LP, Champion Mastery Rank in match, Trolls, and YOU!
I watched a couple of things that popped up (Tyler1 being banned then unbanned, Shaclone, Mr. Look at the Singed support jungle then support) and most claim it's for toxicity and inting (intentional feeding). I don't know, I don't see numbers of all games, BUT... I do have an idea as people would say these folks have been known to just init and troll in a LOT of their games.
This plan works most in the Ranked situation, not sure about placements, so let's get started.
We know your champion mastery rank awarded at the end of the match is based on some kind of mathematical logistics and all that (comparing your performance to those in same role with same champion...) How often do TROLLS get A's or S's? Usually not so much I would presume as, if they are feeding, they are not on the field as much as they should, which means, since they are feeding, the creep score isn't so hot and they have a high death to kill ratio.
My proposal, since reports usually flood in and someone reviews the game to see if the init was intentional, or just a bad game and all that, is this: LP hit. Let me explain.
If you get an A -> S+ rank, clearly you're doing something right, even if your team loses. So instead of say, losing an outright 26 lp due to the troll having done his / her / it's thing, use their ranking as a modifier. "S+ but your team lost? Okay, instead of losing 26, maybe 20 or 13..." I dunno what a good number would be. Maybe scale that with their rank? A you take 3 off, A+ 4, S- 5, S 6, S+ 7...?
But as it stands now, if a Troll is actually feeding and being a pain (which will usually reflect in their champ rank processing numbers later to give them a rank for that match), then this could be a touch more of a deterred thing as it does not penalize someone doing well. After all, the match usually gets reviewed when there's a series of complaints about folks inting and all that so it could be easy enough to figure it out.
Also, penalize the Troll on the same level. "Instead of the 26 for the loss, because of your actions and abysmal rank C- / D or lower, You have been deducted (Insert a number here) points for negatively impacting your team."
Even if you're getting outright stomped, most of the time you don't get into D or C- rank unless you make a straight up effort in ranked to do so.
OF COURSE this may need balance or reworking and maybe additional factors (as in, 26 for loss, then after a review of players actions, send an annotation with the 'suspension) "You have lost this much LP as well as your 14 day suspension for your behavior."
Now this only covers ranks, so normals are gonna have a hell of a time with more trolls, but it is just a thought to help in general.
Thank you for your time.
on Sona). I only got a B- and we all know how much the rating system rewards winning. Again, under your system, I would have been punished.