Please Make Changes to the Ranked System for Easier Rank Ups in Lower ELOs

Matthew100x·4/22/2015, 2:34:27 AM·2 votes·530 views

I've had alot of thought on this and have posted a few radical ideas on implementing stricter punishments along with changes to the matchmaking system. I've played my final match of the night tonight and decided to do ranked knowing that this game would likely decide if i remained in bronze 4 or not. We lost. I was demoted from b4 to b5, after 100+ games in bronze 5 with 3 promos to break out of it i got to b4 only to go back down. Is it fair to me, my answer would be a no. My skill level is nowhere near B5, and i usually do consistently well in my matches unless a feed occurs, i'm counter picked, or the guy is just genuinely better then me which i find more often then not.

The truth is that your skill level is only a part of the process of getting out of ELO hell unless you're a plat level player or higher. Luck has more to do with getting out of bronze then anything else, which is almost always the case in SoloQue which i almost always do. It does not matter how well you beat your lane, it does not matter how fed you are. What matters is that your team is feeding terribly and your being focused and singled out because you're doing so well. Then you lose, because your team, whether it be a troll, feeder, or bad player, fed the enemy team kills and put them ahead.

Back to my most recent game, i was focused out early, was having troubles playing yas, and lost a few kills to the mid lane. I was going 1/5 by the time i was able to turn it around. I quickly ganked bot and got a triple kill along with several other kills. One attack on base by the enemy team and one wombo combo later i had another triple kill and was going 11/7 and no longer feeding. Why? Because i focused people who were away from team and who were low. I had good cs and i was able to equal myself to the enemy team because the bot lane supp was feeding and the jungler was near entirely useless until the end of the game. But that didn't matter, one bad engage because i went in first instead of any of the tanks got me singled out and killed and the entire team folded. Game over, i go back to bronze 5.

The funniest thing was that only me and the lucian didn't feed that game. The support, top laner, and jungler all were negative with the support and top laner having larger amounts of deaths. I ended my game with 14/9/4 with 248 cs at 37:00 minutes which isn't terrible. I had the most kills and unfortunately failed to live up to the goal to carry and died. To be fair i should've recognized that at the point now that i had gotten two triple kills that i was going to be a target, but i didn't.

I will keep begging this, please make some changes to lower ELOs to make it easier for us. This system, the way its designed, will always have some people trapped at the bottom.

I will list the changes that i have on my mind that can significantly help people escape ELO hell.

  1. Implement harsher punishments at bronze 5 by implementing ranked restrictions more often: This just needs to be done to filter out the truly terrible and give a chance to those who are stuck at the bottom of the barrel.
  2. LP reworks to give extremely minor gains of LP even if the team lost: What i mean is if you do good in a game, among the best on your team, then instead of losing a obscene amount of LP, gain or lose relatively small amounts. This way people who play objectively or did better then their team could still potentially climb the ladder even though they lost. An example of this would be me getting two triples in one game along with destroying a tower, the game will read and record this information. If the game is recording it, then it could be used toward an algorithm to help prevent extreme loss of lp and reward small amounts of lp to those who did well.
  3. When a player moves up a division, start them at 50 LP instead of 0: Aw man i can't even tell you how much of a pain this was. As soon as i entered bronze 4, i had 24/7 bad teams. When i played ranked, when i played normals, when i played dominion. It was just bad and i really did struggle, i couldn't make it to 20 lp in bronze 4, i went back and forth between 0 lp and the teens. If i had 50 LP to start with, it wouldn't be such a worry that stresses me during games that i absolutely needed to win or i'd have to redo my promos again.

My suggestions are open to feedback and criticism and i will stick by them. This is an issue that should be addressed by the LOL and Riot community. People are genuinely trapped in bronze not because they suck or that there toxic, which i am at times due to my times, but because they're teams lock them in bronze with eternal losses.

You are one of 5 gears, you can only do so much to make sure the other gears are turning, but if one or two ain't turning right, then you've got a lost game.

3 Comments

Melee Form4/22/2015, 8:20:45 AM2 votes

Make it to bronze 1 and you'll definitely notice a difference in skill (enough that you'll never go down to bronze 5 again).

I'm sorry but EVERYONE who plays ranked for the first time thinks they belong in gold until reality hits them in the face. If you placed a silver into bronze 5 they would have the enemy team screaming "OMG why did you feed guys, now he's 20/1/10." Same thing would happen if you put a Gold 1 into silver. All the silvers would bend over and take it.

hh the thinker4/22/2015, 3:13:41 AM1 votes

all you need to climb is be better than the other team. it sounds like you are about at the skill level of your teammates and the other team. I've both played in bronze and climbed out fast and seen people play to know that it's a lot easier to win at that rank than higher up. it's not luck, it's your overall skill. the only people who think it's mostly luck are the actual people who are where they should be and they blame others because it's easier.

it's a lot easier to win at bronze 5/4 than any other rank. if you are losing down there, you need to improve because you are likely to lose higher up more often.

ZeeDrakon4/22/2015, 4:36:05 AM1 votes

It is not luck lol..if you cant get out of bronze, you suck. And you should accept that to get better.