Why I personally don't want to climb in ranked.
This post is not to belittle anyone else. I think people who climb ranked ladders in video games have serious dedication to their goals. **TL;DR: In the short term ranked sucks because your LP/MMR is decided off of which team gets most detrimental players, but in the long term your LP/MMR starts to be decided based off your skill. Problem is: I don't want to play tons of games to get the LP/MMR I deserve. **
This is why I don't want to climb ranked ladders in online games. It's because in the short term it's a lottery.
Games are won and lost by -trolls -int feeders -smurfs -poorly matchmade players -1st time players -afks -ragers -flamers -etc.
These kinds of things ruin games, completely skewing which team wins. Winning a 4v5 is insanely hard. Winning with a first time ADC is insanely hard. Winning with an int feeder is nearly impossible. The important part is that both teams get them. Both teams get afks, trolls, int feeders, and everything else I listed.
So whats the problem? The problem is that I don't want to wait for both teams to get them. It's hard for me to explain, so let me just make up an example.
I want to sit down and play 5 games of ranked. Game 1: AFK-Loss Game 2: Rager-Loss Game 3: Win Game 4: Enemy rager-Win Game 5: Loss
I end up with a 40% winrate, even though 2 of those lost games were mostly out of my control. Now I could play 10 more games and continue to play as best as I could. Maybe in those 10 games the amount of detrimental teammates I have and the amount of detrimental teammates the enemy has will balance out, and the 15 total games will be an even measurement of my skill. But I didn't want to play 15 games. I only wanted to play 5. I don't want to sink large amounts of time into something that feels completely out of my control on the scope of 5 games.
You can circumvent this issue by being incredibly good at a video game. If you are a diamond player smurfing in bronze then you will be good enough to win games even with AFKs, even with ragers, and even with trolls, but if you are massively above your elo in skill (E.G. gold skill level playing in high silver), then it will be very hard for you to win games with detrimental teammates.
Basically, I don't want to sink 500 games just to have the number of detrimental teammates I have/the enemy team has to even out so my skill can truly be tested. A short term lottery, long term skill based game just doesn't appeal to me.
