I find an afk player in 1 out of two matches.
Both my last two matches have had AFK players.
A couple of matches before that, another AFK, and I honestly am skeptical on even starting a game right now. There seems to be an abundance of AFK players right now and this game clearly doesn't compensate for a 4v5.
Skíns10 votesI AM that AFK player.
And I have been that AFK player for about a month now, since the new client launched. It's hectic. I am not that AFK player because I choose so. I enjoy the game, and no, I am not tilted by it. I dont ragequit, nor do I give up on games.
I am that AFK player because yesterday 4 games in a row my client crashed in loading screen - the client then attempted to repair itself which took roughly 5 minutes. I started all these games with at least one minion wave already gone, and the opponent laner being in a pretty important xp and cs advantage.
I am that AFK player because the client crashes. It crashes a lot. Usually in the loading screen, sometimes mid-game. I reinstalled it, didnt help. I am not alone.
It's come to the point where people arent even mad at me for AFKing anymore, since they've experienced the same issues. I connect at 2:45 as a Rakan support, apologize for it in chat, and Xayah politely answers with "Dude, its not your fault. It happens to me every few games aswell. It happens to everyone. Lets just try to win this".
RIOT needs to do something about it; it's been going on for way too long, and there's way too many people experiencing these issues. And yes, I'm talking ranked.
Regards, Skíns
KalokasIsMyDaddy4 votesGood luck convincing Riot and their fanboys that their amazing client is actually terrible. Once every about 5 games my client crashes on loading screen but thankfully I can get back in time before the 1st minute. I have a good PC.
My friend also got a very good PC recently, and it does the same thing, and yesterday it crashed and wouldn't let him reconnect, it even rolled him back to the previous login screen. It's crazy how buggy and slow this client is. I can't begin to comprehend how Riot, a company basically swimming in money, cannot bother to address some really big issues with the client.
uSfUpLarry2 votesThe client fucking sucks cock.
I play more Dota 2 than LoL and I've been hard losing games because I have afks in every second match. Literally. Not exaggerating.
While play Dota 2 the client rarely crashes, so I know what a good client looks like. LoL's client is just lazy design.
uSfUpLarry1 votesThat's even more of a reason for Riot to take the client into consideration.
This shit is actually causing me LP and even though I blitzed through bronze with an 80% winrate I am just not motivated to play ranked anymore. I do try but I can't go two matches in a row without an AFK player.
I have a terrible winrate coz merely playing this game is a tilting experience these days and I've been playing less with every passing day.
Besides, most of these AFK players I find are players who disconnect halfway through the game for no fucking reason. A few games ago I recall this Morgana who enters the game and at 2 minutes types in chat "have fun remaking" and disconencts. No, we couldn't remake and yes, we lost despite me having done incredibly well.
Yboat1 votesMe too, been having lots of issues staying in games as well. Everything is fine, then zero fps for 30+ seconds. At 1st I thought maybe I was having some type of software or hardware issue. So I started monitoring my task manager and my resource usage. During these slow downs the only thing that spikes is one of riots programs. What's odd is I see zero change in resources used or in cpu/ gpu temps. I even went as far as to turn off all avs and inly use the standard windows fire wall. Still no change. Then I thought maybe it was my connection. Big nope there as well, zero fluctuations and I can still stream 1080 p video and play lol at sub 100 ping. Which I know is high for most, but even with out stream the 1080 p my ping is still in the 80s.
When I play hots I have a ping in the single digits
Kendren14 votesTons of client issues. I imagine if u have a slow comp, by the time u realize it froze u cant restart and join game in time.
uSfUpLarry1 votesI've been having players quit halfway. Of course this could be the client because I have received error messages in the past and been disconnected in the middle of the matches.
I've been able to reconnect over my games but other may not have been as lucky. I do live very far away in Asia and get terrible ping myself.
citlalli57553 votesI get an afk about 1/5 games. its insane.
uSfUpLarry1 votesLucky you. Perhaps you play at an elo above mine but I can't get out of silver with every second match being an afk.
Mordepool3 votesI don't really blame em. Games are determined by minute 3. Some just in champ select.
uSfUpLarry1 votesChampion select doesn't mean shit in my elo.
I am sitting on silver IV on this account and people can be fucking stupid here. I generally do well but no, I can't do much in games when a player decides to go afk after 10 mins with no compensation for LP.
Sylaelque3 votesLeague of AFKs
Hi im 121 votesrunning it down n afking are good options, I'll just pick one of em when I'm about to flame people and it saves me my accounts :)
uSfUpLarry1 votesI never afk, but I can agree this is a better way to go.
Better afk when it's a sure lost match than flame, but the people I am talking about aren't AFKs in bad matches, nor AFKs after they get flamed. No, I've been facing random AFKs even in winning matches where the team's been doing well only to lose because one player disconnected for no fucking reason.
wolvius1 votesWhat Skins said since new launcher there has been a large increase in AFK's for various reasons; people dodging with 20 seconds left not causing return to queue and the occasional time where the ingame client goes blackscreen and have to relog/restart.
If you think it is bad on the rift you should see the howling abyss, theres far more dodges there and half don't even stop the match from starting, I may make odd keystone choices but aftershock anivia isn't one of them.
uSfUpLarry1 votesI'm referring to dodges, but afks in the middle of matches which prevent remake.
It's either the client fucking sucks and disconnects people in silver halfway or leavebuster is way too lenient on idiots who disconnect without any consequence.