Welcome to the death of Ranked!

00 Great Dane·11/15/2016, 9:30:34 PM·13 votes·992 views

Thanks Riot for going from the best pre-season ranked start where we had a hard reset(of sorts) and players actually had to fight for their positioning on the ranked ladder to back to the same old garbage shit you've been doing for years.

You're ruining the experience for everyone by not hard resetting the rankings at the beginning of the season. Stop catering to the 2% of players who cry like little bitches if they don't get their way. The 98% of us are who pay your bills.

19 Comments

Eedat11/15/2016, 9:50:02 PM9 votes

These people lol. Hard resets are an absolutely god awful idea because it's no longer about fighting for your position. It's an absolute RNG clown fiesta where your team gets a diamond top laner against their bronze top laner and you auto-win without having to do anything.

InfinitexMortal11/15/2016, 10:17:47 PM3 votes

Hard reset = RNG. Whoever gets the most diamonds (or most high tier teamates wins). Thats not competitive until they get weeded out back into their mmr tiers.

Ralanr11/15/2016, 9:32:51 PM2 votes

Just. Don't. Play. Ranked.

Why would you want to with all the crazy shit in the preseason? This is a time for experimentation! Not competition.

DunkinNoobs11/16/2016, 7:12:22 AM2 votes

I refuse to claw though Silver again. It's not fun for anyone involved.

LXII11/16/2016, 11:43:18 AM2 votes

I've been saying this forever. It's not okay that the Challenger players are guaranteed Challenger every season. People will defend it and say the play more, or it wouldn't be fair to have them climb with the rest of us, and it just doesn't matter. I'm in now way guaranteed Gold every season just because I got it before, I have to deal with hours of bs just like everyone else.

Well almost everyone else.

If our Challenger overlords really deserve to be there every season they should at least have to suffer through as much as the rest of us to get there.

Weathered11/15/2016, 9:41:54 PM1 votes

Oh god not this phase of the boards again.

Nameless Voice11/16/2016, 11:05:52 PM1 votes

A hard reset will only exemplify the already-existing problems in League's matchmaking.

Ranking is based solely on win or loss. Generally, it's not the team with the best player who wins, unless they are at a massively higher skill level than their opponents. It's normally the team with the worst player(s) that loses.

We all saw this during the recent ranked mess, such as a game I saw where one team had a Diamond player but lost against a team of Gold/Silvers because s/he had a Bronze/Silver bot lane.

Already, a lot of games are one-sided stomps one way or the other because the skill levels of the various players are so disparate. Forcing a hard ranked reset will just make that even worse. It will make every team filled with 5 random players of completely different skill levels. The one that randomly has 3 Diamonds and two Golds will win against the one that randomly has one Master and four Bronzes. Eventually, each individual player's skill will allow them to rise, given enough games, but the majority of games for a long time will be completely random and also one-sided stomps based on who was assigned to which team. People will take forever to reach their actual skill level because ranking is based solely on win/loss, and the outcome of games will be heavily influenced by randomness.

That's not to say that this doesn't already happen at some level in most tiers of ranked, but a hard reset will just make the problem ten times worse.