Position Ranks Made Ranked Worse: Confessions of Someone Who Wanted to Give It a Chance
What do I mean by this? Fillers. The people that dedicated extensive amounts of time to learning to play as many roles as possible and honing their abilities to adapt literally any role they were placed in. Riot said they were gonna award these players with position ranks. They said that fill players would earn more lp than ever but the reality is the exact opposite. Are you telling me that if I jump on the adc role, win three games and then lose one, so I move to jungle to change things up and I gotta earn lp from a division behind??? It's like managing five separate accounts! It's the most annoying thing in the planet. I'm discouraged from diversifying my skillset because I finish a few games top and think about playing ADC for a bit, only to decide against that because my top rank is gold 3 and my ADC rank is gold 4. Like, hell no, I'm not about to spend an entire day's worth of games playing ADC only to end up a little closer to where my top rank is. I'd rather just play top at this point and keep at it. It removes diversity of experience from the game and I find myself getting bored of the game faster by being constantly slapped with FIVE different ranks for each role. It's annoying and hasn't enriched my experience of ranked at all. It makes being fill, or someone who can skillfully play all five roles, feel worse, dull, and irritating.
