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Proving grounds for Ranked? (TLDR In Comments)

Rynoir·3/22/2017, 1:00:39 AM·2 votes·616 views

I feel very strongly that before you can enter ranked Matches you should have to Do a proving grounds type challenge, Like they do in WoW, let me explain. So When i get into ranked i'm currently in bronze 1 Trying to Escape hell I normally win my lane because I'm cheesing as pantheon, I know i'm not a super good player or anything so this would even Work for a player like me. In World of Warcraft before you do heroic dungeons in the recent Expansions you have to Do a Proving grounds. What this is is a challenge for your Roll, Aka Tank, Healer, Dps. What this includes is a slight challenge that teaches you how to Focus On Adds that do a lot of damage but are hard to hit or a tank that stands still but doesn't take 50 percent of your damage till the adc is Dead, So to the Normal person they would enter and Start wailing on the tank NPC, Naturally the dps would kill them Boom. Now they go back into it saying wow that DPS did a tonne of damage. maybe I'll focus him, Now after going through these Little trials you are able to do Heroic dungeons. some people it doesn't help at all, but it even helped me when i was new to it. I find a lot of times I get matched with people who Seem new Or just really aren't to great at the game Which is fine i understand that some people are better then others. BUT i feel that With a trial like this maybe they could Learn a little something obviously this would be kinda Obnoxious for Smurfs and what not. But People need to learn if someone likes playing ranked for competitive and they don't know a thing and keep getting Killed from not focusing the healer or adc, then they get frustrated at Losing over and over so they Would probably eventually Quit. some people just need a bit of a helping hand. Examples of these Trails could be CS Timer- Get A certain Number of Cs before the timer runs out Focus- Adc and Tank are Attacking you, Kill the adc before the adc Kills you, (have a Healer healing until the time runs out) Jungle Testing- get to level # by the end of the timer and many others, Now all of these can Have Bronze to Diamond level Difficulty Maybe give them a badge or something if they have done diamond Level And make it really hard to complete Or even Screw the badge but I feel that you could make bronze Really easy. that way they Understand then make them have to do Silver to Get into ranked then gold and diamond just for Showing off. Its a Big Steal of an idea From World Of Warcraft But its a Really good system Considering that game has a lot of catch up mechanics now. I want feedback so feel free to let me know what you think about this idea. To me i think it would be so helpful unfortunate for those who cant Play but at least this way they don't go into the game and feed massively and then Meet our wonderful community when they are Raging and end up scaring away potential new players

6 Comments

kristopher2053/22/2017, 1:03:13 AM1 votes

tldr

Rynoir3/22/2017, 1:06:39 AM1 votes

TLDR- We should make New Players go through trails for their rolls before they can que so that people that need practice first dont get into the game and feed and Create flame because our Community is da bes

FioraWillCarry3/22/2017, 1:11:30 AM1 votes

It's not a good idea and I'll explain why. Skill is relative. If this system were in place, you would raise the absolute skill level of the ranked population, however, the same relative difference still exists.

In case it's not clear, lets try to visualize using numbers. Lets say players skill rates from 0 to 10. The average Bronze game might have players between 0 to 4. If a player with a skill level of 2 goes up against a player with a skill level of 4, the lower skilled player feeds because he is outclassed by his opponent. Now with your system, what would happen is that Bronze might be raised to skill levels between 4 to 8 instead of 0 and 4, but what do you think would happen if a 6 went up against an 8. The same feeding would occur. This would not solve the problem of feeders.

Dynikus3/22/2017, 1:36:43 AM1 votes

In World of Warcraft before you do heroic dungeons in the recent Expansions you have to Do a Proving grounds.

They got rid of that because it was pointless. You don't need to get silver in proving grounds before doing heroics in legion because the proving grounds were a joke to pass.