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Leaverbuster shouldn't hit you if you leave a game when you are the solo queuer with a 4-man Premade

LiveYiOrDieHard·4/10/2016, 1:15:55 PM·17 votes·876 views

Please hear me out before you downvote.

4-man premades can make for some of the most toxic games imaginable in league of legends. Not all of them are bad, of course, but the ones that are bad, are really freaking bad. If the premade is nice and friendly, or at least bearable, there's no reason to leave. Frankly I don't even think 4-man premades should be allowed. But since they are allowed, I feel like this would be a good compromise.

And I'm not saying you shouldn't get a loss for leaving. If you leave the game you would still eat the loss of LP and MMR. You would simply have the option of saying "You know what, I can't take this, I can't sit here and get abused and trolled and ping-spammed at the same time all game long by a group of jerks who are telling blatant lies in /all chat to convince the enemy team I'm a horrible person while holding the surrender vote, and my account, hostage in a game I don't want to be in for however long they can drag the game out."

This may make it a bit harder on 4-man premades, but honestly, they deserve it. I say this as somebody who has done a few 4-man premades recently myself. It's fun. It's an advantage. It's great for the 4-man premade. Hell, I play more premade dynamic queue games than I do solo queue games nowadays. But damn do I feel sorry for that solo queue guy who got stuck with us and is trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

And if it really becomes an issue for the 4-man premades... If they really don't want to risk their solo queuer leaving the game... and they don't feel like making an effort to be nice so they don't leave... They can just go out and get a 5th person.

tl;dr Let us leave games where we are matched with a 4-man premade. We would still get the loss, so it can't be abused. Just turn off leaverbuster for those games. Don't let the 4-man premades hold solo players hostage.

16 Comments

mogonk4/10/2016, 1:23:51 PM5 votes

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This may make it a bit harder on 4-man premades, but honestly, they deserve it.

At this point enough people have been burned by 4 man premades that you could make a thread saying they deserve execution by firing squad and people would still upvote it.

Meanwhile, Riot gives zero fucks.

Randomonium4/10/2016, 1:24:11 PM2 votes

Eh, this system could be easily abused by solo people that want to troll. All they have to do is figure out that you are a 4 man, feed the enemy team, and then they can AFK and won't be punished by the system.

If you are struggling with 4 man toxicity just mute them using the scoreboard (default tab.) You can also go into the options and turn down the "ping volume." Yeah, you can't turn off the pings but you can at least turn the volume down if they are spam pinging you.

Lazypeon1004/10/2016, 7:20:03 PM1 votes

I disagree. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because people will troll me doesn't mean I should troll them back. Same idea. If those 4 people are being toxic, mute them. Don't let them tilt you. If you leave that game, you are effectively ruining that game for 9 other people. 4v5s aren't fun. Just stick it out and report them after the game.

I know this is less common, because groups of people do tend to actually troll, but I've also noticed that whoever the one player is simply assume they are being rude. I've seen times where a simple "hey X, can you ward here please? pings where" and that person loses their shit because they assume that whoever asked that is telling them what to do and that they are trying to be a dick. It's frustrating when I play with friends in normals and the one oddball out assumes we are trying to be dicks when I ask for us to group.

Vigilente4/10/2016, 7:36:07 PM1 votes

You should not be even put into a 4 man premade queue

Guy Fox Teemo4/10/2016, 8:14:06 PM1 votes

Onot because thats being an asshole? You just lost the game for four others players, idc how your experiences have been, I've never had a 4-man premade, yell or be toxic to me.

You people on the boards blow it so out of proportion its ridiculous.

Eyesack4/10/2016, 9:37:34 PM1 votes

but bruh that's breaking the summoner's code.