Ranked Elo shouldn't be lost when backing out of a lobby before starting. (Let us dodge lobbies with red ping!!)#1714

Getting into a ranked lobby, seeing red ping, and losing ranked points by forfeit is extremely disheartening. Why should I be punished because the servers aren’t cooperating?

Yeah upvoting this. I’m in Seattle and one time I got matched against a guy on the Stockholm server literally on the other side of the planet. I took the L and dodged and lost like 15 elo for it. Felt pretty bad

I could see potential conflicts with people dodging if they see a character pfp for a counter matchup or the username of a known high level player or whatev. It might be worth just hiding your opponent’s identity in general until the first character select is complete though regardless as there are already counterpicking implications with that.

It’s really weird how this hasn’t been implimented since it was there in roa 1 (probably) because of this.

Maybe a middleground would be to allow for a certain number of dodges in a row, so you don’t only take advantageous matches.
Or better yet, allow for dodge on red ping only