Ideas for improving Ranked in season 8

IP Masquerena··1 votes·612 views

Hellow, first I want to say that these are just my suggestions, feel free to comment, agree or disagree, but don't jump the horse and keep it civilized, ok?

As we all know, bellow a certain elo, winning depends less on your skill and more on the luck with team mates, so here are a few suggestions that me and a friend of mine came up with that will help improve ranked, even if just a little:

  1. Same autofilled role for both team - That one is self explanatory. If my jungle is autofilled, then the enemy jungler should be autofilled as well, to prevent a one sided game because the enemy has no autofilled players while my team has a role that is quite important (or more than just 1 role) with players who are bad there. If both teams have the same disadvantage when it comes to being autofilled, players get a better grip of the game through their own skill, rather than "who has more autofilled players"

  2. If there are different ranks in a match, they will have the same role on both teams - Same as with the autofill, say both teams have 4 silvers and 1 bronze. My team's bronze is going adc, while the enemy team's bronze is top. Obviously that the team with the bronze adc has a higher chance to lose simply because adc has more impact than top, but if both adcs or tops are bronze, then again, all other roles and players have the benefit of a fair game.

  3. Bring back the Tribunal - This was my friend's suggestion, and since I don't know much about it, but from his understanding, it will be a bigger benefit if Riot would allow both pre-game and the match be recorded, and if a number of 3 or more reports are issued against a single player, the recording is given to the public to see if the player deserves a punishment and what punishment. If the 3 reports minimum is not met, the recording is deleted after all players leave the lobby.

  4. Eliminate duo que from solo que and let solo be only solo - This one is obvious again. Having 2 people que together gives then an advantage which the other team may not have (voice chat via discord/skype), and also allows them to have an easier lane if the duo is mid-jg for example, ensuring that if the enemy isn't duo as well, or willing to help his midlaner, that lane is done, which will just make the enemy midlaner flame his jungler (in lower brackets) and ensure his team is going to lose more frequently. A solution for this is have 3 ranked settings:

  • solo que
  • party que for 2+3, meaning you can only que as a party of 2 or 3, and the other players will be the matching party of 2 or 3
  • 5 man party All others removed, since they are not needed, and the problem with having an unfair number of duos in a team compared to the other is fixed.

Yes, I know role swapping exists, but overall, the number of games in which is done by both teams will be equal, and thus ensure a better game.

Again, these are my suggestions, feel free to agree or disagree, but please stay civilized.

5 Comments

Warwick Main1 votes

I agree with number 4. Makes no sense to allow duos in solo que. It is not reflective of your skill or ability if you need a partner to climb.

FatedSaviour1 votes

this is fair if you wish to suffer 10 minute queues

IP Masquerena1 votes

I'd rather wait 10 minutes and know that if I win it's because I deserved the win (at least, most of the time) or I lose, the enemy won fair and square (at least, most of the time), instead of having games where I just can't do anything....

Might sound stupid, but the enemy team felt sorry for me 9 out of 10 games which I lost, and that sais something.

One game, Akali mid vs Azir, Azir got stomped (#NeverFirstTimeInRanked) but I lost due to our top Yasuo feeding Ekko much more than Azir fed me. When Ekko spammed "ez" in chat, Lee, their jungler told him it wasn't easy, and the sole reason they won was because Yasuo was a typical Yasuo player.

I don't mind losing as long as the loss was deserved because my team got owned fair, not because my Twitch jungler saw a video on youtube saying Twitch is OP jungle so he first times him in ranked

sketchy11 votes

only one I can disagree with is 2, because that would elongate queue times by like 80 years. if I'm gonna wait 10 minuets to queue up, I may as well be leaverbusted wanting to play ranked.

HOWEVER, I can totally agree with 1, because having 4 people on my team filled to a 5 man mains team is totally unfair.

the 4th one I can say is debatable, because you can always use discord or something of that sort and invite everyone the mineut you enter the champ declaration, but at the same time though

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I agree with number 4. Makes no sense to allow duos in solo que. It is not reflective of your skill or ability if you need a partner to climb.

because they still have the comm advantage anyway, because they most likely know each other irl

IP Masquerena1 votes

Sorry for the late reply, was at work and my phone broke...no more internet there T-T

Well, if the system already takes a bronze (to keep the example) for each team, then all it needs to do is take 2 bronze that que for the same role, so it won't increase the timer too much, but on the other hand, we shouldn't let things go as they are.

The last game a friend of mine had was simple

  • his team: 2 silver, 2 gold, 1 plat
  • enemy team: 4 plats, 1 gold

Need I say who won?

I think it would be fair to either lock a rank in playing only with itself unless the MMR of the player is just too damn high for his current rank, or solve the issue by making sure both teams are fair.

I can give as another example my own game, I was Irelia top (I don't play that much ranked, mostly at the start of the season have some fun the 10 games, then at the end of the season I climb to gold for the skin and forget), my team had a b2 Veigar mid vs s2 Fizz, while the enemy team had b2 Garen top. Need I say that 0-11 Veigar was flaming me? I know I ended the match badly, but I just couldn't keep up with Fizz, the critter ended 17-2.

Now, before anyone jumps the horse, I know these games even out and happen for the enemy team as well, but what I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't let RNG even the numbers out, but have the system even itself out. When I que for a game, I find one in max 3 mins, so I wouldn't mind the max being 5 mins if the games are more balanced.

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