My gripes with this game have finally come too much to bear

Himbeekee·6/21/2015, 8:56:43 PM·1 votes·760 views

Hello all,

Now I don't know if there have already been posts regarding this topic, because I usually stay away from the boards, but I can't keep this in anymore. This game has become the League of Inconsistency, and I am slowly but surely becoming sick of it. Ranked is the plague of all game play, and Riot needs to do something regarding the LP reward system.

Allow me to explain. First off, I am currently in Silver 3. I'm sure we have all had games in which we have done amazing, and also games where we have done horribly. Some people can actually own up to it and say to their team "Sorry guys, this was my fault, I didn't play well.", while the other half of the community is the "Good I wanted to lose, they pinged at me too much" or something silly like that. So my question here is, why do we get penalized as players because our team lost? Especially in Solo Queue? I can go 15/3/9 as Twisted Fate in a game that consists of a 1/12/5 Kennen who decided to start Razorbeak camp because "all of the pros are doing it, it is a viable strategy", and because of that Kennen being the downfall of our team, my great game play in a losing effort is forgotten and penalized. Why should I lose 20 LP in a game that I did my best efforts, top lane did their best efforts, and lets say jungle and ADC weren't holding up their load. How does it make sense that my efforts are thrown away because of this? Why should I be held back in climbing the ranks because my TEAM isn't doing well? Shouldn't it be clear to the system that I am improving?

This is when everyone is saying "your MMR is low obvi", well according to all of the calculators and whatnot, my MMR is the average of the community right now, and frankly I think that MMR is a joke in general. Just a few days ago, I grinded through and got to Silver 2. Immediately in my first game in Silver 2, I saw a decline in my team, as if I was matched with people who just downloaded the game. A team consisting of people who asked "Why am I getting feared by Shaco?" and their support replied: "His E". When I saw this I actually had to question where I was and what account I was logged into, because that was baffling. The RNG that is "MMR" is a joke to me simply because how does it make sense that I get drafted to a team of players who clearly don't know what their doing, and we get matched up against a Challanger team?

Lastly, to wrap this all up, I play Solo Queue for a reason: I trust myself, I play for myself, and I play by myself. There is absolutely no justification for me to be losing 20+ points in games that I am clearly excelling. Now I'm not saying: "Just because I went 9/1/2 in a losing effort I should get 20+ LP." No. I am saying, because I did well in my ranked game at least don't penalize me for an absurd amount/at least give me +5 or something for doing well even in a hopeless effort. There was a post on the boards not too long ago of someone who had a 0/20/0 Poppy on their team. The scores on the team were pretty average, but why should they ALL lose 20+ points because Poppy made it a 4 v 5? Does that make sense to anyone? If so, please, explain, because I need some enlightening it seems.

TL:DR: Stop penalizing players, who are putting up above average scores, and who are excelling in losing efforts. We should not be held back from climbing the ranks because teams aren't showing up.

(Sorry for the long post, I just really needed to get this out)

4 Comments

tonzillacrayon6/21/2015, 9:04:23 PM1 votes

blaming your teammates for loses doesnt really work seeing as ive gone from silver to diamond plenty of times same with a bunch of other people. If you just stop paying attention to chat at all and just work on getting better you would win games.

stealthfox946/21/2015, 9:05:32 PM1 votes

wall of text.