Ranked leavers

Doomtide·9/20/2015, 11:48:20 AM·41 votes·2,444 views

Hi everybody I'm Doomtide and i play on the EUW servers. Lately i have lost 3 games in a row because of people Leaving/AFK. I don't think its fair that when you lose a game 4 v 5 you lose the same amount of lp as you usually do when you lose a game. Of course you could have still won but it decreases your winning chances significantly. It's simply not fair. So why not make it so that when you have a leaver on your team in a ranked game you don't lose as much lp as you normally would but the enemy recieves the same amount they normally do.

Please upvote this post so Riot games will consider my idea. Also sorry for my bad english it's not my native language.

29 Comments

For Carthage9/20/2015, 2:29:43 PM5 votes

Riot doesn't care, they won't change it ever, get used to it.

Prospector Pete9/20/2015, 11:49:46 AM4 votes

Upvoted. I can't believe Riot hasn't done something about this already.

Android Cowboy9/20/2015, 11:55:21 AM4 votes

The ball has been dropped so many times, on THIS issue, that it's just depressing. Gnar

Also: upvoted

MegaSupportGuy9/20/2015, 6:57:56 PM3 votes

WORD, but riot sadly doesnt give a fuck, if they don't gain any rp from this change why would they spend resources in creating it? and watch no riot mods are gonna respond to this thread and they might even remove it

xXKUR0S4K1Xx9/20/2015, 12:01:11 PM3 votes

You should half your teams Lp loss except that of the leaver (and premade) and give them that as a penalty.

Stackless Python9/21/2015, 6:04:17 AM3 votes

Not even joking, you can leave 100 games in a row and the only thing that you will get is "snack and break time" queue also called Low Priority Queue. They don't look into cases where players get that over and over without completing the 5 games, and it's just that, only 5 games.

Having to wait 20m before starting a game isn't any kind of punishment, in fact it's rather nice in some cases as you can watch a youtube video while waiting and rest. I remember when Riot handed out 24h/3d/7d/14d/30d bans for leaving ranked games, and that HURTS, but it's effective. You don't see that leaver for another 30 days if they do it often, so they only ruin a single game a month. The current system allows people to ruin games every 20 minutes.

To put it simply, low priority queue is a fucking joke, and AFKs are having a good laugh.

High59/20/2015, 4:22:44 PM2 votes

I was there. I don't play ranked anymore because of it.

Afks and people trolling promos ruin the entire experience in ranked.

Having said that, the only thing the current afk system taught me is how to play hard enough to end the game quickly and not be penalized. I didn't realize how many people wete doing the same until I started doing it too.

TorschtenTorben9/20/2015, 12:56:51 PM2 votes

Hey there...totally agree that this is a problem in league (the frustration caused by this is simply too high) also i think that your idea is a good one (...but loosing lp even though it wasn´t your own fault is still depressing)... yesterday i made a post about fairness and leavers aswell...would be cool if you could leave a comment over there, telling me what YOU think about my idea (if it is fair or maybe a little bit too much)

GoodHotFreshFly9/20/2015, 8:57:51 PM2 votes

I don't play this game anymore for this reason. I still check up on it to see if Riot's actually done anything yet. Somehow, they haven't. :'(

What is life? ...

UB3R 1337 H4X9/20/2015, 3:16:22 PM1 votes

the issue with this idea is people being pressured to afk just so their teammates don't lose lp

Dediguise10/1/2015, 1:29:32 PM1 votes

Smurf accounts ruin this idea. that is all

Ice Cold Waz9/21/2015, 1:18:38 AM1 votes

While I agree with you and wish that there was something to be done about leavers during ranked the only issue with this solution is that over time it would slowly inflate everyone's rank.

Hypothetically if you win 5 games and lose 5 games then your LP should be roughly the same not taking into account higher or lower MMR. But say that 1 win and 1 loss each had an AFK on the team that lost? Then you've won 5 games worth of LP and lost only 4.5 games of LP. Thus meaning the more you play the more inflated you get because of the fact that winning against AFKs will give you the same gain while losing means you lose less.

BuyMeSkinsPls9/21/2015, 2:02:57 AM1 votes

Yeah, it's pretty frustrating losing like 20 LP because someone screwed your whole team over by going AFK. Sometimes it is a DDos or disconnect but most of the time someone just doesn't want to play a certain role so they say fuck it and just AFK. I've lost promo series before because of this, and it is complete bullshit that we still lose so much LP from a 4v5 where someone chose to leave after picking a champ

Archon X9/20/2015, 1:10:14 PM1 votes

how about you get better at the game and move up in elo so you don't have leavers anymore.

http://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUW1/2297799247/207505840?tab=overview

5 days ago ranked game as Yi, got sated, botrk, dead man's plate, and no boots.. not even level 1 boots. Seems legit that you don't need ms as Yi.

And yeah no leavers in that game, just you feeding hard, going 3/12.

Maybe if you focused on improving instead on what other people were doing you'd win more games.

TŒŒMØ9/20/2015, 6:06:53 PM1 votes

I agree with this post, but I could see it being a bit of a problem in a few situations.

People already have a tenancy to rage at / blame / report players who are doing poorly on their team even when they are actually trying their hardest. Now instead of the "BG, ff at 20" attitude, players will probably start saying "It's your fault we lost this game, feeder. DC so we don't lose LP". Giving players any incentive to DC, whether under pressure or by making them think they're doing their team a favor, would have a negative impact on the game as a whole. There would be a lot more intentional DCs if this system went into effect.