The state of the ranked LP system
I am not here to rage about my situation but more to start a discussion about the league ranked system. The more I have played solo queue the more I have noticed that the LP system really isn't fair. While I am(now) a Silver V player, I have spent awhile playing the game and have been on 5 win streaks. Usually it is just 1 win 1 lose and sometimes an extra win or lose here and there. I get up to my promotions to Silver IV and I win both, of which I am please. I get to silver IV and the same win/lose thing happened again. Unfortunately I got down to 0 LP. I played one more match to get my LP back up and two things happened. A Jax decided to afk for a period of time and our Teemo top disconnected. On top of that, the Teemo trolled champ select stating that he was going to be a dragon/baron support where he sat there all game ready to smite. While he was trolling, it messed up our champ selections. No big deal, we still have every roll filled. Game goes on and we lose, once again no big deal. Except I get demoted to Silver V before I even get a chance to hold my own in silver IV. I worked my way up to let a single loss knock me down. The big issue I have with this is the fast that I have to go through promotion matches all over again. If the system was really fair, I would have gotten a warning similar to the warning you receive if you are about to derank down a full tier. Not only that, I wouldn't have been demoted, WASTING ALL THE TIME I SPENT GETTING THERE, with a single loss. I know there are areas that I could improve upon, and there are games where I just play terrible. However, with this situation, everything was out of my control and I was punished for it. When I play ranked with a friend of mine (plat V last season) in normals, we get paired up against golds and plats and I hold my own pretty well. Yet here I am, getting demoted for situations that I cant control. Does losing that game because of the AFK/DC say that I am a worse player today than I was yesterday? According to Riot's league system it does. Riots system basically told me that I am bad even though I had proven through their system and getting to Silver IV, that I was not worthy even after achieving that rank. The AFK/DC of other players resulted in the outcome of my skill. The system doesnt look at the troll, the afk or DC, but simply says "Oh hey you lost, you suck.". The AFK/DC is not a determination of skill yet Riot's system tells me otherwise. While they have made improvements to ranked to get rid of a lot of trolls, it feels like my skill in the game is not determined by my own actions but of my teammates. I feel as if I am a low gold tier player currently but Riot's system would say otherwise. I may not be the best player but I do not like how their current system punishes people that do well for losing. An example, I was playing Fiddle jungle and ended the game 17-6-4(?). I had to get 6 before I could really become a threat. Unfortunately for me, all lanes lost despite doing lv 6 ganks. Maybe I should have been more active in ganking? Who knows. What I do know is though, my teammates were terrible and even though I did pretty well numbers wise, we got destroyed. As a jungler, I couldn't control the outcome of all 3 lanes yet I did pretty well. Why should the outcome of my terrible teammates determine MY skill. I have been doing some thinking on how I felt about changes to the current system. I felt like promotional matches were really pointless and simply a roadblock. Removing promos from ranks IV and II would help alleviate the road block. Another option is reducing the amount of LP per match by 40% or more and removing divisions V and IV and simply having 3 divisions. Another thing I thought about was adding the option to nullify a Loss once per 25~50 matches of ranked, only useable at the end of the match. I will say though that the current system was better than how it was before they instated it. However this is a new season and this system is getting very....old. Riot continues to make changes to characters, mechanics, jungle, even towers but has yet to improve upon their ranking system. I am simply writing this to start a discussion and please leave the comments to educated responses with rational thinking (Provide evident backing your claims). While I am a little upset that I deranked, it is just how the system works currently that I am very upset with. Also I meant this to be a discussion of solo/dou queue not for premade 3s/5s. I feel as if the system for 3s/5s seems appropriate because your able to communicate with your team much better, premade is much more controlled, and you wont necessarily have a "bot/mid/top fed, NOW I RAGE IN CHAT" mentality.
