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Leaverbuster or FF Hostage?

FreelyCommon·2/1/2019, 10:55:03 PM·3 votes·3,453 views

I just want to point out that you get a leaving penalty for taking yourself out of a game... Even if you are saving everyone the trouble of you possibly saying something that will get you banned and trying to cool off. This also allows the team to surrender at that point and it only takes 4 votes as well as ends the game instantly.

However, on the other hand you can deny surrender until 20 minutes in holding everyone hostage for at least 6-9 which is the same thing as a leaving penalty even though you had 4 votes to surrender? A Riot Employee pointed out that if you leave you ruin the game for 9 people. I'm pointing out that 4 people from that game are now tilted and more toxic because they were just held against their will in a game because of one troll that is inting. Good luck with those rules I do not understand the logic behind a 4 to 1 vote not being a surrender after 20 minutes in game. That's a bigger penalty than the leaver because you can't walk away and cool off. You're stuck in a cage with a troll while the enemy laughs on the chat. GG guys.

4 Comments

Butterwood2/1/2019, 10:58:32 PM2 votes

If you have to leave games to avoid saying things that will get you banned (instead of muting, ignoring people, or just acting like a decent human being), you should probably try another game.

Inkling Commando2/2/2019, 12:16:19 AM2 votes

in a "held hostage" scenario, the only one "hold you hostage" is yourself. you are refusing to leave cause you don't want leaverbuster penalty. it is not that you can't leave, it is you won't leave. at no point is your life in danger cause somebody is saying no to a surrender. you can always leave a game that you don't like. but whether choose to or not is your choice. nobody is forcing you to do anything.

Vanic9982/3/2019, 5:27:49 PM1 votes

I hate being held hostage too but in a way, you should have known that kids, either physically or mentally, play this game. These kids watch too much anime and like anime, they think something other than skill (love, friendship, hope, faith, etc pick one) is going to win them the game. “I may have fed my ass of all game, but just wait 20 minutes. Somehow I’ll carry. I’m entitled to the win despite feeding all game.”

Although I hate when this happens, I always remember that this is the risk I took when playing a game that has a huge amount of kids playing.

FreelyCommon3/4/2019, 10:17:57 PM1 votes

Commando I understand that but when 4 people on the team want to surrender and 1 does not he can easily troll for 25 minutes and waste time for all 9 players. Vanic, I get that but that doesn't excuse the fact that in literally any other situation 4 against 1 is a landslide loss and you shouldn't have to sit there longer for a loss just because one support got a triple kill after they killed 4 of us anyways. If one person is having fun and 9 aren't it's not logical to keep them in that game. ApothNinja, it's hard to not say anything, nice or not, when you're stuck in a game down 35 kills and can't farm or move out of base but because a feeding Nunu wants to keep inting you have to sit and watch him run directly into their turret mid for another 9 minutes because riot doesn't understand that trolls exist in the world.