Riot doesn't understand why I play league
So, flashback, 2 years ago, patch 4.14. I'm a dota player, casual, dont give a shit, bad at the game, etc. I decide, hey, I like Dota, lets give league a shot, it gets a bad wrap, but it cant be all that bad. So I do, and lo and behold, I love it. It rewards the player who offer the most to a team, it actually has the ability to solo carry games. Each player has impact, and they can potentially snowball the game out of control with that impact, but it's balanced around everyone having roughly the same potential. It wakes all aspects of DOTA that I liked, tons of characters, tons of items, tons of matchups, and a 5v5 environment.
THIS ISN'T LEAGUE ANYMORE. This league rewards team play and only team play, to the point where no matter how good you are on an individual level, you will never climb consistently without playing around all of your teammates. Individual agency and power are being gutted and left in the ditch to bleed out. Changes have removed individual player reward for objectives and made many things more team oriented. Shutdown gold no longer goes to a single player, dragon is harder to solo, towers require multiple players to take down in a timely manner, gold that was rewarded to one player is now rewarded across the entire team.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm an individualist, I play for myself, I want to climb, I don't care about my teammates, I don't play with anyone but myself, I rarely duo, and only play with more than 2 once in a blue moon. The more I play, and the more I want to get into the more competitive side of league, the more I realize this game isn't catering to me anymore. Everything that made it fun, that ability to single handedly win a game, is almost completely gone. At this point, league is a bad dota with more micro level play. All the champions feel exactly identical to all the others in their class to play as and against and the identity of each champ is getting drained away as the changes to the game keep pushing it towards a 5v5 competitive format.
The thing is, below diamond 2, you will never play a game of competitive league of legends, it's not possible. You will not find the skill and ability required in a team to play a good game of League of Legends by Riot Games 2016. It's not possible. Below diamond, there's not a chance in hell for an actual fair game of league with the direction that they're taking it.
I'm not an exemplary player, I'm not good by any means, but the only way I've found to actually win is to rely on my teammates in some degree, and that's frankly not possible in lower elo brackets. I cannot dismiss the 0/7/2 darius toplane as useless and dead weight who you literally want to disconect because he has 0 impact. By playing the game, the team is investing gold in a bad player. Tower gold, shutdown gold, etc, that can all go to that dumpster trash bad Darius who you really just want to disconnect. Feeding ruins games more than ever before just because of that fact, your team is literally FORCED to invest resources into underpreforming players by rule of game mechanics.
And you know, I've never once had a positive experience with dynamic que. Not fucking once. The only time I see it used is when idiots are boosting their friends who belong in bronze 5-3 up into silver, and then make them flex pick into some shit that they've never played in ranked once, and then flame at you for calling the first time poppy jungle a fucking idiot for literally first timing poppy in ranked.
