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Forte·12/7/2018, 10:21:20 PM·1 votes·4,632 views

I know that everybody meets a troll as well as afkers sometimes. My question is, is it really fair for everybody in the team to lose lp or worse get demoted because someone wanted to troll or leave the game? I lost many games today, in one of them we had 2 people afk and the other 2 didn't want to surrender so it was basically a prison, and in the other there was a jungler that picked Ezreal, went mid, and at lvl 1 announced that he would troll, he hard run down the mid, fed the enemy mid and that was the game. Point is that those people don't mind to be banned, so it's more of a blessing for them rather than a punishment. When someone loses a game they shall as well lose some lp, but why couldn't it be at least less lp deu to the fact that there were trolls in the team? I'm a support, I was silver 1, went down to silver 3 and about to hit silver 4, I'm not a professional, I know that silver is where I belong, but I try my best in every game, and all the struggle doesn't lead anywhere but down.

Have a nice day.

25 Comments

MagicFlyingLlama12/7/2018, 10:34:21 PM3 votes

It is not fair, but there is no fairer way of magically solving the issue.

zPOOPz12/7/2018, 10:38:45 PM3 votes

It's mathematics.

As long as you are not the troll or afk on your team, for every game, there are 4 random people on your team that could be the troll or afker while there are 5 random people on the enemy team that could be the troll or afker. If you assume there is equal probability of each of the 9 random people to be a troll or afker, there is a greater chance of the enemy team having a troll or afk than your team. You should gain more lp over vast amount of time on the normal curve.

If Rito reduces lp loss for troll/afk, it will open up for other kind of abuse. For afk, team would flame or abuse teammate(s) into afk in order to selfishly reduce their own lp loss creating more toxic environment than what we have now. For troll, Rito troll detection system is not exactly...perfect and it would create an unfair system where some people will be lucky and the troll detector gave them reduced lp loss while others will be unlucky and the troll bypassed the troll detector and get full lp loss.

It's better to let mathematics and the law of probabilities to take care of it.

Telephone Booth12/8/2018, 2:42:09 AM2 votes

Yup. People are cocks. Thats kinda why i rarely play ranked anymore.

mack911212/7/2018, 10:52:36 PM1 votes

Riot can only moderate people they can't read there mind and know what they are going to do before they do it .

I play in plat and never see trolls or afk because those individuals can never make it that far.

mlm olo mlm12/8/2018, 1:13:19 AM1 votes

I find it is a fundamental flaw in the ranking system. My personal rank is based on the performance of 9 other people. There is nothing fair about it.

Baka Red12/13/2018, 9:28:44 AM1 votes

There are couple of things which make the system little more fair than it seems to be:

  • Like you said, everybody meets a troll/afker sometimes. That means that everyone who plays ranked occasionally gets hit with LP losses and thus it is fair to everyone (except the troll/afker in this case) in that respect.
  • At the end (unfortunately that seems to take 'some' time), the troll gets punished and gameplay related punishment is suspension. That is worse than losing some LP.

I hope those offer you some comfort when you meet a troll/afker the next time.