Discontent with Season 6's LP ladder
I have been a player of this great game for nearly 3 years now. From being stuck in the infamous "ELO Hell" to critically analyzing my play and grinding into Silver, I have come to realize a multitude of issues with the present seasons ranking system.
Issue #1: In Silver there are much more trolls / unfair pre -made games than in Bronze. This is a fact, I have had way too many losses from freshly placed level 30's going into ranked for the 1st or 2nd time, only to end up going 0/10 and making the game impossible for the half decent players attempting to waste their lives climbing the ladder. Freshly placed players need to not have an option to be placed into mid or upper silver, statistically speaking I don't think at least 80% of them will be that knowledgeable about the game or mechanically evolved enough to survive, and allowing good players to lose LP by placing the baddies with them is simply unfair. We shouldn't be forced to "carry" these games as some have stated. They aren't good, why should my LP suffer from their mistakes?
Issue #2: When you climb into a new tier on the ladder and win one game and lose a game you sit at 0 LP. It takes more often than not a single loss to place you back in the lower division with a mere 75 LP and it takes 3 WINS IN A ROW to get back to the 0 LP you were just at. That's 3 wins for 25 LP. Those three games can be a cumulative time span of anywhere from 1 hour for 3 very quick wins or 3 hours if the games last all the way through. Why should one quick 20 minute loss, cost a player 3 hours potentially of their time? Wouldn't it at least make more sense to put them at like 85 LP so they only need two wins? Or better yet, drop them back into promo's?
I love every single aspect of this game, it's competitiveness, the community (for the most part), and how genuine the RIOT community is. But the ranking system has flaws this season much more than the last two seasons IMHO. As the game continues to grow, how can we as a community and RIOT as the game creators address the growing demands for trolls to be banned/ new players to be demoted more quickly. I am tired of spending days grinding only to lose LP from having a bot lane go 0/14 in the first 15 minutes of the game, its unjust, and makes me want to main Overwatch that much more.
// End Rant
til next time,
WheresJ