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Arbitrariness(Elo Hell)

Zelmarked·5/18/2015, 4:38:47 PM·2 votes·889 views

Last game I queued up for had no communication in the lobby. I'm first pick so I call support as so to prevent countering and another calls top. I tried TWICE to get others to call their lane but nothing. While 2nd pick had already claimed Lucian, our 5th pick autolocks cait and says nothing. Suddenly my team speaks up but nobody bails. Naturally we surrendered. Cait went mid and no, did not pull some miraculous meta breaking stunt. She went 4/13/5. Enemy team built armor. Our Udyr went afk near the end and I don't blame him. He was carrying the best he could.

My whole time playing this season has been arbitrary. I started in B3. Got deranked to B4. Then moved up to B2. Now after last match I'm back to B3. I think my skill as a player has little to do with whether I win or not. It's mostly to do with a dice roll that's called champ select. Will our team get the afk/troll, or will the enemy team get the afk/troll? Will I have to be the one that bails to avoid the champ select terrorist that didn't get the lane he wanted? I keep playing because it's fun. But I don't ever boot up a game knowing I'll get a competitive experience. If you asked me in a general sense, "Is league of legends competitive", I'd tell you yes. But from game to game, the arbitrary nature that is champ select, no. It's not. I could play another hundred or so games and make it to silver, but do I have the patience for that?

Above all I hate how you're ranked as an individual based on your W/L but your W/L is based on a vast majority of factors outside of your control. Your efforts as an individual are mute.

(Also the 20min limit for surrenders should be removed. If you have a afk/feeder, it's an obvious loss.)

9 Comments

Kazaashi5/18/2015, 5:25:40 PM2 votes

There is no MMR penalty for a dodge, but you will lose a series game and like 5 LP.

Ranked is no more arbitrary than normals. People just have a lot of stress over a stupid ranking. Which causes them to act like jerks.

Your individual efforts are not moot, you just have to make sure that your efforts are increasing your chances of wining the game.

I think about Ranked this way and it has helped me tremendously:

40% of your games are going to be lost due to DC/AFK/Feeder/Troll/etc on your team.

40% of your games are going to be won due to a DC/AFK/Feeder/Troll/etc on the enemy team.

Only about 20% of the games you play in Ranked will you be able to have any meaningful impact in. It is those games that you have to identify and make sure your contribution is positive and leads your team to a win.

Zelmarked5/18/2015, 4:41:46 PM1 votes

Also question. If you're at 0LP and bail, do you ever get deranked or can you continue to skirt undesirable queues?

S H A Y C 05/18/2015, 4:44:18 PM1 votes

unless you plan to build damage and carry the crap out of that game..dont pick support on purpose in solo Q

you need a carry role, and you need a very sturdy back pack.

Renaille6/2/2015, 10:19:29 PM1 votes

Our Udyr went afk near the end and I don't blame him. He was carrying the best he could.

If he wanted to carry he should not have picked something like Udyr. Mid cait> udyr