Possible improvements to ranked in season 8?

Th3 Rift Hero·Sep 29, 2017·1 votes·548 views

I have some possible ideas for a healthier and less tilting ranked (only one of these could do) :

-get rid of hidden mmr system and only base ranked on league system. -don't try to lower the ranks each season

fresh placements each new season
less emphasis on ranked history, more focus on improvement -only match people of same division and/or same win rate together -tweak lp gains or lose depending on contribution to the win or what should have been a win( maybe something like pressure on map/objectives, gold gained, contribution to teamfights, ranks(s,b,c+ etc.)

Let me know what you guys think of these ideas and feel free to suggest another one

9 Comments

GrievousFetusSep 29, 20171 votes

I have only a single suggestion, and it's really the only one that needs to be suggested: -can leave the game with no penalty if someone else has already left

Th3 Rift HeroSep 29, 20171 votes

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I have only a single suggestion, and it's really the only one that needs to be suggested: -can leave the game with no penalty if someone else has already left

this sounds right in theory but yeah this would be easily abusable by a smurf who would only keep his friend from losing lp if the game looks like a lose. Also, this would be a kind of extended remake but at some point its a even bigger waste of time than remake if no team gain any lp

GrievousFetusSep 29, 20172 votes

No it wouldn't be an extended remake, you'd still take the loss and lose LP, you'd just get no leaverbuster. If you're worried about duos abusing it extend leaver penalties to the whole premade (which I think they already are?)

MysterQSep 29, 20171 votes

So fix it.

Let the winning team still get some LP. LP is a free "currency" that is digital and has no meaning other than ego. Clearly this freeLP can be stopped at high ELO where it matters. Ban the guys who keep disconnecting. Eventually he will get caught.

MysterQSep 29, 20171 votes

Rank should change. Some of these are good, some are not.

Just give Victorious skin/champ to everyone, rank is less stressful. Everyone wins. Or just have ELO up to gold only move forward (no derank) in some form and everyone again wins.

I mean I am not for participation trophies usually. But this is a game for fun. There will always be stress in rank for some people, but giving people the "prize" would help some. And allow us to have fun again. Leave the high ELO as is for those who are actually good and want to challenge themselves to that point.

Th3 Rift HeroSep 29, 20171 votes

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Rank should change. Some of these are good, some are not.

Just give Victorious skin/champ to everyone, rank is less stressful. Everyone wins. Or just have ELO up to gold only move forward (no derank) in some form and everyone again wins.

I mean I am not for participation trophies usually. But this is a game for fun. There will always be stress in rank for some people, but giving people the "prize" would help some. And allow us to have fun again. Leave the high ELO as is for those who are actually good and want to challenge themselves to that point.

this is not a bad idea, but this would totally destroy the competive thrill of the game, altough, something like a different special skin for each tier may work (leaving the lower also to the higher tho for preventing deranking just for skin of lower tiers)

MysterQSep 29, 20172 votes

I had more details along time ago. It would need a lot of work on the no derank version, but really in low ELO (especially with MMR matchmaking not even rank matchmaking) there is no reason to keep someone down. Like if he can win xxx games eventually I feel like just give him a break and let him rank up once. It is literally not hurting anyone (except people who make fun of B5 will now have to make fun of everyone).

At least give rank players the champion, even if they don't get the skin. I know I am missing a lot of champions. They keep saying the new system will help us... but it won't. So just give everyone 1 extra champion (if they don't own it). People will still feel bad about no skin, but that is something to help them develop too. Especially since it was a good champion.

MysterQSep 29, 20171 votes

Riot, Please MAN, if my Lp overcaps to like 110 give me a free promo win. Seriously it feels bad to be at 99LP and win and get nothing for it. It also feel bad to be at 73, because I know that means 2 wins before promo, if I lose it is still 3 wins. Like it is just a bad number to sit on. At least if I was at ... I forget what I was thinking. But give the free win if you don't already have a free win.

Or make some LP loss protection in the 90s. Like you lose 50% LP so losses are not so bad. You can relax a bit before your promo.

Th3 Rift HeroSep 29, 20171 votes

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Riot, Please MAN, if my Lp overcaps to like 110 give me a free promo win. Seriously it feels bad to be at 99LP and win and get nothing for it. It also feel bad to be at 73, because I know that means 2 wins before promo, if I lose it is still 3 wins. Like it is just a bad number to sit on. At least if I was at ... I forget what I was thinking. But give the free win if you don't already have a free win.

Or make some LP loss protection in the 90s. Like you lose 50% LP so losses are not so bad. You can relax a bit before your promo.

they could easily get rid of the whole promo thing if someone climb to the upper end of a division he deserve to move up. They could still do something like, if you pass 100 lp you get to 0 lp in the next division with some shielding