Loss Prevented for AFK's
Can someone explain to me why their is no Loss Prevented in Ranked Queue's when your team has an AFK? It doesn't make sense to me. It's almost impossible to win, and much like server lag, it's out of the player's control.
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Step 1. Queue up
Step 2. When you see your team is loosing, AFK
Step 3. Get rewarded for showing toxic behavior (AFK)
Why not preventing losses when someone AFKs before 5 min of gameplay? With Bugsplats all around and numerous connection issues, I belive this would be good for everyone. You could even leave a mark on these players, so that they get punished if it happens a certain number of times on a pre-estabilshed period (like loosing elo the same way it would happen if you dodge a queue for example).
I mean, before 5 min not even 1st blood has occured most of the times, so the only reason anyone would abuse this is to dodge a potential bad matchup I guess.
Because it is abusable, espeically by duo players. Also, it would take too much time for Riot to look at see who afk'd and if it was duo, etc., which would take away from their endless pursuit to ban everyone that uses a bad word in a mutable game.
A bit off topic, but instead of loss prevention, i think it would be fair to instead give the disconnected champion a base line of XP and maybe gold. How many times have you seen a player dc early in game, then lost soo much gold and xp that its massively difficult for them to make any impact after they return? If champs got extra passive XP while disconnected (not AFK, actual disconnects) then when players reconnect they might actually be usefull. Also i dont think this mechanic would be abuseable, since it would be just a low base amount of XP to keep the champ in line with maybe the lowest lvl in game? When someone d/cs it is a large toll for the rest of the players, it would be nice to not accrue an XP penalty as well. This might encourage players who legit DC to come back to the game they dropped from. (lots of ppl play league on toasters, and dont dc on purpose)
TL:DR Give disconnected players a low amount of XP to keep them just below other players in the match.