Do you stop jungling and cover the lane to give up any map pressure?
Do you keep jungling and hope to god other lanes win faster than they push?
Do you just farm it up for the remaining 12 minutes and then surrender?
Only Play Darius2 votesAs a jg main I refuse to cover lane. So I just spent 400 gold on an item that is absolutely worthless in lane, and now i'm supposed to take a champ that usually has a terrible early game mid because someone disconnects. F*ck that.
When I have to occupy a lane because of an afk, I almost always give a kill to the enemy, usually because the person disconnected because he ragequit for first blood, meaning I am at a HUGE disadvantage (because a 
mid who bought a machete is expected to win lane vs a 1/0 LeBlanc, right?) and my team starts screaming at ME for ruining the game. Yep, you heard right. No one blames the person who spent the entire game AFK, but everyone is happy to spam report the jungler who tried to prevent the enemy from getting free farm.
I signed up for jungle, not mid. It's entirely his fault for leaving the game. Sorry but unless i'm in a premade where the people understand how difficult it is for a jg to cover lane AFTER machete is bought and won't report me, that lane is just going to have to rot.
I'm not changing my plans because someone else screwed up.
yavole1 votesI AM DISCUSSING THIS VERY QUESTION IN MY STREAM AT 11:00 EST! I WOULD LOVE YOUR OPINION!
Peel Your ADC1 votesCalm down
and why your stream when I'm already here?
Spikeman711 votesI saw a kid in a pirate costume ._.
RiotRiot Bearly Leah1 votesIt's honestly a game to game scenario. If your lane has fed before they quit its probably not a good idea to cover it. Realistically at that point you won't be able to stop the snowball alone and you should focus on ganking another lane.
I've found that when someone DCs during laning phase I want to end laning as soon as possible and start letting my team roam before anyone snowballs off free farm and/or someone on your team falls behind from the extra gank pressure.
If your laner dc'd but was winning his lane pretty hard, I'd suggest continuing to punish that lane, take the tower and try to end laning phase asap. Especially if the enemy is behind. You need to win before they can get back into the game.
Peel Your ADC1 votesWas even until he just let his team fight a 4v4 and he took three towers. Kinda a lose-lose situation
RiotRiot Bearly Leah1 votesYeah I mean it's hard to say what the best way is to go about this considering it is a terrible situation overall. I wouldn't ever suggest to just give up and wait for the surrender because you never know what's going to happen.
The probably best overall strategy is to only go to the lane when minions are at the tower. Try to push out the wave once it gets to the tower and then go back the jungle. Only gank if there's a guaranteed kill. Don't try anything that wastes time or is too risky.
OJ1911 votes[{quoted}](name=Bearly Leah,realm=NA,application-id=WEuoGbmp,discussion-id=72AbiPgL,comment-id=000200000000,timestamp=2015-03-12T03:55:53.932+0000)
Yeah I mean it's hard to say what the best way is to go about this considering it is a terrible situation overall. I wouldn't ever suggest to just give up and wait for the surrender because you never know what's going to happen.
The probably best overall strategy is to only go to the lane when minions are at the tower. Try to push out the wave once it gets to the tower and then go back the jungle. Only gank if there's a guaranteed kill. Don't try anything that wastes time or is too risky.
The only time I would try to win a 4v5 is if you have a team comp that is capable of it even minus the 5th player, you were ahead before they left, and people aren't arguing over everything. The people who don't know when to surrender and keep playing in the hopes of spontaneous enemy retardation make me wish I could punch them through the monitor.
RiotRiot Bearly Leah1 votesI'm not saying play the game to 50 minutes 4v5. But I don't think you should give up pre 20 minutes. If you're stuck there anyways you might as well play your best.
OJ1911 votes[{quoted}](name=Bearly Leah,realm=NA,application-id=WEuoGbmp,discussion-id=72AbiPgL,comment-id=00020000000000000000,timestamp=2015-03-12T04:09:24.005+0000)
I'm not saying play the game to 50 minutes 4v5. But I don't think you should give up pre 20 minutes. If you're stuck there anyways you might as well play your best.
The thing is you really can't get ahead enough to win a 4v5 unless you were as a team, carrying the game up until 20 or 30 minutes in before the DC/AFK occured. Otherwise you simply don't have the gold advantage needed to overcome the missing team member.
You probably shouldn't give up outright no, but barring immense spontaneous enemy retardation, you should be surrendering at 20 instead of wasting everyone's time.
RiotRiot Bearly Leah1 votesI mean I agree with you. However, there are situation where it's possible. They're just rather rare.
OJ1911 votes[{quoted}](name=Bearly Leah,realm=NA,application-id=WEuoGbmp,discussion-id=72AbiPgL,comment-id=0002000000000000000000000000,timestamp=2015-03-12T05:47:01.719+0000)
I mean I agree with you. However, there are situation where it's possible. They're just rather rare.
IDK I'd just rather surr at 20 than take the 0.1% chance of victory only to lose after another 20-30 minutes of play.
It's different when you have a legitimate chance of victory, but I have never seen LoL players actually analyze the chances of 4v5 victory, either they give up and surrender asap or they forever tryhard regardless of the odds and waste 40 minutes of my time.
Hell it happens even when missing players isn't an issue. Lose first blood and first drag? Lol surrender at 20. Behind 3 drags 5 towers and 20 kills? NEVER SURRENDER!
RiotRiot Bearly Leah1 votesOh I mean me too. I'm only saying if you're actually significantly ahead should you be giving the 4v5 past 20 a lot of consideration. I'm just saying until 20 you should be doing your best and not giving up. Just in case. There's no reason not to, considering until 20 you can't surrender anyways.