Remove penalty for losing ranked game where one or more people disconnect

Bad Kid Randy·2/17/2016, 7:30:05 AM·3 votes·385 views

I have been a victim of afk/dc in ranked matches which makes it insanely hard to win. 4v5 is never fun and puts everyones down. Why do I have to be penalized for someone afk in a ranked? I've lost series because of this. Just want to see if its possible to do something about this.

6 Comments

Awkward Couch2/17/2016, 7:37:26 AM1 votes

The issue with removing peanilties for LP loss or even partial loss is the potential for abuse. This way, you could duo with a friend on a smurf, if you're losing, your friend's smurf just AFK and you take reduced LP loss or no LP loss at all.

I agree that there should be some compensation for having an AFK in Ranked, it's just really hard to make sure that it wouldn't get abused.

Live2LetDie2/17/2016, 7:43:43 AM1 votes

Will be abused. That's all

Phenyxs2/17/2016, 8:08:20 AM1 votes

I think the game should count as a loss but no lp loss and no change in placement. Kind of like a game that didn't count. Reason is people do it to troll or what ever. But that person who afk should get a serious penalty.

Uj3h2v7XNZ2/17/2016, 12:15:50 PM1 votes

People get triggered when I bring up features that Dota 2 has, but here's one...

The AFK player's gold is given to the rest of the team, the other players can take control of their husk of a champion, sell the items to contribute more to the rest of the team's gold, or to make plays with the champ using micromanagement.

Obviously this only happened 6 minutes after the player had left, which was basically confirmation that they had abandoned the game, or won't be coming back anytime soon.