The score is 15-0 at 8 minutes. Stop holding the game hostage

Just made a post on a seperate discussion on surrendering. Im going to post it here for you, as well. Its very in depth, and I think it explains the point as well as it could be.

do you see people surrendering in chess or whatever? no. so why should you surrender on league?

Yes, actually. Its more common than you think, and theres a signal for it too. To surrender in chess, you knock over your own king, and the game ends.

The idea behind FFing is easy to understand. Think of it like this.

Youre playing a match that goes 0-20 by 15 minutes. All 3 lanes are losing, your jungle is useless, and 2 people are flaming. So right off the bat, your mood is in the dumps. Youre positively miserable, because you got flamers on one side, and your forced to finish a match you know you cant win on the other. The gold lead youve establed is 6,000 gold, WITHOUT taking into consideration the cs youve all lost out on by spending so much time dead. The enemy has a full item each on you, causing them to power spike.

Sure you COULD win. But that win would be hard fought. Itd be an uphill battle, a long game, as you certainly couldnt close it out easily, and youd have to deal with your teammates tilting, and shitty attitudes all match. Youre looking at easily a 40 minute match while you grind out a lead. I dont know about you, but I can scratch out 2 wins in 40 minutes, and id rather do that.

If youre playing normals, fine, I get it, youre there to practice a champ, have fun with your friends, experiment, etc. But when youre in ranked, you stepped into a highly competitive environment where time is LP, and that 20 minutes you and your duo hold the game hostage could be the difference between ending the day up 40 lp, or down 20. So think of it like this. Team wants to FF, but you wont let them. if its 4 people vs 1, you force them to play an additional 5 minutes at LEAST. If its a duo, or 2 people with NGU attitude, youre forcing people to play UP TO A FULL 45 MINUTES LONGER. Lets be nice, and say every game ends at 30 minutes.

Now you have the potential to play 2 league games an hour. If you get off of work or school, and no life your way through 8 hours of league, you can play 16 matches at 30 minutes a game if theyre held hostage every single game, or 24 games if every single game ends in an FF at 15. So what youre finding, is that assuming every game has NGU's (I cant statistically prove this, but annecdotally, most of them do) youre holding them hostage for anywhere between 120 minutes, to 240 minutes. that is 6-12 matches that they cannot play because people refused to give up.

Add to this that if league matchmaking is working as intended, youre only winning 50-55% of your matches. So of those 16-24, youre winning 8-12, or 3-6 wins theyre denied because you held over the game. Lets assume they/you are actively climbing with a 60-75% winrate. Youre winning 14-18 games. Thats 4/5-9 games that you ARENT winning because you got held up in every one of your last games.

Its about more than just raw numbers too. As I said earlier, when youre far enough behind to consider FFing at 15, youre all tilted, or starting to tilt. Youre pretty much guaranteed to have a flamer on your team, if not more than one. So now you have chat/allchat flooding your screen as what could be literal young children scream at each other and play the blame game. Then you have the enemy team trash talking/laughing at you guys. Youre tilted because you keep getting malphite ulted into a thresh hook, giving you literally no room to escape and your team doesnt comprehend that going in one at a time is a problem. Your team is playing just well enough to keep the game rolling, but have already lost 20 minutes ago. Now youre forced to grind out 30-40 minutes of a game you cant win. Not only that, but negativity negatively impacts your life. Please note, that the article/study specifically states that "Quite simply, no matter how positive of a person you are, negative people can affect your life, unless you take the right precautions." This means that even if "the tilt doesnt get to you", on a deep psychological level, it does, no matter how much you deny it.

Even if you say "well mute chat and carry on", the reality is, the best reason to play a losing match is to practice during the games youre behind on. But you cant farm under these conditions, you certainly cant teamfight, and unless you have a team that meets specific criteria, youre not going to be able to xpeke your way out of the match. So youre not getting meaningful practice, because your team isnt going to cooperate, you have no room to breath or learn (assuming your attitude at that time is letting you), and youre behind with no items to do enough damage to practice your mechanics.

I dont wanna drag this out, and Id bet my left nut youre not reading this anyway, so im going to quickly sum up the post in a TLDR

Pros to Surrendering

You can start another match you have better odds of winning

Less chances of tilting due to general negativity

Youre extending your play time by up to 24 games.

You can start a new match that is more likely to provide you meaningful experience and practice

Its healthier for your brain (see source above)

Larger pool to pull from statistically, meaning higher winrate

Cons to Surrendering

Youre losing out on the ability to practice from behind

Youre losing out on a chance to gain LP