So how does leavebuster work?

BlackFlux··1 votes·846 views

And is there an plans to change it? a friend of mine got leavebuster,but then some stuff was going on so he couldn't play,a week later its still there,max leavebuster is 20 minutes. you have to WAIT TWENTY MINUTES,for five games in a row! so for leaving 2-3 games you can be forced to wait an hour and forty minutes,thats literally like at MOST an average of 3 games your missing out on,if you don't land in some unfair 20:00 game and you HAVE to keep lol running. you have to enter queue(leaving for even a moment restarts the timer,that includes if one person in your premade doesn't accept by accident)and wait. for 20 minutes. and who knows if your going to get a match you do good in and your opponents FF,making a more boring and short game,or your team does bad and has toxic players so you FF cause its an unfair and stressful experience,and even then your forced to wait for 20:00 to forfeit. The satisfaction is taken out when there 2 turrets down and forfeit. And don't give me that 'well then he shouldn't have played if something was going to happen' something can happen at any time,be it your internet going out,a phone call or power going out...and just a ping spike. DCing and reconnecting seconds later can count as a DC for leavebuster which is one of the reasons both me and my friend got leavebuster at some point. I understand it being a punishment for leaving,as leaving ruins the games for others but almost 2 hours for DCing once or having to do something,then getting reported by your verbally abusing ping spamming teammate who doesn't get banned afterwards cause only one person reported is just horrible and a pain to wait for,5 minutes I get,10 is a bit of a push but overall that's like 1 game missed but 20 and with lol running it lags other games you play is as I said,horrible.

10 Comments

vOmvbrawfU4 votes

It should be a stricter punishment in my opinion.

Project Xero1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sharkbait Ohaha,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=qdEd5zzN,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-03-04T00:17:37.076+0000)

It should be a stricter punishment in my opinion.

no it really shouldn't, punishing players for things they have no control over like their ping spiking or random crashes power outages <---- should not be ok ever it makes players feel like riot doesn't care about them, and ruins the over all experience. i know because this has happened to me quite a few times where i had to leave games because my ping would spike and then leaver buster could kick in making me wait 20 minutes or longer for a match that counts as either a loss due to the enemy team thinking they are going to be lcs pros one day, or someone rage quitting after a bad laning phase. that's another 30 minutes gone then you have to do it all over again. making it stricter would only make things worse.

vOmvbrawfU3 votes

You don't get punished for a random power outage. You only get punished if it's multiple offenses.

You're literally saying that it's not your fault that you chose to play games with an unstable internet connection. I don't understand how you cannot understand this.

Project Xero1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sharkbait Ohaha,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=qdEd5zzN,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2017-03-04T01:11:34.337+0000)

You don't get punished for a random power outage. You only get punished if it's multiple offenses.

You're literally saying that it's not your fault that you chose to play games with an unstable internet connection. I don't understand how you cannot understand this.

  1. if it's a clear day with no bad weather and i payed my internet bill, i should not be having a unstable internet connection at all. so when it happens it's a complete and total shock. my internet can go from i'm having the greatest day ever to don't touch me i'm on my internet period. which is why i wish riot would reach out and partner with my internet provider and possibly fix these issues. however you would think leaver buster would take notice of why you left, for a good example if your ping is so bad that you are unable to move without jittering around you should not be punished as that is out of your control. <--- but instead you can be punished just the same as if you purposely left a match because you where getting killed constantly and everyone just let's it happen (aka a rage quit) but it's not it's a internet issue that may or may not resolve itself and you don't want to drag your team down by staying at base because you can't move. sure you can disconnect and reenter which may or may not fix the issue but it's not guarenteed so you leave because the ping is so bad you can't even tell when or how you are dying anymore. so what happens your team will either

A) report you even though you appologize and tell them it's impossible for you to play like this.

or b) leaver buster will think it was done intentionally just to get out of a bad game, and punish you for something you have no control over. we don't all have internet of the gods nor can we afford said internet or some of us, believe it or not cannot get certain providers because of where we live (try living out in the middle of the country where no decent internet providers want to come out to even though you can pay their fees to have them come out and put the internet in and set you up.) so you know there's that to deal with as well.

BlackFlux1 votes

the main reason my friend has gotten leaver buster is when you DC from LOL (happens every once in a while...) it try's to reconnect you,which 90% of the time doesn't work and it forces you to close your client,counting as a leave,then enter into the game again,this also happens in the old client when your in champ select,the UI bugs out then it crashes right when you lock in I mean,you can rejoin and it only takes like20 seconds if you know your password,i do agree my friend deserved a punishment for what happened recently,as it was something he had to go do and he left the game intentionally,but an hour and 40 is too long,and there are too many ways to DC from either a LOL bug or an inability to reconnect without restarting the client,which has led to my leavebuster (but the 5 minutes lets me look up a quick build and grab a drink or something....) 5 minutes is prep time,20 is 'make progress on something else and hope you come back early ,cause if you don't accept it restarts the timer' time. one problem is you can get a I guess 'leaver point' or something...if you DC,even for a moment try to reconnect but can't,cause you need to restart the client,even DCing and reconnecting when there is a ping spike CAN count as a leave which has led to straight up bans for some people,both can lead to having higher penalties when intentionally leaving just 1 game

BlackFlux1 votes

And one fix for the people who didn't leave would be riot actually trying to make /remake work,as right now it only lets you do it if somebody already left as the game was loading in for everyone,maybe wait 1-3 minutes for the leaver to come back and if not let you /remake and give a set amount of IP for how long the game has went,as most leaves(that I have seen by others) are at like 10:00 forcing you to wait in a losing battle for another 10 minutes,with a remake like that it can speed things up if somebody leaves early

Deep Terror Nami3 votes
  1. The first time you leave a match you only get a warning, no penalty. Penalties only increase for continuing to leave more games, so to get a 20 minute LPQ it definitely wasn't caused by "leaving 1 match".
  2. Leaver Buster works independently of reports. You will be flagged as afk/leaving for being inactive/absent and punished whether people report it or not. Reporting AFK is pretty much for people trying to trick the system so Riot can track their behavior even if it's too subtle for the system to notice.
  3. Mute people that are verbally abusive. There's no reason to listen to it if it's bothering you. If they are like that on a regular basis and your reports are accurate they'll have their own punishment waiting for them, so don't worry about that just do your best in the match at hand. Ping spamming isn't so easily avoided, but it's still punishable behavior so be sure to report it.
  4. If you are having technical issues, such as lag spikes or client crashes, please post over on the Help & Support board and they will do what they can to help you out.
BlackFlux1 votes

Leaver Buster works independently of reports. You will be flagged as afk/leaving for being inactive/absent and punished whether people report it or not. Reporting AFK is pretty much for people trying to trick the system so Riot can track their behavior even if it's too subtle for the system to notice so if he leaves a game,doesn't play for a week and leaves the next he can get the buster.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Yes. The only way to reduce your leaver status is to keep playing games without leaving. For people that basically never leave their matches they may receive no penalty at all on the rare occasion of a power outage or emergency.

Kei1431 votes

you should ask your friend how many games he left / AFKed (clicking around the fountain counts as AFK) before he got that punishment.

More from Player Behavior

More by BlackFlux