So I finally tried out ranked, and I am NOT impressed.
Bad news, I am in Iron iv (totally everyone cares). The reason could be I was tilted from the game before or I was just doing awful, but let's be real here, riot cannot just simply put you in a game in a position, and you have to deal with it if your main champs for that lane are banned, which happened to me the first game, as support. What's worse, the game isn't even working by skill anymore, it's by what champion your team is using, mainly annoying champs like teemo, yasuo, irelia, darius, etc. For some reason, every ranked game I did today (well, only three games total)... you know what I am just going to tell you my experiences...
1: Thresh and the Neeko adc So I was stuck as support, which is fine, I been practicing pyke a lot lately and I been doing fine, and guess what he gets banned, no surprise but it's fine, I still have thresh. Anyway, once we get in the game, there were two problems against me, one, for my adc I had a Neeko... a Neeko adc... who NEVER used their ult in the middle of a fight. The only time I actually saw them ult was under turret or when they were FARMING. Then the jax who was our jungle which I thought I could rely on a for a decent gank because... come on... it's jax. Anyway, the jax barely looks at the map, and almost never ganked bot lane, so I was screwed for that game. At least the yasuo and top laner were doing well... oh, yea, and I was against a viktor and blitz at bot too so there's that.
2: Another JG not ganking. I was put into mid, thank god, I am alright in mid I suppose, after all I currently main swain. Anyway, I got Swain HURRAY and got into the game, however, there is one problem. I had to lane against a zed as Swain, which can be countered by zed due to his clone giving him bonus range on his q so he can stay away from the range of my e, and I were to try getting close I would be getting slaughtered. I managed to kill him once because out of everything else, my jg didn't gank my lane for some reason. I even asked him repeatly: "hey, can I have a gank at mid please when I get back?" something along those lines. He said he would, but all he did when he was "ganking" was sitting in a push, q zed, run away, and that's it. At least it went better than last game since I could at least do... something, but it still sucked.
3: Another counter, oh boy. I was put in top, and I came up with the strategy every ranked game does nowadays, have your team pick the most broken champs in existence. I chose illaoi since I suck as darius, and Irelia was banned. I was confident... until I realize I was up against a CAMILLE, which had constantly attack locks, cages, and shields I could not release the kraken at her. On the bright side, our jg, mid, and bot lane were doing great... It was me who dragged the team this time...
So yea, after those matches, I could not think the rest of the night, instead I am going to take a break from the game to cool down, practice more, before I ever do ranked again. It's better I just chill out instead of having infernal rage building up inside me (note to self make that a death metal song title).
However, two things I should tell riot is this that can fix ranked. 1: make people the same rank as you appear on yours and the enemy team, it will be evenly fair on skill level, if that even is involved in the actual game anymore... 2: whenever there is a new champion, make them unable to be playable in ranked for the next two weeks after their release, I don't want someone who is new to a champion to mess up a ranked game, it ruins the experience for them and for their team, such as the Neeko I mentioned earlier.
