Your one wish for Season 9?
That Ranked queues get drastically changed to be more like Team Builder, except...
You craft your best team.
Top: Tank Jungle: Marksman Mid: Juggernaut Bot: Bruiser Support: Mage
and if someone else's teamcomp matches yours, they get matched for queue with you. If another players teamcomp matches, they match with the both of you. We have 3 now. Two other players have a slightly varying teamcomp, maybe a Mid: Mage and a Support: Juggernaut, they match with you and you have a team of 5. The queue is half built.
Okay, that may be a bit of a stretch and wildly skew the matchmaking. The point I'm trying to make is that Ranked is often dictated by the team comp. Sad as it is, the 1-trick pony ride that goes on it NA hurts strategy. It's an awful experience loading up Ranked and getting matched with teammates who all are trying to carry with some highly difficult champion and nobody gives a shit about team synergy or macro. They seem to always be picking champions to try and outplay their opposing laner, which puts them and the team at a huge disadvantage if the knife's edge they're on goes in favor of the enemy. The jungler then has to make a choice to help that lane or let it die and hope they are smart enough to stop the bleeding from that knife edge that cut them. It causes the enemy jungler to use that lane as a point of power and freely gives better access to the river and neutral objectives. Okay, but we outscale. Well, pal, that is true but we need to get to 55 minutes when everyone is full build and all that's left is your base stats + ability scaling that puts you at a slight advantage if you can still outplay anything when now the entire team is on that knife's edge where the next fight determines the winner.
Shit, that was a long ass blurb, but I hope this helps illustrate in your mind the disadvantage you put your teammates at when you simply don't pick for the team and pick for yourself, your lane or 1-trick in Ranked.
What's yours?
