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Ranked is not for quitters (even in Iron)

RobbieFry13·2/23/2020, 4:59:25 AM·1 votes·2,880 views

I was looking at my match history and in my last 25 games in ranked I have lost 10. 8 of which I feel were winnable If my team didn't quit. Not a guaranteed win by any means but still way to early for Surrender votes and AFK farming.

OK before you comment please read the rest of the post. I know the normal angsty poster take will be either "I'd be challenger if it wasn't for my trash teammates" or "its impossible to carry in elo hell" but that is not where I am going

This made me wonder if it is such a good idea to always have the option to FF in ranked. It's fine in Normal's, sometimes those free champs don't work out and you just want to press eject and I think Remake is a great feature. As the game is now with the Dragon buffs, and the New Elder you can really be behind the whole game then one well timed smite and you snatch victory from the jaws of defeated. Hasn't every one had a teammate die one time then immediately types in chat "GG FF@15" maybe not having the option would discourage people from playing ranked if they aren't in it to win it. That also might result in more people going afk, but at least they can be punished for that, instead of just being negative and spamming a surrender vote that they will be free to do again, again on the server every 15 minutes until they finally go back to Fortnite, drowning kittens, liking Trump tweets or whatever obnoxious other things people whose psyche is too fragile to lose at a video game do with their time outside of League of Legends.

Maybe instead of having the surrender vote be available at 15 you let the FF option come back after player is afk or dc'd for longer than . . . 5 minutes?

27 Comments

Subdue2/23/2020, 5:09:19 AM6 votes

If 4 out of 5 players on your team believe the game is unwinnable, or at least, not worth putting forth the extra effort to win a drawn out game, and have already mentally checked out, do you think you're going to win the game?

Karunamon2/23/2020, 6:48:57 AM3 votes

Comebacks are rare. Assuming a 50% win rate, your rank benefits more from playing more games and getting out of blown ones faster than trying to grind out unlikely comebacks.

FeedKaylePlease2/23/2020, 7:18:12 AM2 votes

Errr.....no. If I have some feeding trash team, I want out. I'm not gonna sit there and watch these assholes run it down for 30 minutes.

KhaZix Bot2/23/2020, 10:43:35 AM2 votes

Nah, don't let that kind of scrub ass mentality get to you. Any game is winnable. I main an off meta pick with a zero to 100 power spike around 20 minutes that pretty much no one knows about.

We're talking a power spike big enough to 1v5 under the right circumstances. But I still get the occasional game ripped away from me by four apes who "aren't having fun" and don't want to play if they're getting carried. Or just refuse to believe in any pick that isn't abused in challenger/pro play.

Been going since Season 2 and never surrendered a single game. If you're a player that refuses to FF under any circumstances, you will win more than if you had been willing to hit yes. That's an undeniable fact. Might only be 1% more, but it's more.

JustA kleo2/23/2020, 7:33:08 AM1 votes

man i miss bronze... i never had an account with a iron mmr, but i had one with high bronze. was one of the best times i ever had with this game. not because i was stomping, because i felt like im in a kshaway video at all times. hilarious times. and the bs talk made it even better

shh im hiddens k2/24/2020, 1:50:37 AM1 votes

lol being a similar elo as you I can almost always say that it is without a doubt typically the worst player in the game (or two) holding people up from a 15/20. And usually, it's because they're always that bad lol.

People like you literally make me play twice as long every day I'd wager to get in a solid session.

If you don't want your team to FF either a) stop being irrelevant or b) stop running it down.

Rofl literally your last game two of your teammates go 28/9 and 32/19 and you are 3/11 hmmmmm.

In fact in your last five games you are picking mid and quite literally getting hard carried.