My Problem with Ranked Matches

I SlyGuy I·11/11/2015, 11:25:53 PM·1 votes·486 views

Okay, So I have been playing League of Legends for years now and I have tested the waters for ranked matches many of times through out the years and found one major flaw that makes me not want to play ranked. That major flaw is the forced draft pick. I have talked to many people on the subject and most initially say that "it is somewhat fair because the over all breakdown of the pick", at least ALMOST every one on the team gets hard countered by someone on the opposing team. But that leaves me with the the problem of difference in skill level between myself and the rest of the team. Say I pick Fiora top and I get hard countered by a Yorick. Normally playing against a good majority of the champs, I could easily beat them. But then I am faced with almost impossible odds of holding my lane alone, hence I need to count on a decent jungle to be able to fulfill his role on the team. But what if he has no idea how to play his role? That means I am stuck; I have to try my best and hope to God the guy I'm fighting is absolutely terrible at the game and I somehow get the upper hand. I think it's ridiculous that there is no real indicator of your own personal skill level in ranked matches, but you HAVE TO depend on everybody on your team knowing exactly how to play their roles for you to advance(a.k.a bronze4life) The only real way to go anywhere are two options 1. Get extremely lucky to get into a rank with your own skill level. 2. Have the luxury of having lots of people around that you know to make a team with. I really think Riot should rethink they way they view ranked and what it means to the individual player, not JUST the random teams as a whole. The only way team rank should weigh in, is if you actually have a team created to be ranked to begin with and not just some random strangers that you might get lucky with. Just a few of my thoughts on the subject....

2 Comments

Cherysse11/11/2015, 11:56:50 PM1 votes

I think they should rework the next things>

If your team had an AFK or more for too long you loose less points or none, Ive lost too many games due to AFKS, specially promos. If your team has a troll player that just feeds because he wants to you loose less points. Give the option to the enemy team to give a Pardon for the enemy, so they loose less points. You have a limited number of Pardons per day, the more Pardons the winning team gives the less points the enemy team looses up to 50%.