How has Ranked become so awful?

Inari Fox Orrion·11/30/2019, 11:51:22 PM·1 votes·1,851 views

It's almost like at any tier at or below Gold (for reference, that's 75% of the playerbase) the game becomes less about how good you individually are, and more about how decent your ADC or jungler is. So far, as a support OTP, I'm not thinking I want to play ranked at all this season if the preseason is at all representative of how crappy the game state is.

My last 5 ranked losses -- the only ones I have this season -- happen to mysteriously come with an ADC who started to flame people within the first ten minutes, and two of them had been flaming since they left champ select... even if they aren't flaming me. Interesting to note, the wins I have in ranked occur when stuff like that doesn't happen which in and of itself should probably indicate to people that there's something hugely wrong with how ranked is set up and balanced at this very moment. Last season, I had like 8 or 9 games where no-one on either team was bitching (of the thousand I had, and I fuckin' counted throughout the season to compare with S8 and S7) and this season it feels like those matches are gone.

Now answer me this: if "ranked" play is seriously so fucked up that 0.8% of my games actually had, like, decent quality people within it... AND I'M SILVER, HALFWAY TO THE CUTOFF POINT OF GOLD... then how do you expect anyone to take it seriously? And how do you expect people not to randomly start trolling because the matches are incapable of being taken seriously?

TL; DR: When half of all games start with "muh teamcomp I guess I'll just play Heim ADC then morons", how do you expect people to take the game seriously? How do you expect to combat toxicity when people won't take the game seriously?

11 Comments

Mavëríck12/1/2019, 12:16:49 AM4 votes

Maybe it's just a coin flip game with a forced 50% win rate to keep everyone playing through addiction...did you ever think of that?

Modnar Erom12/1/2019, 12:34:00 AM4 votes

I wouldn't say it is a matter of ADC or JG being good, but rather just being tilt-proof. JG is a trash tier (but important) role, and ADC isn't much better. The real question is if your JG and ADC are going to baby-rage once they get smacked around by the enemy Top or Mid.

Not to mention the season just ended, so the queues are full of Elo boosted trash that don't deserve their current rank.

SheikhEleazar12/1/2019, 1:02:38 AM1 votes

If it feels like you have no impact, the game is rigged

WoonStruck12/1/2019, 4:13:32 AM1 votes

If Riot didn't shove a specific meta they wanted down our throat, the game and its players would be a lot less toxic.

Beerstein12/1/2019, 6:07:34 AM1 votes

As a jungler, you need to change your play style and adapt to the meta, same as us. If the junglers are weak and sensitive to any disruption (they are) and also so important they determine games (they do), then you need to change your play style to disruption/dragon/jg support. Think Bard and roaming supports.

To test this (again as a jungler) I went ahead and tried roaming supports, it seems...highly effective. Roaming supports that disrupt jungle are in again (IMO). You have to support/disrupt both bot and jg as support now. It's just an adaption on the support end. On the JG end, it's a nightmare. It's hard to have the game rest on you while also being the most sensitive to any disruptions.

It's also forcing people to play a very specific set of junglers, talking to other JGs we all seem to agree that it's also the most boring one dimensional set of junglers. That's why many are fleeing the JG and trying new postions (and others are getting autofilled in)

I'd say that the learning curve for a traditional support player would be really high as you need a high level of JG play to disrupt it well, a JG playing AS support trying to disrupt it has an easier learning curve IMO. (which is what I did)

Also, only 44.5% are below gold, though gold IV is very heavy at 15% on its own due to people stopping there or getting carried to it and stopping. 78.5% are below Plat.

P.S. Heim ADC is legit.