Players should not be able to lose LP or gain LP if their is an afk

Papa Andrei·Apr 1, 2016·2 votes·439 views

As the title states, I think players should not lose LP or gain it if their is an AFK. Unless you have an afk and win the game then, but other players should not get penalized because one person quit and ruined it for the rest. WHy should someone fail their promos because one guy ragequit? Can someone explain to me the reasoning on why players should lose lp if they have an afk on their team?

Edit: as was pointed out, this could be cheated. But they could implement something like this if there was a pure solo que system, or make it so premades can be detected and taken into account also.

3 Comments

NahuiApr 1, 20162 votes

Gain is unfair. My time should not be wasted just because someone chose not to play. Especially with the trolly nature of players, you get stomped on and harassed by the enemy. Hey, go afk. Waste his time.

And losing LP for an afk is to prevent premades cheating the system, or just general good guys. Deliberate afks is what Riot doesn't want.

Say you're a premade and you're losing. Discuss who needs to take the fall so just one guy loses LP and not many. "But then Riot can ban them". Sure, if it's the same guy over and over and often. They don't need to do it every time. One guy doing it once a week or so, times a potential of 4 people in a premade. That's 4-8 losses forgiven. That's like 40-200 LP saved because they chose to alternate.

Especially coming to series', would be too easy to save someone's series. If my friend was premade with me and his last series game to gold was about to lose, I'd totally go afk and save him. I'd take an lp hit, slight one, but not much.

No artificial inflation due to cheating the system. AFKs are rare. If you take all the games played daily, the amount with actual AFKs is miniscule. So, if it happens in your series, well that's just bad luck. Try again, it's unlikely it'll happen again at the same time.

VesarixxApr 1, 20161 votes

I don't know about not being able to gain LP, if I win a 4v5 or one of my opponents rage quits that definitely shouldn't mean 0 LP gained automatically

67chromeApr 1, 20161 votes

Can someone explain to me the reasoning on why players should lose lp if they have an afk on their team?

Removed LP looses with an AFK is both easy to trick and would result in worse player behavior.

Looks like we're loosing? Get some guy to dodge. Maybe you take it in shifts with dodging, maybe people just spew toxicity at someone in the attempt to get them to leave (especially someone who's doing poorly), maybe you take one for the team yourself and dodge.