The reason climbing is so frustrating

An Undead brat··2 votes·460 views

Can we somehow do it that you don't lose so much LP for defeat everytime your entire team feeds and AFKs and there's nothing you can do about it, just stand under the last standing turret and watching it fall with tears in your eyes and words "...so there goes another ranked..." in your mind everytime?

You know, I'd just move on, but when this happens so often, it just leaves you wondering how the fuck is this system considered accurate by someone.

Idk, I know it would be abusable, but what if the game records the performance similarly to the grade, compares it to others performance and checks the frekvence of players movement around the map so it knows they don't just stand under turret and farm and then decides you were not the reason you lost, it clearly was your 1/12/3 teammates? Or if it would be TOO abusable, what if we made it a charge-per-day like the First win of the day works, so that if you lose once a day and your performance is significantly better than 3 of your teammates, you lose only like 3 LP? Or even no LP?

This could actually encourage people to play safer from behind and would not affect shiny fast LCS matches because LPs do not work there.

5 Comments

Bhagswag2 votes

IDK man, there's people in Master and Challenger, etc. They had to once go through the same stuff. There's people under you who complain about the same things that you roll your eyes about. Maybe the system is fine.

An Undead brat1 votes

I'm not ashamed to call these people just lucky. I don't say they are bad, but there are so many fucking good across SILVER, many times better than most of the Plat trash, but because they get at leas 1 feeding nerd in their 60% game, that's not carriable if enemy team has one brain cell. And don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about myself, I think my situation is still VERY good compared to some of my friends.

RogueWill1 votes

It would encourage KDA padding which is a concept bad for your chances of winning the game

An Undead brat1 votes

It would, but Idk, it's better if people are KDA padding than intentionally feeding imho.

Zakrani1 votes

I have a hard time climbing ranked mainly due to me just starting to play ranked last year where i had placed Bronze 4 (I was really bad), however this season in my Placements i had won 7 out of 10, with Karma, not losing and getting multiple S ranks.

Yet due to me being a complete pleb last season i get punished and am "rewarded" with bronze 5. Now, you might think I would be able to climb relatively easy, but that's not entirely the case.

I do fine until I get up to promotionals where for some reason I get matched with people who have absolutely no idea how to play the game. Such as jungle never ganking, and feeding. Top lane picking squishies that get utterly destroyed. and Mid laners that have no idea how to ward their bushes and constantly die. ADC's not knowing how to follow up when I E and Q their ADC w/ Leona which could very well secure a kill.

Recently I found a Duo partner that genuinely does not deserve to be in bronze, he knows how to follow up on my initiations and we typically secure a double kill about 3-6 minutes in. We have a 73% winrate together.

But by far the most annoying thing is when you get up to promotionals(i went on a 12 winstreak with leona and then lost 6 promo's in a row) and you get matched with people who just don't care, and you have to constantly rebuild your LP up just to have it knocked down again.

I do agree with your "Lose less LP if you do better than your teamates" a day. It's quite frustrating when you do everything you can to help your team but no-one takes advantage of it.

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