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Ranked System

Swagic Johnson·8/2/2016, 7:43:45 AM·1 votes·512 views

How is the determination of the teams created in ranked queue's? The typical answer I get is both your rank and your MMR. So... my main question here is, why do we have 2 different style rating systems to determine who you should be placed with? How is it fair that my teams MMR rating and/or rank is dangerously lower than my opposing team? Why can't the ranked system be just Golds vs Golds, Plats, vs plats, etc. Not only are you playing with your rank and not some silver duo partner who is magically in your team while youre plat, you are also guaranteed to know that you are surpassing the players within your elo, that you are becoming a better overall player and soon ascending to the next level. I don't think that its fair to have weird a$$ teams vs people who know what the !@#$ they're doing.

When the new ranked system was implemented in season 3, I felt like the games I got out of were actually fun. I lost some games? Cool, we didn't perform in any horrible way, it was a fun game, lets just imrpove. We won some games? Hell yea, that was still a fun game, still got things to improve and new builds to try.

Now it feels like I have to pray to God each time I click the queue button to hope for someone who isn't toxic and saying GG in the first 30 seconds of the game. The games feel one sided once a team starts to get a little bit ahead, at certain points its clear that you can't come back and try to win the game. Can't defend towers if they don't deal damage worth of damn and get destroyed in such a short time. I lose games thinking of how I didn't learn anything different from the last game that I previously lost. Terrible champion pick combinations, toxic players for no reason, itemization for certain classes etc. Same thing goes for winning. We'll stomp a team and it feels like the game wasn't fun for myself or the other team, it didn't feel like neither side had fun in trying to play the game. I cannot see anything to improve on since I have to rely on MY TEAM to help win a TEAM GAME. If they don't give a shit, why do people still end up with the ability to go into ranked queue? Shouldnt less frequent players be placed in a different style queue system since they don't put a lot of time and effort into ranked as much as others?

Its a rant, I know, but this is really troublesome to hit an avalanche of bullshit players who don't give a shit about winning, and cause your elo to get shit on after you raise it. Its not fun, its not helpful, and right now it seems like Riot cares about the game-side of League of Legends rather than the player-base side of the game. Its great to have new champions and skin and whatever, but about the ranking systems.... it doesn't seem like its working at all.

1 Comments

So this one time8/2/2016, 8:26:53 AM1 votes

the whole system is designed with keeping casuals and serious players separate. even at higher elo's, your rank deteriorates unless you constantly play ranked. its that way so that unless your someone who constantly plays you dont fill rank slots. It keeps people from sitting on a rank slot for 5 months while not logging in for the whole time, they are making constant effort to deal with things like "random bronzie in my plat game" or "why is this gold playing with 4 bronzies?" granted i dont agree that we should remove mmr, i think match making benefits from it. Realize that a bronze 5 isnt really that far from a silver 1. I just personally think MMR shouldnt be an invisible number i need to check an exterior website to gauge.

as for "players who dont give a shit" well.. yea its a game. Not everyone is REQUIRED to be serious. some people have different meanings of "fun". some just want a social experience and some think trolling is funny. Not everyone you meet will have the same mentality as you. so try your hardest to get to a rank you think you should be. Trust me, more than likely you deserve your rank.