywhere in the game then I might as well not waste my time until there is some kind of system implemented. I appreciate the accusatory feedback, but the fact is I'm in a low ELO right now due to AFKers, not due to my gameplay, if I Lose one or two games dying 12 times as adc (ACtually I think we won that one) to a platinum smurf then so be it, I do not pretend to be the best player in the game, there are tons of ADC's much better than me that I play against. The issue here is chronic AFKing, not bitching.

Slopestyle1 votes

You have to understand that for how many times this happens to you, it equally will happen to the enemy team giving you a free win on occasion as well. Everything balances out.

RumpledTiltSkin1 votes

That's a misconception, it is completely random. Nothing ever balances out because it is based on luck and 4 other people that you play with.

8bj2yMEanN1 votes

If riot made a system that made it so teams with afks didn't lose lp it would be EXTREMELY easy to abuse. Many people who afk just sit in the fountain, and then there's no way to systematically know that they have been afk aside from watching the game (and it's not like riot just records every random silver game) And just to let you know, riot cares about what happens in challenger/master and in lcs; riot doesn't give a fuck about anything that happens below like diamond aside from hacking, they care only about the people who are the very best at the game.

Tons and tons of people have complained about having ranked games with trolls or afks over the 5 years league has existed, and nothing at all has been done about it, and never will.

RumpledTiltSkin1 votes

That's a valid point, but what would your solution be to stop people from abusing it?

Ex: if someone is AFK all game from the start, the team should be able to have loss prevented. If someone AFK's 50 minutes in, then they have to take the loss.

8bj2yMEanN1 votes

{quoted}

That's a valid point, but what would your solution be to stop people from abusing it?

Ex: if someone is AFK all game from the start, the team should be able to have loss prevented. If someone AFK's 50 minutes in, then they have to take the loss.

uh, yea, that's kinda the point, that the IS no good solution.

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