RIOT add more restrictions to ranked, it's becoming the #1 reason games are lost.
Trolls, afks, salty kids that failed their math exam etc. use to be the issue around league.
Personally I haven't run into a person who afk's since this preseason started. Sure, you have those moments where someones game crashes or net flips out that's understandable.
I haven't had issues with people intent feeding since then either. Yes, you have those salty players who talk shit all game about everyone when they're doing the worst in the game. They usually just talk shit but still try to win.
Right now the BIGGEST issue i'm having in nearly EVERY game is someone buying a champ and jumping straight into ranked with them and wondering why they aren't 10/0 like that one streamer.
We NEED to have a minimum number of games played in normals to use a champ. We need to own MORE champs to enter ranked. We need a certain amount of days owning a champ to use them.
I'm tired of blue ezreals on my team building tear into manamune and thinking "oh I got this one item everyone else gets so I can kill anybody' then dies because they E'd into the enemy team just to land a Q
I'm tired of udyrs on my team trying to 1v1 a tower and expect to get out of any conflict because Trick2G did it
I'm tired of fucking xin zhao's on the enemy team ganking every lane 24/7 then the ones on my team farming non stop for sated + rageblade and being 0/0/0 trying to 1v5 the enemy team that's 10 kills up on us.
Low elo (bronze-silver) makes up the majority of the game and that's where most of the stupid people try to find an easy way out. Quite frankly I don't mind the ranking latter and wouldn't care if the free win for promos got taken away, but what NEEDS to happen is making ranked harder to get INTO.
Too many new/unexperienced players trying to find "freelo" and it's costing way too many games. Not only that but the ranked reset is making all the egotistical higher elo (Gold+) come into silver and think "I was gold+ last season so i'm the best person in this game and nobody can tell me otherwise" They refuse to listen to anything anybody says assume they're doing great when they aren't and won't help out anybody because they expect to single handedly carry a team game.
We NEED harsher ranked requirements. It's getting annoying at this point.