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The climb and making me want to quit

DroolSpittle·11/6/2015, 8:59:45 AM·7 votes·1,189 views

I think that at this point i'm so tired of trying to climb to plat, just dropped back to gold 2 after losing 3 in a row despite only last loss being at 0 lp, that it is making me consider stopping playing. At least when the elo system was in place I knew what was going on, now it seems like even though i won like 12 games in a row i'm not climbing at all. I played promos to gold 1 4 times in a day sometimes more and its starting to feel like the ranked system doesnt even reward good play since all I play against is mostly plats and yet i dread having them on my team because they always do worse than the golds I get. I have been playing since season 1 and every season I feel like i've gotten better and i climb up a tier, but this season I don't even feel a sense of accomplishment when I climb a rank because it feels like I played 50 games more than I needed to in order to get there. So if this is my last season, know that it wasn't the community, or the actual game that made me quit, it's the ranked system that feels like more of a struggle to even climb than its worth

10 Comments

PlayaPan11/6/2015, 9:40:09 AM2 votes

Yea, I stopped playing ranks cause it's point system is unbalanced. You win, you get like 5-10 points. You lose, you drop 10-15 pointsAmumu

LaserDeathBlade11/6/2015, 11:29:25 AM2 votes

I feel like promos are rigged AF too

I always get the most trash allies in promos. Either they can see on some third party website and know I'm in promos so they intentionally troll, or I actually get matched with way worse allies during promos. It's fked up either way.

Summonerrr 111/6/2015, 10:57:44 AM2 votes

The problem is it's a system designed to measure individual skill...but has no metrics to do so but win/loss. In a 5v5 setting.

That tends to be inaccurate and punish you for trying to play in a team setting.

Rico Nasty11/6/2015, 1:21:22 PM1 votes

I'm stuck in fucking Bronze 4 right now cause I have trolls and afks in all my games. Although I do die a lot, it's generally due to people who ran down my lane and fed the enemy laner, causing me to not be able to do anything against them.

Khadiddles11/6/2015, 1:31:05 PM1 votes

Im currently Silver 2 like 60 LP or something, I started the season at bronze 5, the struggle is real. I know I've improved but because you get punished as a team LP wise the system will never be truly fair. If I go 10/1/10 but lose, I see no reason why I shouldn't lose maybe 5-10 LP as opposed to the 20-25 im currently losing. I made it to silver 2, won a game got 33 LP, went to next game and teammates decided to feed and I lose 22. Why am I being punished for their behavior though? they need to take the basic workings of the mastery points and its ranks and somehow apply it to LP. Feeders should lose more than those actually attempting to climb just saying, and no I don't think im the next Faker or anything but I do do what im supposed to. I really have no choice I play with plats and diamonds all day and even they agree the system is broken.

FANTAsticOrange11/6/2015, 9:20:06 AM1 votes

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Dukues11/6/2015, 3:59:31 PM1 votes

Silver 2, 2 seasons. Promoted to silver 2 12 times, demoted 11. Currently at like 72 LP. Most of the times its W, W , W promos L L. then W W W promos, L, L. Or you get promoted then W, L, L, L - demoted.

It took 3 losses in a row to get demoted, sometimes 2. But now you better win 3-4 in a row to get promoted again. Generally more like 4... cuz you know.. LP distribution random as fuck. Gotta love when you get like 17 lp or 18 lp and end up at 98 or 99 LP... you know that shit has to be on purpose.

Hinagiku3311/6/2015, 11:25:09 AM1 votes

Elo at least made sense: win at least a bit more than you lose and you'll climb with nothing gating you

Hiding the MMR behind empty ranks and tiers and then gating players with Promo Series, combined with bizarre point distribution, just make the whole system overly complicated with no payoff.

If the system took individual skill into account, then I could deal with gating as their would be concrete standards for each rank. As it is, ranks are completely pointless and based on luck with matchmaking as much as anything. I can't even bring myself to bother with ranked play until Riot does another overhaul of the system.

Tuskajussi11/6/2015, 1:11:15 PM1 votes

I dont know why, but I was stuck at G2 for over a 100 games as well, it was its own elohell. Suddenly after a month of hiatus I came back, played a few games and rose to Plat in less than a month..