I’m a solid High Silver, low gold player and yeah I play some ranked, but I mostly play with my friends enjoying a pvp game. Why is it when I have a bad Ranked/Norm experience and I leave, and the result Is a ban? Is the community so blind on irl probs they can’t let it go? Or is it actually socially not okay to leave my team? What ar the thoughts?
It's socially not ok to leave your team. You started the game and you are expected to finish that game. You are leaving your teammates at a significant disadvantage, basically guaranteeing a loss. You are wasting the time of 5 people, and thus the punishment is wasting your own time in LeaverBuster.
Of course IRL problems happen, which is why you wont get punished for going AFK once or twice every once in a while.
But if you have so many unforeseen IRL issues, then League is not a game for you. You enter the game and it is expected that you finish the game.
You having a “bad experience” doesn’t give you the right to transfer that experience onto your fellow players, which AFKing does.
[zombie-brand-facepalm]
bro ur literally going afk and going to affect ur teammates' lp for no reason.
what did you expect ppl to feel when you leave then 4v5?
[zombie-brand-mindblown] or [sg-ahri-2] ?
To play daburas advocate here, there are hundreds of games, ranked and normals that are completely unwinnable. This is a competitive game where the goal is, you know, WINNING. Why should someone be expected to stay in a dysfunctional team that has no chance of winning? It's just going to A. waste more of their already limited time. B. extend the potential verbal abuse they're exposed to. C. keep them from getting into another game that actually has the potential of winning.
There are only 2 downsides to leaving a game, 3 if it's ranked. 1. you could get banned. 2. the community will dislike you. and 3. you lose a pitiful amount of lp.
All of those downsides are either irrelevant or can be circumvented. If you get banned, just use your smurf till you're unbanned. The community already hates most people so who really cares what they say. You were going to lose the lp anyway. Hell, your honor being hit is useless since you already have to buy most things in the game anyway and the hextech crafting rewards for being honorable are so diluted with junk now that it's hardly a reward at this point and more just an early level up.
Is leaving a game bad? Ya, it's generally bad in the eyes of others, but it's hardly seen as a bad decision in the eyes of the one leaving the game since you're basically losing nothing you wouldn't have already lost.
Though in your specific case @OP, since you claim to be leaving for irl reasons, just quickly explain why you absolutely have to leave the game, the people on your team will generally understand that emergencies happen and take precedence over a game.
Are you honestly asking this?
If yes, please go and see a psychotherapist ASAP, because you have some very serious issues.
Are you actually asking this?
[zombie-brand-mindblown]
