AFK in draft Should be bannable

So the game timer starts according to blizzard when you enter draft as your friends will see you in game for a number of minutes even before the actual game begins. Too often does someone show like KT and then walk away. Only for the game to start and be surprised they are a hero they don’t know how to play. I think that this should be a bannable offense as draft is one of the more important parts of the game.

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so tired of people going afk in draft or just leaving because they didn’t get the pick they wanted or didn’t like the team composition. They need to up the games to get back in ranked to maybe 10 so people stop leaving and going afk. Also, there are players that get butt hurt and just go afk in game disconnect then re-enter and keep repeating to have their team lose on purpose. If you dc from a ranked game then you should automatically get kicked from the game not able to re-enter. So tired of this toxic community. It’s the worse moba community I have ever played with.

I kind of agree but with an asterisk. I think it’s incredibly dumb to afk while drafting because like you said, drafting is very important. It sucks even worse for your allies because this is a very team driven game. I’m not sure if it should be bannable though. Lag outs happen after all. Maybe ranked mode suspensions? Even then how do you prove it wasn’t a lag out?

this is where you and your alt cross the line

There is no motive to behave well in low ranks because you play with complete strangers and you were handed your rank just by playing 10 placements. If they get a suspension or silence they’ll just hop on another account and ruin more games.

The lower you go in the ladder the more trolls, afkers, intentional feeders etc. you will meet. They couldn’t care less about their rank.

Peer pressure is higher in high ranks, because it takes effort to get there. And if you ruin matches, people wont enter premade parties with you, which is a big deal since so few people play at ~d1+ (and playing in premades is a considerable advantage) and everyone knows everyone.

If you become known as “that guy”, you’ll just be another solo player who gets farmed by premades and drop down in rank.

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I did my placements with a buddy that’s stuck in bronze 1-2. All of my games were in bronze and I never got an afk player or thrower. I did get some toxic trolls that would rage a bit but I still went 8-2 in my placements. I landed in gold 1 as a result. Solo playing ranked isn’t the best idea so find a friend or two to duo/3 stack with. Doing that makes ranked much easier as you at least have a few roles covered enough to make up for sloppy random teammates.

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True, I wonder why anyone wants to play solo in the current system. Even going with two random people you preselected from the chat lobby (as long as they have +50% win ratio) considerably increases your odds of winning and lessens your chance of trolls.

This is not meant for the people that have life happen and need to go afk such as baby cries or anything along that line. To me they have a proper excuse.

To the people the people that pull this crap of going afk do need to be slapped. Game do pop fast enough where you can go and get a drink and be fine. But going away for 5 minuite at a time when you are in que there is no excuse for that. You are holding up 9 other people and you dont see anything wrong with that.

I talked to a few of them asking why and they just say “its just a game chill” yes its a game you are correct but you are wasting other peoples time waiting on your behind. I dont have the time anymore than i used to so my time to relax should not be taken up by you when you are off doing whatever.

But actions speak louder than words. So it makes me wonder how they interact in real life. Everything soon or later catches up with them.

Just finding people who will draft with the team in mind and actually respond to pings for objectives/camps will drastically make your games better. Some people do enjoy playing solo but their quality of games is vastly different to mine as someone who likes to duo. I’ve found that using voice chat and playing with a partner or two makes all my games much smoother. Meanwhile I have buddy that plays solo at low platinum that gets constantly frustrated with the solo experience but he enjoys enough to keep playing that way.

when someone leaves during draft or disconnects they lose 600 points “if you’re talking about ranked of course” and also they get leaver status which means they must do a couple of games off ranked then they can go back to ranked but they lost a lot of points for that reason.

if someone dodge SL game just because they didn’t get what they wanted you shouldn’t be mad over it since they already got punished by losing 600 points and got a leaver status