Can we have just 1, completely unpunished, dodge per day?

FOR JUSTICE··5 votes·839 views

Hear me out on this one,

With the current iteration of how ranked matchmaking works, everyone is placed into a role and game, based on how they perform in that role. when you position swap, the game can favor you, so riot tightens the MMR links as well as reduces your LP gains. from an abusive standpoint, this does seem fair, in order to stop people from swapping for favorable games.

But this doesn't address the problem of someone simply strong arming your role because they got filled into an undesirable one. say, for example, you get a player who was filled support. this player proceeds to strong arm your role of ADC away from you, threatening to run it down. Now, you just swapped last game, so this is where it gets tricky.

you now have one of three options:

  • Dodge, take the -3 penalty (which is actually marginally worse this season due to it taking LP from all roles, not just your intended ones)

  • Swap roles, but now get harder matches in the future, or less LP per win

  • Play the game out, but risk this player actually running it down, thus losing you about 20 LP.

Any of these options are pretty bad when climbing, and all of them negatively impact the player for doing absolutely nothing. So what i propose, is to simply allow 1, just a single dodge, per day that goes unpunished without a timer or LP loss, to combat this. this way, we can avoid this altogether, rather then just having to play a social game of risk, while still keeping it non abuseable.

1 Comments

ChrisBrownze1 votes

I support this idea. Also if you get filled to a role you have no idea how to play and you know youll feed you have no incentive to dodge because if you dodge your main role loses 3lp but if you play it out(and feed) you still have lets say a 40% chance your team will win and carry you and then you gain 3lp for your main. So on a filled role you have no incentive to dodge.

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