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ADD 2 LOWER TIERS BELOW BRONZE

AllTheLove·8/3/2015, 7:14:04 AM·2 votes·907 views

Ranked play is a hell for a majority of players in Bronze to Low Gold. The Victory or Defeat of a game is decided based on which team has an AFK, or a 0/11 player. It is not based on personal skill. Do you wonder why they call this game the "League of Assholes?" (If you haven't seen this, youtube "league of assholes movie trailer" it's great). Well my friends, the answer lies in the fact that this is a TEAM BASED performance game, and that in the lower levels, your "team" is going to drag you down, and there's nothing you can do about it. When this happens, a player who is trying to take this game seriously, will be angry. You ALL have experienced this. No other game makes you this angry, because your INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE gives you your points in other games. The assignment of LP in League of Legends is broken, and it's because of this flaw that so many players hate this what could be enjoyable and friendly game.

Since we are dealing with a broken system that Rito will never change, a minor solution could be instead of adding new master tiers, add lower tiers below bronze, to make it easier for players who have over 300 games stuck in ELO hell to move out of the lower ranks with the trolls. Maybe something like Stone and Wood?

And before players say that the system works on this post, I have played this game for 6 years, have climbed out and in to gold from below many times, I understand how it works, and me and dozens of my friends still believe this system is messed.

6 Comments

Lord Dusteon8/3/2015, 7:28:24 AM5 votes

...That doesn't solve a single thing. You get matched with people of similar MMR; your rank is an indication of how many games you have played and your MMR. A Bronze I person could theoretically have Gold or Platinum tier MMR, meaning despite being Bronze 1 they will still be matched mainly with and again Gold/Platinums. Adding lower tiers does not alleviate any problems; it merely adds an extra "lol you are in (insert lower rank here) you are subhuman scum".

67chrome8/3/2015, 8:02:41 AM2 votes

More tiers wouldn't realistically change anything. Matchmaking is still based off MMR, and if you play at hours where matchmaking has to value time over accuracy, you're going to get a bigger mismatch. With Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, and Challanger: I feel like there's plenty of tiers as-is as well.

Maybe something like Stone and Wood?

Most of the current tiers are specific types of metal, which makes breaking from that kind of unfitting. Also - wood and stone are categories of materials like metal, not specific materials like Bronze or Gold. There are some pretty snazzy types of wood out there, and some pretty swanky types of stone.

What you're looking for is probably Lead and Iron.

Lead because it's literally toxic and too heavy to carry. Like Copper, Silver, and Gold: it's been known about since antiquity.

Iron because it's a very common metal used for a wide range of things, malleable and strong - a good place to start without seeming offensive, overly strong, overly useless, and it makes Bronze seem like a reward for the bronze, silver, gold medal theme.

Dusty Rodgers8/3/2015, 8:23:44 AM2 votes

merge bronze and silver, same amount of skill and toxicity level

AllTheLove8/3/2015, 7:45:53 AM1 votes

bump

AllTheLove8/3/2015, 7:47:52 AM1 votes

until individual LP assignment begins this will remain a huge problem