RIOT - Please Fix AFK rules and /Remake

Madö·7/1/2016, 7:20:39 PM·3 votes·866 views

Please Riot... I am having games where someone afk's past the remake point. Here is my solution.

I just had a game where 10 minutes in, a Ryze 0/0/0 just went AFK and we lost the game less than 10 minutes later. It's extremely frustrating losing LP over this

Please stop letting players lose LP due to an afk.

I, as well as others, am fighting so hard to try to climb. That Ryze game I literally poured everything into an attempt to win just to lose LP and backtrack. Every loss is not setting you back one but TWO games, in order to get ahead, you need to win your game back and THEN play for a chance to win LP. And that is completely understandable if the loss is your fault (5v5) where you could have played better and actually won, but not in the case that you had no chance. (or a 0.001% chance to win)

The idea is to implement a system where if there is an afk for X number of minutes of the game, everyone who is NOT part of a premade with the AFK player gets a loss prevented, where nobody loses or gains LP besides the afk and his premade (who of course lose LP)

Also, abandoning a game should hold bigger punishment than playing a game through and losing. Why should the punishment of a player leaving the game, wasting the time of all of his teammates, be equal to that of a player who lost while still trying to win.

For leaving a game in progress there should be an additional 10LP loss on top of the normal LP loss. This would not only make more sense in terms of punishment but would also discourage a player from leaving a game in order to spare his team mate's LP.

As it currently stands the /remake system, while a great addition, isn't effective enough in fixing this issue because Mid/Late game AFK is so much worse and more punishable in game than early game afk. You invest so much time into the game trying hard to win just for someone to afk after 20 minutes, and even if its not your fault you are punished for it. Also many times those players who are afk within the first few minutes of the game come back, and with catch up experience and fast leveling, you still have a chance to win the game even if they were afk early, whereas a late game afk means 5v4 when contesting bigger objectives like baron and elder dragon and chances are you will lose these unfavorable teamfights, objectives and ultimately the game. I have won so many more games where an early afk came back in comparison to the huge amount of games lost for someone afk-ing mid/late game.

Please fix this system Riot. While we love League of Legends, this has and is causing many players to quit playing League and seeking enjoyment in other games due to sheer frustration.

1 Comments

TequilaZombie7/1/2016, 8:02:56 PM1 votes

First AFK in ranked games: 20 LP lost on top of the LP you'd lose in the first place Second AFK in ranked games: Previous punishment + decreased LP gain for the next 3 games Third AFK in ranked games: Move back one division Fourth AFK in ranked games: Ban from ranked Queue

Harsher punishments for AFK please!