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NagaN·10/21/2015, 10:43:23 PM·1 votes·457 views

Can anyone please explain to me why there are so many very good, very experienced players in bronze? Smurfs included. I play a lot and know that I am a good player, I have thousands and thousands of ranked games played since season 1 and am basically addicted to the competitive nature of this game, and enjoy it very much, but I feel like I am perpetually being trashed because of this low rank, and can rarely enjoy a game... win or loss. I have advanced strategies I try in games that I know would work, but meta minded player with their brains locked on that meta begin to flame and call me a troll, when every single game I ever play I play to win. Further more I have extreme disagreement with the surrender system, there should be an option to remove the surrender pop-up...it has killed me many times in crucial game situations, I will never surrender a ranked game ever so the pop up is a complete annoyance and I want it gone. Mostly I would like to see ranked matches be more fair at the lower(bronze/silver) levels, by giving players that maintain high Champion rankings S+,S,S- etc better gains for ranked wins and smaller losses when you lose, so as to promote truly good players out of the lower ranks. In my opinion, there are many bronze players that actually play better, have better experience and strategies that are in fact better than Gold players, I concluded this from playing ranked team games last season and although across the board this is not true there are some anomalies. Last little question: Why are the bronze matches so often extreme, extreme mismatches, can't the algorithms place similar skilled player together as to create a more enjoyable and balanced/fairer game?

NagaN ~ 3425 wins - 3641 losses Ranked since season 1 Write Your Thoughts

18 Comments

Brockinroll10/21/2015, 10:45:58 PM5 votes

You've lost more than you've won, simple. That means something is wrong. Try to further improve our gameplay and you'll see results

Eedat10/21/2015, 11:04:00 PM2 votes

You have liteally 7000+ games played across the seasons and still bronze 5..... jesus christ man..... you are either the most successful troll of all time or completely incapable of learning from mistakes

TheStevenWu10/21/2015, 10:51:25 PM1 votes

Because Bronze players are actually not good (you included). My friend carried himself out of bronze as a support. He's now in gold because his support is actually gold level. If you're stuck in Bronze after over 7k games, that is where you skill level is it - period.

The reason for the extreme mismatch is because one decent player in a bronze game will completely tip the scale. For the most part, bronze players have no idea what to do. They can't farm, they can't position, and they can't engage. When you have 10 players like this congregated, it becomes utter chaos. The one player who can find order would completely dominate this game, and thus make it look one-sided.