Remove LP Penalty for dodging and increase time ban.

RyanBlocks2·11/4/2014, 7:49:25 PM·3 votes·962 views

Currently if you're internet shuts off for .00000000001 seconds you are disconnected from the game and receive an LP penalty for dodging. I have lost about 200 lp this game as this happens to me about once every 10 games. As this unnecessarily punishes players who dont actually dodge I think that the LP penalty should be removed and the time penalty increased. Those who dodge consistently will be kept off the servers by time bans and those who accidently drop out of a que will just have to wait a little instead of loosing lp.

7 Comments

Kazaashi11/17/2015, 3:58:24 PM2 votes

If you disconnect in 1 out of 10 matches, the real problem is your internet and once you fix that, you won't have a problem with dodge penalties.

Matthias911911/4/2014, 8:11:57 PM1 votes

They actually had no LP penalty on dodges for a little while.

It was horribly abused. Sorry, free dodges just don't work well.

You also should only lose something like 3LP for your first dodge per day. If you're crashing/DCing that often you need to figure out what is going on and fix it.

ValyrianBlade11/4/2014, 8:19:32 PM1 votes

If this is the only reason you're dodging, I'd say to just fix queue dodging. Why is it a Dodge if you disconnect during champ select? It should only be a Dodge if you actually fail to select a Champion, or are not connected when champion select ends (maybe even wait 3 seconds to check if reconnected).

But you bring up a good point anyways, is an lp penalty for dodging really appropriate? The penalty is actually grossly inconsistent. In a promo series a Dodge is the same as a loss. When you're at 87+ LP (and are gaining the same for a win as you lose for a loss) a Dodge costs you basically nothing (you'll be in your promos if you win your next game regardless, or if you lose x win x+1). In general, if the penalty doesn't increase the time to a promo series it doesn't really do anything whereas of you're in promos or at 20/40/60/80 LP (assuming 20 per win/loss, obviously doesn't always apply) it costs you as much as a full loss.

In contrast, your larger time penalty idea would make the consequence the same regardless of where you are on the ladder. Perhaps only make that first Dodge not cost lp (you must play games before you can Dodge for free except for time penalty again).

AetherKingdom11/4/2014, 8:03:12 PM1 votes

Yes please. I already lose 15 LP per dodge kekekeke

Sailor Mint11/4/2014, 9:31:48 PM1 votes

That's what we had in Season 3. Every lobby was a war of people trying to make others dodge if they didn't get their way.

abdulbari11/17/2015, 3:50:41 PM1 votes

time penalty should only be limited to ranked matches , players like me live in third world where there is disconnection problem and this time penalty can discourage our play , i disconnected from a BOT game due to connection probelm and then reconnected again but it was too late now iam having 20 min wait before a match even with A1 bots . i feel really sad :(

Mizu The Sergal11/4/2014, 9:29:45 PM1 votes

seems like your internet connection is the problem, not the system. a penalty is put in place to discouraged dodges in rank, if you are having internet issues, DON'T PLAY into you talk to you talk to your ISP about your disconnection issues