How to fix the ranked system (which is currently a sad joke)

Lèse Majesté··3 votes·3,155 views

I have been playing the game for about 4 years quite regularly, I am in plat 2 now and I see that there is literally no difference to when I was in silver and tried to get out of the 'elo hell'.

I get trolls just as often (+/- every second game, also every single match has at least 1 person that is visibly worse than the rest but we sometimes manage to carry), inting people are never penalised and everyone thinks they are the best. Same in bronze, silver, gold and plat.

What is the solution? Prioritise penalising people who get seriously bad scores. Give ranked cooldowns like CSGO does. If you get undisputably garbage kda, you get ranked cooldown for 30 min, 60 min, day, week etc. FORCE people into tryharding or keep them out of rankeds. This way higher leagues might actually mean something since rankeds will test skill and not be a lottery of who gets more feeders in teams.

Why is Riot so focused on penalising for flaming? I get it, it makes the game experience worse, but you can mute a flamer. What you can't do it kick a garbage player. You are stuck with this utter idiot who somehow made it into high plat for 40 minutes of your life and you can do NOTHING about it. And he won't get any penalty. But you will if u say he is bad...

3 Comments

iKindaDominate3 votes

Currently climbing through elo hell myself by jungling. Went from bronze to Silver 1 in a week and I'd been higher if it weren't for afk's post 4 minute mark, or extreme feeders with flaming. I lost 10 games in a row where I did pretty decently, carried the winning lanes and tried to help out the losing lane as best I could. Instead of just staying under turret and farming as best they could to slow down the guy, they push up stupid far, get ganked or killed by the jungler/laner and then blame me because I wasn't there to hold their hand. Then they either quit, troll, or continue to feed until the laner is damn near unkillable without dedicating 2 or 3 players to him/her. It's very demoralizing to have to try and come back from that. In higher elo's, people tend to have a better understanding of their champions, but I have literally had Garen supports and Lee Sin Supports in a couple games. Like... what? This game is getting to the point where I don't want to play anymore. MMR is a joke, we have iron 4 players in games with high silver/low gold players and they're getting absolutely smashed because they're just a random kid/person who doesn't have a thorough understanding of ranked play and gives up like it's regulars - which then puts us at an extreme disadvantage. Then all you hear is, "You can carry 4v5, stop making bad plays and get good." Like, no. Punish this jerk for trolling the game, and when you tell him you're going to report him he literally says, "Do it lol. Nothing's going to happen to me. I do this all the time." Like that is more frustrating than losing 10 games in a row against players who made better plays and actually outplayed you. Then you get BM'ing from the enemy team that tilts you even further. It just gets annoying as hell. I get it dude.

Lèse Majesté1 votes

'Higher elo' maybe means challenger. In high plat/diamond which I consider high elo (I duo with diamond friend) people are just as horrible as in silver. I just played a game with taliyah+pantheon botlane, with enemy midlaner inting so hard that we actually managed to win... Ranks mean nothing for as long as players are allowed to troll with zero consequences.

HercaZ1 votes

I stopped playing ranked and will play normal games, because i find more competition in normal games rather than ranked...

More from Gameplay