Why should I lose ELO for a teammate abandoning the match?

5 Dollar Holler··1 votes·954 views

Recognizing the current "Leaver Buster" system:

  • Hardly punishes players until they have already ruined the match for dozens and dozens of players/teammates.
  • Severely penalizes teammates of leavers.

Suggestion:

  • Winning team still gets normal +LP for a win
  • If the team with the leaver wins, they get normal LP gain and losing team gets normal LP loss.
  • If you disconnect and don't reconnect within the 5 minutes (or before the game ends), you lose TRIPLE LP. First time, every time. Should be around -60 or so. This is not that punishing for someone who leaves the acceptable 1-2 times per season due to an emergency or power outage, but will sink habitual leavers down quickly.
  • Teammates of the person who abandoned have their LP losses reduced by 75% if the d/c is within the first 10 mins, 50% if within the first 15 minutes. There is simply no reason that people who have a teammate throw the match should be punished.

10 Comments

LMQ XiaoWeiXiao1 votes

welcome to league of legends

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

And what about after 15 minutes? What about the duo boosters on smurfs leaving if they realize their team will lose to help their buddy?

5 Dollar Holler1 votes

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And what about after 15 minutes? What about the duo boosters on smurfs leaving if they realize their team will lose to help their buddy?

In my proposal, the team with the loser will never NOT lose LP at all. I thought about what you said when I made this post. If it is a concern, I think it's reasonable to say anyone in a duo queue would be exempted from the LP loss softening and lose full LP.

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

Okay but you still didn't answer about the 20 minute mark. I can appreciate the fact lp is still lost but am curious about 20+. At 20 is it 100% no matter what?

General Esdeath 2 votes

Just treat the duo as one person and punish them both. Teach them not to play together if one had bad internet. Riot did this when my friend left too many times and we all had to wait 20 minutes before a match. We stopped playing with him.

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

Some clarification please. Did you have the penalty or did you just suffer because you had to wait on them?

General Esdeath 1 votes

Which penalty? Because he got it while playing alone. And there's no LP loss in normals. We had to wait 20 minutes before the group was entered into queue.

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

I meant the 20 minute. So it wasn't the group per se, just the casualties of playing with him?

General Esdeath 1 votes

Of queueing with him after he received it, yes.

Kei1431 votes

On the flip side, if they did implement a loss pardon cos someone on your team left, are you prepared to not win any LP if the enemy leaves?

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