Serious Suggestions for RIOT
To whom this may concern:
I as many other players LOVE your game. It's a sensational piece of work that requires great skill in roles, awareness and champions to master. I truly love this game. The biggest thing I hear about is ELO HELL. ELO Hell......its a thing....its real....its....blah blah. The thing is, it is real. Not because of ELO scores, but because of lack of skill in a champ, role, or position. To often do I see players TESTING new champs, be it to see the new skin they got or the new champ they bought. That is all fine and well but it drags the other players down. More often then not, Bronze tier players treat ranked as normal games and try new builds or test new champs.
Its KILLING US who really do want to move up. I started out this season in Bronze II. I'm no Pro. I make mistakes, I get out of position, I dive to deep. I blow my flash and miss over the wall. I don't test out new champs in ranked. I don't want to be a burden on others who are also trying to get out of Bronze and work their way up.
I am in Bronze V. I started in Bronze II. I literally got dragged down by AFKs, Trolls, champ testing, intentional feeding, quitters and even the position of WARD! yes. WARD. Where a player stands in a bush the whole game and PINGS where the other players are......like a vision ward....if it could ping. Yes, my mistakes played a roll as well but its an 80/20 split. 20% mistakes.
SOOOOO here are my suggestions:
1.) Adjust ranked so that only if a player has a minimum of 50 games with a champ are they allowed to use them in ranked. If they use the champ in normal, this will be easy to get. This eliminates CHAMP TESTING in ranked games. That's what normal games are for. 50 games is not hard to rack up.
2.) Add a new system that allows you to start a tracker on a player. When the player is being verbally abusive, vulgar or simply quits (AFK/WARD) then the reporting system actually logs it. As of now the reporting system seems kind of....marshmallow.....in the sense that, I feel my reports are doing NOTHING and that more and more players in the Bronze Tier are just dragging myself and others down and keeping us down. We can't improve if we are never able to even reach more skilled players to play against.
3.) Set up an automated feedback system. Let us know if our reports are even doing anything. Is the player a repeat offender? Is the player under tribunal? is ANYTHING happening or do I waste time putting in descriptions for nothing?
4.) Allow a once or even twice a season "Re-Placement Test" where a player can request to be pushed up a tier....not from Bronze III to Bronze II but instead up to Silver V. If they do good in their three game or best of five game stretch, they get placed in that rank. If they don't, then the system places them no different then the start of the ranked seasons. Where they seem to be in skill. Make this cost IP or RP. I know I would be willing to take this test with certain champs of mine.
5.) Promotion series: When a player is in a promotion series, they are super dependent on their teams. If they have AFK, Ward, or Champ testers in their matches...they get punished. I would suggest removing the loss counter is the game records an AFK or Disconnected player. I myself lost my Bronze II to Bronze I promotion way back in the beginning because of two games with AFK and one that wen well. Those AFK players cost me my promotion. I was and many others are....punished for other players. Give the ones who are busting their butts to get better the chance to deflect others stupidity/quitting habits.
Well, These are my suggestions RIOT. Full bore and unfiltered. Please, let me know what you think and continue to make great steps forward in the coming patches.
Sincerely, SMCDisaster www.youtube.com/armegeddon22 www.facebook.com/armegeddon22 www.twitter.com/SMCDisaster