Can we talk about how the lol system punishes entire solo queue teams with a leaver

yogoo0·4/26/2019, 1:51:49 PM·9 votes·7,719 views

So you're in solo queue promos and you get into a match. 7 minutes in your jungler dies in a failed gank to the top lane and your top decided to leave and they're not coming back. Now it's a 4v5 and you're almost certainly going to lose the game when it could have been an easy win. And you lose your promos. All the work you did getting there wasted by a single person. How is it fair that someone intentionally leaves the game and the 4 other teammates still have play out the game they know is a loss and lose promos/lose the same amount of lp as a 5v5? If you're gone long enough that leavebuster puts that X through the portrait and doesn't return or attempt to return there should be some sort of cushion for the other team members who did nothing wrong. Whether that can be a loss prevented, reduced lp loss or temporary increased lp gain or some other method. It seems like Riot is only focused on punishing those who do and doesn't care about how those leavers affect other people. Riot is basically the 0 fighting tolerance school and when someone in a group hits someone everyone gets punished for it. There are so many other moba type games that when someone leaves there is a cushion for the other people who didn't leave. Why won't riot implement one here?

10 Comments

cars3n4/26/2019, 3:38:15 PM3 votes

It could be abused.

“It’s gg, someone leave so we keep our LP and leave”

Ironmad4/26/2019, 3:45:31 PM1 votes

Maybe give me more points in ranked if I don't die alot and have many assists. Ignore kills so people don't ks

Cevrad4/26/2019, 10:57:39 PM1 votes

I think the saying is: "It all comes out in the wash.".

Unstoppable Monk4/26/2019, 11:32:53 PM1 votes

We don't even have a dodge button that makes us aware of how much LP we lose without having to manually do it.

Nicolasbo1434/27/2019, 1:00:04 AM1 votes

Then if you are facing a team with a DC, you should not gain LP in order to prevent LP inflation

rtbf2476264234/27/2019, 1:22:24 AM1 votes

In dota2 when it becomes 4v5 the leaver gets a ban or some form of punishment after being out of the game for 5 minutes (they're given a chance to rejoin) and while it's 4v5 the other 4 players receive bonus passive gold income and they receive more experience from things which lets them make up for the lost player as they are able to keep up interms of skill levels and items.