New Ranked Structure (@RIOT NEW001 A.K.A JOE)

I just want to start by saying that i understand why riot is trying to update the way ranked matches are played and i think that's a very good thing.

I think there are some good things that they are going to implement.

But for the love of all that is good in this world if you go live with some of the things suggested in this video you will be putting the nail in the coffin for league of legends.

What follows is a Genuine attempt by a player who has been with league since season 1 and has played from bronze 5 though challenger level to Give feedback on what is being proposed for the new season.

The Good:

**1. **Reducing the Amount of gold Enemies can get by killing a player on your team that is just dying over and over and over and over and over and over.......over...over huehue.

2. Reducing the Amount of gold For shutdowns. This is a good thing to implement in my opinion for several reasons. This coupled with #1 above leads to several very annoying mechanics that have nothing to do with individual skill or team cooperation. Many games One player will get extremely fed off of killing one enemy opponent. Then Everyone will tunnel on killing this fed player for the shutdown gold. Then that fed player will rack up more kills usually by killing the same player they have been all game. Then the whole cycle repeats. This just leads to everyone running around trying to collect bounty gold In a free for all team death match style rather then actually playing the game objective based as a team.

3. Adding 2 more divisions This is an amazing idea that has been needed for some time. The skill level especially in bronze is crazy different. Most games its not hard to get 15+ kills but its hard to carry when you have someone feed 30 kills to the enemy team or just rage quit. Having more tiers would help this significantly. Along with this, The client should detect players who have extremely long load times as well as excessive connectivity issues and place them in these new lower tiers as they are not playing on a computer with the recommended specs averaging 10-20 FPS or are playing on mobile data connections averaging 350-600 ping.

4. Placements Good idea and i think this will go a long way to Improve overall player mentality toward ranked. Alot of people play their placements and then just give up. This gives people a mindset of how much more they can improve just in placements and beyond.

Additionally I believe a hard Reset for MMR needs to be done for anyone below Masters. Otherwise this is going to have less impact.

The Pointless:

1. Reducing amount of tiers While i think overall this is not a bad idea i just dont feel like it is that big of a deal. The same thing could be done by increasing the amount of LP that is earned every game and by doing it that way you would also improve player psychology for winning.

2. Three Splits in ranked I dont really see any benefit to this Except maybe on player psychology and keeping players more engaged throughout the entire season. Ill reserve judgment tell i see it implemented.

The Mentally Deranged:

Position dependent ranked

First of all i want to say i understand the concept of why riot wants to do this. On the surface it seems like a great idea. Encouraging players to try new roles without penalty. But there are alot of underlying factors that are going to make this one change totally ruin ranked games.

**A: ** Smurfing, Trolling and Unbalanced games You no longer need a second account to smurf. You can now queue for a role you do not care about and dodge games to get yourself demoted. ( done very often to tank mmr)

What you have now is a diamond mid laner playing ap supports in silver. when they get frustrated with losing at their 
skill level. (seems like an amazing idea right?)

Your edging on the "DANGER ZONE" of totally destroying balance of games. ( Diamond players have 
way better mechanics computers and internet connections then say silver players. REGARDLESS OF ROLE Being 
played)

**B: ** Role selection in Queue and Tier progression speed The current queue system absolutely has to be changed for this to work. why? Above you talk about removing tiers to speed up progression though ranked tiers while at the same time you are dividing all LP gains to individual roles. This means you queue for 2 roles and all your LP gain is now split across those 2 roles instead of 1 rank. Making it 2x as slow to rank up. This doesn't even go into the fact that getting Auto filled would essentially be a total waste of your time and will lead to people just trolling when they get auto filled.

**C: **There will no longer be true ranks or divisions You would have to Do as follows which seems absurd and silly:

challenger adc challenger top challenger mid Challenger jungler challenger support

Master adc Master top Master mid Master jungler Master support

Diamond adc 1 2 3 4 Diamond top 1 2 3 4 Diamond mid 1 2 3 4 Diamond jungler 1 2 3 4 Diamond support 1 2 3 4 and 6 more divisions 4 tiers worth down. Overall seems very pointless to do something like this.

**D: **Fill mains will now be hard stuck at lower MMRs through no fault of their own.

**E: **There is no way to stop your silver 1 support who is a diamond 5 mid laner from switching roles and lanes with the silver 1 mid laner in select or once the game starts. As stated above this will destroy the balance of the game.

Overall i think there are some very good things that you are planning and some very bad things. Or at least we need an explanation of how your going to solve some of these extremely difficult and severely negative aspects to ranked that your'e considering implementing.

A long time player that loves the game and cares

Sincerely,

YOU SO BAD

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