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It's 2016 4v5's are still a plague to this game.

Freakshow·6/5/2016, 3:18:13 PM·13 votes·935 views

To start I'm going to negate the idiotic counter arguments against changing how 4v5's are dealt with.

Firstly. /mute or [TAB] click mute icon. There is no excuse not to use these functions if you think you are being bullied by a teammate.

LP Losses: The leaver takes the team's full lp hit. If the leaver has friends/premade in the game they share the teams full LP hit 60-40, the 40 is then split among the other friends/premade in the game.

Series games: If a player is the victim of a 4v5 in a series game and not friends/premade with the leaver the loss shall be forgiven and the series will revert back to before the game.

It's time to start addressing the real toxic aspects of this game. Until punishments match actions players will continue to afk doing much more damage to the game than any words could, especially with the /mute function.

Instant, month long account & ip bans for players who afk in ranked games.

Implement that and watch the afk's drop like a special snowflake jumping off a bridge.

12 Comments

RevStan6/5/2016, 3:26:48 PM1 votes

I was about to thread something just like this. I think I may be done. I'm not sure what happened this season that makes this game so ugly but when I play ranked, I can start to get on a trend of wins. Let's say I win 3 in a row. Chances are, the next 3 games will have a troll, leaver, smurf, or something else to ruin it. Games are ending up 4v5 very often. Also, the queue times have gone up. I'm playing in Gold 2 right now and I always praised high gold to be rid of most of the trolls. I've been playing plat for the last 4 seasons, and I just don't know what is going on this season. I liked the implementation of 'pick your roles' but people still get upset when they don't get their first choice. Normal games have a lot less trolling and afk/leaving. Not sure what it is.

Dankstin6/5/2016, 3:32:20 PM1 votes

Since patch 6.10, my computer crashed 3 times during a ranked game. The game freezes, the screen turns blue, then the computer restarts itself. After logging back in to my computer, the desktop takes 4 minutes to refresh and show its icons, as does the taskbar. The whole process takes 7 minutes. I've learned it's a problem with LoLReplay conflicting with Patch 6.10+, so I've uninstalled it - This issue is not my fault at all, I didn't "actively go afk" or "disconnect" or "leave," yet I got a 5 game LeaverBuster 20 min wait in the hell that is Low Priority Queue, being punished for something I can't control at all. You'd have people with similar issues banned for a month because they lose control of the situation?

YJRBqwXJcS6/6/2016, 1:32:49 PM1 votes

in dota if you afk in ranked you get hit with LP loss and automatically thrown in low priority queue. (which is prisoner island)

Nameless Voice6/6/2016, 2:56:19 PM1 votes

I'm not entirely sure that I agree about the premdes sharing the loss. It sounds good in theory, but bear with me:

There are two types of premades - friends who play together (usually with voice comms and so on), and solo players who sometimes play together with other solo players that they had a good game with.

Sharing the penalty makes sense for the first group, but not so much for the second group. That isn't their friend, they probably haven't played many games with them, they might not know that the player is toxic (and will probably remove them after this game in any case.)

At the least, make it so that premades only share the penalty if they've played more than a certain number of games queued with that person.

I agree with everything else, though. This kind of feature is long overdue in League.

I'm also in favour of an automated chat filter that replaces the words "I'm afk" with phrases like:

I no longer have the resolve to do my duty and complete this struggle. As a substitute, I shall remain bereft of movement at the safety of the spawning platform and prepare for the unavoidable defeat that my actions will ensure.

Virgin Ray6/6/2016, 8:48:36 PM1 votes

Wasn't riot going to release a /remake feature? Or did they lie about a new feature again?

Rinky Dinky6/6/2016, 10:11:59 PM1 votes

It's the current year!