Because of trolls trying to pick a full ad team or full ap team or full squishy team or team with no damage or bad team comp or the wrong intended champion in the wrong lane or
LoL is a game that lets you run any champion in any lane with any runes with any masteries and rank skills in any order and purchase mostly every item in any order.
Forcing 9 other players to get pushed out of queue because you don't like 1 of their choices and forcing everyone to wait for another game and go through another pick/ban phase is a huge dick move.
It's also very selfish and not democratic, in a game that otherwise encourages teamwork.
With a dodge, you're just instantly stopping a game with 1 action, even if 9 other people want to play a game.
It forces the player that is dodging to lose Lp time after time after time after time after time again,
Because that player is a huge determent to LoL's game experience.
Each game has 10 people.
Queues for ranked can take up to 8 minutes long.
If 1 person dodges at the end of a 5 minute pick/ban phase, they just wasted a collective 45 minutes of everyone else's time. More if you factor in the wait from matchmaking to get into the queue in the first place.
There's also a penalty for queue dodging because frequently dodging games could allow players to essentially "load the dice" rather than any actual player skill. Especially at higher ranks where players keep running into the same opponents and have a pretty good idea of how their skills match up against them and which team is at an advantage.
Or in situations with 3rd-party software.
There's also the penalty to prevent people from frequently dodging in the first place.
In a game with 10 people, if everyone has a 1/10 chance of dodging each game: LoL can easily run into a situation of queue-dodge gridlock were games making it past the picks/bans phase are a huge rarity, and it takes 30 minutes to get into a 30 minute game.
and more and more players are quitting this game, when we could have more people paying for skins and champions and making riot more money.
When it's a matter of loosing 1 person that's trying to make 9 other people misserable, Riot is faced with bigger losses all around by favoring a queue dodger.
Hands down. I feel that league of legends is becoming a dying sport. The queue time for rank use to be very quick, now it is significantly longer. People just gave up on the game, because the rules have become more strict and more trolls have access to ruining games for devoted and skilled players that have passion for league.
The strict queue-dodge rules have done nothing but improve the game.
As for LoL's health: LoL is objectivly doing quite well.
Players come and go, but LoL is picking up new players whenever it looses players.
Hardly anyone is going to play the same game for a decade, so people will leave, but LoL will do fine as long as new people fill in their spot.
