Please Riot add a new ranked tier, split up silver
Not sure if this idea has been brought up before, but I am unsure why this is something so impossible to do or why it does not make sense to do.
So right now, 43% of the sever is in Silver and 21.21% is in bronze. https://na.op.gg/statistics/tier/. That is roughly 750,000 accounts in silver. To get into Gold, you have to be in the top 35-40% of the players on the server. I don't know about you, but this makes no sense to me. There are 7 divisions, but almost 65% of the server is in 2 of them? like wtf?
You can imagine how us lower elo players felt when you introduced master tier. You promoted it as this new, exciting, awesome thing that everyone would get to benefit from. All I saw it as was a huge middle finger to almost everyone who play this game, of course besides the upper 1% (well actually more like .1%. There are currently roughly 1,200 players in master tier and 200 challenger (which we all know is really like 500 players due to multiple accounts). So... this very small percentage of players got to see this new tier. I assume the reason for adding it was to separate the skills of those (bad diamond 1 + 2 players) from the "good" or "master" players. So lets think about that for a second. A tier was added to this game to make it more competitive for like 1,000 to 2,000 players. Yet, people still complain about how "bad" or "unequal skill" there is at this top tier. So if that is true for that few of players/accounts imagine for a second the skill difference between the 750,000 accounts in silver?? It's really hard to phantom isn't it?
Between the new players (who are auto put into not just silver but silver 2 & 3), smurfs, trolls, afks, good players, etc. its really a cluster fuck of who you play with. I have lived it for 3 years and its just gotten to the point of whatever. And anyone can say "get better" or "your 1 person who cares" I am by far not the only person bitching about this or who has experienced it. I mean shit... there was a thread earlier today from a Diamond player saying "damn even as a diamond smurf its hard to carry in silver". Idk it just really doesn't make sense to have 43% of players in the same div. If you add a new div, call its emerald or something, you could have roughly 20% in bronze, 20% in silver, 20% gold, 20% emerald or plat. It would honestly freshen ranked up a bit for a very large chunk of players and would help a little with a more consistent gaming experience.
Please explain why this is a problem, or can't be done. I have thought about it for 2 years and just don't get why we all have to be considered the same when in fact there is a large difference in player skill.
Was going to add there would probably not be 5 divs, but more like 3. Leave LP needed at 100 or move it up to 120 or 150 or w/e.
JG game recently.