Why do I lose ELO when my teammates AFK/ troll?

Master Griefer·9/8/2016, 1:22:43 PM·2 votes·1,350 views

So my MMR is shot and I'm a silver playing with mostly bronzies when i solo q. I never feed or play poorly, it's usually my teammates who do bad. So I lose and I never rank up cause of this. I'm a support main. TOday I had this game where this bronzie rage quits within 5 min and we play an hour long game where the 4 of us actually get more team kills but we lose cause of course we are down a man. How is it fair I lose 22 LP (when I'm only gettign 15 LP for each win) when I keep getting stuck with trolls, people who AFK, etc..?? Why hasn't Riot instituted fair ranking system whereby LP is taken and rewarded based on individual negative and positive contributions, respectively? Like if someone afk's and the team loses then that person would lose a significant portion of LP as opposed to people who didn't AFK? or if a person trolls and the team reports them , then they lose more LP as opposed to the non-trollers? wouldnt this make more sense????? I'm stuck in silver, can't escape. it's not fair i'm stuck with piss poor players..

8 Comments

archerno19/8/2016, 3:47:26 PM3 votes

Are u sure u arent stuck cause of your bad performances?And cause u are actually where you should be?

Maximum Morde9/8/2016, 4:11:15 PM3 votes

Probably for the same reason that you gain ELO when someone on the enemy team afks/trolls.

Itankyou9/8/2016, 6:53:48 PM1 votes

Why do I lose ELO when my teammates AFK/ troll?

Because you are boosted like everyone else.

Cyst9/9/2016, 1:00:10 AM1 votes

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Stuff

Because riot didn't have the wisdom/foresight/skill/ability to do individual elo.

Team ELO easier to figure out for 'programmers' who take 5 years to code a new client that has been in development that long.

When that is how long most companies take to make new games.

Telephone Booth9/9/2016, 1:59:13 AM1 votes

You NEVER feed or even play poorly? I shouldn't even respond because you clearly are a liar or in denial... but imagine a system where all you have to do is have 1 person on ur team afk to not lose any LP in a match. Think about how easy that would be to abuse. I would probably be gold 1 by now if it worked your way... and I'm not gold 1 material. Just have 1 friend afk each loss to save everyone else the LP. One in 3 or 4 losses would actually count. I'd lose 4, win 1, and still be at the same LP... that seems a little fucked up.