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Leavers need a harsher punishment.

LordObsidious·2/18/2015, 4:34:04 AM·2 votes·890 views

Before I begin, yes: people have internet connection issues sometimes and I understand that but lets face it there's a lot of people out there that lose lane or feed and just quit (extremely common in bronze ranked). It's expected at my ELO (bronze III 4 AFK prelims), i mean typically the games i get matched in is filled with people who don't have very good internet connections or are just below average players like myself. I've come to expect AFKs, i play maybe 5-6 games a day and usually endure at least 2 of them on average. Yes, if you're a boss at the game you can carry a 4v5 even after the leaver has fed someone but as someone who mains support, that just isn't me. I'll be the first to admit I'm not good enough at this game to carry a 4v5 even if i wasn't the support. So that means I deserve to lose constantly because of an unfair advantage that isn't my fault (well one could argue it is my fault for queuing to begin with and accepting the risk). So what can we honestly do about it? To be honest, I have no idea but lets face it punishing someone by making them wait a few minutes to play isn't cutting it. Yes, it gets worse and I understand that but how many players are there out there? The chances of me playing with someone again are extremely slim to begin with unless I add them.Loss protection if there's an AFK? Nope, that's not going to happen. That's unfair to the winners. How about matchmaking that tries to match you with people who have a clean tribunal record? Eh that could work, don't know how to make that happen though. Put a restriction on ping? I mean if someone has 800+ ping they don't need to be playing anyway. Hopefully someone reading this who endures the same thing as I do can come up with a genuine good idea to try and eliminate this from happening. I love playing league but at the same time hate having to fear every time I que up that I'm going to get an AFK and more than likely lose the game because I'm not skilled enough to carry against an unfair advantage.

3 Comments

siilentdeath2/18/2015, 4:53:32 AM1 votes

agree with ya. in bronze u get feeders more than get afks. i barely have competitive games in b5. its either 30-15 or 15-30 in kills alone. they need to have another division for people that cant hack b5. start rating people based on in game preformance. things like if an adc gose 2 to 1 kill to death ratio. did the support help in team fights and get assists as they are supposed to? people have bad games. however some people are terrible every time they are on your team. i have a list of summoners next to my pc that i track there scores in game as well as how many games they fed there lane and mailed it in. list has about 100+ as of now. i track stats so i know were not to let those people go. if u get an afk in your game it should be loss forgiven with severe penalties for afk/leaving in ranked. give them a 24 hour ban from ranked only then take 40 lp from them. if your internet connection is bad at home then thats on you. per the summoners code the pc and or internet connection stability are the summoners responsibility. riot knows what they must do in ranked games but wont pull the trigger. instead they maroon people in bronze because you have people that pull other people down so they cant climb. yes you can win 4 v 5s. however it shouldnt come down to that at all. riot needs to hit people with good length bans from ranked only for going afk in ranked on earlier offenses such as the 1st 2nd or 3rd. the ball is their court.

Gama Masa2/18/2015, 5:41:35 AM1 votes

i just want to start of saying i am currently gold 3 and i just skimmed through this its pretty long but so is mine.

PUNISHMENTS- First off i want to say that i like the whole if you quit a game you lose 2 games worth of lp BUT i think it should be like 2 games in 3 days or something without a valid PROVEN reason as to why I do like the idea of that and i think if some one leaves you should lose LESS lp because usually some one leaves because of other people being toxic, they are a toxic player, or its an accident and that isn't fair to 1/3 of afkers so you cant blame the whole game on just them if some of your team mates vocally harassed him into leaving they are part of the reason he left so they take part of that too and thats why you shouldn't lose 0 lp but just lose less lp because 1 third of the time you had something to do with it so 1 every 6 times it is the teams fault not just the afk.

SOLUTION- there is a solution. Climb elo. But i am thinking the reason you have made this article is because you think you "cant climb because of feeders and afks" now this is not true i know you have hear this before but listen, if you are good. you.will.climb. its just bound to happen because if u are better then every one else there they should have 5 average bronze 5s and you should have 4 average bronze 5s and you are the uncommon factor so like a bubble in water you will rise past the heavier water! So i recommend (1) Watching your games and see what you did wrong and what a prominent player did so you can get some tips off of them.(2) watch some streams and lcs! because they both are VERY useful at teaching you how to do better and improve!(3) i dont like this one as much but it is useful. Get a coach! there ARE free coaches out there!

and these last 3 go as a general rule for all those tips Make your games about improving not winning if u focus on improving your skills you WILL get better and start to climb on principle! And This one is simple! play more because if you just grab a bag of Doritos and some coffee and play ranked all day you WILL get better because you will get more experienced. oh and last of all, watch what you say to your team mates that will REALLY affect your game play DONT point out the obvious flaws!! DONT be a jerk!!! and last of all this is the most important DONT EVER EVER EVERRRRR give people advice!!!! they take it the wrong way every time!!! like "hey vi you should start red on blue side because vi does'nt need blue and you can start golems for the attack stuns!" they will (98% if the time) say "hey (you) should shut the **** up and let me start blue!" because people are mean and dont like being given very useful advice so just let them learn on their own!