True Skill level

Spyke1970·3/17/2017, 4:15:02 AM·2 votes·1,143 views

Riot needs to come up with a better way of determining skill level of players for matchmaking. Most of the games I play are completely 1-sided, with 1 team completely blowing out the other team, yet we are all supposed to be in the same skill level. This is what is creating a toxic playing environment, when 1 or 2 players on a team are so far out-skilled that they piss off the rest of their team. Maybe it's time to raise the standards for being allowed to play ranked. Maybe match people by champ mastery levels. Maybe even make it so you have to have at least one champ in every role at mastery 5 before allowed to play ranked. This would actually hurt me as I tend to only play a few champs that I know I can play well. If it makes the game less toxic though, I'm willing to suck it up and go play norms with some some unfamiliar champs until I learn them.

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Narvuntien3/17/2017, 5:06:25 AM2 votes

Did you see thier answer to "why do I suck?" basically it says most players have only some aspects of the game down.

e.g You can be really good say mechanically but terrible with map awarness and stratagey, the classice 1v1 me bro win lane lose game type player.

At lower levels, even up to about platinium, most players are not fully rounded players, while bronzies are typically bad at everything silver gold Plat have strenght and weaknesses.

If you get randomly rolled a team of players techincally the same level but if all thier weaknesses line up they can just fail horribly. Everyone in your team sucks mechanically but make good game calls you can get snowballed out of the game before thier skills become relevent. Everyone in your team is a high skill mechincally super skilled dude, but for example the enemy team pulls off a good gank and suddenly they don't know how to play from behind, they try to 1v1 but the opponent has an advantage and dosen't have to play perfect to beat them. Or they all win thier lanes but don't know how to press thier advantage and end up throwing the game perhaps with a bad baron call or someone gets caught out alone.

The lower you go the more weaknesses the players have the more likely this is to happen, whille in plat typically players only have one or two weakness but those can be huge, and simiply not exploited until they end up against better players.

Warlord Scrap3/17/2017, 4:32:42 AM1 votes

Or make it you have to have 16 champs at mastery 5 before you can play. I would say 7 but the blue essence makes that extremely difficult if they would remove blue essence i would say 7.

Sett up 4my gank3/17/2017, 5:16:10 AM1 votes

its fine how it is they just need to reduce early game snowballing.

Colton1473/17/2017, 6:47:21 AM1 votes

I'm going to leave this here... XD http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2452405450/235339808?tab=overview

Games aren't one-sided, as this match I played pretty much proves that no matter how much you are behind, you can still win. :)