Ranked has been bad for years now

Anorath·2/3/2016, 2:28:08 PM·7 votes·1,393 views

So for a long time, ever since Riot decided to introduce a ladder climbing system with the whole promotion system, ranked has become a more or less 'locked' system. You can win as many games as you want, climb your way from 3 to 1 in whatever your rank may be. But now you run into the best of 5 thing. Now if you lose 3 of those 5 promo games you are now stuck and gotta do it ALL over again, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

Honestly this isn't a good mechanic, never has been. This is a game that relies on MORE than just you. Because if you alone could just do it, then why is it a team game? Now if your luck is as garbage as mine, you've probably had your fair share of trolls and feeders. Now, the obvious troll picks are very obvious but here's where the whole promo game thing comes into play again. I now can choose to tolerate, hope to carry, and hope to not be weighed down by these troll picks, or dodge, get an auto loss to said promotion, and get a penalty time too. That's the definition of a lose lose situation. Seriously it's a terrible concept to hinder people; to hold them back, because they want to avoid these bad team comps, these obvious troll picks. Such as one where I had a GP and Heimy bot lane instead of an actually adc and support. And while maybe in some cases that could work on the unskilled bunch. Duos that queue up and do this because they want to in ranked, not really cool. I really wish the old ELO system was back. When it was just big numbers, 2200 ELO etc etc. But now we have this ladder climb bronze/silver/gold etc etc going on where you can pretty much get locked into your place because you get trolled or people that don't know how to play and so on and so forth.

This new team builder works, TO A POINT, but falls off in many aspects. Specifically still being that someone can choose to queue up as bot and support, and they don't wanna support so hey guess what now you have 'support' kindred because they don't want to and just did it for a quick jump in queue. Seriously Riot, why do we still have this system? It's terrible, it locks players out, it forces people to just become aggravated because they WANT to play ranked, they WANT that competitive gaming, but CAN'T because you put them in some piss poor thing where if their team holds them back, they just get screwed. End of story.

30 Comments

Dirty Roleplayer2/3/2016, 2:32:47 PM3 votes

People generally get anxious when in promos. Which means they tilt too often and are not focusing on the game. Best cure to this is to not look at your match history (or League placements) and continue your ranked streak. And most importantly to keep it cool.

ItsCalledALance2/3/2016, 2:39:55 PM2 votes

no no, I'm sorry youre not diamond/challenger. youre not allowed to have an opinion. you still lose games. sorry just the way it goes.

When you stop sucking so bad and win every game then you're allowed to have an opinion.

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holy fuk wait a second!!!

how the actual hell did you ONLY have 117 CS in a 50 minute game?????

I found the problem holy cow. I'm bad but thats a whole new level. yes yes, takes one to know one, which is why i'm fully qualified to judge here. I suck bad...but damn son, at LEAST double your CS and your games will change overnight. when you play ADC, your ONLY job is to get CS, not to make plays, not harass, not to do jack. GET CS> Thats it. 200 at 40 minutes is...your team look at that and gives up.

As a jungler, If I look bot lane, and see MF ~ 50 cs every 10 minutes. I'll NEVER gank that lane. i die on the inside. because I know that MF is going to be useless.

Rocky22/3/2016, 2:35:56 PM1 votes

Are you aware of the new feature called Promo Helper?

It really...helps. A lot. No longer do I dread failing promos more than once, because I know if I reach it again, I have a good chance of passing, due to the 1 free win.

During Season 5, I was stuck in Silver 1 and 2 promos, failing dozens of times. most often to AFKS rather than poor play. After Promo Helper was introduced in preseason, I was able to climb to Gold 2, because even if I failed promos once, I usually didn't fail the second time.

fééd l0rd2/3/2016, 5:45:10 PM1 votes

You said it by yourself. It's a team game. If you can't carry your feeding teammates you don't deserve to win. It's simple as that.

supersonic22/3/2016, 8:24:32 PM1 votes

does anyone want to play with me