Leaver Penalty in placement matches

I play Overwatch on the switch and I’ve just gone through my placement games again. In 70% of the placement games I’ve experienced over multiple seasons, my games are impacted by people leaving.

How is it fair to penalise the team and players that are left, to face a team with more players? I’m sick and tired of people leaving which pushes my placement results down because you push harder and put yourself in a position you wouldn’t be in with a full team.

The punishment isn’t enough for those that leave. I get that you can recover and climb the ladder again but it shouldn’t happen at the rate it is.

The thing that tops it all off the player that leaves then disappears from the list so you can’t ban them from playing with you!!!

blizzard need to deal with the issue and not just in the placement games.

If you are doing placements. You will not be punished by someone else leaving.

The result of the match is borderline irrelevant in placements. You will just place roughly where you finished the previous season (or about where your MMR has you).

For example, I did my DPS placements last night. lost 4 of them. One game had a leaver… I still placed 24 SR higher than I finished last season.

I placed 500 sr beneath last season…500!!

Below where you finished. or your season peak?

400 previous season and 500 overall.

So you will place about 400 sr this season.

And if you improve you will slowly climb.

And if you improve lots, you will climb quicker.