No, I would not surrender the games. A lot of people said "ff we have no chance to win". My thought is that surrendering is like giving up and go to the next game. Likely today my team start to surrender and I was not voting because i want to try my best to win. I am the only teammate who said no (btw we had an afk) and start to ff in 15 min.
Warning: please don't judge my grammar this is not my first language.
I never hit surrender, because if you do, it's a 100% loss. However if you don't surrender there is always that chance for the W. It may be slim but it's better than nothing.
Time is money.
Refusing to surrender in a 4v5 with an AFK teammate is ridiculous and you're just wasting your teammates time.
surrender or afk for me.
you have to decide if there a chance for victory, ill use my most recent match as an example, I was Quinn vs poppy (yes I'm aware I was at a disadvantage already) with lee jungle, sona mid, and thresh/jhin bottom, I got the first kill in my lane then I died and could no longer damage the poppy. well I got help from lee and.... we both died because he forgot she had an anti engage ability. now I did complain that I couldn't fight her anymore but it wasn't until the rest of my team was handing the enemy jinx quadrakills that I said we should ff, I didn't want to waste my time or theirs so I muted them all, both of my surrender votes failed while one of theirs was only one short of passing,
in short you have to decide if you can both motivate your team to do better and pull the win or if you should suck it up and put your pride away and just move on, because if you can win and its clear you can get your team on track to win then no don't surrender, but if you clearly have NO CHANCE of winning then just deal with it and move along, your team will be better next game
It varies from game to game. As a rule of thumb I never surrender ranked games. In norms or fun modes (including ARAM) I try to establish why should we ff. If overly toxic people then I really don't want to deal with them (and I have a very high threshold for dealing with that) or maybe we just lost a 5v5 at out inhibitor and they can end off the push. (That just saves a few seconds.)
TLDR: Never in ranked, varies in everything else.
