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Why Do I Even Play Ranked Anymore?

Incarceration··2 votes·764 views

Ranked just feels like a one-sided match with no way to test my skill.

  1. Dynamic Queue- The old queue actually forced me to learn all the roles, and I was actually good at them. Even if I was last pick, I didn't have to support as often, and the effect wasn't too big for me. Dynamic Queue just puts me in mid so much that I even forgot how to play top. Now all I can play is mid and adc. This doesn't improve my skill.

  2. Hard Reset- Drops me back to Bronze 4 even though I repeatedly prove that I'm better. They should have placed me in Bronze 2 or 1 if they still want to keep that system.

  3. Jungle- Too much of an impact. I liked the plants, but the jungle changes made the strong junglers extremely strong. I'm tired of getting rammed by Hecarim every damned TIME when I'm just level 3 and still manage to do half my health because of red buff.

  4. Bot Lane- Every single time bot lane has lost, I have lost. Every single time the enemy bot lane won, even if I dragged it out, they still do millions of damage. Every single time bot lane tower goes down, I have to start clearing the wave when I still haven't finished my fking rod of ages.

  5. Mid Lane- Can I stop seeing Katarina smashing my laner at level 2. Holy Katarina is busted. Ahri, too, no fking weaknesses. Syndra still forces me to itemize in such a way so I can COUNTER her ultimate INSTEAD OF buying an abyssal so I can counter her poke?

  6. Top Lane- Make them have an influence besides tp. Make them actually require some attention from the jungler. And FK Camille, Poppy, Nautilus, and Maokai. Solutions: Take off 200 gold from first blood tower. Make every tank be a super tank. Lower damage and up tankiness across all of the characters. Go back to the old system of solo queue. Buff weaker junglers, lower jungle monsters damage, and nerf Triforce. Gut Katarina and Ahri.

BUFFFF AZIRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

4 Comments

TheRODriguezZ1 votes

I was silver 3. I just played one champion that im good at and climbed extremely easily as you can see. You should play ranked to improve and climb because you arent nearly as good as you think you are otherwise your stats would look like mine. https://gyazo.com/310f01aedf52a0a5cf6fa5c0a60bc0be

Ark Sorcerer1 votes

Well there are many problems in your logic.

  1. I would assume most players would agree that focusing on one, two, no more then three roles would be best so you can do well in those roles and not "I can play it. Don't expect too much." If you wish to improve your overall LoL skill, like Jack of all Trades, then my question for you is how well can you perform on each of these roles and which champions can you play in them?

  2. I agree with you. No complaints here.

  3. I disagree with you in liking plants. I just don't like the times where people escape by going over the dragon pit with no use of flash. Me personally obviously. Everything else, no real comment.

  4. I completely agree with everything you said here.

  5. If Kat kills your laner at lv 2, assume that your lane had no clue what they were doing. Ahri does have weaknesses. Say, for a big example, her mana cost. She has weaknesses but you have to find the rest of your own (I am not about to tell you my mid laner's weaknesses.) Syndra- First off, killing her is easy when e is down. Secondly: Do you commonly not get an item to adjust to the enemy? Like Zed's ult to Zyhonas? Or Magic/armour pen to tanks? Maybe stop focusing on total damage output and think at the bigger box?

  6. Smart junglers go top lane to get that Fiora or Riven fed and steam rolling. The only thing I can think of is change the Rift Herald to something more, useful in overall team fights and not split pushing. Camille. OKay. Poppy, Naut and Maokai? Why those three?

200 gold is a no go. Makes that object all the more crucial. No go more making tanks be a super tank and getting rid of damage. That would change the tank meta to be no killable yet not able to kill. Can't just buff the lesser or weaker play junglers. The champions themselves is fine, it is the jungle that needs tuning. What is wrong with Triforce? Kat and Ahri are fine. Just learn how to play against them better.

Incarceration1 votes
  1. I agree with you, but my point still stands. We should revert back to the old system.
  2. Agreed.
  3. I just find it necessary because trying to zone out their jungler is literally asking for your flash to be gone before plants came.
  4. Agreed.
    • Yes, the laner had no idea what he was doing, but the lowered ratio of AD on her Shunpo was because of the amount of damage and cheese she had at level 2. Let's be honest, Katarina is pretty busted.
    • Mana costs can easily be managed if you are a mid lane main. Syndra will have common sense to either hold on to her E or if she missed it, stay back. Syndra players know that if their E is down, their enemy laner's window of power increased.
    • I usually do, but I just find it frustrating when I have to buy an item like Zhonya's Hourglass to counter an AP champion even though Abyssal Scepter should be the choice to counter AP champions (Fizz Syndra Velkoz).
    • You can't just ignore mid lane getting pummeled. Once they notice their top laner is feeding, the mid laner is going to react.
    • Poppy, Naut, and Maokai are examples of super tanks. I don't mind them as champions themselves, I just mind how other tanks pale in comparison to those.

Makes snowballing much more harder. We have item 3036 . Either lower damage across the boards, or make champions tankier. I'm done seeing Maokai getting 2 shot by a Draven in the late game. Jungle tuning won't change the fact that Evelynn Diana Kindred Nidalee Fiddlesticks can't do anything this meta. The only relative champions we have in the jungle are Ivern Olaf Hecarim Vi LeeSin Zac Rengar Khazix

Hecarim Yasuo Ekko Vi Gangplank Fizz Remember those guys. That's what is wrong.

Katarina is okay to deal with in lane, but she is pretty busted when mastered because she can pull off stupid combos. I'll try to figure out how to beat Ahri besides dodging skillshots.

Risk of Fate1 votes

Personally I don't think Ahri is a problem right now, but I haven't had much success playing her lately. She's meant to dominate mid game, unfortunately I have a hard time getting there now with the jungle constantly ganking lanes, first tower blood, and early hyper carries like Caitlyn, Jinx, and Draven dominating lanes these days. Katarina, Syndra, and Ziggs make laning hard and roaming a risk, junglers like Vi, Hecarim, Lee Sin, and Xin keep an eye for her which adds to the difficulty of playing as her right now.

Pretty much if you get first tower against an Ahri, chances are she will be unable to recover as she needs the first kill/assist to get rolling. I wouldn't call her gold dependent necessarily (another ahri main can add in to this), but she's reliant on a couple items: Morello's and Zhonya's. Without those or the components, she can't snowball. There's so much pressure in the first 10 minutes now, you're better off picking those mid laners instead of her since they can get a lead much earlier with less, hell even Lux Mid has a much easier time.

My thoughts from personal experience, I don't claim to know everything, but these are just my 2 cents.

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