Ever wonder why it's so hard to climb?

M1NAT0 NAM1KAZ3·2/25/2019, 5:32:30 PM·1 votes·989 views

Ever wonder why it is hard to climb? Ever ask yourself if it's the game or if something else to blame for when you can solo carry your lane but your team feeds? Ever have a game where you fed but your team carried you? Yes to all of these and i think i know why. Riot has a system i am sure is in place and whether intentionally or not i am unaware but lets say for a moment that as you climb in each game, the closer you are to progressing into a higher league the more feeders and tilted people you come across. This has been mine and many other people experience. High Elo, you don't rarely ever experience it because your forced to play by riot any way thus causing them to not have issue with you. Now, imagine Riot forcing everyone to play because everyone is in High Elo. A lot harder to pull off. More accounts more to monitor. Low Elo who rank don't want to be Low Elo. They want to challenge the game and play against better people. They want to lose games or win games not because of PLAYER knowledge or bad players on their team, but rather lose because of the team as a whole just not doing the right things as a team. So, Riot, in my theory makes the teams highly unbalanced when you are in or close to your promos from time to time and gives you glimpses of winning or light in even match ups to keep you thinking that you will eventually climb. And yes you will eventually climb, but, your will only do so if you play the game as long as riot needs you to play to keep them popular and relevant. Play more often and you will climb and notice as well that your teams are less chaotic and more balanced, play less time and you wont climb at all. High Elo, your not included in this because you are forced to play anyway. Because games don't die do to new mechanics and or anything of that nature. Games die when people leave. And Riot has found a way using new rank rewards each and every season to keep people hooked.

8 Comments

Dynikus2/25/2019, 5:36:03 PM5 votes

Reread this, but without the tinfoil hat. Riot doesnt match you with people that are going to feed. They have no idea if someone is going to feed in a game before it happens. Your view on why you arent climbing is unbelievably self centered, like somehow riot matches games purely off of whether they want you specifically to succeed or not, disregarding the other 9 players in the game. Played well, but had a losing bot lane? Guess what, the enemy bot lane played well, but had whatever lane you're in do poorly. So by your own standards, you both deserve to win.

FOR JUSTICE2/25/2019, 5:44:32 PM3 votes

this is false.

i have never advanced passed gold 2 but my instances of promos and regular games doesn't change at all, and technically mine should be comparatively worse then others because im a support nami main (like only about 3 hiccups this season)

riot does match people of an equal skill level, its literally how the MMR system works, and high elo players make it to high elo because they climb through the cess pool just like everyone else, they dont just suddenly start with the skill of a master smurf.

this post in general is in direct contradiction to itself, because it assumes riot only wants to pair specific individuals with "garbage" teams, but for every feeder there is someone fed. so if you have the feeder, someone on the enemy team is fed, but if youre fed, someone on the enemy team is a feeder. by this logic both teams should have won - which of course is impossible.

Saezio2/25/2019, 6:03:28 PM2 votes

I disagree that the system intentionally matches you to lose when on promos or when climbing.

But I do think that some matches are skewed because the matchmaker is not as good as riot pass it to be.

I think the only way for riot to prove that their system is good is to make MMR visible. And I would love to hear some arguments against making it visible. (not emotional arguments like "Because people will flame people for their MMR", actual arguments like "Visible MMR would create abuse cases" or whatever)

Xerath Aim Bot2/25/2019, 6:34:39 PM1 votes

There is no more mmr, or so I thought.

VvVVvV2/25/2019, 7:43:45 PM1 votes

I voted yes to your pole question but as to the post itself I dont agree with. It only seems like that because there are so many people in this game that intentionally trolls, afks, ints, and so on over the smallest thing that you are just bound to cross them sooner or later. Every game you play that you dont run across one the higher the chance you will get one in your next game. Its just going to happen. I usually play at least 6 games a day when i p[lay and it happens in at least 2 of them whether I was winning or losing the games before it happened.

It can be something as simple as 1 failed gank 4 minutes into the game and then your jungler saying "screw top, im not ganking again." That alone can cost you the game if your top starts falling behind or starts to get camped and because your jungler got tilted over 1 mistake (no matter who made it) they now refuse to help that lane and now next thing you know its 10 min into the game and your bot lane has to leave bot to help defend a top outter base turret or inhib. Now you lose a bot turret even if they were winning their lane.

Small stupid stuff can cost you the game.

Also, sometimes you just lose. You're not going to win every game. You can have a troll free, int free, argue free game and just simply lose.