Ranked experience has gone down..

Nhifu··2 votes·813 views

Games been out for so long, I've been ending up in unwinnable games a bit too often...

Last 5 games, legit they had no idea how to play. From 0-8 Quinn jungle, to Twitch Jungle that both end up spiking the enemy jungler.. My win just now was from two leavers on the enemy team. That is not enjoyable either.

People diss on CSGO's competitive matchmaking; but I've had so much more fun playing that than league lately. It feels like because the matchmaking is so bad on this game, or that its outdated (CSGO has gone through 3 overhauls of their matchmaking system. At first it was account verification, then prime, now it's something else)

There are so many more things that can go wrong; than it can go right in League of legends.

  1. Matchmaking
  2. Promotions (very hard to win)
  3. Champion skill level
  4. Roles (Stealing roles or people picking roles they haven't practiced yet)
  5. Builds (DPS Renekton anyone.. lol)

I remember back in the first half of seasons (1-4) it feels like the game was much easier to carry, matchmaking made more sense and I could easily rack an entire match history of pure wins with my DUO. I have roughly 2100 normal wins and 2000 normal loses. I remember rocking attack speed runes and being laughed at, because it wasn't "meta". Then all of a sudden every korean team has AS runes lol I played Anivia and Singed for a long time, then Azubu frost played them and got banned for cheating LOL

Like ranked has gotten so bad, I can't even play it with friends anymore. Me and my friend see better players goofing around in normals, than there are players in ranked. I'm willing to bet the last two idiots that fed and left the last game I was in; are queuing up for another match.

Shroud (csgo/pubg streamer) was asked if he could be a pro in any game other than CSGO, he said he'd go for DOTA LOL But everyone plays League of legends.. because it's way more polished.. now there are so many negatives in LoL than positives to play. Even newbie players complain about how long it takes to level up. Then they see how bad ranked is and quit the game.

I also firmly believe that the game was much better, before all of the bans were rolling out on players that were toxic. And its funny too because there are so many people that aren't toxic.. just pissed off from trolls.

League of legends has been trying too hard to turn this game into a casual cash grab, rather than a game you play, practice and dominate. There are no more good games :\ People just throw out gg so it doesn't look like they don't get reported by the enemy team LOL

Why is it so hard to . . enjoy League of legends? When literally every game people hate each other, and get away with it. The games not even unique anymore, even MOBA games on phones are slowly dominating the field, while every hardcore PC gamer rolls back into PUBG or Fortnite lol

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Sorin Alucard2 votes

I dont think its even just the balancing. Its the matchmaking plus the babying of people whining about chat.

If they actually had a system that properly placed you in skill level AND a punishment system that focused on actions over chat we all wouldn't feel like the game has become complete ass for solo players

Akheteru1 votes

My provisionals placed me Silver 5. Okay, after playing for only a couple of months, I can live with that.

My next I-forget-how-many games were all losses. In each one, at least one troll whining over the position they got stuck with and feeding, or a jungler who forgot to take smite, or had smite but didn't buy a jungle item at all, or a support Lux who was everywhere BUT bot lane the entire match, leaving bot lane to get collapsed before the 10 minute mark, or...

The list goes on, and on. And so I got demoted. And it became even worse. And so I got demoted again. And again. I think I'm Bronze 4 now. This is despite having several great games playing as support with Shen, Sona and Nami and losing anyway.

Everybody says, "oh, git gud, your rank reflects your play, the system works", but I know I'm not a Bronze 4 player.

The system needs to take into consideration individual play performance, not just your W/L. Yes, that will have a Silver-tier Zed ranked up to Gold - briefly. Once that Silver-tier Zed runs into Platinum-tier players who know how to wreck him, he'll be right back down to Silver again.

Unnecessarily frustrating. And so now I've started looking for groups to play 5-mans with, in the hopes of not having a possible 4 teammates with no idea what they're doing, but teams who know what they're doing only want Gold ranked or better. So that, apparently, is out, too. I've already spent a good bit of cash on this game, because I was enjoying it immensely... until I started playing ranked to look for better teammates and opponents. I'm really starting to think I should've spent that money at a strip club, instead.

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