Higher requirements for ranked

New Scarr·Aug 17, 2019·5 votes·2,267 views

if you don't know how to play a champ or the role don't play it in ranked. there needs to be a mastery requirement to play a champ in ranked as well as an account mastery requirement to show you have basic game sense of champs and match ups. norms is to practice. being lvl 30 and then joing your first ranked game were they place you in silver or higher elo is wrong. why is iron there if everyone who should be in that elo is just placed above it, so they drag people down with them. please make it so in order to play a champion in ranked you must have a minimum mastery with that champion and your over all mastery score. for example if the minimum mastery requirement per champion is rank 5 (the highest rank you get for just playing enough games to earn the mastery points regardless of how good you are). then you should have to have a minimum of 20 champions to play ranked which would also require a minimum mastery score of the equivalent (20 champions x level 5 mastery rank). after that simple addition to the ranked ladder it would also solve the issue for when new champions come out since you will now have to lvl up to rank 5 mastery and by then they should ether be balance or you should at least know the basics. on top of that it will make the number of smurfs go down most likely do to how long the grind truly is.

14 Comments

The EcdysiastAug 17, 20194 votes

Nah, man. Brand new totally means the same thing as competitive-ready. [slayer-jinx-wink]

WoonStruckAug 17, 20194 votes

Everybody voting no has at least one permabanned account. I'd put money on it.

LapisAug 17, 20194 votes

I'm against restrictions. Now, I don't PERSONALLY take champs into ranked until I'm mastery level 5. But I also think that people should be allowed to do what they want. If they do it, they'll probably lose, and therefore lose ranks, and you won't have to play with them anymore. It all works out.

New ScarrAug 18, 20193 votes

ya but if you get one person every game that you play that does this then you get whats called elo hell that nobody seems to think actually exists

enshineAug 17, 20194 votes

I unironically believe that you should only be allowed to pick a champion in ranked if you have at least mastery level 1, maybe 2, on it

PleasantVirginAug 17, 20193 votes

Just quit playing this game. It is bad anyways. Everyone who takes it seriously for an extended period of time hates their life. You would get more lasting satisfaction out of wandering around your city for days on end mapping out where all the people who don't mow their lawns live.

1 Inch and ProudAug 17, 20193 votes

im against restrictions because at what point do you stop? 20 champs. mastery 5? 20 champs mastery 5, 100 games in role? if i buy a champ i then have to no life it to play in ranked? 140 champs mastery 5 on all of them to play ranked? level increased to 50-100? theres no way to balance matchmaking in ranked. i do feel placements need to have their own ranks or something to prevent brand new iron players being placed silver 1/2 and ruining the games every single time

preternaturalAug 17, 20193 votes

if there's mastery gating to play champs in ranked how will the pro's get practice on those random meta defining champs they've never played before?

New ScarrAug 18, 20192 votes

all of you are forgetting that ranked is to climb in elo were norms is to practice so that answers all of those so called concerns or questions you play the champion or the new account to the point were you have enough champions at a high enough rank which will give you basic knowledge on those champions and basic knowledge on most likely the rest as you will have had to play against many different people. so less trolls cuz you wont want to loose your account. less first time champion playing noobs that feed there asses off. and less smurfs or account boosting because the grind is not going to be worth the time

New ScarrAug 18, 20192 votes

every no vote is literally someone who wants to troll and enjoys ruining other peoples games so if every time they have to make a new account they had to do this it would be an issue. every single concern you have brought up is solved by practicing in norms and playing in ranked when your ready pro or not your not above the need for practice and exp with a new champ or match up. if the pros didnt need to practice then why is it not the same winning team every single year?

ZephyrDrakeAug 17, 20191 votes

New ScarrAug 17, 20193 votes

why? are you one of those smurfs that ruins low elo or are you the iron troll that likes to drag people down? because if nether of these are you then it truly only benefits you

ZephyrDrakeAug 18, 20194 votes

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why? are you one of those smurfs that ruins low elo or are you the iron troll that likes to drag people down? because if nether of these are you then it truly only benefits you

how many champions do you play in ranked. Tell me. Do you play 20 champions? hell tell me how many champions you play in general. This would do nothing but make it more annoying to swap champions in champ select and nothing more. People would still feed, people would still play badly. All you are doing is making it more obnoxious to get into ranked and nothing more. You adding dumb restrictions for the sake of adding dumb restrictions isn't going to achieve anything. Hell I can play any champion in support even though I will never play them support in any of my ranked matches just to get the "requirement" out of the way. I would have learned nothing about the role, nothing about how those champions are even meant to be played or anything useful yet I would still have gotten the requirements necessary to play ranked. Nothing was achieved other than making it more annoying for me. That is what you are doing with this sort of "change"

New ScarrAug 18, 20192 votes

i have 27 champs 5 or higher and another 15 champs mastery 4. i only play like 10 but because of this vast exp on these other champs that was gained through aram and norms and other events like urf. i have a basic knowledge of all the champs not an extensive knowledge but basic and to play in ranked you should have that. you wanna troll and fuck around play norms or blind that's what its for. anybody who says this is a bad idea is a troll or high elo that likes to smurf there for still a troll. its not hard to get mastery on 20 champs by simply playing them in any mode other then ranked. and when a new champ comes out maybe its not an issue in high elo because those people are obviously better at the game but in elo hell yummi comes into the game on your team and she dosen't know how to attach or what her r does so she just dosen't lvl it and roams alone all game which is a loss for you all because she tried her for the very first time in ranked. this addition to requirements would not limit anybody's ability to play the game it would just force the community to play norms to troll and learn were in ranked you have a basic knowledge of the game and would eliminate 50% of your losses because every 9 out of 10 games are decided by which team has the least trolls or afk.