what's wrong with ranked lately?

cTJay·May 20, 2019·17 votes·10,233 views

I've started 2 accounts, and on both of them, games have been absolutely unplayable. People are so bad. They just feed and basically completely trash the game in general. Wtf happened? New patch or smthg???

37 Comments

KoiyakiMay 20, 201910 votes

Or you know...People are bad in silver/ bronze becuase it ya know...silver/ bronze/. Its much harder to solo carry in league now, its too much of a team game so yea. Have fun smurfing.

cTJayMay 20, 20193 votes

I think you're right. The lower I play, the harder the game feels. That's also because I don't like solo champs like kata yi etc.

jng dif victimMay 20, 20197 votes

its same in plat/low diamond too this plat is not same plat i was playing last season Trolls are 10x more boosteds are 10x more and smurfs are 10x more . its 100% coin flip games nowdays

KoiyakiMay 20, 20192 votes

imo plat has always been the worst teir to be in and the p1/d4/d5 border has always been a mixed bag of boosted people who end up there. tilted people who drop from masters their, and people who get to diamond and only play 1 game a month to camp it for the border.

But even if what ur saying is true. The heck is rito supposed to do about peoples gameplay...they cant force people to get better. they cant force people to stop being jerks. and they cant force people to learn champs or macro play before going into ranked. Its a player problem. Until humans inately become civil, rito cant realy do anything about it...

Heko The ManMay 21, 20191 votes

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Or you know...People are bad in silver/ bronze becuase it ya know...silver/ bronze/. Its much harder to solo carry in league now, its too much of a team game so yea. Have fun smurfing.

silver and bronze are super easy to carry, you can just pick yasuo and 1v9

Original SinMay 20, 20197 votes

Thats just how this season is. Something definitely off about it.

Haze97May 20, 20195 votes

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GlaricionMay 21, 20191 votes

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Ranked sucks because even your so called 'specialists'on the boards are filthy casuals who cannot tell the difference between normals and ranked.

http://tinypic.com/r/jre0xv/9

I've legit had a specialist say this to me so I am not surprised that the rest of the players don't even try to win.

People these days only play to troll and if they're having fun that way, so be it. I can always play Dota 2 alongside.

Just for clarification, was Ruj talking about ranked flex? Because if so, ranked flex is a gag queue at this point.

5050BSMay 20, 20194 votes

Ranked is shit because Riot has fostered it and their Match Making is a buggy failed system that they wont fix and wont admit that it is bad.

KanyoupipuMay 20, 20193 votes

Idk I'm getting losing placement records on smurfs, it is the worse i have ever seen it. Games are getting thrown in the first 8 minutes before I can even start a carry attempt. Inting bot lanes.

Game quality has been total dog shit

cTJayMay 20, 20191 votes

exactly, impossible to win anything, it's like a coin flip

5050BSMay 20, 201913 votes

You are part of the problem as to way Ranked is shit.

Smurfs are 10x more this season because Riot fuked up Plat+ so you are all Smurfing.

Silver is at least 50% gold-plat players. Imagine a Rank where the players Riot picks are From Bronze to Plat players. Thats what Silver is right now.

The23rdGamerMay 20, 20195 votes

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You are part of the problem as to way Ranked is shit.

Smurfs are 10x more this season because Riot fuked up Plat+ so you are all Smurfing.

Silver is at least 50% gold-plat players. Imagine a Rank where the players Riot picks are From Bronze to Plat players. Thats what Silver is right now.

Lowkey this to some degree. It really does suck for lower skill players when they're being trashed by people who shouldn't be facing them because those people don't want to play in the rank bracket they are supposed to be in for that day. Plus then a lot of Plat+ players get upset when their bronze teammates don't play like Plat+ players despite the Plat+ player being on a smurf. [slayer-jinx-unamused] What do you expect?

Voluug13May 21, 20191 votes

Its not even lower skill players. I am usually middle gold, stopped playing like a season, and suddedly I am stuck on Silver III-V Hell where half the time I am matched against smurfs, with people who barely know how to play a single lane with terrible macro skills (and usually they also end up outside that lane because lol auto-fill).

KanyoupipuMay 21, 20191 votes

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You are part of the problem as to way Ranked is shit.

Smurfs are 10x more this season because Riot fuked up Plat+ so you are all Smurfing.

Silver is at least 50% gold-plat players. Imagine a Rank where the players Riot picks are From Bronze to Plat players. Thats what Silver is right now.

The problem is, if I am gold or plat and get placed in silver for the season, that isn't me "smurfing"... that is RIot's dogshit system sending me to ELO hell forcing me to grind until I get a lucky win streak with 4 human players instead of 4 animals.

It goes back to the age old problem: Riot has no idea what the skill of a player is individually, and we have these terrible low-ELO games as a result. Everyone suffers, the games are decided before they start.

ArigatowoMay 20, 20193 votes

Imagine people not playing like challengers every game. Unthinkable. No one can or should have bad games and it's okay for me to flame them, because if I tell them they're playing super bad they'll probably instantly become pro players. Like, I am always playing like that, so why can't others? Like.. sure I die sometimes, but that's because that one minion did this or I just didn't kill the ward in time man. Not my fault.. It just didn't want to die out of itself even though I know how long my AA takes. So despite me seeing that enemy rolling up on me I stood there and died. But again, ward's fault. Because, obviously, I am the best player alive and don't make mistakes. And if I do make a mistake it is also partially someone else's fault, so not really mine y'know. Well sometimes I do make mistakes or a mechanical misplay, but that shouldn't cost us the game right? Well sure I might flame my allies for making such mistakes but uhh uhh h wiufejkkgnekgjbeg

Fucking hell people stop flaming everything and start flaming yourself. If you're not able to win it's because you're worse for a number of reason. Even if they have smurfs, you still made mistakes which cost you the game. If those mistakes are due to your inexperience or incompetence then work on that. Yeah sure maybe you could've won if there weren't any smurfs, but that's just an excuse to cover up for your mistakes.

You all shouldn't be so fixated on winning but on playing the game to the best of your ability. If that isn't enough, it isn't enough and you should get better. Also flaming people never works. Sure you can get a bit frustrated, which is ok till some extent, but try to keep that frustration in relation to constructive arguments, meaning: that what you're saying has a purpose other than to make everyone feel like shit. i.e (you're on bottom lane with a passive adc) "Hey dude, we have a lot of chances to go in, but you're not capitalizing, you should probably do that". That's an ok way to vent your frustration, so long you don't let it escalate to a toxic conversation and make your intentions clear: "I am not flaming you or anything, but I think this is what we should do to win the game, if you think otherwise then there's nothing I can do".

This is just an example of course and however you make your sentences differ per scenario, but I feel like this makes my point clear: Stop being whiny pampered little brats, and only use your voice if there is a point to it other than harm.

A Sub Par Zed May 20, 20191 votes

I don't think that we are saying that we are Gods or something, sure we all have bad days, or even weeks, but it is bad. Maybe it is different in EU, but in NA its just inting bot game after game, and less than 10 percent of jungles actually know how to jungle. We aren't perfect, but something does seem off from the other seasons, people are just being bad.

Ambitious MinnowMay 21, 20191 votes

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I don't think that we are saying that we are Gods or something, sure we all have bad days, or even weeks, but it is bad. Maybe it is different in EU, but in NA its just inting bot game after game, and less than 10 percent of jungles actually know how to jungle. We aren't perfect, but something does seem off from the other seasons, people are just being bad.

The inting bot thing is insane! Usually when I see something that often, I have at least a theory, but I got nothing, I just see it to much though. Tower plating maybe?

cTJayMay 21, 20191 votes

{quoted} Imagine people not playing like challengers every game. Unthinkable.

Imagine people playing like shit every single game. The issue isn't the players... Teams are bound to be unbalanced, humans will tilt, int, afk, ruin games. It's normal. What differenciates a good from a bad online game, is how it deals with the consequences. When I play well, I should be rewarded, even if I get a team full of uncarryable r%%%%%s who trash the game. When I play badly, I should be punished, even if I'm paired with 4 guys from SKT who make my team win 20/0 at min 8. League of legends completely fails in this regard.

SaltyToplaneGoatMay 20, 20193 votes

Yeah its weird since the most recent patch matchmaking has been totally bonkers. A 20+ difference in score shouldn't be normal for the majority of games, that's not what balanced matchmaking is wtf?!

kuzzy47May 20, 20192 votes

Smurfs everywhere.

hoganftwMay 20, 20192 votes

Been like that since the preseason for me. I only enjoy norms now.

GodlyBaneMay 20, 20192 votes

Im quitting ranked on main rn, seriously impossile to carry. 2/15 yas top, 4/14 zyra in bot, i got a penta, rift herald, first dragon, first turret, played where i needed to be, ect. ALL GAME LONG.

We lost of course after i went 18/4 :)

Ambitious MinnowMay 20, 20191 votes

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Im quitting ranked on main rn, seriously impossile to carry. 2/15 yas top, 4/14 zyra in bot, i got a penta, rift herald, first dragon, first turret, played where i needed to be, ect. ALL GAME LONG.

We lost of course after i went 18/4 :)

And I bet they complained you didn't gank enough, AMIRIGHT?!

GodlyBaneMay 21, 20191 votes

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And I bet they complained you didn't gank enough, AMIRIGHT?!

they were surprisingly uplifting actually. Not toxic at all

Morgana DominusMay 20, 20192 votes

There are incorrectly ranked players all throughout the ladder. There are a lot of people who got very lucky early on in the season and managed to climb up about a tier higher than they actually belong. This has lead to a massive reduction in the quality of games.

On my own flist I have:

7 people who I've played with since season 2 who were platinum with me. They're now mid diamond. They haven't improved as players.
A friend who was gold 1 and was masters this season.
Plat 2 friend who is currently diamond 1
Several silver friends who are now high gold.

I've been platinum/gold every season since season 1. Platinum and gold do not feel like platinum and gold anymore.

Gold players int their asses off. It's basically the new bronze/silver. Platinum is just full of shit heads who are bad at the game, but they don't really hard int . They die twice in lane, blame the jungler, and afk. So you know, basically season 1-8 platinum but with the skill of silvers.

cTJayMay 21, 20191 votes

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A friend who was gold 1 and was masters this season.
wut

Morgana DominusMay 21, 20191 votes

Yep. He was gold for several seasons. Made masters this season. I think he's currently D4.

cTJayMay 21, 20191 votes

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I think he's currently D4.

ROFL "it's not a random game"

LegacyDAPMay 21, 20191 votes

Pretty sure this is just you.

It's harder than it used to be to climb in low elo as a smurf, but if you're good enough you will still climb. You're playing with bronze and silvers, of course they're going to feed.

cTJayMay 22, 20191 votes

good enough for? Hacking the jungler's pc to force him gank a lane that has been pushed for 6 minutes? xD

LegacyDAPMay 22, 20191 votes

Good enough to climb even if you get unwinnable games sometimes.

LordGeovanniMay 22, 20191 votes

whats wrong with ranked is people surrendering aka hoping for an easy game. Even if it looks like you are losing you have a chance to win and even if you do lose anyway you learn more from playing out the game and thus increase chances of winning other games than just surrendering and moving to the next game where you learn nothing. plz rito god give us matchmaking that takes into account how much people surrender

Smurfing is also a problem immagine crying that the park that you go to is dirty as fuck then taking your weekly trash to spread around that same park. Same thing with smurfing you cry your que times are too long so you leave the elo to play in a lower elo adding to the problem

cTJayMay 22, 20191 votes

and you can't control whether your allies give up

LordGeovanniMay 22, 20191 votes

I dont need to they should either commit to the game they qued for or dont que for the game