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Solo queue resets are terribly designed and should be changed.

Ethereal Mist·2/8/2016, 2:52:34 AM·1 votes·885 views

read until the end or don't read at all Seriously riot, I absolutely hate ranked because it tries to judge you overall skill at the game purely by win or loss. Yea, it can even out over a lot of games and yea, I am salty right now because I just went 16/0/3 on jungle nidalee and lost. That doesn't mean the system works at all just because it starts to resemble your skill after 200+ games. After the game I just "lost" our 0/10/4 thresh support had the nerve to say we lost because I "didn't get a single baron or dragon." That meaning that I wouldn't help them in a 2v4 at dragon and they both died and every lane was feeding so every objective had to be conceded to the other team. He was passive aggressive towards everyone on the team constantly throughout the whole game and went in when our team was at a huge disadvantage multiple times. By passive aggressive i mean saying stuff like "I didn't know pinging meant the opposite haha" and a bunch of other bullshit passive aggressive solo queue phrases like that. I'm getting off topic, but I purely play ranked to climb to gold 5 for end of reason rewards and every season I get matched with SO MANY huge ego douche bag players that want to think that the people carrying them are the ones that threw because of some stupid shit, i'm not saying a played near perfectly, but I played pretty damn well and it's still considered a "loss" by riot. I'm tired of going through this every season and if end of season rewards weren't a thing a guarantee you I wouldn't be doing this shit. That leads us to the question, WHY CAN THE SYSTEM NOT PLACE US HIGHER? I have already proved that I can play very consistently well on a gold+ level so why do I have to prove it again and again every season? "Oh, but what if someone was OTPing an OP champion?" Then that's completely riot's fault that they can't balance the game. "Oh, but what if someone got boosted?" Then they can just get boosted against if they really wanted to, also someone riot's fault that they are not doing anything about the openly available boosting services available. You can literally type "lol boost" into any search engine out that and get a ridiculous amount of results that riot refuses to do anything about. They obviously don't care that much about people boosting in the first place. READ THIS: As a final note, I know that a good player will eventually climb to the rank that they deserve, I just think that it shouldn't take nearly as much time as it does just to prove something that you have already proved last season. Something like 1 or maybe 2 divisions below where you were would be A LOT more helpful that climbing back up unlike the typically 4+ divisions it throws you down currently.

17 Comments

LaughingStapler2/8/2016, 2:53:01 AM1 votes

There is no real solo que atm but good rant.

BTW: Being a OTB has nothing to do with a champion being OP.

LaughingStapler2/8/2016, 3:00:47 AM1 votes

Yes, it makes it very different and the new champion select has nothing to do with it. Just because you can que by yourself doesn't make it a solo que ladder. It's all Dynamic Que regardless. If a guy only plays with 4 other friends, he can get the same ranking as you despite being in a totally different environment from a solo que player. That's why people don't respect dynamic que as a measure of individual skill. You don't know how someone got their dynamic que ladder (solo, duo, 2 friends, trio, etc.) so it loses consistency and predictive value.

A pure solo que ladder will be released in the next few weeks. I'd guess March but I hope sooner.

Ap Mid Burst2/8/2016, 3:15:42 AM1 votes

I was placed from silver 2 to silver 5 after winning 8 games and I got to silver 3 with winning like 80% of my games. BTW you only had 3 assits on nidalee, when you should be getting much more assits rather than kills as a jungler.