When is Riot going to do something about afks and trolls in ranked?

BoaredMyrmidon··1 votes·837 views

So, i have been playing a lot of ranked trying to get to gold for the rewards, but is nearly impossible. Don't come with that "keep trying" or "is the attitude that gets you to high leagues". Because i always (or 8 out of 10 times) win my lane, buy some wards, try to be respectful, tolerant and encouraging with my team, but no matter how much i do, at the end, 60% of the succes isn't up to me. Several times my team member's just rage at each other or go afk, even i though i tried to calm them down. It is just ridiculous how i get matched with this people.

Last match, i was jungling as sejuani an helped mid and top to win their lanes and get them fed. Meanwhile bot was dying and dying because our support (zilean), didn't cared about warding, or protecting the wards i got for them. Then, started harrassing on our adc (tristana) which, instead of muting him as all our team suggested, decided to went afk, arguing "He does not deserves to win". Eventually she did, we couldn't convince her otherwise and left the match that was a clear win with our wukong and anivia fed. We mamaged to 4v5 and take the fight to their nexus but late game, we couldn't hold teamfights, 50 minutes of winning with one less player but eventually we still lost? Why is that Riot can't give the remaining players buff on this situations? Or they just don't care?

Worse than this, is the fact that probably she won't get banned or punished at all. Even worst, we lost a well fought 4v5 and still lost LP? I mean, why? Why punish the players with dedication only for the inmaturity of a few? It is unbelievable how the ranked system works, i will never played LoL again until someone adresses this issue. And no, doubt that keep playing will change the behavior of the other players. I no longer care about the gold rewards, there is no point in keep playing such an unbalanced game.

4 Comments

Mayor Stubbs2 votes

It isn't that they don't care, it's that there aren't any viable options to deal with it. Anything punishing the AFK player would cause other players to be abusive to get a player on their team to AFK if things start going "bad". Giving everyone else on your team a buff would cause the entire issue of rebalancing everything around 5v4's (with a buff) It does suck, really bad and it's not one of rito's flaws, it's a flaw on the type of genre this game is (or any team oriented game) Try to remember it happens to everyone, and eventually it's bound to be in your favor once or twice.

BoaredMyrmidon1 votes

Perhaps you are right, i tried again after reading your comment. Got rekt :(. But tried again and occasionally, someone on their team was bad enough to give us the win. I still believe Riot needs to do something about it though

Mayor Stubbs1 votes

I agree wholeheartedly. This is the number 1 complaint by far, not sure what they can do but I sure hope they think of something that works

HD JPEG1 votes

I find it funny that we use the excuse that there is no way to deal with it, when Dota 2 literally fixed the issue just by treating the afk as an abandonment, which allows the other players to just leave the game with no penalty at all and queue up again.

They are being lazy about it.

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