Ranked experience and what I hope to see in S6

Ternt··1 votes·451 views

This isn't meant to be a whine thread, or a rant, I just feel like the ranked experience has become abysmal recently.

I don't know about anybody else, but I think ranked has become the worst part of the game. This is my first real season and I am currently in Silver (been bouncing between 4 and 2). I hit 30 and started playing ranked last season after rewards were given out, so I had a pretty normal experience. At the beginning of the season, I was in Bronze and struggled for awhile until I found some champions I was pretty good on and spammed them into Silver. As the season is coming to a close, ranked games have become the worst experience for me. I can play normals all day and get very solid, competent teammates, but the second I queue up in ranked, I get people who are borderline mental. I feel like at this point in the season, nobody gives a shit about climbing anymore since they are stuck where they are, so they decide to make sure nobody else they queue up with gets to climb either. In 8 months, I've dodged about 3-4 games, in the past 2 weeks, I've dodged about 15 due to intentional troll picks, locking positions already filled and saying something along the lines of "fuck you I said I was top" even though he was last pick, and afkers. I had two ranked matches in a row last night where the jungler died, raged at the mid laner, then left at 8 minutes and the match directly after our first pick Orianna didn't even buy starting items. Honestly, I cant justify being stuck in a game for 45 minutes with a troll duo who refuse to let the 30 v 2 game to be ff. The toxicity in the community is based around the fact that you get "First time Azir"'s who happen to get a position ahead of you, even though you play Azir really well and can carry easily, they don't care. It annoys them that somebody just decided to try something they already do extremely well, and during your series or just ranked in general.

I hope Season 6 brings team builder ranked, so a lot of these issues can be solved. I understand there will be feeders from time to time, and people have off games, but when it happens so often you can't help but think its intentional. I'm also hoping they implement some sort of system that will allow you to vote out of a ranked queue, or block from playing with people ever again, or a low priority queue for people who were banned/toxic/trolls, or more bans, etc. etc. There's been hundreds of good suggestions I've seen this season on the forums and Reddit that would drastically make the experience of ranking up less stressful.

Is anybody else having this sort of experience in ranked?

2 Comments

Iceember1 votes

I think I remember somewhere reading riot was considering team builder for solo/duo que.

DankyyDank1 votes

My sentiments exactly.

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