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The league of legends ranked system is flawed: Rank does not prove skill

Herold Flowers·10/4/2017, 11:43:41 PM·3 votes·1,833 views
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As the title exclaims: Rank does NOT prove skill

In league of legends the ranked system is not based on how well you understand the game, how well you preform in the game, it gives no attention to personal progress. Ever since the conception of League of Legends, the entire community has been strung under the illusion that:

"If you are Bronze/Silver, you are Inept at League"

While this is a common misconception, part does prove true. People in the Bronze League are obviously inept and have many flaws within gameplay, proven by multiple "Bronze players compilation" videos on YouTube. In Bronze, the point of progressing is to improve on the core knowledge of the game. Important yes, but that finalizing factor becomes fogged by other team mates who are inevitably uneducated at the game. I"n Bronze - Silver, many think of League as; Get kills and win. Unfortunately, as easy as that would be, that is not the case, there is much more factors that play into League's system of operation other than: Get kills, win. You need to understand macro play, movements, rotations, wave manip, how and when to trade, how to finalize a victory, map awareness, Etc, The list will go on and on. Me myself, I can admit, has not mastered everything on a knowledge basis in League, because if i did, i would be a pro player. But besides the point, In every league there are undoubtably individuals who are over preforming for their set rank. Take my OP.gg profile for example, Look at the ranked games. In every one i don't pass the death count of 5. I am a Bronze II jungle main, and in bronze, you are supposed to be fresh at the game, not knowing basic knowledge of the list I explained above. I am bronze because my team is fresh and of lesser knowledge. Considering that Bronze is supposed to be the worst, i don't think a person who doesn't pass the death counter of 5, should remain. Not passing a death count of five while your team is definitely underperforming, should call for a reassessment of rank, because it is evident that i have come to understand the basic game knowledge of League.

This is where my final point introduces itself; Rank proves how well you understand and preform at the game, it should not analyze skill through wins and losses. Lets put this into perspective; Lets say that the worst player in league of legends is a Challenger player, This player has, every game, been carried by his entire team to victory and has an MMR that of a Challenger tier player. Highly theoretical, but no less fact, it is very possible to become a Challenger IF you are carried every single game, going 1/11/0. Does that individual belong in Challenger? All can agree no, but the League of legends system declares Yes. As i have said, the System is based on Wins and losses, if it were the case of personal performance, that player would be in Bronze because he evidently does not understand the game well enough to be a Challenger tier player. Unfortunately, that is not the case and the system will remain the same no matter what.

To sum it all up into a moral, the moral is: Dont be disregarded about your rank and begin to think you are a bad player, because it may hold the case of not knowing key factor, or it is that your team mates weigh you down in the ladder. Whichever one, know that they can be resolved. Climbing the ladder is a Learning Experience and not a way to prove how well you can 1v1 in mid lane, you learn the game, and the components of the game. You learn, learn, learn, and when you think you have mastered the game, you need to learn more.

Thank you for your time, i appreciate it ;)

-As a small disclaimer, i didn't post my OP.gg account to brag about how well I'm doing/how i don't belong in Bronze II, its a visual aid to prove Rank doesn't equal skill/comprehension of the game. I know that climbing is a learning experience, and that i have to prove i don't belong in Bronze. That said, i have much more to learn, Thanks.

26 Comments

GrievousFetus10/5/2017, 12:16:49 AM4 votes

You are the only constant.

If this weren't true, boosters wouldn't be able to make mad dosh.

Monkey With Guns10/4/2017, 11:59:33 PM2 votes

Was bronze, I did have this mentality. I got better, realized you can 2v5 a bronze game. Find a dou or play around the best player on your team each game.

Ahris10/5/2017, 1:59:06 AM1 votes

Ranked is all about who can abuse meta picks harder. Some game knowledge skill is important though.

gabetheguy10/5/2017, 2:28:57 AM1 votes

literally just pickTryndamere

PhDs Nuts10/5/2017, 3:27:48 AM1 votes

"Guy in bronze tries to justify being in bronze: The Story"

Mysticman8910/5/2017, 4:26:05 AM1 votes

Rank does not prove skill with 100%, however it makes it probable, and the more games played the greater the confidence, until eventually the probability of it being wrong is so small that people will accept it as proof.

I could roll a standard 6 sided die and get a 6 10 times in a row, and while it's fairly probable that the dice is actually rigged, it's probably possible to convince people it was simply luck (despite it having a less than 0.000002% chance of occurring). If I were to roll the dice 100 more times, and continued to get 6's, then it still wouldn't prove 100% that the dice was rigged, yet I'm pretty confident that most reasonable people would conclude that the dice was rigged and I wasn't just exceptionally lucky.

This is generally why people don't freak out when someone has an 80% winrate in 10 games, but 80% over 100 games is "holy shit it's a pros smurf". It's also why people tend to be pretty confident that people are where they belong within a couple hundred games or so, since if they're averaging around a 50% winrate after 100+ games, it ceases to be reasonable to think they're the 0.000...1% who were extraordinarily unlucky. If they're above 50% then they're probably still climbing, and if they're below then they probably actually got lucky to get to where they were. One can't prove with certainty either of those things, but true 100% proof is really hard to come by in reality, so eventually people have to accept a criteria for 'proof' that isn't 100%. Different criteria for different situations of course, but outside of pure mathematics you never have 100% proof.

Bronze 5 Teeto10/4/2017, 11:55:54 PM1 votes

You haven't played enough ranked games. Also, you dont understand how the law of averages guarantees you will rank up if you are consistently better than your opponents.

Ûrf Kench7/21/2019, 1:15:20 AM1 votes

Let's say, currently are many high elo smurfs in bronze. At the same time, there's a old established bronze player, called Fortnite2012, matched with one of those smurfs. Ofcourse, the smurf will carry them through the game to the victory, a undeserved win for Fortnite2012 - that's normal and can happen, right? But what prevents the matchmaking system from matching him with another fresh high elo smurf, and so again? And vice versa - a diamond IV player suddenly has too often boosted players in his team, and must face that he's getting demoted for apparently no reason.

FatedSaviour10/5/2017, 12:57:49 AM1 votes

i need a tl:dr