Ranked DUO is pointless. Ranking needs restructuring.
Rito is losing tons of players because this season is by far the worst. Its completely imbalanced all around. Too many item like Edge of Night and GA ruin the whole point of having speciality utls and combos. Playing duo is the most tilting experience. You cant expect 5 random players to cooperate without communication. And low elo's is just hell because no one understands the game. There is nothing rewarding about climbing in League and thats the worst thing. You bounce between two ranks because the amount of toxicity is unreal. Remove solo/ duo que, its pointless. There should be norms, blind, 3v3 or 5v5 formed teams only. The reason other platform games are so much more popular with online multiplayer is because of the team aspect that keeps the competition exclusive. Making 5v5 for formed teams means you're actually playing with people who communicate and are at your skill level. Not this 1 or 2 people have to carry 3 other players every other game. THERE IS ZERO improvement to the player for that. Especially being a low elo player with once good MMR. You get placed with higher skilled players but also extremely low ones because the MMR conflicts with the rank.
Playing duo is probably the biggest waste of time there is. Rito does nothing to encourage forming teams for online play or rewarding per elo climb. Its just a terrible platform when you break it down and see it for what it is. Im not surprised so many people are leaving it for HOTS or Overwatch and other Moba's like DOTA II. This season proves minimal skill is required. Annie is still broken, the fact she can flash, utl q and w any champ with two items is complete BS. The scaling dmg is greatly disproportioned on so many champs right now. Thats why you see maybe 15% of all champs being played constantly. There is no emphasis on counter play because champs like annie, jayce, or camille barely have counters right now. Riot needs to rethink its ranking structure because its no fun, at all. Spending 35-40 min per game only to know well in advance its a loss, and lose rank so easily is completely unmotivational. I consider myself a great team player, not a carry, so when the teams are one elo below me or above, that mixture is unfair because one side out of the gate has a 90% chance of winning. You always have all silver or gold and bronze players. THAT is whacked.
Clubs are totally pointless, I dont know why they did that at all. It should have been aimed at ranked teams only. People like LCS etc because of the teamplay, but outside of that, there just isn't a push for it. Rito really needs to make ranked 5v5 a requirement to have a formed team again. They need to reinvent the 3v3 map since its littered with bots, and no one plays it. Overall, the rank system in League is garbage. After playing it for almost 2 years, I have seen enough to know it needs major overhauling because its falling back. Rito got comfortable making its money off the hype of esports, but has neglected the gameplay and server performance completely. This is where companies fail. Their focus goes from players to dollars, and never shifts back until they realize they f*cked up badly. Investing time into a beta client which is horribly demanding on CPU that most people already hate was a sad attempt at pleasing the community while doing nothing about the major issues in the background. Rito makes too much money to roll out fixes so slowly like they do.
