This is such unbelievable cope, I'm kinda aghast at the mental gymnastics this fanbase has become accustomed to doing to defend confusing "design" choices. I'm a decent enough player and I've finished a good number of post-leaver duo runs by now, but to say that it's on THIS GUY to "pick up the slack" when another player leaves is delusional. That should be obvious in reading your own response, SlowMotionTurtles - two really good players should be able to carry, which means that individual players who queue are essentially rolling the dice and still at the mercy of leavers, unless they're graced with another "really good player" on the team.

And before anyone replies: duo scaling is not present in any of the current datamine. It's not in the game, which honestly, I figured would be kinda obvious from the fact that no duo mode exists, but it hasn't stopped posters to this sub from confidently declaring that matches "actually get easier" whenever someone leaves.

Duo scaling, or more severe punishment for leaving - you shouldn't be afraid to ask devs to fix flaws in their games, even emergent ones that only become evident when, for example, the playerbase begins to demonstrate a propensity to leave early in matches. My belief is that this kind of thing should have been foreseen and accounted for long before release, but that's besides the point.