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RIOT doesn't give incentive to play ranked

Khä Zïx··3 votes·828 views

I feel like people aren't inclined enough to play ranked often. Sure, you get the rank but lets be honest, you are gonna make it to around Silver 3 and hit a wall. You get a border and (if you're really good) a skin every year. THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

Most of the people on my friends list play a short burst of ranked every few months. RIOT needs to give people more incentive to play often. My idea for this is to cut each season into 3 month chunks. At the end of this sub season, you get a bit of IP/ RP (scales with how high your rank was) and a border based on your highest rank. YOUR ELO/ RANK WOULD NOT CHANGE OR RESET, this would only happen at the end of a main season. RIOT should make slight differences between each border, that way you can kinda feel the progression of being Silver 5 and making it up to Silver 1 by the next sub season. At the end of each season, you still get victorious skins, an icon, maybe some ward skin and a bit of IP/ RP.

Anyways, I just think that people need more incentives to play ranked and this is my (granted poorly thought out) means of fixing it. I also think that getting more people into ranked would make everyone happier with it. You'd have a lot more match making options and could probably get people closer to your skill level.

13 Comments

DrCyanide1 votes

Honestly, I just don't like playing ranked. The best way to climb is to spam the same champions/roles over and over again, which is very dull. My goal is to hit Gold 5 and call it quits for the season.

Febos1 votes

[{quoted}](name=A Good KhaZix,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=hG7MXekd,comment-id=,timestamp=2016-09-19T14:48:11.720+0000)

I feel like people aren't inclined enough to play ranked often. Sure, you get the rank but lets be honest, you are gonna make it to around Silver 3 and hit a wall. You get a border and (if you're really good) a skin every year. THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

I stopped here. First let me tell you that being Gold V isn't the same as "really good player". Altough the average ranked League player is between Silver 5 and 3, it doesn't mean that being Gold V makes you a good player. You are a good player if you reach Diamond 1. Until there you are just "average" skill player.

Now to the point: the only reason why anyone would want to play ranked is to improve themselves and NOT TO WIN REWARDS. The best reward you can get is the gratification of achieving whatever whatever goal you set out to achieve. Riot doesn't need to give us incentive to play ranked. They encourage us to play ranked by giving us a free skin, if we reach Gold, but that doesn't mean that they are required to do so.

Dragfin1 votes

[{quoted}](name=The Febos,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=hG7MXekd,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2016-09-19T14:53:42.057+0000)

I stopped here. First let me tell you that being Gold V isn't the same as "really good player". Altough the average ranked League player is between Silver 5 and 3, it doesn't mean that being Gold V makes you a good player. You are a good player if you reach Diamond 1. Until there you are just "average" skill player.

Now to the point: the only reason why anyone would want to play ranked is to improve themselves and NOT TO WIN REWARDS. The best reward you can get is the gratification of achieving whatever whatever goal you set out to achieve. Riot doesn't need to give us incentive to play ranked. They encourage us to play ranked by giving us a free skin, if we reach Gold, but that doesn't mean that they are required to do so.

You have to remember that we live in a, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" society now. Entitled for those that need an explanation. I agree with you that personal achievement of your own goals means more than anything RIOT can give away.

Khä Zïx1 votes

I guess it came off as me saying that I need more incentive to play ranked. This isn't necessarily the case, sorry. No, I want more people to try experiencing Ranked and the only way I see that as possible is if RIOT gives more incentive to play ranked.

The incentive of skins and stuff now, most people won't reach as well. So that does not apply.

Also, Gold V is a hell of a lot better compared to me (being good is kind of a subjective term).

JackMcSnipeyz1 votes

You get a skin and flair to show off in loading screen. If you dont care for ranked, play normals, ranked isnt the definitive LoL experience. Just a slightly more serious one

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

{quoted}

You get a skin and flair to show off in loading screen. If you dont care for ranked, play normals, ranked isnt the definitive LoL experience. Just a slightly more serious one

Not really... The same people that troll in normals do it in ranked.

JackMcSnipeyz1 votes

Go into ranked and go into a normal game, i gurantee you'll statisticly get more goofy picks and layed back people in normals than ranked. Trolls will be trolls

Khä Zïx1 votes

I wasn't saying that I personally need more incentive. What I meant in this post was more of that I wish more people would play ranked often (which I think will only happen through giving extra incentive).

Bellows1 votes

You shouldn't NEED incentive to play ranked. Your incentive is that you become a better player. Keep becoming a better player until you want to enter the professional scene. Thats what ranked is honestly for, becoming a professional by trade, whether it be in the LCS or a streamer that gives advice and gets tons of views.

Silly Kha mains, will never understand the glory of the hunt. Rengar

Khä Zïx1 votes

I'm just saying that I wish more people would play ranked. Partly so I'd have an excuse of "well everyone else is playing only ranked".

Spicy Rice1 votes

I don't know about others, bust most if not all my friends literally only play ranked

Koala Frenzy1 votes

[{quoted}](name=A Good KhaZix,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=hG7MXekd,comment-id=,timestamp=2016-09-19T14:48:11.720+0000)

you are gonna make it to around Silver 3 and hit a wall.

When I make a smurf account and actively try to tank my elo in promos, I still go 5/5 and get silver 3. There's no wall here. Just like there's no wall at diamond 3 or bronze 5. If your skill level peaks at silver 3, that's just what you are. Mine peaks at plat 4. Skins aren't an incentive for me. A basic sense of competition is. Plat 4 is the top 7%. As much as the boards like to call anything under diamond 1 trash, I consider in the top 10% respectable. That's my motivation.

And rank should reset. Part of the fun in the ladder is actually climbing it. If you plateau, you don't rise or fall which isn't fun and results in the dumbass mentality that Riot's created a wall that isn't there.

Khä Zïx1 votes

BTW the silver 3 thing was just a jab at my friend. Wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But this post was more so about me wanting more people to play ranked and experience it often.

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