What Riot Should do for Players Who Deal with AFK's/Leavers in Ranked Games

Fazor·4/7/2015, 12:29:34 AM·4 votes·930 views

I have been playing a lot of ranked lately hoping to climb out of Silver. This has been working fine for me as i have been going on winning streaks. But in my past two games, i lost due to AFK's/Leavers. Usually i don't really care about losing in ranked. But the problem i had was that i lost 24 LP per game even with the AFK! I usually gain about 10-15 LP per win, so the losses put a huge dent in me climbing. After thinking about those games for some time, i thought of a simple solution for the people who have the AFK's/Leavers in their ranked games.

Everytime you lose a ranked game with an AFK/Leaver on your team, you should lose only a portion of the amount of LP you would normally lose. For example, if i was to lose 24 LP in a game with an AFK/Leaver, instead i would lose only 3/4 of that amount which is 18 LP. Basically, for every person AFK on your team, you would lose 1/4 less the amount of LP than the normal. So if i had 2 people AFK on my team, i would only lose 1/2 the amount of the normal LP loss. 3 people AFK would mean 3/4 less, and 4 people AFK (rip) would mean you lose no LP. This will only happen for the people who are not AFK, the AFK's/Leavers will lose the full amount of LP and will have to face the LeaverBuster System.

I believe this is a fair system that will satisfy most ranked players when they have an AFK on their team. If you like this idea, please upvote so Rioters can see this post and maybe implement a system like this. Thanks!

TL;DR: For each AFK on your team, you should lose 1/4 less LP than the normal amount you would lose.

9 Comments

RouterSmiter4/7/2015, 12:31:44 AM1 votes

OK its going to happen no matter what, when you play solo q in ranked play a lane adc/mid/top so you know that 1 of the 4 laners isn't going to feed, just give off the impression that they're carrying themselves, when really you are.

oh yeah, support on your suggestion to

R3D R3LL1C4/7/2015, 12:46:26 AM1 votes

Its about teamwork but if im a man down i get punished, thanks riot.

Matthias91194/7/2015, 3:08:58 AM1 votes

TL;DR: For each AFK on your team, you should lose 1/4 less LP than the normal amount you would lose.

Causes massive LP/MMR inflation over time that breaks Ranked. They can't do this.

You can only do this if the winning team also gets "win prevention" and gains less LP/MMR than normal. Which would be unfair to apply mid-match, so you could only do it when a player is absent right from the start.

Big Hans4/7/2015, 12:06:33 PM1 votes

So do you get angry about getting unfair LP when there is a AFK in the enemy team?