Ranked player quality has dropped so far that I can't even enjoy games I win

Yenn·Jul 14, 2015·9 votes·915 views

Why isn't Riot doing anything to promote skill in ranked? This season and the past have been shifting importance away from skill, and instead capitalizing on counter picks and champion synergy.

These players at Diamond are so terrible that I can actually walk through wards and get successful ganks off, because they just don't notice me. The same happens in the reverse; I can spam pings that I'm coming to gank, and get no reaction from the champion in lane until 3-4 seconds after I've engaged. Just watching these players is giving me brain damage. There's a potential throw by either team every three minutes. I honestly haven't had consistently good matches since playing at high Diamond I in season 3.

This isn't acceptable and should have been dealt with long ago. Bring back the importance of decision making, awareness, and other non-mechanical skills.

7 Comments

SIaytonJul 14, 20151 votes

Nothing changed with the game. There's just more players, and with new divisions, it means the good have floated to the top in master and challenger, and whats left in Diamond i just the "pretty good" players and not the excellent ones.

Its better than it was in plat or gold but I still feel like a lot of players are lacking in Diamond as well myself.

CalabokJul 14, 20151 votes

Top teamwork teams only make the top grades.

H0riz0n234Jul 14, 20151 votes

I have played with silver players and bronze players and will say here is little skill difference at all. I was hoping to making it to silver but its just as worse, I give up on this game :p

YumaS2AstralJul 14, 20151 votes

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I have played with silver players and bronze players and will say here is little skill difference at all. I was hoping to making it to silver but its just as worse, I give up on this game :p

Actually, the difference in skill is very noticeable. The actual problem is that there is little difference on toxicity level. Silver/bronze players and high elo players are equally toxic, their ego is equally large, and both share a problem, in that having a bad early game makes all the hopes go downhill and makes them lose the game not because they don't have late game potential, but because they don't want to hold until late game comes, they just give up too early.

H0riz0n234Jul 14, 20151 votes

I do agree with the toxicity. I hate so much when people give up and end up throwing late game.

Can only FeedJul 14, 20151 votes

I'm Silver and have lost countless times to trolls. Now, before I get chewed out for saying this, keep in mind my norms mmr is a lot higher than silver and on average i play with and against high gold - diamond players.

It just boggles my mind though that despite having such a good mmr in norms, I cant seem to get it in ranked, because when playing with people in ranked i get people way below my mmr. I had an unranked, fresh 30 in my game today who went support and didnt even get sighstone until 30+ minutes in the game, I always pinged mid roaming and our support kept dying to obvious ganks. As the mid laner I had more wards out than our support, and the supp probably went around 1/12/4 by end game.

Whats sad is the thing keeping me in Silver is that I literally cannot win any games, despite going someone really powerful in mid in lower elo (Annie for example), or even my main role, support. People In Silver elo in ranked are honestly so lacking in mechanics, along with awareness and decision making. However, seeing that its like that at higher elo as well from yalls posts, it makes me sad how riot has decided to make ranked mmr this season, I do admit that last season it was a lot worse, (g4 player from last season on my friend list is b5 now). Honestly though I do feel like a bit of balancing to the mmr would be a lot better, they should honestly do it based on the single persons game play rather than the teams they get paired with. I wouldn't mind seeing riot making perhaps a separate way for ranked, where its based on your performance in the game (almost like a solo scoreboard/leaderboard, that isnt determined on rank specifically but perhaps another system? Like maybe youd get points based on objective taking, cs, kills, assists, wards placed, ect depending on your role.) rather than if you get a troll / toxic teammates that would in other scenarios make you lose your lp.

SD1zpsQ3tLJul 15, 20151 votes

Mid silver is just kind of weird, you have people who just started ranked getting placed silver 1-3 not knowing how to play the game normally and getting demoted to silver 5 so I have trouble climbing sometimes in silver, but most of the time I get people who are willing to talk and don't say stuff like "GG NO GANKS REPORTED N00B".