Riot should make a system to give back LP

Toxicate13··5 votes·901 views

I think there should be an automated system that gives people LP back if someone on their team goes AFK or intentionally feeds. Obviously, it would be easier to detect an afk, but think about this logically. Ranked rating is supposed to reflect how good you are at the game. And when you're in your series and someone on your team goes afk, that screws you over. Take a look at my last game http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Toxicate13 (as of 4/8/18). My KDA was 11/4/4, I won lane hard, and I was carrying my team until our Sona left the game because she was triggered. So we were trying to hold off until Sona could maybe reconnect to the game, and I actually got a quadra kill. But we still lost the game because it was unfair. I did everything in my power to win that game and we still lost. So why am I punished for this? Why do I get a loss in my series for something that was completely out of my control? I played well that game, I think I deserve to at least not have the negative effects of losing (whether it's LP loss, demotion, losing series, etc.) Please think about this Riot. Your rank is supposed to reflect how good you are, and when something like this happens, it just shows several flaws in the ranking system.

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AJStarhiker3 votes

Why not? If a win isn't revoked in the same game as an afk loss, you start to see mmr inflation.

Going to lose? Bully someone into quitting. Premades rotating afk's or using smurfs to 'protect' their overall standing.

This 'solution' has often been suggested. Often enough I'm pretty sure some has made a macro on why it wouldn't work in a game like League.

So, if you can think of a way to avoid leave protection from getting abused, more power to you.

Toxicate131 votes

If you flame someone so much that they afk, then you should get banned lol. It's not going to cause "mmr" inflation because people rarely afk.

AJStarhiker2 votes

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If you flame someone so much that they afk, then you should get banned lol. It's not going to cause "mmr" inflation because people rarely afk.

Yes, bullying should and does get banned. Unfortunately, it still happens.

And you don't think people will "sacrifice" afk to protect their buddy's mmr? Or decide "It's just a smurf, I don't care if I leave"? Based on what I've seen over the past several years, I'm not sure how a loss forgiveness system could be built without introducing more problems than it fixes.

Silent Gravity2 votes

Assuming that you never go AFK, int, or troll there are 9 players in the game who will potentially take one of those actions.

4 of them are on your team and 5 of them are on the other team.

Unless there is something specifically about you that incites that behavior, you gain more than you lose from games that are impacted by AFK, int or troll players.

If you would like, I'll help you petition Riot to remove every win from your record that had someone on the other team AFK, int, troll, or be accused of any of those things.

Toxicate131 votes

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Assuming that you never go AFK, int, or troll there are 9 players in the game who will potentially take one of those actions.

4 of them are on your team and 5 of them are on the other team.

Unless there is something specifically about you that incites that behavior, you gain more than you lose from games that are impacted by AFK, int or troll players.

If you would like, I'll help you petition Riot to remove every win from your record that had someone on the other team AFK, int, troll, or be accused of any of those things.

I said Riot should give back LP, not take away LP. People that win games against trolls or AFKs don't need their wins revoked. Most of the time, they are going to win anyways, and someone quits the game out of frustration. And you act like there are AFKs in every game. I don't know about your elo but in mine, it's not common. But when it does happen, everyone gets frustrated because there's literally nothing you can do about it.

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