Please Give Ranked Bans This Season

RookPusher··1 votes·382 views

I've been posting this concept for years, and I'd be sick of it if not for the fact that it remains necessary. For those of us in low Bronze, we could really use the half-punishment of "ranked bans" to help clean up the field. It logically has the most trolls, afks, and feeders of any division because there's no where else for them to go.

As a means of attempting to provide reasonable gameplay for those of us attempting to claw our way out of the swamp, it would be incredibly helpful to have players - who may be earnest - but are significantly hampering other people to be removed from the gameplay they seemingly can't contribute to.

In practice, this isn't different than what happens in other divisions. No one thinks of getting demoted to Silver as being banned from Gold, but it's creating the same conditions. If you feed too much in a non-Bronze division, you're banned from ranked in that division. I'm asking for the same thing within the parameters of the existing infrastructure.

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Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Being bad just means you lose more and get demoted. That's punishment enough, you don't need to ban people for not playing well.

If they are intentionally feeding then they just straight up need to be banned from the game, and Riot does this. There is no reason to just push them off to Normals to feed and ruin games there; that's probably why they don't do Ranked restrictions anymore.

Also I'm all for punishments for frequent AFK'ing beyond just LeaverBuster punishments.

RookPusher1 votes

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Being bad just means you lose more and get demoted. That's punishment enough, you don't need to ban people for not playing well.

If they are intentionally feeding then they just straight up need to be banned from the game, and Riot does this. There is no reason to just push them off to Normals to feed and ruin games there; that's probably why they don't do Ranked restrictions anymore.

Also I'm all for punishments for frequent AFK'ing beyond just LeaverBuster punishments.

Except in low bronze you don't get demoted. Which is my main problem.

Trollmanship1 votes

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Except in low bronze you don't get demoted. Which is my main problem.

Matches are determined based on your MMR, not your rank.

Riot hides your MMR to makes bronze players feel better when their profile shows them as just "bronze 5" instead of "literally bronze 15 hamster tier", but they still get matched with and against other hamster tier players.

Mysticman891 votes

You're matchmade based on MMR, not rank, so the exceptionally bad players at the bottom of bronze 5 will never actually be matchmade with the bronze 5 but almost bronze 4 players.

Rank mixing happens certainly and sometimes you'll have high bronze players in the same game as bronze 5 players, but thats because either the bronze 5 has a high mmr or the high bronze have bronze 5 mmr (or some mix of those), so everyone is theoretically the same skill under the hood.

Duo's mess that up a bit, but even then the afks/inters/really bad players will continuly have their mmr drop and eventually not be matched with players who might be bad but not that bad, even if they might all be low bronze.

Gall1 votes

I think a better half punishment would be 5 low priority ranked games where you play with other low priority queue players.

RookPusher1 votes

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I think a better half punishment would be 5 low priority ranked games where you play with other low priority queue players.

Actually, I think that's reasonable.

My major problem is that, with no place to get demoted to, there's no escaping people who:

  • Never read guides, or watch videos
  • Never consider that their strategy is wrong
  • Think picking a new champ every game is a fine idea
  • Don't care about climbing and just want to have fun...in ranked.
AlienPrimate1 votes

If it is all trolls, feeders, and afkers in Bronze 5, I have to ask how you got placed there in the first place. You had to have been "banned from" bronze 4 to make it there at some point. Instead of placing the blame on others who you deem to be worse than yourself, work on improving your own play to climb out. I never blame others for a loss. There are those unfortunate games that I lose because one person on my team got absolutely destroyed, but that just means that the person who destroyed them deserved the win more than I did. If I always blamed the person doing poorly for the loss then how could I ever feel good about carrying a game. Carrying games just means that the person I played against allowed me to win instead of I allowed myself to win with the mentality you currently have.

RookPusher1 votes

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If it is all trolls, feeders, and afkers in Bronze 5, I have to ask how you got placed there in the first place. You had to have been "banned from" bronze 4 to make it there at some point. Instead of placing the blame on others who you deem to be worse than yourself, work on improving your own play to climb out. I never blame others for a loss. There are those unfortunate games that I lose because one person on my team got absolutely destroyed, but that just means that the person who destroyed them deserved the win more than I did. If I always blamed the person doing poorly for the loss then how could I ever feel good about carrying a game. Carrying games just means that the person I played against allowed me to win instead of I allowed myself to win with the mentality you currently have.

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bywords701 votes

all im seeing from this thread is the typical my teammates are trash

RookPusher1 votes

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all im seeing from this thread is the typical my teammates are trash

Whether I think that or not isn't relevant here. This is for people who disrupt ranked. If you've played in low bronze then you know what I mean. We also have a lot of people who use bots to dodge Leave Buster.

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