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AFKs and ranked

BombYourMom·12/24/2016, 10:02:48 PM·2 votes·510 views

Hello everyone who has played ranked and has had an AFK on your team. I am sure you know how fun it is to lose the game and lose your hard earned LP just because some idiot decided to leave the game. Now there is a VERY easy solution for this. If there is an AFK on your team, you shouldn't lose any LP or lose significantly less LP. The person who went AFK would get demoted once at the least (so if they are Gold 1, they go to Gold 2) and no, this isn't too harsh. Ranked should be a much more serious environment. If someone wants to go AFK, they can go AFK in normals, where it doesn't really matter if you win or lose. Ranked should not be ruined for the many people who want to climb because of the few idiots who want to AFK in ranked. The people who won the easy 4v5, shouldn't win the same amount of LP. That is just unfair and stupid, in my opinion. Why should 4 people lose the same amount of LP that 5 people would in a 5 player per team game when those 5 people are winning the same amount? Another solution for this would be to make it so that you can remake the game if a person goes AFK in the middle of the game. But to be honest, I think the first solution is better. OH, and if a team ends up somehow winning a 4v5, they should earn more LP because they were at a disadvantage. Anyways, so I hope someone at riot takes this into consideration so that ranked will not be as annoying as it already is.

2 Comments

Zenturian12/25/2016, 7:23:41 AM1 votes

Riot claims this would hurt accurate ranked ladders in a variety of ways. They give a bunch of examples why your idea is flawed to defend there equally flawed idea.

I feel like the best real compromise is losing and winning affects LP like always when afkers are involved, but does not raise or lower the MMR of any player involved. The afk punishments should work like always and the afk player should always have to do at least one draft game after afking for any reason in a ranked match.

Since MMR wouldn't be gained or lost from the afk bs ranked match, it would negate any false losses or gains for the winning and losing side. LP and rank is just a system that creates gains and loses based on current MMR... and by having MMR remain the same, there's less damage to true balance.