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This ranked season feels like its a waste of time.

DeepFriedPengu·2/6/2019, 1:23:16 AM·30 votes·11,252 views

I just need to rant on this for a second.

This season feels like its a waste of time. Here is everything I can think of for why.

  • One team stomps the other with no real challenge
  • I seem to get my off role or auto fill A LOT more than my main role
  • If someone isn't on their main role they don't seem to care about the game or try
  • If someone is auto filled they pick something to troll with because they don't care about the LP for that role
  • If I don't get my main role the game feels like a waste of time
  • Switching positions works against you now because you arent earning LP for your main role
  • If you lose a game on your off role, and are still in your placements for it, your main role will still lose LP
  • Climbing is twice as long now because of the new role specific ranking
  • Too many changes that haven't been fleshed out are still being put in the game while game breaking things are still not fixed
  • Boosting is now easier than ever with the new system and you cant be banned for it. (play with a duo, select their two main roles and have them select yours, swap once in game to be placed in a lower elo for a much easier game)
  • When you win LP, you still gain the same amount from last season. Around 21 to 23 and lose about 17 to 19, but split between your main and off role being about 18 for your main and 3 for your off. But when you lose you lose 17 still on your main role which negates any climbing you do if you are winning and losing over and over. (just had this happen to me. Had to add it)

There are more things I could say, like tank items just being way too good for how cheap they are or how mana is basically on every damn AP item so mana consumption is stupidly low and non existing, but I can live with those things and still enjoy the game. But when I'm trying to climb in a ranked game and am constantly having one of the above problems happen I can't help but become really frustrated or just not want to continue playing the round I'm in. The biggest problem for me is climbing taking twice as long because of auto fill and off role being more common than my main roll. I'm not a streamer, I am not a YouTuber, I work a 9 to 5 job and have little time to actually play most days. Having positional ranks KILLS the ability to climb for me. I could be unlucky and nobody else has this problem, but this system is not a good thing for the game. The only way this new system would work is if they removed auto fill. At least then I don't have to risk not even being placed in one of my roles that I am trying to climb in.

I haven't enjoyed a single game of League ever since the preseason. Which really saddens me. This is my favorite game, my competitive game and what I choose to spend my free time on. This system was clearly not thought out enough and should have been something that was tested during the preseason changes when Riot gave everyone a free pass to troll and "have fun." Not something to just throw at us when the games really matter, even though preseason still affects your MMR for some bullshit reason that I will never understand. Let me enjoy my game again and bring back the old system. I miss the days where all I had to worry about was your terrible MMR system and how much it works against you when you have a few bad or unlucky games.

Have a good day.

14 Comments

Smashed Hash2/6/2019, 6:20:03 AM9 votes

Ranked dead.

Cactus Merchant2/6/2019, 9:18:41 AM7 votes

game ded. Riot is just milking the ip until the move on. Don't buy stuff

Dukues2/6/2019, 5:14:38 PM6 votes

Yea new system pretty crap. Game been complete crap overall since preseason 8. I feel like it's at least better now than preseason 8... but new system kinda fucks the "improvements" they made. Game hasn't felt competitive in years. I mean... arranged 5v5 does but that's all the game balanced around these days. But.... clash hardly ever fucking up.... so wtf the point. Yea... pro scene cool... but doesn't help that playing solo/queue & norms... you know... what made the game feels crap to play.

Best fucking part is there adding new borders now too so you don't have to wait to get season rewards. Which... yea sounds cool UNTIL YOU REALIZE IT'S FUCKING ONLY BEEN WHAT? 3? WEEKS SINCE SEASON STARTS. uGG..... SO HAPPY to be back to having an shittier border for no fucking reason just like most people playing ranked currently. Or not playing it.... cuz it shit. It's so fucking shit and now we getting punished for not playing it.

Fallsmyer2/6/2019, 10:33:36 AM6 votes

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  • Switching positions works against you now because you arent earning LP for your main role

Experienced this one today, seriously pissed me off to no end. I was in my promos with 1 lose and 1 win. My team's first pick was Yasuo (TOP), their team picked Riven (TOP) and Taliyah (MID). I decided to pick Malphite (MID) and was going to simply build AP Malphite. I have done it several times in the past and squishy midlaners like Taliyah simply can't deal with Malphite's post-6 burst. However, Yasuo asked to swap because Yasuo versus Taliyah is a really good matchup and Malphite versus Riven is also a good matchup. I agreed and just built armor against Riven. Got several solo kills and was able to make a few roam plays for Yasuo, so both lanes won; overall the entire game was a pretty solid stomp and everyone on my team were great teammates. Once the game ends.... no promotion... instead I received 59 LP for my first top lane placement match.

Pissed off I start up my next game as midlaner, get into champ select and immediately Kayle jungle demands that our top go AD top. I make the suggestion/request that our top laner simply play something they are comfortable with, because I would rather have everyone on a comfortable champ that they know how to play instead of picking something they don't know how to play for "team comp". Top lane decides to (in his own words) "F**K YOU GUYS! FIRST TIME YORICK!!" Champ select and the entire game only gets more and more toxic and we eventually get stomped with the game being pretty much over at the 12 minute mark. Our team refuses to surrender and we lose at 20:00 minutes anyways. Failed promos!!

Being a team player, and doing what is best for the team completely punished me and cost me my promos!! Good work Riot! Great system!

Jerry SeinfeId2/6/2019, 2:56:03 PM3 votes

unless you can get master/challenger ranked has always been a waste of time past gold. Idk why you expected this season to be different.

Slim Gragas2/7/2019, 2:38:09 AM3 votes

TLDR game sucks. In other news water is wet.

Kattzy2/7/2019, 12:19:35 AM1 votes

You make some really good points I hadn't thought of/experienced. I almost always get the role I queue up for (either adc, supp or jg) so I hadn't realized what a problem this system could be for people who A. play the more popular roles and get autofilled and B. are not interested (or just don't have the time) to rank up multiple roles. The whole thing with duos switching roles around could also be a problem (although most of the people I know have very similar ranks amongst all roles, I can see how this might be different for others).

I feel like good ways to at least partially handle these issues might be to A. make solo queue solo queue again (so duos would need to use flex), and B. remove autofill from promo matches.