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Position ranks are a horrible and DANGEROUS idea.

Saga18·4/26/2018, 11:27:08 AM·3 votes·1,570 views

I'm supposed to be a diamond/plat/gold player, you name it, but not a platinum MID ONLY player, all this does is make one tricking even more rampant. Not to mention now there's gonna be rng to the queue, will I get my main role and rank that I care about or off role(or god forbid auto fill) and be on a match I don't really care about for 30 minutes? Now what if this happens THREE times in a row, how does that entices me to keep playing ranked when I can't even ATTEMPT to rank up my "main" role? How many people is this gonna push out of ranked? It's not gonna be a fun experience and no matter how many "boosts" you try to give players if they win a match, what if they lose both and now they suddenly lost almost an hour and half of time doing nothing?

That's my main problem with it, the system isn't gonna fix anything and it's gonna make the ranked experience much worse for both the semi casual player and more dedicated people, how many of these games and bad streaks of off pick roles does it takes to make someone quit ranked and maybe even the game? The answers you gave us on the added parts trying to "clear" some concerns don't actually clear them at all, they give some insight but most of them are "we're planning, we're thinking, we probably will" etc.
There's so much that can go horribly wrong with this change, the one good change is the 2 added tiers but that's about it, no one asked for the role ranks and there's a real risk of completely killing ranked, this not only changes how the queue works but how everyone at all tiers before master is playing, there's gonna be lots of losses because of a secondary rank not caring, lots of wasted time because you get your secondary rank, lots of frustration and possibly even quitting solely because of a change that no one asked and that will fix NONE of the problems it supposedly will "fix", if anything it just accentuates these issues. Please reconsider these positional ranks, I don't see how this is a good idea or a good result could possibly come out of this, this is possibly way way worse than dynamic queue.

7 Comments

rtbf2234347214/26/2018, 11:48:29 AM5 votes

Relax,

Riot wants to improve the balance of the matchmaking system. Ppl complain about it being a problem in the game. With the new system they want to make sure people will be always matched with someone with similar skill.

They want to remove de "easy lanes" from the game; were one player gets stomped by other with more skill, that snowball making the game one sided

We don't have any details how it will work.

DerMangoJoghurt4/26/2018, 11:32:19 AM2 votes

when I can't even ATTEMPT to rank up my "main" role?

They are aware of that:

One more thing: we know competitive intent is a big deal in Ranked, so we’ll be rolling out new systems to help combat situations where players don’t take games in off-positions seriously. One plan grants bonuses for winning secondary and autofill games that apply the next time you play your primary position. We’re also looking at new penalties to help ensure Ranked stays hardcore.

It sounds like if you win with a secondary role you help out your main role as well. We'll have to wait to see the details, but it sounds promising so far.

haaaaaaalp4/26/2018, 6:25:51 PM2 votes

So if a mid only plat player gets an off role they don't care about, would you rather they

a) be playing against plat players (current system) b) be playing against gold players (proposed new system)

Nothing will change the fact that some players only care about one or two roles. The new system just makes it so that when those players are on an off role, they are put into an mmr bracket which fits their skill level better. It won't fix all of the problems with ranked but it will be a strict upgrade to the current system.