They've said that something like this will not really be possible. The game would stop, have to load someone in and everything that has happened, synch them back up and try to resume, which may take a few minutes.

lol hack .... but that is so tru.

Yes it would be awesome if it could work, but it won't so we need another solution. Something that isn't discussed enough imo.

IMO you should give the remaining players in the team with the leaver/disconnected the option between replacing the leaver with a AI or get extra gold and some buff (or something similar).

I played a game last night 3v3 and lost both allies. In the end one of the other 3 RQ and then the other 2 conceded a bit later.

The reason was between my kills and the AI capping their portal flags etc..., they were still losing. Unfortunately this was largely due to the kit/rank imbalance that had built up prior to the first disconnects...

 So it IS possible to win with AI vs no AI, but only if the team that drops someone has enough head start for the AI's stupidity to be compensated for by kit/rank etc...