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Ranked System Question.

Corrupted Lotus·1/16/2015, 10:59:25 PM·1 votes·207 views

Why is it that i am docked LP after a loss when one of the players on my team never connected. Its ridiculously annoying when a teammate never connects and inevitably my team and i lose the match 4v5 and even more inevitably we are docked LP for the loss. Just 10 minutes ago i finished such a game and was docked 20 league points for something completely out of control. I have won 4v5's before dont get me wrong. But those were only won with perfect gameplay (or as close to perfect as we could manage) and due to frequent enemy misplays. I'd like to know if there is any way Riot is able to monitor the fact that one or more members either never connected or disconnected within the first few minutes due to rage (thus completely ruining the ranked match possibility of victory and insuring a loss of LP) and if so, why can't the team with said individual be given a loss prevented or even the simple -3 LP given to people that dodge queue? I would much rather take a -3 LP hit then -20 for something that we cannot foresee. Food for thought.

3 Comments

hh the thinker1/16/2015, 11:05:27 PM1 votes

because it's the same for everyone, and it happens to everyone. I do think they could improve the system though.

Matthias91191/17/2015, 12:23:27 AM1 votes

Loss prevention for these causes LP and rank inflation. It also encourages trolling your teammates in order to make them quit and negate your LP loss.

Basically, you can have "loss prevention" for 4v5 losses if you also get "win prevention" on 5v4 wins. Are you sure you want that? If you never AFK yourself you win more games over time than you lose due to other players AFKing.

What I'd like to see them do, at least, is allow an early surrender if a player on your team is DCed for an extended amount of time (5-10 minutes). Riot has also said they want to allow a pause or restart for the case where a player fails to connect from the loading screen, which would help sometimes.