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Riot needs to change their ranking system.

Snowman Arc··1 votes·379 views

Yeah, this post has been created billions of times and I know I will probably say everything everyone else has, but I need to get this off my chest.

I played 2 games today. Lost both, why? 1)Fizz refused to roam, and because of that, his enemy laner Zoe got 3 kills and we got 2, and he afked because of that. Rest of the game, 4v5. This happened at 5 minutes

2)We are winning 14-0. 14-0! At 10 minutes! We stomped bot, top was winning, mid was winning. Then, top lane Chogath's mouse apparently "stopped working". He afked for like 5 minutes in-game, restarted his PC and never came back in the game. Another EASY WIN lost. Literally, game was 14-0 at 10 minutes, we had broken like 3 towers.

Riot needs to change their system. If the first game was a 50-50 of winning, the second game was 100%. I literally lost elo in a game I should have WON, because some random teammate, for any reason, AFKed. How is that fair, Riot? Why can't you remake your system into something that actually reflects good performance? Like, look into every game that is flagged with someone AFKing and judge accordingly. I can see it being OK to lose LP in my first match, but I refuse to accept losing LP for the second one.

Sure, I'm a good player and I will eventually climb blah blah, but no. I don't have all the patience in the world to double-try and put time into this game just to get LP I should have in the first place.

I don't know what solution you can find. Go ahead and check every game that an AFKer is flagged. Check if that guy is solo or premade. If solo, then refund LP to everyone apart from them. If premade, refund to everyone apart from that party, just like it happens when there is a remake. I'm sick and tired of all these games where someone either 1) decides to try Teemo jungle with smite / exhaust and going 0/9, 2)people afking because they got pissed off, 3)stupid matchmaking.

It's really a pity. I was willing to give Riot money to buy the new Sivir skin, but guess I won't. I won't give my money to this shit company who refuses to listen to its community.

9 Comments

Kei1433 votes

So on the flip side, are you willing to not gain LP if the enemy had an AFK?

Also, if you can't win a 4V5 that you were stomping in 10mins, that means you are just good at laning phase and suck at mid-late game macro plays.

Snowman Arc1 votes

Honestly, I'm willing to pass on getting LP for a win I shouldn't have. If that's what it takes to fix the problem, by all means. Or at least, not take as many. I had a game recently, where I was winning bot lane hard enough, that the enemy support probably tilted hard and AFK from minute #10. I won that game easily, and probably would win even without him being AFK. These games, instead of getting the casual 23LP, I'm happy to get 15. On the other side, I refuse to accept that the enemy team will lose the whole amount, because one guy ruined the game for them. Instead of losing 20LP, maybe losing 10 is fine. At least you ain't losing that much, so you don't need to get equal number of wins.

Don't give me the talk about "oh you were ahead you should win anyway". I'm in Plat elo, and people know how to hold up in 4v5s. They grouped up and stalled the game, then slowly got back into it. You can't blame a team for losing a 4v5, especially as the elo goes higher.

Kei1431 votes

Ya, I'm all for a system that reduces gains and losses in a 4v5. I'm also for rewarding more LP if you win a 4v5 when you were the team that had the afk.

In regards to gameplay strats, Just because you are in plat doesn't mean that have good macro for playing against players your level.

giantZorg2 votes

AFK's actually work in your favor in the long way under the assumption that you never AFK. The other team has 5 randoms, your team has 4 randoms. Assume that all have an equal chance of AFKing, you get that the other team has a higher chance of having an AFK. Same argument goes for feeder/inter, as long as you are never the one doing. But be reminded, this is only valid in the long run. Just remember this game the next time you win because of an AFK or inter.

Snowman Arc1 votes

Sure, but it's still not the right thing to do. It's not right to gain LP for a game I should have lost because of an AFKer. Same for the flipside. In the long run, yeah, it will turn out for the better, LP-wise, but as of right now, I've lost 4 of my last 10 games because someone AFKed. I mean, bad luck aside, this shouldn't be happening.

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

How the fuck is Riot supposed to fix your teammates trolling?

That's literally not possible. They can't stop a first-time troll immediately.

Snowman Arc1 votes

But they can literally see the guy being AFK. When there is a troll, there is a chat log that the guy, through context, says that he is happy we are losing. I know my shit. I know when someone is having a bad game and when someone is trolling.

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

Okay. And they ban the troll. Congrats: He's now AFK. You still lose. Perhaps even worse, because you no longer have him to distract the enemy team.

They punish the AFK guy. He's still AFK. You still lose.

They remake the game - People abuse it. The team who has 5 after the DC was winning hard, the guy who went AFK did so at the behest of his premade, so that only one loses LP. Congrats, your system is now abused. And that entire patch worth of LP has to be reverted to account for the abuse.

Snowman Arc1 votes

The guy that AFKs gets punished and I do not lose LP. In case of premades, they both lose LP.

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