Dodging Queue for Good Reasons

Snakebreaker·8/18/2018, 11:35:42 AM·3 votes·3,111 views

I mainly play ADC and I have matched up with Supports that pick odd Champions like Yasuo, even in Draft games. In game, my experience will be utterly ruined while I grow ever more frustrated at this game (the players playing of course). However, dodging the champion select puts me in a time penalty before I can queue again.

I think this system (or lack of) is unfair toward players who takes the game a little more seriously than those who don't. Are the news from Riot regarding this problem? How do I minimize encounters such as this?

22 Comments

Imperial Pandaa8/18/2018, 12:22:54 PM2 votes

How do you know they aren't taking it seriously? Because they pick Yasuo support or something? Off Meta =/= Not serious.

If you want to dodge, that is your choice. You can dela with the repercussions of it.

AnAggravatedPimp8/18/2018, 11:44:28 AM1 votes

You don't lose MMR for dodging. That's the compensation

The time penalty is in place so that matches can actually start and not hav players go through 20 lobbies beforehand

Sgt Pepper 4208/18/2018, 8:16:23 PM1 votes

Why so tilted over what others pick in draft mode? In ranked, I understand getting a bit tilted.

As a support main, when I see ADC lock in Ivern (Yes, that actually happened once), I know I am going to lose LP if I play, so I dodge. First dodge of day = 5 minutes and a few LP. But way better than 20 minutes and 20 LP, so I do it and accept it. No loss of MMR, so next game if I win, I get back almost everything I lost from a first dodge of the day. Second dodge = 15 minutes. Now that sucks. And it frequently means I am done playing for the day... or at least for a while. I will find something else to do rather than sit tight for 15 minutes. AND the LP loss is higher. So now I get annoyed. But still, a 5 minute penalty that helps discourage people from dodging is ok by me. Alternative is that I look at my entire team on op.gg, look up their win rates on their selected champ and dodge every game where anyone on the team is sub 50% win rate? In that case, the number of dodges will make you wait MUCH longer than 5 minutes to find a game.