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LeaguerLegend·May 11, 2017·1 votes·309 views

Why is the solo ranked system based on a 5 man team where literally one player can ruin the whole game? Should Riot look into individual efforts? Or do they just not care about anyone lower than challenger?

3 Comments

Live2LetDieMay 11, 20171 votes

Its a team based game.. Which ever team works more effective together wins. Its that simple.

LeaguerLegendMay 11, 20171 votes

so its the teams fault that the (insert role here) decided to feed? go 0/8?

TsariusMay 15, 20171 votes

There's flaws in all systems. At it's core, this is a 5v5 competitive game. Therefore, the matchmaking and ranking will focus on that. That's what we have now.

Other options and their issues are as follows: Rewarding individual play (kills/assists, gold earned) comes across the issue where people will just farm or drag out games to improve their personal rank. Also, it screws over support pretty hard because they don't really get kills or gold.

Using the current champion ranking at the end of game to determine how the result affects your MMR/league points. This one actually sounds pretty good, but tanks get the shaft here pretty hard. If you're a tank in a game where 2 people are just not playing anywhere near par, you're gonna be the first one going down. This also filters back into option 1 with the idea that people will take actions that are detrimental toward winning, but will improve their rating.

Make a 1v1 ranked system. This is stupid, if I need to explain why this is a bad idea then you might be part of the problem.

Ranked only as premade teams. No. There's so many people who like (or tolerate) solo queue because there's not enough friends who are good at the game.