I hate ranked
I've been trying for two years to get to Gold just so I can get some skins. I'm a completionist kind of person and it irks me when there's something sitting right in my grasp but I can't quite reach it.
I have had so many troll games.
So many people who just leave.
People who refuse to cooperate.
Sure, they might get banned (eventually), but where's our recompense? What do we players get as compensation? Do we get LP back for their misdeeds? Do we get anything back? I've always been courteous in champion select, I almost always ask everyone what roles they prefer (and even if I don't I'm flexible).
When I ask people for advice I ask "How do YOU get out of gold?" and they say "Carry games."
That's it? Just... carry games? I thought this game was made for teamwork? The advice I get (and I'm not kidding here) is:
"Don't care what other players want--don't care about pick order. Just pick a carry and win the game by yourself."
And that is exactly what most of the people I know who are Gold and higher said they did. This game does not reward me for being courteous, it does not reward me for my teamwork. It isn't beneficial for me to pick support when it's my best role. I've been trying for two years to get to Gold. I can't remember how many times I've been Silver 1 and have received demotion after demotion. For weeks I have been forsaking time I would use for relaxing with just trying to get to Gold--playing a game that should be fun.
But it's not fun with this stupid ranking system they have. If a player leaves--too bad for you--them's the breaks. And you don't get any compensation of any kind.
Something that I find ironic, is that when asked about those 'rewards' for people who spend RP, Riot finally said they "Didn't want players who didn't spend RP to feel left out" Well you know what? I feel pretty damn left out right now, because I'm trying my hardest and it doesn't matter.
In my second to last game, I asked everyone in champ select: What roles do you all prefer? I was second pick, so if I wanted to be 'that guy' I could have picked a role I was better at. No response (save for the guy above me who already got mid and just re-iterated that he got mid). So I pick Maokai jungle because I was trying to pick one of the lesser wanted roles in this game so that others could get what they probably preferred (let's face it, top, adc and mid are probably the most wanted roles in this game--just boot up Teambuilder if you have doubts about that). A few moments later, a player says that he doesn't want to go top, which I reply by saying "You could have said that before I locked in jungle" so he says he is going to go Malzahar top. He proceeds to do terribly, he doesn't leash, which costs me a ton of my hit points and causes my low HP gank at bot lane to go sour and give the enemy a triple kill, and this player proceeds to blame everything on me. So I finally snapped and started swearing at him after continued insults from this guy, which is something I don't really do for the most part--I hate confrontation (yes, even on the Internet).
I'm just so tired of this. I was Silver 1 a week ago, and I had two troll games nearly side-by-side, one of which was a Corki player who said that he "Didn't like" the fact that we had a Nasus top because he wanted to go tank (which he never said until only after Nasus locked in and blames Nasus' player for it). So what did Corki do? He bought a Doran's Blade, a health potion, brought Revive and Teleport, and proceeded to kill himself in our jungle on monsters, and feed Fiora top intentionally. I've been Silver 1 so many times and I can't get out of Gold. Right now I'm Silver 2 with 36 LP.
There's literally no hope for me to get to Gold. I'll keep trying but my chances are so slim they might as well not be there at this point. Here's my match history if you want to see how I was on a mainly winning streak originally, which has since plummeted to several losses.
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1620465314/44159037
I'm sorry for this long rant, if anyone has stayed this long to read all of this, I've just been having horrible experiences with League lately. And after sinking so much time and money in this game I find it difficult to want to quit. Hearing about the removal of rewards for RP spenders but keeping these stupid Gold requirement skins in the game was one of the nails in the coffin for this game, and I really am losing incentive to playing it when the Season Rewards are announced.
