Five losses in a row to players on my team having scores like 1-8 or 0-7

Yenn·Feb 16, 2015·3 votes·399 views

Remind me why I'm punished because half of my team somehow managed to get from Silver to Diamond without improving their play? This is really fucking sad.

5 Comments

MohawkBirdFeb 16, 20152 votes

[deleted]

YennFeb 16, 20152 votes

{quoted}

You still make these posts?

I'm still getting players who are playing so badly that it's indistinguishable from intentional feeding? I mean, this has been a problem since the 'balance' shift in S4 and still nothing has been done.

MrPerson10Feb 17, 20151 votes

People were carried into diamond in S4 before riot implimented reduced LP gains while pairing with those placed higher than you and reduced placement effect from duo queueing in provisionals.

Combined with previous season MMR and league being diamond and them using champs without mechanics (ex: yi) during their provisionals, where they're matched with everyone - they remain in low diamond with no effort.

YennFeb 17, 20151 votes

{quoted}

People were carried into diamond in S4 before riot implimented reduced LP gains while pairing with those placed higher than you and reduced placement effect from duo queueing in provisionals.

Combined with previous season MMR and league being diamond and them using champs without mechanics (ex: yi) during their provisionals, where they're matched with everyone - they remain in low diamond with no effort.

The problem is more that in order to win games, you just have to not be the worst player on your team. It doesn't matter how good you are beyond the not feeding mark, you have no positive impact on the game.

As a result, we get tons of players who are mechanically okay at two or three champions, but don't buy wards, make terrible decisions, have no awareness, etc. reaching Diamond. Especially bursty champions; if they're ahead, they can turn a gank into a double kill.

MrPerson10Feb 17, 20151 votes

Zed mains forever. Safe play, easy escapes, virtually immune to CC if you can shadow jump decently.

In their climb to Diamond, these people never had to pick up on any decision making, never needed to buy wards because warding one side is enough for zed's laning phase (and hardly necessary) - and because of that, require no map awareness. As soon as Zed's banned, they're clueless as to how to lane and become the best feeders on League because they don't understand the concepts the rest of the Diamond population do.

Edit: I personally have no quarrels with Zed, I just enjoy playing heimerdinger into him as an equally safe pick which solves a great deal of "problems" people seem to experience vs a zed since everyone likes to complain about his waveclear and roaming ability, but to roam you should usually push your lane out where you can't push far vs a decent heimer. Keeps him in lane a little longer, and let's face it - it's impossible to miss CS as heimerdinger. The issue becomes when these Zed mains start to branch out to other champs and don't have the mechanical capability of other "True diamond" level players.