Why are 4 v 5's not a loss prevented in ranked and even normal play.

Supa SP··3 votes·757 views

Can someone explain, how ranked is supposed to judge a players skill level, if in a 4 v 5 game a game that was 4 v 5 since under the 10 minute mark, that lasts over 50 minutes when your enemy team of 5 needed 3 barons and all 3 inhibs just to win the game are you not rewarded a loss prevented because there are games you know if the 5th guy was not afk you would win the game, that was my most recent ranked game. We aced them 3 times but nope super minion wave after minion wave after baron minion wave. They have made it so there is literally no opportunity for a permanently incomplete team to split push for the win. Great job riot you removed split pushing as a strategy from the game with every single tower and objective buff you create guess what in the real ranked games your making it more unbalanced than ever for a 4 v 5 team to stay ahead and come back both are impossible now in lower tiers maybe even higher ones too. Riots balancing and changes to the game to make the pro play more interesting and balanced has messed up the lower level tiers, as well as people in general who fall victim to the early 4 v 5. Even if its late game and its just for one team fight winning a late game team fight 4 v 5 doesn't happen, and I've come to the conclusion this company does not care for its actual player base, they make you play games with people by spam inviting just to earn a rewards weekend or a free skin, they will not reward your team a loss prevented in a 4 v 5 but when they are about to update the servers and your mid ranked game you get one even if you fed all game and deserved a loss (makes no sense but happens far too often), and furthermore they make 3 or 5 games pending on what division or whatever tier your in more important than the other hundred or more games you've played and won, ( this is another topic itself but why are these games more important again? how do these two or three games make me better than the other team if the other team has an afk or something along the lines of doing really terrible and getting carried, luck has a bigger factor than skill, I've been in queue with people someone dodges because of op team comp we created i stay in queue same people on my team now on the other team they put the smash on my team, thats not luck that someone dodged and i happened to go from the team with guys about to go ham to the team about to spam chat and ping and generally not help thats totally not luck riot, that player skill in action) also especially in those "promo" games that you get an absurd amount more pressure in, it would make sense you could give the player some kind of hope or at least alleviate the pressure by the player knowing that at least if one of his teammates afks that his promotion series won't be wasted and it would be like the game never happened, nope doesn't make sense to riot, because why would they give a damn about the greater population by the numbers of its playing base.( the lower tiers ) ....... also another thing that should be a separate post but when did riots reporting system go from non existent, to white supremacist police officer on steroids banning people who do nothing wrong but get reported by people with mental conditions because that needs to stop you went from laissez faire to total nazi Germany punishing any and all accused even without proof, its ridiculous.... But i end rant. If someone can prove me wrong that riot actually cares explain why i am flawed in my thinking because too much time too much money too many 4 v 5s to think its not just a cruel joke to waste an hour or more of someones life because you are forced to sit through it your not allowed to leave oh no you will get banned by the riot police of nazis because you have a 12 year old running mid over and over killing himself in game refusing to surrender keeping the game going way longer than it needs to just because he's having a tantrum, makes sense Ide want to sit through all of it instead of leaving the game. When will you wake up as a company riot and realize this is not okay this is not ranked this is lottery up to platinum then everyones the same skill level like honestly look at the amount of people in the divisions the numbers are low.

4 Comments

Jonners2 votes

Is there a TL;DR version of this?

Supa SP1 votes

No trust me its thought provoking

Skoonie1 votes

The only thought your post provoked is "Does this guy know where the Enter key is?"

In all seriousness, the only way for loss prevention to work for afk's/leavers is to have a time limit placed upon it, as well as for it not to be awarded for surrenders.

Cynika1 votes

my TL:DR I grabbed from this that I've also mentioned in previous posts. There should be a loss prevention (at least in ranked) if someone rage quits or d/c's since it becomes imbalanced and near impossible for the team that has 4 to win. The team with 5 gets easy LP while the people with 4 have little chance to win and will lose LP.

Possible solution: if a team with 4 in ranked loses, only make the person who left lose the LP or at least a larger % of it. Or just cause a loss prevention. JMHO

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