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League is becoming a team game. This is why people hate it.

Sentrık·8/4/2018, 11:48:36 PM·9 votes·3,388 views

So, I read some player behaviour post about the immense toxicity in Silver and decided to make this post about what League is, and attempt to convey my criticisms in the most creative, organized, and unbiased way I can. That being said, I am a low Gold player.

Earlier Seasons

  1. So back in earlier seasons, you could carry your way through games, and you could tell the difference between players depending on their ranks.
  2. Players could be 1 of 3 things:
  • Someone who had the skill to carry their games on their own, and who deserved their high-elo rank
  • Someone who was lucky enough to get games with people and climb off the backs of others, usually in mid-elo
  • And someone who lacked skill and experience in the game, usually low-elo
  • League of Legends used to be a game where the strong and skilled would be able to climb, the lucky would get free wins, and the un-skilled toxic players were left behind.

League Today

  1. It might be fairly obvious to some people, but League is becoming a team game. You now have to work with your team to push objectives and initiate fights
  • The reason people hate the state League is in now is that fighting as a team is something you can only accomplish with coordination. In low elos like Bronze, and Silver 5-4, people don't really know how to play the game as well, so they're more accepting to leadership, but in High Silver to High Gold, you have people who will fight to be the leader no matter what. Everyone thinks they know how to play the game, and that everyone else is bad. It's just a toxic elo.
  • In my opinion, the game should take elements from the current patch as well as elements from earlier seasons. This would be something like the hard carry potential of earlier seasons, with a rival strategy of teamwork. Make it so that assassins don't own the game. Right now you need an assassin on your team or your chances of winning plummet.
  • Currently the game is in a really bad spot. Riot has released Zoe, which on her own isn't that bad. But currently we are forced to play as a team, and Zoe does the absolute opposite. She isn't a champion that compliments anyone. The problem is that the team game Riot's built, is being threatened by solo carry champions, like Zoe. Riot either needs to make the play-style of teams more diverse or stick with their choice of making League of Legends a team game.

I'm open to criticisms, but keep it from being biased to how your teams are. Everyone gets bad teammates, I'm talking about the game as a whole.

Edit: People seem to not understand, or didn't read, this post. I'm not saying that a team game is a fundamentally bad system. I'm saying that the game contradicts the style that it's going for, with the champions being released. Riot should release a streamlined way to coordinate, or change the fundamental strategy of the game to something more rewarding for skill.

19 Comments

5050BS8/5/2018, 12:10:03 AM4 votes

They need to reset EVERYONES Rank and MMR and remove Duo.

Ranked should be SoloQ only.

You want to play with Friends? Thats what Normals are for.

Then we add in the Wood Rank.

Then we make it so ALL new accounts and new to Rank start at MMR 0 and Climb UP instead of the shit they do now,

z63XnLCMwX8/5/2018, 12:29:38 AM4 votes

We don't hate it because it's a team game. We hate it because the people on our team refuses to co-operate.

Heos008/5/2018, 12:18:38 AM1 votes

lol just got a winning streak like 15 games, everyone knews how to teamworkk and do great team comps and out draft the enemy team, in that 15 games i have been able to carry the 15 games with scores like 10/3 15/4 etc. after climbing to diamond the system just put me the worsts players that the diamond 5 elo has to offer and was like, no one knew how to draft, every game 4 assassin comp where no one got feed and just tilters and inters... like wtf? all of this in d3-d5 elo as a main adc, how i help the other lanes when they just feed hard as they can and you have no real support and no real tank? lol... inorganic forced 50% wr

Hyquiem8/5/2018, 12:20:20 AM1 votes

Tbh it’s ment to be a team game but it’s getting hated due to intellect. By that I mean a player who wants to win will be putting up anything to do it and striving forward a player who wants to improve will do the same thing. However there are some players that become utter trash. And when they get flamed for it, they cry. They loose. By trash I don’t mean a feeder. Let me clarify, a utter trash player is one who gives up, starts saying “reported” and trolls his team. This is so often that it become hard to play. The reason this contributes to leagues hate is the most fed player on the team can’t control the utter trash player. Thus the increase of toxicity, thus the increase of complains, thus the hate league gains now due to people making the same mistake 3 times and not learning but on top of that they have an excuse.

And yes we’ll know there are some games that are just unwinnable. But it hurts any/every player who puts his time and mind to turtle a game and seeing his team suicide and now he has to 1v9. The hate league gets now is b/c that one feeder can make you loose the game/lane. But one fed person on your team can’t carry so easily. But the major point is, there’s nothing the fed player can do to get his teammate back into the game.

Leagues hate doesnt come from the fact it’s a team game, it comes from the fact you can’t help a team member as a team. Though I have no solution. And my opinion will not count since I’m silver. But in terms of logic as any player who plays the game it’s fair to say, it’s harder to help a teammate who’s behind then to work as a team.

GankLord11/2/2019, 6:30:35 AM1 votes

I mean Riot has to take some responsibility though. I still find it ridiculous that voice chat isn't an automatic thing that if you don't want to do you can disable it.