Please, Riot. Ranked game is not worth playing.

DAEGU POMKIN·Jan 23, 2015·1 votes·1,012 views

This is me, and I have won 6 out of 10 games with MMR of 765 - 790. I also have met golds, silvers, diamonds and more. I fought and fought, wins and losses with bunch of toxic players. I have NOT thought of myself getting into lower bronze again which appeared as happening again.

Last season, I was at Bronze 3. I thought the whole Ranked restarted so I started to play, which brought me down to Bronze 4.

And now, look where I am at. I thought I at least made it to Bronze 4 but no.

Riot, I have played in NA for while, and my skills are greatly increasing. There are smurfs that I do not want to fight against, or even golds that duos with Bronzes. I cannot win because teammates are not wanting or refusing to talk as a team.

I wish the Ranked Games have more opportunity to let the actual players to be in higher tier and more chance to earn lp.

4 Comments

MãgeJan 23, 20152 votes

I'm a Platinum player. Trust me, if you're in Bronze and you don't belong there, playing about 100 games will certainly get you where you belong (if you belong in Diamond, for example, you'll get there in about 50 games, if you're unlucky then 100).

Leti the YetiJan 23, 20151 votes

they wanted placements to be less of an impact soooo people now actually have to grind for gold instead of being placed in gold... and then never have to play ranked till season rewards :D

GrimspeakeJan 23, 20151 votes

i was in bronze 3 in the preseason and got placed back into bronze 3, my elo is like 300 below everyone else pretty much tho

Long Dong WukongJan 23, 20151 votes

You weren't meeting golds, plats, diamonds, or probably even silver at under 800 MMR. I think that's Bronze 5.

If Golds duo with Bronze 5's, they'd still have like Silver 4 MMR. They wouldn't make it to 760. Smurfs pretty much can't make it to 760 either. Everyone you played against was Bronze 4 or 5.

That said, I'm just going to let you know that you're going through a phase that everyone goes through at some point, and I'll let you know it's not your team and you aren't as good as you think you are.

That's blunt and all, but it's the only way to get it across. Play a single champion for 50 matches and focus on not nothing but CS and not dying. Don't even chase them past the entrances to their own jungle for now.

Go into a custom and hit 150 CS at 20 minutes without doing jungle camps. That isn't anywhere near perfect, but sit there and practice until you can hit or pass that over and over and over. 150cs at 20 in Bronze 5 almost automatically slings you up a few divisions. Bronze players end up with 150 @ 50. You will have such a gold advantage that you will be a God.

The first thing to understand is that it's you, and that you can improve if you actually focus on your own play and not everyone else's.

Edit - You can also try playing champions that have less of a skillcap, because from personal experience I've never seen a good Vayne below Diamond and I've never seen a good LeBlanc below like Plat 3. Corki/Graves/Caitlyn and stuff like Malzahar/Annie/Ziggs/Heimer/Xerath can help you stomp Bronze 5 if you wanted to try them. They're easy and effective.