Too many sleepers

Hazardus ducees·1/29/2020, 5:38:24 AM·4 votes·3,296 views

For far too long there have been a lot of champions who are very powerful in their own way while others are underwhelming to say the least. To put this to rest, I've spoken with high ELO like diamond and challenger players and they told me that, "Once you know how to play the game, you realize that there are one too many sleepers in the pool who haven't made it to pro play for good reason but are too much for low ELO to handle with care." I asked about what they defined as low ELO and diamond said platinum 5-3 while challenger said diamond 4-2, I of course am not going to represent them by name, but we have to take this kind of thing to heart. After all, they got there because of what they know and we're low ELO because of what we don't so we have to so we sort of have to put in some kind of trust in their words.

While keeping their perspective alive, I've seen on the gameplay boards speak of these exact sleeper champions that were never really not in the meta in the first place. Almost at all times, these champions are good all around picks. The only drawback is that they typically are double edged swords which is why they either pass with flying colors or get dunked on. But with this whole problem happening, it makes me wonder... will league ever take a look at low ELO and maybe hear them out? Will they ever think that maybe what is going on is the very problem with league? Well, I hope one day they hire a couple of complete noobs to play league for 3 years and then ask for their opinion and overall experience on the matter, because I'm getting worried that I'm hardstuck being disrespected because of my ELO being one of the hardest things to increase due to being reliant on my team.

8 Comments

Smackledorb1/29/2020, 7:55:01 AM1 votes

anivia is one of these sleepers. broken ass champion.

Mid Summoner1/29/2020, 8:03:25 AM1 votes

Anivia Champion is so broken when in a good spot its unbelievable. But past plat 3 imo its better just to play a more viable champ unless you enjoy being a wave clear bot and losing every game early. Take it from a 2m mastery anivia otp 4m in total plat 1 peak S8 so S9 D4 80LP that got banned in season 8.

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=bird+brains

Z3SIeeper1/29/2020, 8:17:05 AM1 votes

My b

Saezio1/29/2020, 8:28:26 AM1 votes

You are not reliant on your team up to a certain rank.

Unless you honestly believe you make 0 mistakes in your games and push your advantages to the maximum.

Sure if a challenger player smurfs and loses a game in silver/gold/plat/diamond that's 100% their teams fault. But that happens once in a fucking blue moon.

Since you got challenger friends, ask them for tips. It's not hard to get to like plat4 - diamond 4. You just need to follow the formula

Salty Mc Feed1/29/2020, 9:06:52 AM1 votes

Too much for low elo? Nothing is too much for low elo because you just need to get a little better and then you are no longer low elo. Can we just stop with the low elo arguments?

And no I actually don't trust the words of some egocentric players who think low elo is whatever is BELOW THEIR OWN RANK.

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

But to get back on topic and low elo. You can't actually make accurate predictions or balance the game around the LACK of skill and knowledge. Champion performance becomes predictable the closer you come towards perfection. For every champion and situation there is 1 or more correct plays, but you can't seriously expect Riot to balance the game for players who always do the wrong thing. You also can't expect Riot to balance around something that is unpredictable and chaotic. The amount of possible misplays and poor decisions that bad players could potentially make in 1 game is endless.

TL;DR stop making elaborate excuses, stop trying to blame champions, get better