Can ranked play at least require a full rune page?
I just finished a ranked game where our jungler had 3 quints, 7 marks, 0 seals, 0 glyphs and bought poacher's knife (and ended the game with 6 enemy jg creep kills, 3 of which were stealing blue at the start of the game with 3 other team members helping). They use the mastery enchanted armor despite not buying any tank items and having no defensive runes. They went 3/10/5. I checked and they have one other rune page. It has all different runes from the previously mentioned one and includes 3 quints, 9 marks, 9 seals, and 0 glyphs.
How do I get paired with people at that level? How do people play ranked with so few runes? I understand if you've got a few tier 2 runes or maybe you're missing 1 rune, no biggy. But 0 seals, 0 glyphs, and 7 marks? At least the ones they had were tier 3...
My adc and support were duo queue. The support started with a
and no gold item. Sold it for a
over 5 minutes in. Bought a
after 18 minutes because I asked them to. They went 1/9/5.
I kept not being able to teleport to help bot lane in fights because they were well past their dead turret with no minions and no wards anywhere near. Meanwhile I win my lane vs
. The enemy adc went 22/2/7. One of those deaths was to me, both were inside our base.
I don't mind the existence of terrible players. All the power to them to play and have fun, especially if they're nice and no one in that game was mean. But how do people of such vastly different skill and/or knowledge of the game get paired together?
This is what people refer to as elo hell. I can't stop being paired with these people because I lose so many games to being paired with them... Is my whole season doomed to be like this because I didn't carry hard enough in my placements? I won 6/10 games, was silver last season, and iirc I lost at least 1 placement game to a dc. WHY AM I STUCK IN BRONZE?!
tl;dr - Can playing ranked require at least being able to fill an entire rune page? How do people of highly noticeable differences in skill end up playing together in ranked? Can I get a hug and a shoulder to cry on?
not floating out like
. The anchor is your team. I too learned the ugly lesson of ranked play being no more respected than normals. If you want like minded players you have to make a team. I have hear excuses why people don't do this but none of them are legitimate.