They seriously need to revamp the ranking system

KatCallMe·11/17/2018, 5:13:06 AM·12 votes·7,250 views

I really hope next season is fixed because this game just seeks to destroy you. You have a loss streak and winning any games seems to do nothing. Your MMR just keeps tanking. Then when you do win games you're only getting +10LP. It literally is a waste of time to try and rank up at that point. This game forces you to make smurfs. When i made my smurf i instantly got to plat. Now this season I was at Plat 4 at end of season and had a losing streak and now its impossible to climb. Now I'm stuck at Gold 5. I win 2 games and lose one and lose more LP than those 2 games won. It makes zero sense. It really makes you stuck. Making a smurf you can just get 30LP and climb easy. This is ridiculous.

14 Comments

Kaisha11/17/2018, 3:54:31 PM3 votes

Its been broken since Day 1. Its based on the Chess ELO/ladder system, which was designed around 1v1s, and still was just used to approximately group new players. It was never meant, nor designed, to handle 5v5/team games and shows.

In chess you have no RNG, no disconnects, no afks, its 1v1 so if you mess up its your fault, etc... In LOL you have tons of RNG factors, afks, allies raging out, feeding, inting, etc... none of which the elo accounts for.

In 1v1 there's no difference between the best player winning and the worst player losing, in a team game its a world of difference. Most league games are not won by the better players, but rather lost by the worst. Which means you could be amazing, but if some idiot feeds, its game over.

Sadly this is mostly by design. If good players almost always won (ie. the game truly rewarded skill) most of the player base would leave. The core 'hook' of LOL is that a mediocre player can, with a bit of luck and the right items, get fed, become god-like, and destroy players who are otherwise more skillful.

5050BS11/18/2018, 4:35:40 AM3 votes

Yep the system is seriously flawed. It worked on paper but in reality accounts get stuck and they get stuck not because of the player but because of their team mates.

I personally think they want it this way. Game theory is about how to make a player pull a leaver even when they dont want to and it hurts.

ORlANNAGRANDE11/17/2018, 9:05:58 PM2 votes

Yeah the system is finally starting to shit on me. Im still getting 25 per win but ive been losing my p4 promos literally over 7 times This week. Its just win lose win lose win lose

The Great Duck11/18/2018, 9:50:47 AM1 votes

Riot's not making good use of that scoring system they've had for years now, for one thing. And since they've already tried streamlining champs into popular roles, it only makes sense to develop a rubric for each class and grade the individual based on their in-game performance while taking your teammates' performance into account before calculating RP gains/losses. Once you get a single 3-game loss streak, you're getting net gains of like 3-5 RP for a 50% winrate, and good luck climbing out unless you're playing 2 tiers above your elo.

LordGeovanni11/18/2018, 10:50:49 PM1 votes

i fail to see the flaw everyone is talking about you played badly on the same account thus you have to grind out all of the failed games to off set the mmr balance.

KatCallMe11/20/2018, 9:39:45 AM1 votes

Update: i managed to normallize my MMR after like 30+ games but I had to spam abuse Kayn in jungle lol. Being a meta slave is dumb and boring. I shouldn't have to do that to climb. But I digress.