Ranked games and lower Ranks

NagaN·Oct 21, 2015·1 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

BrockinrollOct 21, 20155 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

NagaNOct 21, 20151 votes

I play miraculously, the losses are from so many unbelievable factors its ridiculous, from trolls, to afkers, to riot server lag to meta locked players, immature kids, disgruntled players, inexperienced players on my team constantly, placement vs uber pro opponents I like to call Chess Master's while I get complete noobs oon my team with no skill or strategy. The reason's go on and on, but generally I play very well and often get 'S' rankings and feel my win/loss record is disproportionate to my play level.

BrockinrollOct 21, 20151 votes

Yeah those ratings, ignore them for now. Work on getting your kda, and getting at least 100farm by 15mins. its a benchmarker to that you can shoot for. By trying to get your kda you'll think about not dying more and maybe not get caught out as much

EedatOct 21, 20152 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

NagaNOct 21, 20151 votes

I think there is a flaw in the rank system. swear to god. I play like a champ.

EedatOct 21, 20152 votes

confirmed troll

fééd l0rdOct 21, 20151 votes

yes.. confirmed troll.

just by looking at your matchhistory i can tell you that you deserve to be bronze, sorry pal. your kda's arent great, your cs are sometimes way too low even your itembuilds and summs are sometimes kinda meh. you are losing a lot of games and you cant tell me you are losing all of them because of certain things you cant controll.

NagaNOct 21, 20151 votes

kda's get destroyed when my team is always garbage

fééd l0rdOct 22, 20151 votes

okay maybe your kda's are good but then they are getting destroyed, whats with your creepscores, your itembuilds and sometimes your summs? i didnt look at your runes and masteries, you have more runepages than i have on all my accounts XD. okay and i have another complaint. why are you not buying more wards ?

EedatOct 21, 20152 votes

Oh? You want to talk about my ranked stats eh? So tell me how a 4+ KDA on my top 2 champions that account for 85% of may games is bad?

fééd l0rdOct 21, 20151 votes

i am not talking to you, why should i... i didnt even look at your stats. i just agreed with you that the OP is a confirmed troll.

NagaNOct 21, 20151 votes

thanks, but by you saying this in fact you are the flaming troll.

EedatOct 22, 20151 votes

Nope, pretty sure the guy saying "my team is trash it's always their fault" is the confirmed troll

NagaNOct 22, 20151 votes

I am saying the rank queue's are not placing correctly, I don't always think its the players fault.

TheStevenWuOct 21, 20151 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.

NagaNOct 21, 20151 votes

I disagree, I dominate so many games its unbelievable, then like clockwork, the enemy team figures it out focus's on me, while my team does not figure it out throws the game and my frustration further escalates. My brother is Gold and I regularly outplay him, as well as other friends. I disagree with your assessment of my skill level. I am posting simply because I see a common trend, of over skilled players in lower Ranks, and I feel I am in this category, if there was a way to prove it I would love the opportunity. Maybe Rocky Balboa matches for higher LP gains or something I don't know but the grind is beginning to wear on me cause like I said I always play extremely well and hard, but don't get the participation I expect like you mention about the utter chaos. In the process I become the fail try-hard, again ultra frustrating cause 1 man cannot kill a team.

Mecha MaIphiteOct 21, 20151 votes

ive seen silvers beat diamonds in even matchups (in lane)

beating gold isn't a big achievement

NagaNOct 23, 20151 votes

last season I was gifted a Diamond team, we played multiple ranked games on this team, of course losing them all cause the opponents were all diamond also, but a point of note was I won as adc for the majority of the games, we just lost the overall game cause I was queue with 4 other bronzes. I was Silver at the time. I am not saying I am diamond or platinum, but I know I can outplay most silvers and golds. I wish I could have an opportunity to start at the top, and if I actually degrade my rank then that is my rank, but as it stands Bronze is Hell and it is epic'ly hard to get out of. Steady progress would be nice, I am not in a rush, but when more than 50% of my games are trolled/afk/leavered/noobed all my excellent play I hucked out the window, and rage /frustration emerges.