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So, how do you handle AFKers?

Trd Burglar·3/16/2015, 12:41:03 AM·1 votes·650 views

In the last two days, I have gone from Silver II at 50 LP to Silver IV. I have had somewhere around 12 AFKers in these two days and the enemy team has not had any. I keep playing, expecting for this to change but I seriously just keep getting AFKers and there is nothing to do about it. Like... I'm purely losing because it is totally unfair. I realize so many people are going to say things like... Ugh, you should always blame yourself for losses and whatnot but if I am taking barons and dragons and towers and really contesting a win with a 4v5 and it just boils down to it not being a fair game, what do you do? Either way, I seriously wish there was some way to make it a slightly lighter ELO hit whenever people just straight up arent in a game. I'm fine with having a mid that goes 0/20, atleast they are playing. I don't know, maybe you should just get screwed super hard whenever someone AFKs on you as they suffer no penalty. Maybe I'm just biased, but I really despise whenever I say "4v5" or "So&so is afk" and the other team is like, "Yes! Freelo!" or "Good." Because they get the same benefit for a completely unfair game, and I suffer the exact same loss. I am definitely just frustrated, but I can't be completely crazy with the idea.. Can I? I mean, it would be different levels of AFK..

Also, I'm going to prefer that we don't go into a discussion of "Well, you are one of the players on your team.. So, as long as you don't AFK then you mathematically have a lower chance of having leavers.. So it's not real." That's not how real life works, it's like saying that flipping a coin twenty times will make exactly ten heads and ten tails. There is a real chance of having 20 & 0 of either side. I'm simply considering a possibility of making it a certain percentage different for the people with a massive unfair advantage. I mean, if they are smart they basically have free enemy jungle control (Dragons, barons) and huge lane control. Team fights are not really realistic and winning a 4v5 cannot really be expected... But what if you got MORE LP for winning a 4v5? I mean, it is pretty impressive to win a 4v5. Then they would, in turn, lose more for losing a 4v5 because losing with an entire extra player sucks.

              UPDATE: Five more AFKers in the last two days. One for enemy team. Ranked in low elo is a joke because it's 4v5 like 40% of the time.

11 Comments

BlazinHot63/16/2015, 12:52:26 PM2 votes

Im going to go out on a limb and say that leavebuster is not enforcing bans efficiently. I had 2 games this weekend where one of the players didnt connect at all, and never came back. Those were the only 2 ranked games I lost over the weekend too. The second time I got so angry that I stopped playing for the day. Anyway, I checked one of the guys' match history, and he hadnt connected to his third game in a row within 24 hours (all ranked). I checked it last night and he had player a game since then, so he obviously didnt get punished for it. Its BS that we have to waste 20 minutes on a 4v5. I frankly dont care if its possible to win a 4v5, cuz either way its not a gg.

177A Bleecker St3/16/2015, 3:23:36 PM2 votes

Its spring break time kids dont care and their are so many people like that i wouldnt play a ton of ranked if ur on a bad streak this week

S H A Y C 03/16/2015, 4:14:12 PM2 votes

well, i report them all after the match for one. second, i always play like its a 1v5 anyhow, an afk can be better than a feeder so i look for picks before every team fight and never engage 4v5 and forget about split pushing until were strong enough.

EDIT: I invest heavily in wards and light that biatch upitem 2043

Sailor Mint3/16/2015, 1:00:37 AM1 votes

If you start worrying about every little things that can go wrong, you'll never get anywhere.

You can't win them all. You'll get 4v5s, you'll get unwinnable games. But at the same time, you're also getting 5v4s and "games you can't lose" at times too.

Only time leavers really got to me was when I kept getting leavers when I played mid and none when I played support..

LoRdJeSuS69694203/16/2015, 10:41:05 AM1 votes

It's easy to see patterns in things that don't actually exist...it's just randomness...as long as you do your best to not antagonize people so that they afk and to not afk yourself you should come out on top in the end.

But I guess it's not too unreasonable to ask if there could be some way of mitigating the impact it has...maybe a smaller LP loss for the players who stayed and a greater loss for the player who left (in order to keep total LP gains/losses equal, if that matters)? The system for detecting afk wouldn't be particularly reliable though, I'm sure there would be ways to get around it.