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**Are all AFK punishments SOLEY controlled by the LeaverBuster? **

WikiDubJay··2 votes·878 views

This Vayne in my ranked game died 5 times in lane then blatantly says "I'm done.", RAGE QUITS the game at 15:40. (you can see his last death in the graph at the bottom of the link) Our team proceeds to play on despite the huge loss of our ADC until we're able to FF; but literally right as the surrender vote is 4-0 we see "Vayne has reconnected." Now I'm pretty sure at least our entire team reported him as AFK, and I see nothing was done about this. Not even a Loss Prevented. Just my opinion but, in cases like these Riot should be granting almost an immediate Loss Prevented and return all lost LP, (regardless of tribunal punishment or not) since it seems to me this is way too common to run into, especially at the Bronze/Silver tiers of ranked.

I just feel like this was completely missed.. WHY??

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2140301754/42990817

12 Comments

dagurr3 votes

GL rito cant tell if it was intentional so she might get 30 min wait times as a punishment nothing else

WikiDubJay3 votes

I just want to know why this particular case wasn't caught, it seemed to me he was so quick to make the decision to quit he must've been doing this in previous games. I would understand if anyone was purposefully harassing the player, but this seemed to come out of nowhere.

And what can I do in the future to have these cases dealt with, if LeaverBuster isn't catching it?

Please Help!

o Maui o1 votes

If you report it, LeaverBuster catches it. If the name appears in red after the game, LeaverBuster caught it. Either way it was caught.

WikiDubJay1 votes

Well since he/she reconnected before post-game screen, their name was NOT red. No messages about warnings to the player either.

Jubbinaut1 votes

{quoted}

Well since he/she reconnected before post-game screen, their name was NOT red. No messages about warnings to the player either.

Red names indicate that a player was recognized as afk at the end of the game. However, they don't indicate whether or not a player was detected by Leaverbuster.

A couple things of note, though: Leaverbuster punishments don't trigger the "player has been punished" message, and it most commonly issues Low Priority Queues rather than bans. So there's not really any way for you to know whether or not he's been punished for it.

WikiDubJay1 votes

Ah I see, yeah I can just search his summ name and see that he's still q'ing ranked after ranked. But the Low Priority would make sense I guess.

o Maui o2 votes

Loss Prevented can't be allowed for disconnects because it would be way too easy to abuse that system to save LP in a lost game.

Reports for AFK/left games are, I believe, handled by the LeaverBuster system.

WikiDubJay2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Mars Ragnarok,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t1N2VBXT,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2016-03-30T14:33:38.637+0000)

Loss Prevented can't be allowed for disconnects because it would be way too easy to abuse that system to save LP in a lost game.

Reports for AFK/left games are, I believe, handled by the LeaverBuster system.

So this is the loophole then..? If you're selffish enough to only care about your personal KDA, Riot allows you to just quit, set a timer on your phone until game time would be right at 20:00, then reconnect to force a 20 min ff, unpunished?

RIP Me. Bronze Mountain is the tallest peak known to mankind.

o Maui o2 votes

Report them for AFK/leaving. A reconnect doesn't excuse a player from disconnecting in the first place.

WikiDubJay1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Mars Ragnarok,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t1N2VBXT,comment-id=000100000000,timestamp=2016-03-30T14:49:55.743+0000)

Report them for AFK/leaving. A reconnect doesn't excuse a player from disconnecting in the first place.

I did. Even the enemy team agreed to as well.

Blue Kaozi2 votes

The last I heard the system checks for things like that too. If they have a number of games where they disconnected for a period of time and then reconnected they'll still get caught by leavebuster.

Awkward Couch1 votes

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

This would be the best way to get an answer.

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