Ranked matchmaking sucks!

Lazyboy478·8/25/2016, 5:44:44 AM·1 votes·556 views

I have played a ton of games and I generally go positive or at least close. I rarely have a large amount of deaths. I try my hardest and do pretty well most of the time. I'm not saying I'm amazing at League but I'm not terrible. But I have been trying to get into silver for the past 6 months and I literally cannot. I get matched with people that don't know what they are doing. They always blame others, and they throw the game every.single.time. I then get demoted and have to start all over again! It is incredibly difficult to say all of this without using terrible language because it is so aggravating. It's not the losing that gets me, Its the fact that its not my fault for the majority of the time! Stop rating us based on our games and start rating us based on our play style and our KDA. I am tired of getting demoted because of terrible teams that don't care at all.

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OneMustFall8/25/2016, 5:48:25 AM1 votes

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Moneymonster78/25/2016, 6:08:08 AM1 votes

Would be a terrible idea to rate based on KDA. Everyone would turn into wimps who don't care about winning, sitting under their tower ONLY going for kills if they know 100% they're going to get it without dying.

KDA doesn't really mean anything. I'm currently silver 2 and average a ~2.8 KDA, which I personally consider to be pretty bad. Doesn't mean I can't play with my team or pay attention to minimap or farm or anything though. I'd be happy to play a game or two with you to see what you play like and while my opinion probably won't be as highly valued as Bjergsen's, I'm sure I can provide some insight as to what is going wrong!

Calabok8/25/2016, 6:15:11 AM1 votes

Forget LOL. go outside and look for Pokemon things. I heard that there are a lot in the hood and alleyways.

BlueBilberry8/25/2016, 6:28:21 AM1 votes

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I have played a ton of games and I generally go positive or at least close. I rarely have a large amount of deaths. I try my hardest and do pretty well most of the time. I'm not saying I'm amazing at League but I'm not terrible. But I have been trying to get into silver for the past 6 months and I literally cannot. I get matched with people that don't know what they are doing. They always blame others, and they throw the game every.single.time. I then get demoted and have to start all over again! It is incredibly difficult to say all of this without using terrible language because it is so aggravating. It's not the losing that gets me, Its the fact that its not my fault for the majority of the time! Stop rating us based on our games and start rating us based on our play style and our KDA. I am tired of getting demoted because of terrible teams that don't care at all.

Sympathies. I found myself in Silver IV after five straight bad matches in my last few provisional ranked games. As a consequence, I found myself in Silver IV. But it doesn't end there.

I had about 3 good games but then the same weird stuff happened again. Playing as a solo q, I found myself in four straight games with premades which had jerky players (Gold, Silver and Bronze, for the record). And as a result of immature behaviour, poor teamplay and infighting, often involving two guys who had messed up far away from my own lane who wanted to shift the blame away from their own mess, I found myself facing 4 straight "surrender@20" games and a drop to Silver V.

After that experience, I can easily see what you are talking about. (I also learned that if you play support at lower ranks with carries who haven't mastered the basics, then your odds of getting out of lower ranks is going to be small, to say the least.)

As for your KDA suggestion, I'm not sure it could work - unless it could be used as a mitigating factor for a rating drop in a losing game.