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Ranked system

Nekroz of Exodia·3/25/2015, 4:22:59 PM·1 votes·573 views

I, along with a good number of people I know personally and have met while playing, really enjoy the game and all but find it extremely frustrating trying to climb the ranked ladder. It seems that over and over again, no matter how well I play and how much I contribute, I find myself losing games and falling down the ranks when I should be moving up due to other players that feed or disconnect. While I understand that sometimes people's computers randomly run into issues and crash I don't feel like i should be penalized for the malfunction of a teammates technology. I also know that the current system is based off of MMR and is designed to help people reach their deserved rank by scaling the amounts gained and lost for winning and losing respectively based on how far an individual is from where they belong, but since this MMR is calculated using previous win-loss records which are also influenced by "feeders" and "afk's" it doesn't really help a whole lot as far as deciding in which league an individual belongs. Now I've been trying to brainstorm some way to change the ranked system so that it is accurate instead of just frustrating for us and Riot as I know for a fact it's costing you players, and by extension customers, but have only come up with a few ideas that have flaws of their own such as basing LP on KDA which would be nice but that would cause greed in players as they seek every kill for themselves which would gradually become hostility. If anyone else, especially Rioters I would definitely love to hear your input on the matter, has any good ideas I would love to hear them and I'm sure Riot would as well since everyone involved even in the slightest knows that the current system needs fixing and until it gets fixed the community will not change and Riot will not stop losing clients.

2 Comments

PrinceOfGames3/25/2015, 5:05:56 PM1 votes

Welcome to bronze 5. You just described every single game then the process of achieving bronze 4 only to be dropped back.

Unfortunately, Riot doesn't have the luxury of rewarding individualism. It has to target a MASS audience which is why the current system is made. So if you're 100 wins and 230 losses like mine MVR is actually a punishment rather than a reward. To create a system that rewards individual play style you need to much watch each game personally. I won 6/4 games and got placed into bronze 5. Another player won 6/5 games and got placed into gold 5.

Riot just doesn't watch Bronze 5 matches so they base their system from the top tier players who can climb the rank ladder and in the end off how well tournament players do.

177A Bleecker St3/25/2015, 5:08:42 PM1 votes

The part that sucks the most is for every 3 or 4 games that i get a feeder or an afk, only 1 game do i get to play against one, its a terrible system and doesnt seem to make sence in lower elos. Its a fine system one you get our of silver and even gold but it isnt fair before that.