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People who play Ranked with Unreliable Internet

Gon Freecss·7/26/2018, 9:34:23 PM·5 votes·1,303 views

I am getting so tired of people playing Ranked and causing an unfair loss because they're on your team with the crappiest of internet. Why is this allowed? Why are these people allowed to play your Ranked mode with the most handicapped thing you could possibly play Ranked with? Please make a system built into League where you make everyone who wants to play Ranked, take an internet test to see if they are capable of playing a match without many issues. It doesn't have to be flawless, but this I think would create less frustration and the feeling of not being cheated with your own LP. Please. I am begging you to implement some type of system like that for Ranked play. Please. This game drives me CRAZY and that is one of the reasons why. If Riot could at least show us they tried, it would make me feel better about things with Ranked. Please Upvote, so this gets some type of attention. If this doesn't get any attention, God have mercy on my soul

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9 Comments

LocatedEagle2327/27/2018, 12:09:04 AM3 votes

Yeah well this isn't a legitimate concern because just as often as that guy with bad internet is on your team, he could be on the enemy team.

More importantly, yeah, you can't just lock someone out of the competitive part of the game because of poor service, if they want to play with bad service that's their choice and climbing will be rough for them. If anything, you should emphasize with them and the times you've had lag spikes.

Unstoppable Monk7/27/2018, 1:32:10 AM2 votes

Honestly its more like people who let their laptop overheat need to just be banned from ranked entirely, because it's pretty clear they let that happen and make no attempts to use the tech to stop their gaming laptop from melting. I think I've lost at least 1,000 LP just by these afks.

Wacky97/27/2018, 12:04:17 AM1 votes

Don't punish players for bad internet. Riot needs to do more so that League is less punishing on the Wi-Fi rather than just give an unnecessary punishment to players with mediocre wifi.

In addition a bad computer could be the result of crashes and leaving the game as opposed to bad wifi. Every couple of games League crashes and kicks me out and I have to join the game again. This only happens once or twice per game and normally doesn't affect me too badly so I do just fine.

Also people's internet access isn't always perfect. Some people are the only one's on their wifi and right next to a modem so they get good internet access. Sometimes people have parents or siblings or roommates or friends who like to watch Netflix, which chews up Wi-FI.

Also, also, people with consistently bad Wi-Fi will lose more games and get put in lower Ranks. If this doesn't happen, then they are actually good at playing with bad Wi-Fi and there's no reason to punish them. I know someone who learned how to play CS:GO and ROTMG on laggy Wi-Fi and can play extremely well despite lagging because they're used to it.