Suggestion: Change Ranked Requirements.

VengefulMarv·7/23/2015, 3:04:13 PM·3 votes·535 views

Look, we've all heard the complains about people who hit lvl 30 and immediately queue for ranked. Or complaints about people smurfing. Or the players who get a perma-ban, start a new account, and before too long are back in ranked and acting like douchebags all over again.

Solution: don't set lvl 30 and X amount of unlocked heroes as the ranked requirement. I'd be in favor of a win requirement from normal 5v5 games (blind, team-builder, draft). Set it at 500, or even 1000.

This will make the normal queues less horrendous to play in as you'll have a larger non-troll player-base involved. And it will make ranked games more meaningful. Having a hard cap for wins means more playtime for players before ranked. People with little experience (a number of fresh 30's) who go into ranked will often end up having negative experiences. They can and often do get treated negatively because of their new-ness.

It also hurts the players who are in the "new player" tiers in ranked. I can't count how many times I've lost games because matchmaking threw in players who had <10 ranked wins. Many of these players still didn't know some of the basics. (Objectives, watching timers on dragon/baron, watching death-timers during a push, etc)

3 Comments

MarkedOfKane7/23/2015, 3:11:12 PM2 votes

It would stop smurfs.

I LIKE IT.

Though, maybe not have 500 wins, maybe just 500 games that are no AFK and such. Cause if the guy has a 50% win rate, he will have to play about 1000 total games to get into ranked

Jesus Canaj 4207/23/2015, 5:05:37 PM1 votes

I get what you're saying, and I'm kind of for, kind of against. I don't think normals would see less toxic trolls, hell we'd probably see way more because "WTF ARE U DOING BRO I NEED TO WIN THIS GAME HOLY SHIT". Also maybe it'll teach them about essentials for ranked, but maybe not.