Something is worrying me about the new ranked system.

Midg3t·Nov 10, 2018·2 votes·1,124 views

As you all know, in season 9 there will be a new ranked system. Right now, Riot is testing 'Role detection' (at the end-game screen you can see which role you're played). Even if you swap lanes with some1 the system can detect that.

Now, the thing that's worrying me is role hijacking. If an autofilled player decides to go on other player's lane (if he gets autofilled on support and goes top), the system should detect he was playing top, and give him LP for that role right? So my question is, do you think players will abuse the system by hijacking other player's roles to make sure they get LP for their main role (the role they hijacked)?

3 Comments

Jennifer420Nov 10, 20181 votes

im not on point with my information, but didnt riot say you gain a rank for every role? so lets say you are an adc main, so you are plat in adc, but sometimes you play top but youre pretty bad so in top you are silver. if that system is still going on, trolls will roam wild. right now if you troll, you still waste your own lp. but in the new system, who cares? as long as you dont troll in your main role youre fine

DerMangoJoghurtNov 10, 20181 votes

The new system has LP splashing. If you win/lose on any role, all other roles will receive/lose a little bit of LP. If you're losing more than expected on certain roles (eg, purposefully trolling) the amount of splashing will increase.

Jennifer420Nov 10, 20181 votes

so... its basically... "you still gain/lose lp normally... but for no reason we split it up" most people can only play 1 lane really good. at best 2. so this is literally to "slow it down".