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Better justice/fairness in ranked queues?

Zacchini·7/23/2015, 1:14:18 PM·1 votes·290 views

As most of us ranked players know it's really frustrating to climb especially when a teammate afks or leaves. I was recently in a ranked game with 2 afks so it was a 3 vs 5. We faired pretty well and we were very determined to win despite the differences in number. We got to their inhibitor turrents, but we still lost. I lost 18LP that game (which is more than I normally lose) and my teammates also claimed they lost more LP than they usually do as well. Shouldn't there be more fairness and justice in ranked queues? I know Leaverbuster was established, but giving a delay when joining a game just doesn't seem to cut it. Here I have some suggestions for Riot to consider. Mind that these are for ranked queues only and are not meant to be established for normal game modes. Consequences:

  • Lose more LP. (I think this one seems rather straightforward. Leave a game or afk, lose more LP.)

  • Temporary ban from ranked queues. (Like Leaverbuster, but with a time or number of game bans from ranked queues. I think this would be more effective against players who purposely leave the game as it would drastically delay the number of games they would be able to ruin. I'd like to add that there should be a first time warning for players who do leave so they would understand the consequences.)

If not any of the ones above, please consider some of these rules to help teams with (a) missing player(s).

  • A small buff to the team with missing players. (I know some people are going to say that people would purposely leave in order for their team to get the buff, but keep in mind that this would be a minor buff to help through the early game struggles. I would also like to add that the player must be afk for at least 5 minutes before the team gets the buff so it would seem less worth it to leave for the buff.)

  • Less LP loss. (For the sake of fairness, players who did not leave should have less LP deducted from their score and that LP would be deducted from the missing player(s). I believe this would discourage players from leaving the game when things don't go as planned. Also I do not plan for it to be a large amount, but probably 2-3LP from each person being taken from the missing player(s).

Thank you to all of those who have read this post. Feel free to leave any comments of suggestions.

1 Comments

SmokedAlmonds7/23/2015, 1:36:26 PM1 votes

Leaverbuster does treat ranked leaves harsher than other modes, but I do kinda agree that there should be more. Maybe include ranked restrictions with low priority queues for ranked leaves or something like that.

Ultimately individual games have very little impact on your overall rank. You were going to lose about half of those games anyway, they happen on both teams, and you are just going to be that much more likely to win your successive games because your rank went down but presumably your skill did not.

The number 1 thing(basically the only thing really) I want to see with afks is the ability to leave after someone is already afk. I don't care about the loss, I just want to get on to a new game.