Something I've noticed that would save A LOT of people from getting banned.

Blam·10/31/2018, 8:07:27 AM·3 votes·1,653 views

I don't feel like making a huge post. Basically Riot needs to fix their Normal game matchmaking. People will be getting their shit kicked in, brutally. Little did they ever know the other team is BEYOND higher elo collectively. Most people are toxic,imo because they think everyone is playing on the same level. I guarantee people would feel less inclined to be toxic against their own teamates if they knew how lopsided matchmaking REALLY is...'can' be. It REALLY isn't consistent enough.

I want to write more about how Riot should involve some kind of friend finding feature into the client. It just doesn't occur to them why it's a good idea. I wish Rioters could speak to NON-Riot employees, friends and family that play the game FOR FUN at low elo majority of the time normal games. And ask them how much they would prefer if they could find other people to play with vs playing solo. Sure you would find toxic people, but you can also find amazing people.

The most fair games I've ever experienced when que'ing SOLO (in normal) was when team builder existed. I wish Riot would revisit more options.

11 Comments

Blam10/31/2018, 8:15:51 AM1 votes

I remember when Riot made a promise to us about how they would create a way for people to easily find other people to play with for those times when there were IP reward weekends and you'd get more IP for being in a larger premade.

First of all that NEVER happened. Beyond that they even made it MORE convoluted, not only do you have to ONLY go on the forums now(there used to be chat rooms in the old client) It's literally a SUB-category for finding people to play the game with.

Riot: who the fuck. as a new player is going to know how to run your gauntlet of accessibility for SIMPLY. FINDING. OTHER. PEOPLE. TO. PLAY. WITH. :(

The only people I usually ever find are plat/gold/diamond. That's because they've been around long enough to know how to navigate.

The MAJORITY of players are silver and below. Basically, you're just shitting on them.

Maybe that's just my opinion and not the objective truth.

The Bad Touch10/31/2018, 8:27:19 AM1 votes

The reason people are toxic is simply how hard it is for some roles to solo carry anymore.

Carry roles generally speaking are pretty squishy. With shit like Duskblade/Stormrazor... Predator...Dark Harvest floating around damage and mobility are high enough that you typical league player (Bronze 1 to gold 5) is basically playing a slot machine of which team has the 2 biggest feeders.

Being 22/4/12 on MF with 320 CS at 35 minutes doesn't mean a god damn thing in a world where a 10/6/7 Predator/Duskblade Nocturne exists.

You can individually be doing excellent but if you have 2 guys on your team getting caught 24/7 there just isn't much you can do. If you say anything to them you usually get the response "itss just a game brah who cares" as they solo walk to the enemy red buff for the 5th time and die.

Those guys never get punished but you'll be insta banned for saying "Fucking hell dude group please and stop getting caught."

Danny DeVito irl10/31/2018, 8:29:39 AM1 votes

I thought this would be a very insightful post, turns out it's just another person complaining about matchmaking.

The Bad Touch10/31/2018, 8:33:36 AM1 votes

Example of being a "hardstuck silver lolz" ADC in league these days.

https://imgur.com/a/gm8BRU3

It really just comes down to your luck of teammates.

Support Position10/31/2018, 11:28:57 AM1 votes

Riot is a company that oppresses anything fun.

So Meh. They wont ever fix anything.

nm101010/31/2018, 12:39:47 PM1 votes

I played 100 times more games when team builder existed than I do now. Normals just doesn’t have good matchmaking like team builder used to.