Why in the hell should I EVER rejoin a game?

Ahri Body Pillow·Feb 11, 2018·13 votes·1,006 views

About 10 minutes ago, I won a game. it was a rough game to say the least. ~16 mins in, I had a weird power outage where I lost power for half a second. It took me about ten minutes to get back in, as my computer is quite slow to start and I was having some client issues. When I finally came back, our team was losing pretty hard. However, they defended hard and gave me some room to buy some items, farm up, and catch back up again. Eventually, we were winning fights again and it ultimately ended in a victory for my own. I was quite happy, until I realized that I lost 18 LP. Needless to say, I was pretty bummed out.

This begs the question...why should I ever join back if I DC? Why shouldn't I just start up Overwatch or something? I'm going to be punished anyways.

The fuck gives?

22 Comments

U GOT WRECKT LOLFeb 11, 20186 votes

Don't rejoin, just uninstall because your team is going to report you regardless... this is not League of Legends.. this is League of offended millennials looking to report.

XidphelFeb 11, 20185 votes

You're not gonna go anywhere with this attitude. Give up and leave the game behind if its report system offends you.

U GOT WRECKT LOLFeb 11, 20182 votes

I'm a realist, this is the state of the game. Every single game, if someone loses lane, dies on a mistake, or does ANYTHING that a particular person doesn't like or can make them act like they are offended... they report for it and ask in all chat to do the same.

Imperial PandaaFeb 11, 20186 votes

Then it is a great thing that false reports get thrown out and multiple reports don't matter.

U GOT WRECKT LOLFeb 11, 20181 votes

This is completely false, I have seen people get banned for not even speaking during a game for verbal abuse, and as long there are two or more buddies who try to one-up each other on who can be the bigger ass and they both report you then you get a ban. If you're going to be toxic and provoke people, just make sure you do it in numbers so you get more reports against them.

Imperial PandaaFeb 11, 20184 votes

[citation needed]

You are claiming it to be false and provide no evidence actually supporting it. While one of the people who designed the system actually gave the info I presented.

This Is Your DadFeb 12, 20181 votes

Dude I saw this one guy, and he like totally died while spray painting his cat. So dude, don't trust it.

Imperial PandaaFeb 12, 20181 votes

I might believe that story, depending on the color the cat was being painted.

TheProfezzorFeb 13, 20181 votes

Lol someone got permed.

fatherdariusFeb 11, 20182 votes

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Don't rejoin, just uninstall because your team is going to report you regardless... this is not League of Legends.. this is League of offended millennials looking to report.

I'm not a millenial... and I report.

PaíntchipFeb 11, 20182 votes

True dat!!!!

P3rspectiveFeb 11, 20182 votes

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Don't rejoin, just uninstall because your team is going to report you regardless... this is not League of Legends.. this is League of offended millennials looking to report.

This is by far the most factual statement I have seen yet on these forums.

XidphelFeb 11, 20184 votes

Because it would be unfair for the rest of your team.

PaíntchipFeb 11, 20181 votes

So? So is picking a champ you don’t know in ranked, but there are some fanboys here who believe that is cool. So is ontimg into your lane, but again fanboys will defend and say just bad game.

XidphelFeb 11, 20181 votes

And random people will say stuff that has nothing to do with the current conversation.

KivolanFeb 11, 20183 votes

I'd have to look back at my match history to see if I actually lost LP or not for it but I've had this happen as well.

Computer decided to update in the middle of a match, came back five minutes later, won the match, and got the notification that I was ineligible for rewards from the match due to the win.

I'm okay with rejoining simply because I don't want to be a dick to my team, and I'm pretty much okay with not getting anything for it, but if you LOSE LP after still coming back, that's ridiculous.

EL HAMSTEROFeb 11, 20182 votes

not only are you still going to lose lp your teammates are all probably going to rage at you. just dont come back

Imperial PandaaFeb 11, 20182 votes

So it has to do with afk detection. It determined you were afk due to this. While you are an unfortunate victim and came back to the game and contributed to the win again, you have to understand why it is there.

It is in place to prevent people from leaving, coming back and barely contributing and getting lp for it. As a clearer example here: Riven leaves at 5 minutes because of rage. It isn't gg though. Your bot gets fed, jg is covering top and farming when it is pushed and mid is even. You are pushing and winning a 4v5. Fast forward. You just aced the enemy and are pushing the rushing to their base to finish. Suddenly "A summoner has reconnected." Riven came back, 10 minutes later, sees the dead enemy team tps to a super minion in their base and hits the nexus turret. Your team wins.

Would it be right for the Riven to get LP for the hard work your team did? Of course not. It is hard to determine why someone left though. So it is better to use a blanket cover for this.

MagicFlyingLlamaFeb 11, 20181 votes

Rejoin the game so you dont get banned for leaving, maybe?

Or because if you reboot/relaunch fast in a lot of case,s you can still win?

Ahri Body PillowFeb 11, 20184 votes

Uh...we did win. I still got penalized.

bbc world orderFeb 11, 20181 votes

Because you left, no matter in what situation they still penalize you

What dont you understand from that?

Warwick MainFeb 11, 20182 votes

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Because you left, no matter in what situation they still penalize you

What dont you understand from that?

Point he is making is he was able to get back into the game and was a contributing factor in to why his team won. Had he chose not to reconnect, his team may have surrendered or given up. Sometimes things like power outages happen, especially if you live on the coast during hurricane season.

@OP: I agree with you. With the current system in place there really is no reason to reconnect unless you want to "be a good guy" and help the other 4 players on your team possibly gain some lp.