Please make the Leaver Buster better!

OurSurvivor··1 votes·358 views

I'm mainly just posting this out of frustration, but we also need to improve the Leaver Buster to be more forgiving to those with bad connection. Alright, here's what happened: I hadn't gotten a leaving penalty in months, then the power goes out mid-game. Well, no problem, that's just one game. The following day, I start a game, but never connected. Well, technically I was "connected," I could hear sounds, taunts, etc., but I had a black screen. Alt+tab wouldn't work either, so I restarted my computer, thinking I would just reconnect. Well, my team immediately thought that I would never connect, and just surrendered right away. I get on league, and realize the game had ended. I start another game, and without notification, I have a 20 minute Leaver Buster penalty for five games. And now I'm here. Please don't take this with a grain of salt (as salty as I am right now), but this story was merely an example for the tweaks that the Leaver Buster has, and other people have probably had it worse. And one more thing: do you really have to be punished for leaving in normals? I understand ranked, but normals is... well, less important.

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Girard1 votes

...do you really have to be punished for leaving in normals? I understand ranked, but normals is... well, less important.

It's still awful to have it happen, there needs to be a way for Riot to detect whether or not an actual disconnect or AFK happens. Even if that isn't possible, from your post I can tell your punishment was too harsh right away.

Unfortunately, try and grind out some easy co-op AI games to get rid of them. /:

Umio1 votes

"I'm mainly just posting this out of frustration, but we also need to improve the Leaver Buster to be more forgiving to those with bad connection."

No - Fix your connection problems.

If you are playing on garbage wifi STOP. Play on a wired connection - direct ethernet - ethernet over powerline - get a better wireless router.

Get a wifi NIC/Router capable of 5ghz

Your connection is a factor you control so if you induce an AFK on your team because of it - you deserve to be booted.

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