Thoughts On The Current Ranked System & Some Suggested Changes

The ranked system has been designed so that MMR means more than your Rank. At the end of the day however, your Rank is what players see and how you are rewarded at the end of the season. So let me ask, why does MMR change more frequently than your actual Rank? As long as League has used the current format, instead of the ladder, there have been "mixtures" of players blended in from other ranks in matches. I'm not sure if it's an attempt to save matchmaking time, or if there are simply not enough players (which I highly doubt the latter), but either way it is degrading the integrity of the entire system.

There are a lot of changes that I would really like to see in the Ranked system, including these:

• Show the real MMR of a player on their profile.
• Show what MMR is equivalent to each Tier.
• If a player's MMR falls inside a Tier, they ARE that Tier or Division immediately.
• Players inside a Tier can be only be matched with other players within that Tier (i.e. Iron vs Iron ONLY, Silver vs Silver ONLY, etc).

The current system is meaningless for a variety of reasons. One such reason would be that some players are often matched against players way higher Rank than themselves because the other player's MMR dropped from a few losses. Another reason would be win-streaks. Then starting this season, there's an even worse aftermath where some players are forced to start at the very bottom rank despite having an MMR that's incredibly higher than their current rank.

Essentially if someone affected by the changes this season has to play against players much higher rank than they are, why are they not that rank already? What sense does it make to force someone to climb from their peak MMR, while they are forced down to the bottom of the ladder? When you are at your highest rank you could achieve, that usually means you can't win anymore at that MMR consistently, and now Riot is demoting players and forcing them to climb from said MMR (by making many players start at Iron IV).

Ranked was already a mess without the new Tiers added in, now for many players it's even worse. It would be nice to just overhaul the entire system and work on making it more out in the open, easier to understand, and more representative of what your rank actually should be based on your current MMR.