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Players that dont leave the base until 20s in ranked games should be punished losing League Points

RaidMataBemMort0·5/20/2019, 12:27:42 AM·2 votes·2,987 views

We are sick of teammates AFK for several seconds, some times even minutes, at the game beginning of ranked matches! That causes a lot of problems and make it more difficult for players that want to play it right to climb. 1 - Usually we can not invade with 2 - 3 players AFK or late. 2 - Many times, we get invaded by the full enemy team and have to use summons to protect our jungle and stay alive. 3 - Easy gank for the enemy team, once we had to use the summons, and then snowball.

Of course, they always have a GOOD reason for that. "I had to pee!" "I was pooping!!" "I had to go grab some food/drink" "Sorry, I was on INSTAGRAM" !!!!! Several situations like that cost us the game! It is like starting a game in a losing position because your teammate joined a ranked match and went to do something else. It is a total disrespect with players that are trying to climb!

Riot MUST PUNISH ANY player who goes to a ranked game and takes more than 20 seconds to leave the base. The only exception should be if the player could not connect, even though, if that happens more than once or twice a day, there should be a punishment too, fix your computer before joining ranked games!!!

Give the AFK / Late players -5 LP at the end of the match, and let them know that was the reason. Like, you won, "+20 LP" for the victory and lost - 5 LP for early game AFK (gets only 15 LP). Or, you lost "20 LP" for the loss and another extra 5 LP for being AFK early game (loses 25 LP).

41 Comments

Furious Delisha5/20/2019, 12:38:24 AM10 votes

Get over it, if you're "losing games" over what happens in the first 20 seconds you are not good enough to say you deserve the win otherwise

zPOOPz5/20/2019, 12:37:01 AM7 votes

I would really rather people take a shit the first 20 seconds of the game than do it mid game. LeaveBuster allows for a reasonable amount of time for people to fix whatever caused them to be afk and 20 seconds are well within the allotted time be it beginning middle or end of game.

rujitra5/20/2019, 1:33:47 AM4 votes

There's perfectly valid reasons to wait in base. There's a lot of them, in fact.
Riot already does punish players who AFK, but the limit is longer than that (I believe it's 4-6 total minutes during the game), as that is the limit Riot has determined will minimize innocent players being punished (but not eliminate) while catching those who are AFKing. The balance has been struck, and it's not likely to change.
Riot is not going to lower/raise LP wins/losses. The only valid outcomes of a game are win LP, lose LP, or no change.

Jhins Girlfriend5/20/2019, 11:29:50 AM3 votes

Gurl, if I gotta pee during loading screen, I'm gonna go pee. I'm not gonna wait til we're 20 minutes in and me being gone for a couple minutes will impact the game way more.

Ataraxia RSPS5/20/2019, 2:06:55 AM3 votes

This is a ridiculous suggestion. Loading the game usually takes 60-90 seconds, plenty of time for me to grab a cup of coffee. If it loads faster because everyone has a decent computer, I might not be back before it starts. So because 1/10 times the game loads faster than expected I should be punished? That's really just stupid.

The game isn't won/lost in those first 20 seconds, and if it is it's because the players who WERE there made terrible plays/decisions - Not because one player wasn't out yet. Worst case scenario the enemy takes your first buff(Because you're not stupid, so you walk away when you see their team coming rather than trying to fight for it and waste your summoners/give first blood.), which sets the jungler back very slightly, but they just start at the other side and work from there. If it's any worse than that, it's the fault of the players who were there and made the bad decision of trying to fight the enemy team over a buff and gave them an early advantage.

It's one thing if someone stands in the base until 1:15 every game and never helps their teammates in the "Pre-Lane" stuff. That's not something that should be happening. It's also TOTALLY different than someone running to the bathroom or for a drink during loading, and having the game load faster than usual so missing the first 20 seconds. You shouldn't be fighting in the first 20 seconds anyway - It's a game about strategy and objectives, not an all-out spawn rush TDM.

church arson5/20/2019, 11:40:59 AM2 votes

Losing 2 LP seems fine for a one minute afk. More is just stupid.

Games crash. Internet fucks up. Anything can happen.

General Esdeath 5/20/2019, 6:38:52 AM1 votes

My small bladder says hi

AJStarhiker5/20/2019, 2:51:37 AM1 votes

While I believe LeaverBuster triggers faster from ranked games, the rules are consistant across modes. Saying "You can hang around the fountain for x seconds in normal games, but only y seconds in ranked" would just confuse people.

New players would wonder why they are suddenly getting LB in ranked, while experienced players would have to keep track of which queue they're playing. It would just get messy.