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Climbing ranked takes way too much time.

Akadin·3/11/2016, 5:31:05 AM·2 votes·3,001 views

So I finally decided to try ranked in league again after leaving the dying husk that is sc2. I can safely say that this is one of the most frustrating ladder systems I've ever experienced. It's like I have to play 10+ games a day and hope for a massive win streak if I even want to get anywhere. In every game (yes, I'm in bronze 5) there's always one lane that does so bad yet they keep trying to fight the other guy. Depending on which team it's on, my game can either be a walk in the park or a living nightmare. If the feeder's on my team no matter how nicely I try to tell them to play passive they'll always bitch and moan where it's like all my efforts at teamwork are just throwing oil on a fire. Then I have to hope that you don't get 2+ games where the feeder's on my team so all the wins and time I've spent aren't for nothing. Honestly, why does league use the "lp" system instead of an actual winrate system to determine who I'm matched with. Why do I need a 66% winrate (2 out of 3 games) in a 5v5 team-game to advance 1 division? It's like I need challenger level skills, get in 10+ games a day, and play a champ who can actually carry w/o having to rely on my "team" just to get into silver before the season's up.

6 Comments

Drehirth3/11/2016, 5:40:22 AM2 votes

Yea the thing is if you are only a little bit better than your rank it'll be a very big grind. To get out of bronze in a timely matter I'd imagine one would have to actually be mid gold+ skill level wise. The best way would be to try and improve your own play so that as you grind you are actually getting better significantly yourself, and to have the right mentality.

One important thing is that it's often counterproductive to give your team advice or say anything at all especially if they are doing poorly, because it will come off condescending a majority of the time, and will often make them play worse. This'll apply anywhere, especially when somebody makes an obvious mistake. My rule is that they will pretty much always know they made a mistake if they died because of it/was obvious, and if they don't realize it then they are generally hopeless anyway.

Nyhver3/11/2016, 5:47:06 AM2 votes

Any champion can carry, but it's easier to carry when you are notably better than your opponents

Honestly you don't need to or shouldn't give your team advice, they aren't your ranked team that you'll play with, they are competing with you to place higher in the ladder, they might be on the opposing team in the future, climbing is aided by being more selfish and efficient- though that isn't to say to steal your teams kills or cs when you can hand them over, not that kind of selfish

Baintha Brakk3/11/2016, 6:03:57 AM2 votes

Your own skill does matter, but people will deceive you on how easy it is to carry. If you play a safe-laner or a tank, you aren't going to have kill/snowball potential like the other laners. Say you're a decent margin better than your opponent, you might get 1 kill or 2 kills before level 6 and have good CS. Let's pretend you are top lane and come out of laning phase with 3 kills, 100+ cs and get the top turret. That is a success, sure, you won your lane. However, if you have a 0-10 Malzahar feeding the enemy Xerath 10 kills or an ADC feeding the Vayne 10 kills, your advantages are basically irrelevant come teamfight time. You're gonna take a few more shots, but your team basically cost you the game and you lose the same LP as them. It doesn't matter if you are gold-material, if you only have 3 kills and the silver-level Vayne on the enemy team has 20 due to feeding off your true Bronze 5 level teammate...you're surely gonna lose.

LoL really needs to reduce the LP loss for players who do well even in losing games or make some sort of ranked 2v2 mode so you don't get held back by random players feeding. Otherwise, your best option is to queue with reliable people. If you get on a team where you and another player do decent, friend them, so you have a buddy to queue up with. Then you only have to worry about 3 people not being terrible instead of 4 people. Again, it comes back to the randomness that this game is all about. In Bronze 5, you need to assume everyone is terrible until proven otherwise, because a lot of players are stuck there and belong in that elo.

ƒæµ3/11/2016, 5:52:11 AM1 votes

At low elo you have nothing to blame but your own lack of talent. The only thing that is annoying to climb is the promotion series require you to win a BO3 or BO5 which is sort of a pain, I did prefer when rank was given based on elo. But if you are stuck in Bronze or any elo in that fact, and you cant climb out, it's because youre not getting better, has nothing to do with the LP system.

S6 Is Trash3/11/2016, 6:05:14 AM1 votes

if your not very good at something ofc it will take longer to rank up

ThatH1N13/11/2016, 6:12:24 AM1 votes

If you think LOL ranking is worse than sc2 ranking you are crazy. I am diamond in sc2 last season I started in gold. It took me 200 games to go from gold to diamond my record was 130-70................................................................