Positional Ranks feel horrible

thecowley··33 votes·11,418 views

I don't play that much. I binge on games once or twice a week and one or two on a normal night. And that makes this feel horrible. Normally I don't mind swapping. I learned a couple champs for each role because I knew autofill was gonna happen and its simple as that. But switching in ranked now, I dread it. I barely have my secondary role out of placements, and nothing else. I play top and mid. Now is jg, support, or adc wants to swap, I just want to dodge the game.

This positional rank system feels like a total chore. I don't want to spend 8 games in 5 roles to get placed. I don't want to play promos in each rank. I just won't spend that kind of time on this game. While being placed against people that actually reflect my skill in a role is appealing, this implementation of that is not worth all the extra work.

Just my opinion on it, and I have the sinking feeling that this is here to stay though. If it is, I'll probably drop rank altogether.

21 Comments

Ginger97610 votes

It is horrific. I think I have to give up on ranked (and the game since most of what I play is ranked) for several months until the queues even out. I'm a solid high silver/low gold player, but I am something like -40 ratio on my W/L this season at Silver 3/4. The skill level balance between teams feels very off.

WashyMoney3 votes

It’s not even skill/level necessarily. People have no incentive to give a fuck in off roles.”oh I’m autofilled mid? Might as well whip out my first time Zed 4fun”

Ginger9761 votes

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It’s not even skill/level necessarily. People have no incentive to give a fuck in off roles.”oh I’m autofilled mid? Might as well whip out my first time Zed 4fun”

True...I just don't get that concept. I want to hit gold in every role.

GuccìTrapQueen6 votes

I've been saying this since the day it came out, it's a dogshit concept but since they run out of ideas they have to put out shitty new ones or the game will die. I pray it does.

Saianna1 votes

or the game will die. I pray it does.

I got banned for 14 days for saying that in a joking manner. Minus the praying part.

swxss2 votes

I'm very much the same way and have similar problems with the positional ranked, although i haven't played a ton of ranked yet this season so i can't say definitively yet but it really feels bad right now lol

y0r1ck1 votes

Play fill, I heard on a post like yours that if you play fill it drastically reduces the number of games you need to play.

Personally I think the new system is a natural and useful extension of role selection. If people only play one or two roles, why not rank them for those roles?

Ginger9761 votes

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Play fill, I heard on a post like yours that if you play fill it drastically reduces the number of games you need to play.

Personally I think the new system is a natural and useful extension of role selection. If people only play one or two roles, why not rank them for those roles?

I can personally vouch this is not the case. I queue fill for every game, and maybe (maybe) the LP gain is higher for a win, but the quality of teams is terrible (currently).

y0r1ck1 votes

Bro the quality of teams has been bad since before season 1.

Ginger9761 votes

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Bro the quality of teams has been bad since before season 1.

Eh....not this bad though. My match history is a testament to the shit quality of the teams. I don't remember nearly as many 0-X bot lanes for example.

Lapis1 votes

A little bit off topic, but where can you see your ranks for each role? I've only played one role, do the others show up once you play the others?

Kattzy1 votes

Yup! If you look at your profile and hover over your rank, you'll see any ranks you've unlocked over each role and locked ones are just blank. The rank that shows on your base profile is your highest rank.

floo1 votes

I thought the new ranked system is only being tested on Korea and NA or did I miss smth?

Lapis1 votes

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I thought the new ranked system is only being tested on Korea and NA or did I miss smth?

Oh, that'd be why I can't see the other roles then, lol

floo1 votes

Happens [slayer-jinx-wink]

Quil Evrything1 votes

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This positional rank system feels like a total chore. I don't want to spend 8 games in 5 roles to get placed.

except that you dont have to do that. If you want to just play one role.. then just play one role. dodge everthing else, and you'll be fine, and your rank will be whatever you manage to get in that one role.

Kattzy1 votes

OP is a mid/top main and isn't getting his main roles. Dodging is unlikely to change that. I'm a supp/adc main so it's not a problem for me (I pretty much always get whichever of those I queue for), but that has got to be super frustrating for him.

Quil Evrything1 votes

i mostly play top. i mostly GET top.

Trick is to cancel queue if wait time goes over the estimated expected time, to get your role more frequently.

Heos001 votes

They took away like 15 LP from me in my main role after dodging in a fill lane '-'. I could have played it because it was my 2nd role but you just win too little in both roles to be worth your time and it stills takes away LP from your main role :/

5050BS1 votes

S9 is by far the worst season

Heos001 votes

In the end they don't fixed a **. Damage stills too high but people stopped complaining because balance theam said that they were going to adress it but it just diminished a little bit because they added +1 armor to stat runes LUL

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