Stop the Lp decrease for dodging

Gismotron·10/16/2014, 1:39:08 PM·1 votes·366 views

Solo queue is bad enough in low tiers. It only makes it worst punishing those for leaving a game he or she doesn't want to be apart of . It only promotes toxic game play in the long run. If my teammate wants to Twisted fate bot, I shouldn't have to agree with him and play that match. dodging a queue saves an afk, and it does provide a player with having some manner of control over team composition. I'm far from good at this game, but I think myself and a lot of other lower tier players feel the match is lost in champ select whether its some ones attitude or champ selection.

Feel free to rebuttal

2 Comments

Sailor Mint10/16/2014, 1:43:08 PM5 votes

They experimented with no LP loss from dodges / longer dodge timers in Season 3. Champion select devolved into a game of chicken with multiple people attempting to make people dodge every time they didn't get their way. It was terrible.

Since MMR does not decrease, your average LP gains for your next couple games should be higher, effectively giving you back the lost LP.

ValyrianBlade10/16/2014, 2:41:14 PM4 votes

I think this would be a better solution: During promos right now, a Dodge counts as a loss I believe. Since promos are the most important Games, This seems particularly unfair. Of course, you can't make it not matter because then people would just Dodge repeatedly until they either have a really good team together or see the other team getting trolled. Of course as it is now, you can't Dodge but everyone else can, which is probably why people complain about more trolls showing up in promos (other people dodged them until you got stuck with them).

So by proposal: give a limited number of free dodges that can be used while in a division (and earn a free Dodge every x played consecutive Games without a Dodge). Dodging when you have no free dodges resets your counter to earn a free Dodge AND costs more lp than it does currently (dodging in a promo without any free dodges results in a loss, should probably warn that they have no free dodges). So players can choose how to allocate their free dodges, probably saving some for dodging in promos, however not too many as upon promotion your free dodges resets to the basic amount for the Tier.

There could be different numbers for each division, maybe bronze 5 needs more dodges than bronze 1 and platinum+ may not need any.

Thoughts?