Ranked w/ Leavers/AFK's

Uriel··2 votes·652 views

So, I'm a relatively new player that's finally been giving a shot at ranked, and after being immediately qualified for Silver V, that got quite the motivation for me to keep going to see where I can go. But over these past days I've been noticing something (something non-ranked games also suffer from, but au contraîre, in non-ranked you don't actually 'lose' something, so it never came as severe.) This issue nonetheless seems to be across many more leagues, from Bronze to early Silver in whole:

'People who leave the game prematurely, either through displeasure, unacceptance or disconnection.'

What has been bothering me is that behavior like this - albeit already disallowed by the rules - is actually having an additional effect; It drags the whole team under, letting them lose LP and their Ranked progression over reasons that were not in their - or their opponent's - control.

I'm going to propose the following idea, and mind you, I'm not as experienced in ranked yet to know what/how other leagues are experiencing this problem with, but I would like to see a measurement that prevents the whole team from crashing down in rank if a player prematurely leaves (or goes idle ingame)

11 Comments

Karunamon1 votes

Makes sense, but the problem is that you'll then get into a position where teams will have a sacrificial leaver to avoid losing their position in a losing game.

Uriel2 votes

I figured the probability of abuse yes. So as a measure against that, perhaps the person that left could still face the punishment of it? (Ignoring the fact that prematurely leaving the game is already a rule that has been broken.)

FraCro1 votes

there always are rage quitters,afk bots(afk farm),or just trolling around for there fun. In 20 games im 100% that u would get one of them at least in 4 games. When i get them i just ignore them and play whit rest of the team,and some times we win this games. summoner 13

Uriel2 votes

That's the common sense for an approach yes. The only concerning thing is that I'm talking about this in Ranked. Players like me and some of my friends want to progress too in our rank, and to lose 60% of our LP because somebody tilted or left the game for other reasons, it's something that can get on your nerves sometime.

As an example of what happened earlier; I was at 36 LP, progressing for Silver IV. I played as Nami support, with MissFortune as ADC. He/She suddenly tilted so hard because her internet connection was acting up, and around level 6-7, they decided "Screw this, I'm not gonna play with this ping.", and went idle for the rest of the game in spawn. This evidently caused us to lose the game, and it's these kind of situations I don't want to get punished on myself.

FraCro1 votes

ea it tilts me to when they do it,but u said u are playing whit friends? group up,avoid team fights,try to split push as much as u can,ward! use them,all buy control wards,try to catch alone roaming or pushing,try to get baron and don't give free kills,don't make there game easy. And of course have fun,it always makes me happy when we win 4 v 5. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

TheLegendaryEkko1 votes

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Uriel3 votes

I'm not going to join hate-driven discord servers. As well, nobody mentioned anything about revenge in first place. I'm not grudgeful.

TheLegendaryEkko1 votes

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HalcyonDweller1 votes

No you don't lol. You have over 2 thousand photo-shopped screenshots of the ban popup XD

HalcyonDweller1 votes

There is no way to get "revenge" on the specific players who were in the match that the OP was banned for. The chances of them running into those players again are very slim unless they are in the upper ranks.

You are selling false wares.

Call Me Steiner1 votes

what oh dear rito could do, is increase the severity of punishment for leaving or dc'ing out of a ranked game and make it so the loss is prevented if someone does happen to dc or leave the game. Obviously this could be abused by people duo queuing and having 1 person leave just before they lose, to combat this riot could just make the system not prevent the loss (whilst simultaneously punishing the leaver) if the person who dc'd or left is duo queuing with someone in the match.

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