I want to tear my hair out thanks to ranked. [Long and salt-laden! You've been warned.]
and I'm a furry. I have a lot of fucking hair, I'd imagine. Prepare your butthole, and open it wide, ready for some salt because I'm saltier than the Dead fucking Sea m8 and you better hear/see me rant.
From dodges every three times you click "Accept" to trolls to fucking promos which require you to win TWO to THREE games of THREE or FIVE, it's a pain in the ass getting where I feel I actually belong to be. As much as people may say I belong with the 0/8 Camille or the 0/4/6 Soraka with 6 wards placed by 30 in, no I don't, sorry.
One: AUTOFILL. Autofill. A system designed to make play better and more enjoyable by reducing the "overly-long" queue-times, because five minutes for a match is five minutes too many so they need to put the one-trick ADC in the Support slot and the one-trick Support in the ADC slot.
Riot, here's an idea: just remove it. Just press the ␡ button when hovering over the code that the autofill system is made up of. It actually increases queue times on average, from what I've noticed. I mean, think of it; An average lobby is around 2-5 minutes. The current queue time is 2-3 minutes. Let that sink in.
Two: LEAGUES. So! A visual representation of someones' rank so people can use it as a strawman to invalidate any argument you toss their way? Lets spice it up a bit by making it simpler and fancier than just a number, shall we? Three games, two of which you have to win, to be promoted to the next "League" in, five and three respectively for the "Division!"
Promote and demote us based on MMR, please. The current League/Division system is a great way to make something overly-complex, overly-fancy and fuck it up while doing so, because on top of having gates upon gates upon gates, it's pretty damn bad at actually keeping you in the division you deserve.
Three: PROMOS! A pointless gateway thought up by numerous monkeys "spunking on a keyboard before viciously fucking eachother." A gateway to progress that also assists regress back. It's made worse by how the top of the ladder, the BEST of the BEST that play, is shifted downwards per season...
It's easy to fail your promos or to get demoted in rank. It's not easy to get promoted back up through the ranks, since you gotta' win two or three games in a row. Against people of your actual fucking MMR?! WHAT'S THE MOTHER**ING POINT THEN?! No. Fuck. You. Who thought this was a good idea?
Four: First-timing a champion in ranked. "Oh don't worry guys, Camille is OP."
2/29/1. No more needs to be said. A minimum number of games to be played with a champion is mandatory, even if it's minor like one or two, to prevent really stupid **** like this, and it'd also increase morale because you'd know for a fact the person you're playing with actually has experience with their champion.
Five: Trolling in ranked. Avg. of 0/12 Yasuo Main: "Omg u banned Yasuo Im inting" Avg. of 0/12 Yasuo Main: Autolocks Kalista as the support and buys eight SS. Me: Would dodge but has done so thrice already to this same thing.
Treat reports of trolling and griefing more seriously, please.
Six: No-one wards. It's like Teemo's blind is global, sometimes, and it gets worse when you have a team who had placed a grand total of... 16 wards. 16. I place 40 a game on average, for a 30-minute match. Even if I was able to ward ENDLESSLY without charges that need refilling at the shop, I'd not be able to catch that 8/1 Xin heading your way every time.
...just... just please... please, oh fucking please give everyone a mini-quest reminding them to buy and use their stupid fucking dinky and default trinket? Give them like 75g if they place a ward in a bush or key location, please? SOMETHING? Anything?! AAAAH... ;w;
[Final] Seven: The mindset behind ranked. Did you know League is a game you're meant to enjoy? Did you know ranked play is a means to get to a place where you fight people equal? Did you know that, even if you do get to where you actually are in terms of rank, you will fight better and worse people on a consistent basis?
This is the biggest problem with ranked; It isn't a measure of your skill more as a measure of your luck with other fucking people because, after all, this is a team game and unless you're exponentially better than the opposition, you're going to need that 0/19 Jax to win.
...but that's the thing, isn't it? The people high up in rank, who don't need to worry about stupid bullshit like this, will always act like it's a stupidly pedantic complaint that stems from "being bad" even when that's only partly true, in the same way it's "partly true" that the world is flat: IT'S FUCKING PERCEPTION, and it's wrong.
You, people, the ones who say "Oh git gud" in Dark Souls trite, in response to someone who questions how it's even feasible to climb unless you're willing to spend an upwards of 1k+ games trying, are the ones under this effect you so laud over other people.
Because like it or not, unless you're exponentially better than the people you're fighting, you will still have a hard time fighting them. Because it's just like those games where it's obvious you've lost, and you actually do lose because you're outclassed. Not going 0-32, but going 20-32. You know you don't deserve the L, but maybe the 4/15 Lulu Top does. And you know it isn't fucking right, and you tell yourself it is to give undeserved credit. Stop. Just stop. Maybe think. ...and happy Easter to you all.
