Let's talk ranked, why i quit playing it, and what would make me come back.

so i saw your video

now i am going to provide some background, if u don't like reading you can skip ahead to the first line break

i start playing in season 3. i ranked into silver 1 in the postseason 3. which i flat out did NOT deserve

i played like a bronze back then

by the time season 4 really did come around i learned enough to climb to silver 2 from siver 4 which is what i fell to. at this point in time i play like a silver

by the time season 5 came around i was heaving a great time.. i loved the rework. but as always during a preseason i was slightly demoted to silver 4

however u guys decided to absolutely KILL laning nidalee and FORCED her into the jungle. so i quit league entirely until the release of challenger nid. at this time i forced myself to painfull learn my fav champion in her new role.. not only that i had to learned it about 8 speprate time because YOU KEPT FUCKING CHANGING IT. by time time though i stopped playing ranked becuase of "dynamic boost" and not wanting the first season i get gold to have no meaning. so i climbed from bronze preseason where i quick was demoted to bronze 4 0 lp after not playing for like 8 months and eventually climbed back to silver once i got the hang of the game again

in season 7 i was demoted bronze again but very quickly climbed out on a 16 game win-streak with my new support i have started in season 6

the laster half of season 7 i was unable to play ranked due to ping issues (exceeding 500 for minutes at a time) that made risking ranked impossible.

in season 8. i was not demoted to bronze but have stopped playing ranked.

and here is why:

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when i was placed into silver 1 in season 3.. i played like what i came to learn was a bronze 3 or 4 skill level. i had basic moba mechanics fro playing another in "hero attack" in starcraft 2 but i have zero game knowledge this i quickly learned and a climbed back to an actual skill level

but what i learned was

riot system was STILL putting BRAND NEW PLAYERS into not just silver, but HIGH silver who have ZERO game knowledge, don't know any matchups and barely know how to play the champion at a bronze level let alone the game.

the issue that stopped me playing ranked was. well over HALF and leaning toward 70-80% of games were flat out decided by matchmaking before we even entered champion select.

whenever i got the 20-30% of games where the teams were even.. it was fun. and it was pretty even

but i would CONSTANTLY get players on both teams who would by themselves cost their team the game and the other 9 players in the game didn't matter

that ONE new player decided the outcome of the game. the skill level gap was so enormous. that even a player i could easily beat woudl have 8 kills and then be nigh unbeatable because some brand new player FED them.

if u WANT to fix the ranked system STOP putting new players in silver.

there isn't a new player on the planet that could climb out of bronze. DO NOT put them in silver it RUINS the silver games.

because you LITERALLY have zero control over the outcome in well over half your games and might as well just be spectating.

in bronze a player can "outplay" a fed player because their still just THAT BAD. But it isn't like that in silver.

i can outplay people i am a bit behind sure... but there is a point where you just cant if the opponent just doesn't COMPLETELY fuck it up.

and certain champions being broken make this tremendously worse.

champion right now such as and take so little skill to play but in order to BEAT a player at "X" skill lvl u need to have "2X" or even "3X" skill level. and if said champion just HAPPENS to also be your hardcounter.. then you are just laughably screwed.

this also al;lowed players who SUCK to climb to where they shouldn't be.

and if for w/e reason those players DON'T get the absurdly OP champion because its BANNED. they they just feed their ass off because they don't know how to actually play

you are making a new "wood" league ( i refuse to call it "iron", get real riot...) GOOD use this league to filter in the newer players STOP putting them in silver.

in your video u described how "easy" it is to climb in gold.

you want to know WHY? because the skill it takes to CLIMB out of silver when u can influence the outcome of only, say 30-40% of your games, means is ABSURD and once u reach gold and u can influence maybe 80-90%.. climbing is a joke.

people say "riot puts people into silver because the "average" skill of players is silver.

BUT THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE!! The ISSUE is it put NEW players in silver and "NEW" players arn't your "average" player.. they are NEW and they play at a LOW BRONZE skill lvl.

and when they get good enough they can climb to silver... but then what happens? the face a mixture of players how proved themselves by climbing into silver by BEATING bad player many many times

and BRAND NEW PLAYERS who are BAD, because they are NEW. and those said player who justd climbed out of bronze have absolutely no issue getting crazy fed off the new players. which leaves the other people who climbed out of bronze stuck dealing with a 15 kill champion that u cant even 4v1.

as soon as u PUT NEW PLAYERS IN BRONZE this issue will GO AWAY.

THAT is what needs to be done.