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What if you lost less LP in ranked games if people on your team were afk

HeroMeat·1/20/2019, 2:16:22 AM·2 votes·2,864 views

Why does this not happen. say a game starts out fine but 5 min in your ADC disconnects most likely your going to lose, your main dmger is gone so you lose the game and you just lost 22 LP ...... wait so i spent 30 min in a game that i was going to lose and i get punished for my team mate leaving.

    What if there was a system were based on how long your team mate was afk you lose less LP say the normally you lose 22 LP per loss what if you loss 1 less lp per min that your team mate was afk so you lose 4 Lp if your ADC was afk for 18 minutes, much better 

    This means that if your team mate was afk for only 1 min you cant get away with only losing only 5 lp for that loss obviously the afk team mate will still lose full LP and the enemy team will still gain full Lp.

In this current theme of fairness in ranked with the introduction of position ranking it only makes sense that that this could be a thing. leave give this discussion an up vote and vote in the poll if you agree.

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18 Comments

ModDesonance1/20/2019, 2:19:27 AM4 votes

The reason it's not done is to avoid people abusing it with ill intentions.

MrFawknSunshine1/20/2019, 2:31:09 AM4 votes

it is fair as it is. every one has to deal with the afk at times and loses LP for a lost game.

over a season of rank this occurs about 10% of games which all people are subjected too so it balances out. its not going to keep a player in silver if they are diamond skilled.

Super Sandmanne1/20/2019, 2:18:12 AM2 votes

The match should just be voided if you aren't queued with the guy who DC'd tbh

HeroMeat1/20/2019, 2:42:11 AM1 votes

if that zed gets offended by that then he can report his team but if he does leave he gets penalized so it goes full circle lmao [slayer-jinx-wink]

ODiiiiiN1/20/2019, 2:47:56 AM1 votes

then everyone would afk

4G PnutCollida1/20/2019, 5:08:43 AM1 votes

No matter what, this is going to be abused and create toxicity.

If you que with a friend, you or your friend can just DC/AFK in a losing game to prevent the other from losing LP.

Plus, if one of you has a smurf account, you or your friend won’t have to worry about losing LP by AFK’ing since technically it isn’t your main and you wouldn’t really care if your smurf lost LP.

If it was made that it only works if someone not in your party AFK’s, toxicity would occur.

It would just cause others to bully a person into leaving so that the rest won’t have to suffer the LP loss.

Overall, while it does suck to have an AFK there isn’t much you can do.

Cheers!

Wolfram Oxford1/20/2019, 11:11:53 AM1 votes

It’s a game of averages, it’s unlikely to run into a lot of afk teammates, a change like this however would definitely be abused in higher elo where it’s more competitive, definitely not plat-diamond, but master and challenger players might just afk in a fucked game just to help their friends out, it would turn into an essential win trade where perhaps people would collaborate, duo, and just have one person afk in any game that’s fucked. A very bad idea for a change like this, I’d just recommend keeping your head up and grinding out enough games where it doesn’t matter. Also you might want to do that if you’re losing 22 LP a game, if you’re climbing it should be around 17 (or less?), if you’re “where you should be” it should be about 20, anything more might be due to poor MMR.

Zero Skill Tank1/20/2019, 1:00:41 PM1 votes

Your post makes no sense at all, sure getting an afker might feel bad, but if you yourself never AFK, they you are only gaining LP from afkers, because enemy team will on average get 25% more afkers then yours. It's simple math.

Leavers might be annoying and solutions to the problem are welcome, but giving out LP isn't a solution, because in the long run you are not losing LP due to afkers, only gaining it.

OP Edwin5/11/2019, 2:58:05 PM1 votes

I think everyone in the team that had a disconnect loses half the LP they would lose otherwise, and the person who disconnected also loses the share of his teammates. So if everyone would lose 20 lp, everyone instead loses -10, and the disconnnect loses -20 + his teams differences, so -60 in this case.

DuskDaUmbreon1/20/2019, 2:26:48 AM1 votes

Because there's no way to keep it fair, simply because you can queue with others.

If I queue with someone and we're losing, one of us can go AFK to save LP for the other, abusing the system.

However, if my duo's connection shits out (or was just trolling me all along), I lose full LP for reasons beyond my control, which then feels shitty for me.

There's no way to keep it from being abused without it also being shitty.

PrismalDawn1/20/2019, 2:35:28 AM1 votes

I understand that people would probably want to abuse it by disconnecting, but honestly come on.

We already know that if someone disconnects, that person will get a full LP loss, this shouldn't change.

And also, who in their right mind will disconnect and lose FULL LP just so the rest of their team can lose a lot less?? I have a hard time getting people to do what I want in game enough as it is, imagine trying to get them to forcefully disconnect lol

"Hey Zed you are 0-11-0 just DC and spare us LP"

"SURE MAN!!" [slayer-jinx-wink]

Yeah, in what world. LESS LP FOR DC'S RIOT