i can confidently say that games below gold are decided upon random

Marshmallow Wolf·Mar 11, 2016·2 votes·771 views

hear me out; ranked games (solo and duo) are decided on the randoms. in the current meta, most games are snowball, towers go down quickly,etc.

one bad player and it really shakes things up depending on the role.

it seems like most of my ranked games go pretty well, and after 150 ranked games in season 6 I've decided that one feeder (usually the random) always ruins it for me.

there's no coming back even if all lanes but one are fed on your team, they can just grab free kills from your feeding teammate.

this might be a qq thread with no possible way to fix it but damn I really miss s5

tl;dr s6 snowball meta- one person feeds other team wins

11 Comments

pE4CbxDPQOMar 11, 20163 votes

Oh yeah for sure. It's literally not about the team with the better player(s) winning, but who has the worst player losing.

Rain SmurffMar 11, 20161 votes

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Oh yeah for sure. It's literally not about the team with the better player(s) winning, but who has the worst player losing.

In higher levels of play or..i guess you could say "gold/plat" or whatever you wanna call it, people know how to come back when behind. This may not be too evident in lower divisions

Unstoppable MonkMar 11, 20161 votes

Its more like the other team failing at winning when ahead, really.

BladeSteelMar 11, 20161 votes

So in higher elo the other team just fails to win when ahead? I doubt that...its more they know how to come back.

Unstoppable MonkMar 11, 20161 votes

I was specifically describing what the low elo games generally tend to do. The skill level is so low that every conceivable winning scenario has a possibility of not being taken.

It becomes a game of which team throws harder, not trying to comeback. Most low elo 'comebacks' are just scaling or carries coming into play.

Gold is where you start to see the game of throws fading away.

Marshmallow WolfMar 11, 20161 votes

exactly what stop feeding mid said. people in my levels don't play like theyre behind eg buy pink wards, build defensive, sit under tower; but sit and push the wave and get ganked again. stuff like that I can't control no matter how many times I ping them. it's just my level of play.

Rain SmurffMar 11, 20161 votes

Have you played in gold or above gold to be making such a statement? Also, there is no reason why anyone should be going 0-5 by the end of lane phase, this can't be happening every game in whatever mmr bracket your in.

Marshmallow WolfMar 11, 20161 votes

I honestly think 40- 60% of my games this happens. and that's too often

StickyOctopusMar 11, 20161 votes

First ranked game of the day I had to lane with a 1-15 support ekko, happens quite a bit.

Rain SmurffMar 11, 20161 votes

Higher elo games actually are more one sided. Ive experienced this in my own games. When a team gets a lead, they will rarely throw. They will hold onto the lead, whereas, on the other hand lower divisions seems to be simply a throw-fest to see who can throw the hardest. Thus, allowing other players (with the knowledge and skill) to be able to use those opertunities when the enemy throws to come back.

Rain SmurffMar 11, 20161 votes

Not saying that higher level games aren't thrown..I mean I've shared a fair amont of my own game changing mistakes haha