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There's no reason other players ranking should reflect the results of something out of their control such as a teammate AFKing. IMO the AFKer should lose the collective LP of everyone on the team in ranked. Negative reinforcement, plus it would make it a less frustrating experience playing ranked.
I have agreed with this for a long time. NOT ALL the LP, but they should receive a larger than normal amount, and the others should lose 0 (or very little), because the game is no longer balanced once one person goes AFK.
And Riot can just deal with abuse later. Giving a good experience is more important than the few who would abuse.
What about all the accidents that happen to make someone disconnect; storm, parents, animals, emergencies.......
Too abusable. It incentivizes one player to AFK if you're far behind so that the rest will maintain LP instead of just, you know, focusing on recovering and winning.
While I agree with this, there's still a decent number of instances where you can be forced to AFK for a fault beyond your own. Random outages, your ISP being assholes and cutting your connection, Morgana's Q with Ornn's brittle, sudden emergencies, random crashes...
It hardly seems fair to force someone to lose a full division worth of LP for things beyond their control. While a lot of DC's are deliberate, there's still enough that are non-intentional that this wouldn't work.
And, besides, it'd likely encourage trolls to just feed, rather than going AFK, and that's objectively worse.
Why would this not also apply to those 0/10 botlanes?
you would drop an entire elo for one game if that happened tho
