If you do not want the loss then you can choose to not dodge. That is a decision chain, and a choice you make, not a law of the universe.
It is not physically bound. We aren't talking about whether or not you can click the X.
If you want to dodge you want to prevent a loss.
If you dodge and get a loss for dodging, there is no purpose to dodge.
Therefore you can't dodge in promos.
That is the way the game works.
Don't apply some "law of the universe" or some random phrasing. This is what it means when you "can't" dodge in promos. Not some physical thing. Not the ability to press X, but the ability to dodge.
If you press X in promos, you aren't dodging. You aren't dodging a loss, you're just closing the client.
Any attempt to circumvent the system that ends up being successful just results in climbing outside of the system. If you climb that way then your rank is meaningless because you got there using shortcuts rather than earning it.
It's a game. You want the shortcuts to get to whatever rank you want, you don't want to get stalled at some low rank because of poor matchmaking or trolls.
If you get paired with trolls, inters, or even poor matchmaking (low MMR team vs high MMR team), it is still an inaccurate representation of skill and rank.
By that logic, any game with a troll, inter, or poor matchmaking makes your rank meaningless because it cause you to lose, making it lower than what it "should" be.
This is begging the question. You're dismissing the possibility by claiming that it's probably not helpful. You can't use an argument that is in question to support another argument because the first argument is not yet supported, and thus cannot serve as a basis for other claims. I've seen players get responses on numerous occasions on ideas as they relate to gameplay.
I personally was able to get a response from Meddler on the exact issue we are discussing, simply by politely posting my thoughts and questions in reply to one of his gameplay thoughts posts. See here.
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There isn't a question to be asked, because it won't happen. This post isn't making a suggestion. It's a rant. There's no point in asking a question you already know the answer to.
If actually thinking about the question before posting it doesn't give you any answers, you could just google it. Which I did. Unsurprisingly, there have been discussions about it in the past: people would abuse it. People still do. Even in the past, people would circumvent the system by duo queueing in series and having the duo queue partner dodge in unfavorable team comps.
People want to dodge in promos, Riot wouldn't allow it obviously because it would lead to abuse. They wanted promos to be weighed more, which in itself is a bad idea.
Having 3 or 5 random weighted games determining whether or not you get a promotion is bad.
Riot has also talked about revamping the entire ranked system, and are working on it.
One of the most vocal complaints were about the promo system. I share the same complaints, so there's no real cause to just repost about it here.
It's been addressed by Riot, you know the answer. No question is there.
It's not impossible to get a response.
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You know why you're doing it. You ought to have the moral maturity to not be a selfish and manipulative person.
Yeah, that's the thing.
There's no such thing as moral maturity.
Morals don't change, they're always their. We are encouraged to act morally proper, but there's no binding contract. Especially in something as simple as a videogame.
If it means not wasting my time and having to deal with shenanigans from other people, WHILE not even being able to have fun in that game, then yeah, I don't want to play in that game. I don't want to waste my time. I don't want to play with the trolls. I want to have fun.
It's selfish, sue me.
I have a life, I don't want to waste my one round with that troll/int, most people wouldn't want to, and the troll/int. obviously doesn't care about anything in the game.
Taxes affecting a team are applicable to businesses and marriages / families. If multiple people are part of a single tax entity and one of them does something shady then the others are affected. If you can't see it with taxes, look at credit scores. If one person in a household fails to pay rent / mortgage / bills on time then it affects both their credit scores.
It's still a really bad analogy. Polygamy is generally outlawed, so it's not 5 people. The reasoning behind paying taxes (obligatory) is different from ranked; you aren't obliged to play ranked.
Buisnesses mean you have bosses that can pressure you. In queue there is no boss, so you manage yourself.
And if the boss of the buisness dodges taxes, he doesn't even have to worry as much as his employees would for doing the same action; an employee dodges taxes and his boss gets hurt and punishes the employee. The boss dodges taxes, the employee gets hurt, and...?
No it's not what I'm saying. I don't care if you pick Urgot. I care why. And your reason isn't "I like playing Urgot and I think playing him this match will win the game." You said it yourself that your reason is to make somebody else dodge. It doesn't matter if they know or not. Your reason is horse shit.
No one knows the reason. No one knows the why. You're misreading it really, really hard.
What THE OTHER PEOPLE know, from what happens IN THAT QUEUE is " I like playing Urgot and I think playing him this match will win the game."
What we know, and anyone that could read my thoughts can see is that the reason is "I don't want to play with this team."
They don't know the reason, so it's not like I'm holding a gun up to them.
For those people, the only person holding the gun is themselves.
For them, THEY are the ones with the problem. They don't want Urgot. They don't want to play with the Troll/int. The troll/int is holding them hostage, while the Urgot pick isn't. That's the difference. For them, the Urgot pick is something akin to "oh darn, someone happened to want to play Urgot." It adds a reason for them to dodge, but not a reason for me to be punished, if that makes sense.
For the people in the game, the "why" wouldn't matter, because they have no way of discerning it. For you, it does. But no one else.
You're not showing anything, you are deceiving your teammates in order to manipulate their decision. If you were to actually communicate with them that would be different.
Ok, you REALLY need to work on reading comprehension.
This is another composition/division fallacy. There's nothing wrong with an off-meta pick if the player is trying to win the game with it. You on the other hand are taking an off-meta pick for a different reason. You're redirecting the argument and hiding among players who make perfectly valid off-meta picks. Your situation is not the same as theirs.
Wrong.
It is. I'm trying to show what the game is like in the perspective of the other players in the game, showing that the offmeta pick isn't actively hurting them.
In my situation, I'm picking Urgot for a different reason, but THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT.
The situation is the exact same. For everyone else: Riot, The people on my team, the people on the enemy team, I am trying to win the game. The only one who has an issue with it is you.
The situation isn't actually the same, but from what anyone can tell, I am the exact same as people who make perfectly valid off-meta picks (Darius jgl is not a valid off-meta pick, btw),
Thus, there is nothing to be persecuted for. There is nothing wrong; the only one who's being hurt by this is you. Even then, you aren't actually being hurt by this in any ways.
It's basically like this:
If I say I'm not trying to win, like what happened here, obviously everyone would get angry.
If I don't say it, like what happens in League, I am doing nothing wrong.
