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You Get 0lp For Winning a Ranked Match you Disconnect from and Reconnect from

Calebindestrctbl··2 votes·1,802 views
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I played a game of League, and at the start of it I disconnected and then reconnected

(It said there was a system error) (at around level 6 after turning on and off my computer since I couldn't alt-tab)

(The enemy Kai'sa also disconnected and came back)

My INTernet worked fine, so I don't know if it was on my end or on the server's end (there have been many bugs recently and it happening twice makes me suspect this).

Regardless though, I ended up winning the game and didn't get too frustrated over this. The thing that bugged me though, was that I got 0lp from this win. In my opinion this is unfair because even if the internet issue is on my end, which it very well may be, I don't think it's fair to be punished so harshly when I tried my best, came back after a short amount of time, and won. I understand that discouraging disconnecting/leaving is important, but I feel that this is overly harsh. Therefore, I propose that Riot would only cause an LP % reduction for Dc'ing and Rc'ing, say only a 50% reduction.

Good luck not getting Teemo support in soloQ and have a nice day. [garen-swing]

5 Comments

GatekeeperTDS3 votes

Therefore, I propose that Riot would only cause an LP % reduction for Dc'ing and Rc'ing, say only a 50% reduction.

Nope. There's nothing to prevent people from abusing this system. In addition, Riot was having issues yesterday and disabled ranked queues for a while. If disconnections are still happening, you should submit a support ticket. Fortunately, one or two instances of this over the course of a season will not affect your long-term climb. You'll get those LP back. And if you don't, the problem isn't with the system.

Calebindestrctbl2 votes

"Nope. There's nothing to prevent people from abusing this system."

Dc'ing, coming back, and winning is very difficult to do. The idea of a person abusing the ability to get half the amount of LP they'd typically get in order to be able to go afk temporarily is absurd; it's consistently losing you LP, it's occasionally giving you small amounts of lp, and it's a poor tradeoff.

I agree with the rest of your statement.

GatekeeperTDS1 votes

A disconnect of any nature puts your team at a disadvantage. Whether the person left on purpose, Riot borked their server, or grandma fell over the Internet, the system can't reward being absent or it will encourage people to be absent.

Calebindestrctbl2 votes

"A disconnect of any nature puts your team at a disadvantage." Correct

"Whether the person left on purpose, Riot borked their server, or grandma fell over the Internet, the system can't reward being absent or it will encourage people to be absent."

There's a fine line between rewarding a player for being absent and slicing their LP gains in half giving them a small reward if they do manage to somehow win the game despite Dc'ing and Rc'ing.

As for whether the leave is intentional or not, that's mostly irrelevant. It would be nice to be able to distinguish the two since leaving intentionally is worse, but even if a person leaves intentionally if they come back and win they've done no harm, and if they have then they can enjoy some LP loss, and if it's an obvious RQ then they'll probably have RQ'ed previously a lot, and being reported for this enough will lead to their punishment.

Telephone Booth1 votes

Doesnt it actually count as a loss? Im not sure, but yeah i remember when i discovered that as well after winning a game i dc'd from for a couple minutes. Sucks. Dems da breaks.

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