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Loosing LP due to AFK players

Stickybirdpoo·1/13/2016, 12:41:38 PM·1 votes·579 views

A year ago I began playing league and enjoyed the game quite thoroughly, but didn't understand some of the finer strategies. I reached level 30 and unfortunately started doing ranked and got myself locked into Bronze 5. I have spent a great deal of time since then learning about the game and watching LCS and watching many you tube videos on strategies and such. I have greatly improved my skills and I can normally win my lane against most players and when hard countered, avoid feeding while doing my best to hold turret. I will explain my problem. A week ago I decided to once again do the ranked again. After mastering 11 champions to level 5 and 6 other champions to level 4. I spent roughly 3 full days grinding the ranked bracket and climbed rapidly out of bronze 5 to bronze 3. However, due to a bad rash of ranked afk'ers and intentional rage feeders I lost my rank and eventually went back to bronze 5... ... ... I normally play norms with very competent players who I have met over the year and they are silver, gold, and platinum ranked and I am a positive contribution to our team when we play together. My question I guess is, is there any potential changes in the mix to benefit the players who fight hard to finish a game when 2 players afk. I still lose 22 LP and get dropped to a lower bracket. I understand this is the nature of the beast and everyone is dealing with same issues, but I can't help but feel that their is a portion of luck that plays a part of the ranked system. I have watched countless videos on staying positive while playing ranked, and that it is possible to carry a game even when behind. Although I agree it is possible to carry a game. It is very hard if even possible to carry a game when 2 players are AFK and you are forced to get farm and objectives missing 2 individuals on the team, while the opposing team has the needed players. I am not trying to be a challenger player or even a platinum player. I just want to be the best that I can be and improve, but I feel I am being weighed by a faulty scale. I am punished for my teammates mistakes. If I was feeding or not winning lane and not contributing to team objectives i would expect to loose and the ranked loss I would accept. But is there anything that is potentially going to be changed in the ranked system to help deal with the AFK issues? [zombie-brand-mindblown] [zombie-brand-facepalm] item 3070 Amumu item 3070

2 Comments

JRobin311/13/2016, 1:21:01 PM1 votes

I agree there is definitely a strong element of randomness and that issue is worse when there are a significant portion of players that afk. I don't think it will ever go away and I seriously doubt RIOT is going to alter LP gains and losses based on afks (and they shouldn't because it would create LP abuses). However, you should probably be excited for the new dynamic queue because you can team up with players to insure against afks on your team! And now only players that "fill" can reasonably expect to end up in a position they can't play competently which means that any player that is really interested in climbing ranked is going to figure out the positions he can play competently vs those he can't and queue accordingly (well I guess low ranked play is still in trouble then).

As for intentional feeding, it is actually far more common to see players rage about teammates dying than it is to see players deliberately feed kills to the enemy team. This is a problem because reporting players who die from poor play is not a punishable offense and this means that every time a player submits one of these bad reports the system has to work harder to filter those bad reports out so that it can identify actual intentional feeding.

One more thing, you said that if you personally fed or lost lane and didn't contribute to objectives, then you would be fine with accepting a loss. In other words, you have no problem with the idea that your teammates are punished for your poor play, but you do have a problem when you are punished for your teammates poor play. You aren't the only person to think this way, but realize that this is a double standard. Trying to hold your teammates to a higher standard than you hold for yourself isn't a fair, objective way to look at things.