I know you probably heard enough of this but.

I'm sure you all heard rants like these before. If you have feel free to call me a bronze noob or something and praise the current LP system for what it's for.

I've been playing a lot of ranked lately. I've been steadily carrying myself from Silver III to Silver I. However, I will get into a four or five win streak and I will have that one game. You know that one game where someone instantly has to leave two minutes into the game. Or the game where someone picks Ziggs support, go 0/7 giving Vayne all the kills before 10 minutes giving her the fastest BotRK she has ever seen in her life and all around Freelo while cussing out the rest of the team because the first pick picked mid.

I will also have games where I'm 8/1/8, with 80%+ Kill participation and we still lose because I had one or two people that didn't know how to work as a team and jump as Devourer Jax into a 1v5 across the map and die. I admit I'm not Diamond or Plat or even high Gold. However, when things like this happens I do feel as if there is a major gap in skill between me and other players who are supposedly my rank. One in maybe nine games I will have a game where everyone on both teams is of equal skill, one in maybe five games one team is clearly dominant over the other. All of this is a massive improvement from Silver V and lower where one person would be outclassing everyone in the game.

I feel there needs to be some checks and balances to this to ensure people are of the rank they should be. For example, if someones leaves and stays disconnected/afk. There should be a way to do one of the following.

1. Reduce the amount of LP loss to the remaining people or eliminate it completely. Giving the person who left (For whatever reason. Rage Quit, Dad says I have to get off, Internet going out) Bonus LP loss. With the reverse happening. The team of four getting bonus LP while the person who left still losing all the said LP. If the team somehow wins. Showing the four had more skill to beat five people of the same mmr.
2. A way to pause the game to see if the disconnected/AFK person will return. If they don't within two minutes, a vote is called. Where the team with five can do a mercy vote. A way to win the game still and gain the LP, while letting the team of four go with a loss prevention, with the people who left losing extra LP for whatever reason.

For the cases where one/two player/s are a significant skill level below the rest of the team. Such as someone instalocking Vayne and going 0/6 within the first ten minutes of the game while you as a mid-lane Azir is 5/0.

1. Change the LP totals to recognize the skill the player had in the game. We have the new Mastery system. Use that to allocate LP gained/lost.
2. Maybe grant bonus LP gained or Reduced LP lost for special achievements.

• Not dying in the first twenty minutes. -Having a 60% Kill participation or higher
• Having a 4.0 KDA or higher. -etc...

I feel if things like this happened, then players that are at a Gold/Plat/Diamond level will have an easier time to reach their rank with fewer instances.