Originally Posted by
Tziva
I believe leavers still lose points as a loss (even if their team happens to win) and reduced XP, but I'm not sure there is any sort of system to discourage it entirely like preventing immediate requeues, grouped with other leavers, etc. It would be nice if there was some kinda of disincentive just because it sucks for the people they leave behind, but I'm not sure how they'd do it without negatively impacting queues for everyone. I understand that if people know it's going to be a loss they don't want to waste the last few minutes sitting around playing, but it really does have a negative impact on your teammates and considering how many games I've seen go the opposite direction in overtime or on subsequent rounds, I think it's also fairly rare that you can know it's a loss with absolute certainty.