The Ranking system.. and my teams..
This'll be a long post.. so if you're one of those people who don't read "walls of texts" for lack of attention span, this post isn't for you.
Starting to think ranked is for those no life players. The abusive ranking system that punishes you for doing well.. taking upwards of a year of no lifing it to get you to where you should be. From my experiences, and what I've seen unless your diamond/plat and above going into master rank you're not going to carry yourself out of "elo hell" of bronze/silver very quickly.
I don't claim to be amazing, but when I get Gold V, Silver 1 ish every year, only to be placed back into bronze III-II even if I win 3 out of 5 games or better and my limited time to play... Makes this whole ranking system kind of a joke. spend all year playing a few games a week to get back into silver I by the end of the year only to know next year I'll have to do it ALL over again.
If I truly don't belong in Silver/Gold let me naturally drop down the ladder. Don't axe my progress, and place me back where I was last year, in a never ending cycle of seeing the absolute worst of the league community all year, only to see decent players around my skill level at the last fraction of the year. It's abusive to the players to be completely honest. Especially when you throw random people into the mix for season promotional. I usually get anywhere between a mix of bronze V's to gold III's in my season placements for the year.
If you're insistant on slapping your player base as you usually do, why not at least drop everyone at the bottom of the rank they were at last year? If I was in Silver I drop me to silver V, along with everyone else at 50 LP. if I truly don't belong in Silver, I'll drop back down into Bronze, but if I continue playing well, I will climb back up. But going from gold V to Bronze III every year....
I don't play too often as I've said.. but the teams I get in Bronze.. god help me. I understand awesome players can carry their butts out of this, but people like myself who do have an average, slightly above average (on a good day) skill level, is not going to be able too in any timely fashion, but nor do I believe that's where we "Deserve" to be.
Been trying to carry myself out as Diana Jungle. Most of the time I honestly do well. My early game... suffers slightly sometimes, I will admit and I take responsibility for it. Sometimes I do awesome early game. Mid/Late I'm usually always pushing objectives, split pushing, etc. Doing what I should be doing to carry. Getting the kills, split pushing with diana's awesome split pushing abilities. It takes 2 enemy's most times to come and stop me. Meaning my team just lost the last 3 team fights 4v3 in my teams favor... How do I carry that?
That's how most teams I get are in bronze. I can take inhibs, towers, objectives, dragons. Yet my team will epic fail every fight if I'm not there, but if I am there, they don't push towers with me either. I get focused in the team fight, meaning I usually have to go back and no matter how I try to guide and help my team they ignore me. God forbid if I mess up even once.
The last several games, I screwed up a few ganks, not a huge deal, but.. its the end of the world for my teammate, who ended up afking. Game before that, I was 0/2/0 placed as adc. I usually do very well with Ashe, but the enemy got away with a sliver of hp, and my supp kinda messing up their skillshots. Still not the end of the world, but.. to my mid and top. I was the reason we were losing. I attempted to split push bot while enemy pushed mid.. my cassi goes bot with me and tells me to get mid scrub.
really? So instead of helping mid you ran from base to bot and then told me I'm dumb and I should of been mid? I was already bot split pushing.. Meanwhile I go top to farm, because I'm getting farther behind and the enemy back off mid and our top was farming mid. Shaco then runs top, spams the ? on me, and tells me to stop stealing farm, I'm bad and wasting the gold... really?? He then gets pissy, and afks, while our top riven starts slamming me for being trash and to stop stealing farm. Despite my team literally going out of their way to take whatever gold I was trying to get, by the end of the game, I was helping to secure kills for our riven. But alas, our shaco afked, and our other teammates decide typing in the middle of a fight telling me how trash I am, is far more likely to help us win than actually playing..
Pattern of most of my games for the past week... Been barely carrying myself into B1 only to get the most amazingly inept players for my B1 promotionals, and that pattern continues until I hit B3 again where suddenly the RNG decides to be nice and grant me somewhat intelligent players that I can at least have a chance to carry, all the way back to B1 promotionals, where it decides that as my test to enter silver V, I will be given the most absurdly bad players imaginable again....
I've researched how to carry, what I should do when. I split pushwhen I should, take objectives when I should, and when I'm able, and team fight and get as much gold into my and my teams pocket as possible...what am I supposed to do when I get teams that cannot even remotely win a team fight despite being up 1 person in the fight while 2 of the enemies come to stop me split pushing? Or when I'm in the fights instead, my team still somehow manages to get epic wiped, and I'm left dealing with 4 half health enemies...
