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The lack of punishment for AFK/leavers is actually a joke to ragequitters

5 Dollar Holler·7/21/2019, 2:06:08 PM·1 votes·1,978 views

We all know that Riot doesn't punish leaving ranked matches, unless you start leaving matches with reckless abandon, like every other match. They bend over backwards to assume everyone who leaves is a situation where they need to rush to the emergency room, when truly unforeseen needs to leave a match. But how many times can one account have such an emergency?

While other competitive games will enact fairly strict punishments after just 2, sometimes 3, disconnects in a "season" (anywhere from 3 months to a year), Riot simply counts it as a "loss for the leaver, no matter the outcome of the match" (which is generally a loss for your team 4v5 anyway), and you have to type "I agree" into a laughable popup box that says you promise to not leave matches again.

It's actually a joke among the leaver community.

How do I know this? In my last game, my teammate jungler dives a turret at level 2 for a gank. He dies, we get a kill. He says "Yeah, I'm not playing this game." A teammate responds "Stay - not worth getting leaver penalty." And he says "LOL spoken like someone who never leaves matches. I leave games all the time, nothing bad has ever happened to me. Watch." He then leaves, never coming back.

Was he lying? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows what "all the time" means. But someone who gives up 3 minutes into the match strikes me as someone with a history of leaving games early.

Triggering an SR loss for 4 innocent players strikes me as far more heinous than something like verbal abuse. I can't mute the leaver and keep my SR, or at least even have a quality match that results in a loss.

2 Comments

AeroWaffle7/21/2019, 2:50:53 PM3 votes

While other competitive games will enact fairly strict punishments after just 2, sometimes 3, disconnects in a "season" (anywhere from 3 months to a year)

Since this interested me I looked up the other competative game that I thought imposed such measures, Overwatch.

And it looks like they ban you from competitive for the season for 6 consecutive leaves. Not 2 or 3 and not spaced out leaves. Playing games without disconnecting improves your standing with the system just like with Leavebuster.

I wouldn't mind if they implemented similar measures for League but I would be worried about players pulling a baby tantrum and thrashing out their anger in normals. Normals in overwatch people don't care as much about being down one person since most accomplishments and personal satisfaction can be gained purely on one's own skill. You can't really *feed* an enemy in Overwatch like you can in League. League is heavily dependent on teammates.

GatekeeperTDS7/21/2019, 2:15:44 PM2 votes

All of your claims are baseless, not true, and exaggerated to all hell. Leaverbuster is a separate punishment system from chat/gameplay offenses. If someone consistently leaves too many games in a row, they will most definitely get smacked with a low priority queue that will escalate to bans if they keep it up.

We all know that Riot doesn't punish leaving ranked matches

All queues are treated the same. I don't care how competitive or seriously you want to take ranked, the punishments across all systems apply to all game modes. This is a typical thing that's echoed here, "I'm not climbing because of all of these AFKs."

Here are your ranked stats for the season - 266W 253L. That's 519 games this ranked season. That's a HUGE amount of games, and (legitimately) congrats on getting into Gold. Getting out of Silver 1 is a pain in the ass.

Now on to the part that people don't like to hear - If you're not climbing, it's not because of a smattering of AFKs, especially over 500 games. You need to adjust what you're doing if you want to continue to climb.