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Suggested Ranked Changes/Improvements

EN1GMA·2/18/2020, 6:25:08 PM·6 votes·6,890 views

I have been hearing many people talking about rank issues across multiple discord servers, and I believe that I might have some ways that can help reduce those problems or hopefully solve them.

Starting off with the big ticket item, "Priority Role Queue". Many people don't like playing their off role in ranked, and they only want to stick to their primary. Overwatch has added this, and queue times skyrocketed but the player base loved this because they were able to secure their roles. An implementation I am imagining, is a checkbox on the Ranked Solo/Duo or Ranked Flex page where the player would check a box indicating that they ONLY want to play their primary role and they accept that there may be an increase in the queue duration.

Next thing I want to suggest is the addition of a /requeue command in champ select. Lets say that you are in champ select and a teammate bans out the person hovering Yasuo (we all knew he was going to go 0/10 anyways). A dispute is then made in the chat, and you can already tell that your team is not going to be doing well on the communication side. One person can call the /requeue command and that will bring up a vote to everyone on that team. If the vote passes with a majority (3-2), then the players are thrown back into queue with no LP loss, and only wasted time. This command should also only be called once per match. I also recommend that it is only to be used in Ranked Solo/Duo, to prevent groups of three or more abusing this and wasting people's time.

My third (and final) recommendation is the revival of role-based ranked queue. The idea of it was fantastic, but of course there were many complaints on it too. I believe that the MMR that a player hold in one role should be completely separate than what is in another role. I am a Gold Support main, but if I am thrown in top, I play like I am Bronze. This would help reduce the LP and MMR drop on someone's primary role and would also encourage people to stay on their main accounts when trying to get better at other roles than making countless numbers of smurf accounts.

I would love to see this discussion move forward and see how the ranked system (and League of Legends in general) can improve.

Update: I forgot to add a point in here regarding people dodging instead of using the /requeue command. My recommendation to this is that there is more LP loss than there is now. This gives people an incentive to stick to their games and use this command. Also, if people are constantly using this command and are abusing it, there can be a set limit to how many times a person can call the command like rerolls in ARAM.

11 Comments

Smiling Frog2/18/2020, 7:23:52 PM4 votes

Mmr RESET for 50 000 blue essence PogU

Speeedy2/18/2020, 6:50:37 PM3 votes
  1. we have been asking for that in a different wording of remove autofill
  2. not a bad idea
  3. see the 4 tons of complaints already made on that terrible idea (that's why it wasn't implemented)
Power Cosmic2/19/2020, 1:03:44 AM2 votes

Big changes to Runes to bring back a real early game.

GriseldauJtKt2/19/2020, 6:47:55 PM2 votes

Actually balance the game.

Damon2/19/2020, 5:53:40 PM1 votes

the re-queue idea is ultimately a very poor choice. "oh boy these champ picks are looking bad lets requeue", oh man they counter us lets requeue , wow my champ was banned by the enemies lets requeue".... its just wayyyyy too exploitable, it would also have to be a 4-1 vote, 3-2 is just going to happen every other champ select, the enemies would also have to vote and pass for it to be a thing, and you cant really do the whole once a match rule.... well because there is no match? just back out of queue and restart to regain the ability to requeue? as far as positional matchmaking, no we cannot do that again.... that idea was one of the most overwhelmingly awful ideas riot has ever done and removing it was the greatest show of intelligence by them ive ever seen, seeing a company admit their mistakes and fix the problem is what makes riot an amazing company, also this idea is antisynergy with your first idea which is actually a really good idea. if you can always play the role you want.... why do you need separate ranks?

HeeroTX2/19/2020, 6:41:23 PM1 votes

Do the following:

  1. Create a team of people, start with 10 if you want, these are "the referees"
  2. Inform people that they will now potentially be subject to active game review and subject to IMMEDIATE punishment if found in violation of certain rules regarding trolling/smurfing/etc
  3. Starting in summer, the referee team will LIVE spectate random games starting with the champ select lobby. If someone is trolling in lobby, referee will kill the match (no penalty for non-trolls, just re-queue) and troll get suspended, repeat offenses get banned. If match is in progress, players will be given a vote option, if vote passes, "winning" team gets half LP (or full LP, depending on how you want to tilt the vote), losing team NOT inclusive of troll(s) get no LP loss (or half LP loss) troll gets all LP losses not incurred by teammates and suspended

Referees are NOT visible to players unless a verdict is rendered, thus ANY game can be monitored and people can be slapped with a penalty at any time. Over time, increase or reduce the number of referees as needed and as possible. (not possible to have one in EVERY match, but random sampling should cut down on problems considerably and frankly for player related problems an automated solution is not realistic)

Second suggestion

  1. Change role selection to allow selection of 1 - 5 options (allows "any EXCEPT.." and "OTP") but keep autofill
  2. Add a checkbox for "allow swap with autofill"

If someone on your team is autofilled (and ONLY if autofilled) they can click a button to swap roles. If any teammate had the AF role as an option and the person notes that they're AF, then they're automatically swapped. If no one else wants to play the AF role and/or has allowed swap, then things go as normal right now. (they can ask or be stuck in AF) This should give a crystal clear view of what roles are in demand and which ones people absolutely refuse to play. And again, the autoswap ONLY works if the requestor is autofill, so if you select all roles and want to swap to mid, you're SoL.