Could riot make a competitive alternative to ranked that ranks your champions individually?
Just saying... I don't play ranked. I am not really into the whole permanent results heightening stakes making everyone is high strung sort of atmosphere. Also don't really care about it that much because apart of winning more often and doing better then everyone else in the rank you are at tends to be picking a strong champion(preferably counter picking the enemy champion(s)) that helps facilitate your ability to preform well. I know this only really matters when you get to the elo "you belong at" with your skill level in the champions you use making many players in their elos with the champs they use exceptions to the fact.
A competitive environment I would care about would be one where your results and elo were linked to your individual champions and your ranking was relative to only that champions pool of players. The level of play you would enter matches into would depend on what level you can play a particular champion at. What I am saying is imagine you pick your champions first. You pick which ones you would play in the roles you are willing to play. So I would pick somthing like Lucian ADC and Thresh SUP(yes the skins have them on my mind okay...). Then after que you get placed into matches based on others not having picked those champions or those roles within your team. Obviously this means there wont be banning or counterpicking but this wont matter to the effective results of such a mode. Doing well on Lucian and ranking up on Lucian means I would go up in rank on Lucian and start facing better players with Lucian. This however does not increase my rank on thresh or make me play thresh against better players. There would be a leader boards for each individual champion. Lucian would have his own rank 1 player with win percentages, KDA, KP, and so on. Then there would be a Rank 1 Thresh with all that as well.
The beauty of this is that you can be fully competitive playing what champion and role you want to and care about. Any kind of meta outside of that champions roles and builds is irrelevent. Instead of competeing with everyone in a given level against whatever is meta you compete with all other Lucians or threshes to be the best Lucian or Thresh. Then of course deciding to do a role or champion you arent as good at or as confortable with doesnt punish the ranks you have on your other champions.
It would be about trying to be the best [insert your main] you can be not the best player in general you can be.
Or maybe i just dont understand how all of whats already available works idk, again i dont really care about it the way it is as i understand it.
