Why is there no punishment for players that play awful in ranked?

Lutique·Apr 26, 2018·1 votes·650 views

I don't understand how 99% of the kids I get in gold got there. I had to win 8 out of 10 placement games to place, and 99% of my games since, I get players that obviously belong in bronze or not in ranked entirely. They have 0 understanding of the game. The concept of pings, teamwork, objectives, team fights, reactive builds, are completely foreign. I saw Riot plans on making ranking even easier next season where you *can't get deranked...that's nice. And before anyone checks my stats and thinks they're somehow clever, i'd like to inform you almost all of my games are 2-4 vs 1 in lane, and unlikely any existing team help. Also if i've gotten a bad score take note of my assists, if they're low or 0 that shows you I likely had all afks, which that too is common.

4 Comments

z63XnLCMwXApr 26, 20181 votes

The punishment is a loss of LP.

LutiqueApr 26, 20181 votes

yeah but they can just troll into a good team and gain it back, and forever be in their current rank, ruining as many games as they want, with no real punishment. If you disable chat you can troll as much as you like and won't get banned, it's really disgusting.

z63XnLCMwXApr 26, 20181 votes

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yeah but they can just troll into a good team and gain it back, and forever be in their current rank, ruining as many games as they want, with no real punishment. If you disable chat you can troll as much as you like and won't get banned, it's really disgusting.

There's a difference between being bad and intentionally trolling by being passive-aggressive. Everyone has off games where they aren't performing their best or against bad match-ups. It's because of that, that it isn't a punishable offense.

That said, silver is the biggest pile of hecarim crap since you get new to ranked people paired up with players with 1000-2000 games. I can assure you that new to rank players are closer to bronze 2-3 than they are to silver.

ModPeriscopeApr 26, 20181 votes

*can't get deranked

in promos after your first provisional.

To the rest of your post, you're not really punished unless you're not trying to win. You can't expect players to always play at their best: you can have bad days, your fav champ banned, filled, etc.