The biggest problem is that there is no drain pipe.
No. Really. There is a limit to the punishment that people can suffer for having "IDGaF" attitudes.
- I have AFK's in my games. I have seen double afk's (duo brothers, queued then realized they had basketball practice).
- I have even lost a game to an AFK, the entire team reported him (and the other team), and then I requeued, and got the same player, in the absolute next game, who afk'd again.
- I have people saying "It's my 45 minutes, I can try to jungle Ashe in Ranked if I want to".
- People who deliberately feed because mid took second blue. (or bottom took second red)
- Duo Bot lanes that die 20 times before the 20 minute mark.
- Jungles that just run in and try to kill as much as they can on their kamikaze run, and are proud of scores of 14/14/5 (Look, it's positive KDA!)
- lobby terrorists who hold the lobby hostage unless everyone goes along with their champion/role demands.
These people get reported, but it doesn't feel like it does anything... there's just no dropoff/exit to b5.. the terrible attitude people just pool there.
There needs to be some way to kick people out of ranked. Like they need to win 3 coop games because they have hit bottom.. Otherwise, they just DGaF, they don't have to worry about falling too far, and starting over again. so who cares?
The second biggest problem is that # of games played does not matter, and it should. Someone who has 100 ranked games @ XXX MMR has a lot more solid of a MMR rating than someone who has 10.
You have 100 ranked games, and are +6 win/loss. not bad! you're on your way. Except, the game doesn't care. You get put with 4 other people who (all 4 combined) have 50 ranked games played combined, and none of them are positive win/loss. They easily fall for every trick in the book. Blitz pulling blue across. Sej/Nid jumps. It's not always strategy either, its also that they may not have seen some of the capabilities of certain champs that are out of style right now. (after 7 deaths vs poppy; "Huh? Poppy's ult does what?")
It's not their fault, they just don't have the # of games played to have seen it. Yet your promo that you have worked on getting to depends on them.
**It's yet another random factor. **in high Silver and gold, yes you have bad play.
that's what people are talking about with ELO hell.
**Bronze is way too much like a casino.
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Too much random chance. Pull the lever and hope you don't get 4 other people who afk, hold the lobby hostage, troll, feed, or in general just DGaF.
You have better odds in silver/gold. maybe it's only 1 of the 4 who does this stuff.
Through all of this you need to win enough to get a promo, then win 2 of those games to succeed.
Something needs to be done to fix this. Why is this much randomness required?
