How to Deal with Loss of LP in Ranked Due to AFKs

High Lord Blaze··5 votes·818 views

Everyone who has played ranked in LoL has most likely experienced an AFK/DC/RQ more than once, and probably knows how annoying it is to deal with. You are at a huge disadvantage and will generally lose because of it, making you lose LP, generally because you played a 4v5

And it is frustrating. Yes, it is possible to win a 4v5. No, it's not likely or often that you will. People ask for a loss prevented for AFKs, but you can win if you play well enough.

My Idea is this: Implement a system that provides a padding for players who have an AFK on their team, so that they don't lose as much LP, but only when they have an AFK for more than, say 10%, of the game, so that someone can't just pad his team's loss. "But people will abuse this to pad their own loss of LP!" Not if you make sure you know who AFKed, and don't pad their loss.

To me, this is a good idea. You make sure players with a DC on their team aren't as heavily affected as they normally would be, while ensuring people don't AFK just so they don't lose as much LP, as if they did, they would have to be AFK for enough time to give the other team a slight lead.

7 Comments

Ezreal Sucks2 votes

I am a huge fan of this idea. Even just a modest reduction, say 25%, in LP loss would make it feel much easier to climb even when getting occasional DCs and AFKs. Requiring the offending player be DCed for a sizable amount of time makes it difficult to abuse, due to leave buster.

Also, though this is a much less likely occurence, I think that if you are AFK/DCed and your team happens to win, you should recieve the same reduction to LP gain.

High Lord Blaze1 votes

Glad to hear you like the idea :) 25% would be quite nice, especially if you lose somewhere between 15-20 (or I do).

Also, though this is a much less likely occurence, I think that if you are AFK/DCed and your team happens to win, you should recieve the same reduction to LP gain.

I think this would also help, and be a deterrent to players who think "we're going to win anyway, and I have to go so it's okay".

HeruWolf1 votes

i want this so bad. im so sick of losing series' and very serious ranked games because of a single afk

Ezreal Sucks1 votes

Well, I don't think a system like this would prevent that, since we are talking about a reduction in LP loss and not loss prevented. Loss prevented would be more abusable.

High Lord Blaze1 votes

I'm not trying to rid LoL of AFKs, however nice it may be, because that simply isn't possible. I'm trying to get the players who are penalized because of the AFKs a break, as it's not entirely fair that they lose so much LP.

High Lord Blaze1 votes

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