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Unpopular opinion: Ranked shouldn't exist at all in League of Legends

Mannny··3 votes·571 views

In my honest opinion, going into League and starting ranked for the first time I thought it would be a 1v1 style format of some sort. I never would have imagined that I have a solo rating determined from winning 5v5 matches. It honestly makes no sense. Not only that, but wins and loses are weighed the same. In almost every other game with a ranking system, loses are naturally weighed less than wins because getting a lose is a lot easier than trying to get a win.

This brings up a topic that League of Legends is a 5v5 game. It is not meant for ranked. Nobody should have a solo rating that is dictated from 5v5 games that could sway either way. There is no way in hell 1 person can change the game through 9 other players. This is why it takes hundreds of thousands of games to accurately get someones real rating. I've tried and failed my Gold promos 4 times. Do I belong in Silver 1 or do I belong in Gold? I can't really tell because I go on huge win and loss streaks. I'm sure everyone else goes through the same thing, they win a ton and end up losing the next 5 or so games. This is due to another stupid system in place, MMR. We don't even know what the hell that does because Riot won't tell us. All this in place, smurfs, lucky people, AFKers, Toxic players and the overall state of the game itself makes it really hard to grasp where I stand compared to the Gold 5 inting Jinx that went AFK the past 5 matches to the Silver 1 Riven main that helped me carry.

My point is that League just shouldn't have a ranking system for solo queue. It's inaccurate and mediocre at best, even Riot themselves said League was never meant for Ranked. It really doesn't belong. If even challenger players have to spend months and months of grinding to get their smurf account to challenger the system is incorrect and doesn't work.

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14 Comments

Milla Jovovich3 votes

It works fine,you just gotta get good

AlienPrimate4 votes

Learn to spell.

Git gud

Cocho3 votes

There is no way in hell 1 person can change the game through 9 other players.

Boosters and smurfing are a thing. If you belong in a higher elo, you will climb. Period. Nothing else to it. Lets say a player has a definite 53% winrate over 100 games at silver 4, he'll get to silver 3 eventually, maybe silver 2 on a good day, but he'll stagnate around silver 3.

If I make a smurf, I'm gonna climb fast.

You saying if you belong at s1 or g5, it isn't really different. Cant think of the exact MMR gold is off the top of my head, but lets say 1300 MMR isnt that different than 1350 MMR. You can't say it is. We can say you're at about a 1250 - 1350 MMR level. The emblem that is gold just looks more appealing.

I'm d5, but I can't complain about getting plat 1s in my game, they're literally the same thing.

I've tried and failed my Gold promos 4 times. Do I belong in Silver 1 or do I belong in Gold? I can't really tell because I go on huge win and loss streaks.

A youtuber that I watch named gbay basically won/lost his promos to get into diamond 4 plenty of times, for the most part, with the strategy he was using, he belonged at the line that is d5/d4. He switched up his strategy and hit d3, but again, for the most part, seems like he's at a d4/d3 level.

I disagree with what your post suggest, you're only gonna get stuck once you're near your 'true elo'. From my experience, I don't have any problems until a couple divisions from where I should be, if im not improving.

Mannny1 votes

A youtuber that I watch named gbay basically won/lost his promos to get into diamond 4 plenty of times, for the most part, with the strategy he was using, he belonged at the line that is d5/d4. He switched up his strategy and hit d3, but again, for the most part, seems like he's at a d4/d3 level.

If it isn't different than why are they different rating levels? I carry most of my games but my players are usually very toxic. This stops me from getting to Gold. I have no doubt in my mind I can get there, but grinding 200+ games is just useless and tedious.

Cocho1 votes

Because what makes you feel better about ranked?

I finally hit 1500 MMR! or I finally hit gold!

This case is special because it does suck that you want get dat dank banner or skin if you dont grind out that 200 games to get gold. Like it wouldn't really matter as much if it was s3 to s2, or d5 to d4 like in my example :P

Bunnymap2 votes

An unpopular opinion that's actually unpopular? Impossible.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

Weird, last year we had Dynamic que and the boards were lit up of people crying about it.

I think rank should only be 5v5, that's just me.

Starcraft243ver1 votes

In almost every other game with a ranking system, loses are naturally weighed less than wins because getting a lose is a lot easier than trying to get a win.

No. wtf. NO. IT'S A FUCKING 0 SUM GAME. Wtf is wrong with your logic. Go read some game theory before even starting to consider thinking about opening your mouth on this subject.

Nobody should have a solo rating that is dictated from 5v5 games that could sway either way. There is no way in hell 1 person can change the game through 9 other players.

Well it's funny because it's totaly false I can prove it again and again by taking lower rank accounts and bring them to my actual rank. And i'm doing this consistently.

This is why it takes hundreds of thousands of games to accurately get someones real rating.

Actually it's takes more or less 200 games. over the course of 9 months so it's kinda doable.

If even challenger players have to spend months and months of grinding to get their smurf account to challenger the system is incorrect and doesn't work

They dont. Challenger starting from the bottom usually ends up D1 in ~50 games. https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=buff+jng

Do I belong in Silver 1 or do I belong in Gold? I can't really tell because I go on huge win and loss streaks.

Actually silver 1 and Gold 5 are kinda the same since a single winning strike separates these 2 floors.

My point is that League just shouldn't have a ranking system for solo queue. It's inaccurate and mediocre at best

Then dont play soloQ. Noone force you.

Mannny1 votes

I would like for you to do some research before posting after this because you don't know what you are talking about.

Dyrus took 3 months to get his alt account to challenger. It took him about 200-300 games. Everything else makes no sense.

Starcraft243ver1 votes

I actually did and even studied game theory so, thanks a lot, I perfectly know what I'm talking about when I say that it doesnt make sens to tell loses should be weighted less than wins. It's not the case in starcraft, it's not the case in warcraft, it's not the case in any fucking good game ever made.

Also 200 games is barelly 15 days if you play full time on an account which totaly confirm my point. It took him 3 months because he wasnt full time on his alt account.

Fed by Snu Snu1 votes

Ranked is ok.

The tier system and promos cause a lot of frustration and toxicity though.

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Mannny1 votes

A while back they said something along the lines of "League was never meant to have a solo ranking system, it's a 5 vs 5 game."

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