Double deranks?
What is with the double rank loss when you get demoted?
I lost 5 promotions to get to G5 (which is crazy in itself) then fell on like a 10-15 game losing streak. I am really getting sick of being punished for people afking after 2-3 deaths. And just having "that" team in general... you can't climb with a support solo. The concept of climbing the ranks should bring better players right? Cuase I ain't doing it to brag to the 13yo kids so I can talk down to them... I miss when the few thousand games I played determined who I got grouped with. I am literally playing with people who just got lv 30. And those poor bastards getting decimated isn't going to make them want to stick around and get better at league... They are more prone to move onto a game with a better pairing system. Where they can learn with other noobies and not get destroyed for buying the wrong boots.
The sad fact here is, the only reason I am playing ranked after 7 years... is that my Treeline got cut down. I got to lv 30 playing in those trees back when it had an abundance of reptiles and a scarcity of arachnids. This new dynamic means there very little else to do in league. ...And between that and making MASSIVE game play changes in season 10(which I won't rant about here)... it is like playing an entirely different game than the game I used to love to play.
Being as I got a double... double.. demotion... and now I am ironXsomething, I don't have the will to sit through that many crap games so I can enjoy a higher level of game play. I have to be honest, even in S1 I still didn't see it often (although it was there from time to time). I was really hoping that gold games would bring more fulfilling games... at the very least have a smaller % of afkers, fobs, and maybe hard core feeders. But I will won't be finding out anytime soon LOL. It was grueling to play that many one sided games even while climbing. I had to tell myself the crap games are so I could play good ones later. When I sit and contemplate that thought, it doesn't sound right to me.
Fix your system RITO... I will be back in a couple years when I get bored of something better to check in and see if you guys still have it wrong.
This game is so champion saturated because that is where the $$$ is at. My circle actually gave up on remembering the mountain of new names for all of the "different" champions. We literally just call them cait2.0, thresh2.0, and so on.... Heck even J4 and Thresh have a similar kit... I used to call him supportj4 when he was new lol. My point is with so many different characters it is hard to make them unique and usually that new spin makes something else obsolete. At least older champs are being "remade" after they are determined obsolete and dated. The good news here... is that you can save a nice pocket of money on character development by just assigning them bar codes instead of names... because no one really pay attention due to the bombardment of "new" champions. The one continual nick name we had that always held true was "that new broken champ". Every champ released in the past 7 years has been intentionally unbalanced right out of the door. This is likely to hike sales and offer a "pay to win" feature. Surely people who spend so much time polishing champions, as a career, have a means of balancing numbers. Let me rephrase... not once I have seen a champ released who wasn't ripped. "This is our new support" PENTAKILL. Unfortunately this is what killed most of my group, years ago. Thankfully banning became an option.
In the same breath, when you cut out the limited options of game play that LOL had to offer... the only thing left is different champions. It is hard to want to get behind the Team Fight Whatever Thing... because it wont stick around forever. It could be an incredibly huge waste of invested time when it blips out of existence. I haven't even bothered looking at it. I mean... does anyone remember playing Dominion? poof
As much as Rito loves the Rift... it is just so dang boring. I enjoyed the few changes to it, the new elemental dragon thing was neat but it wore off ( I am actually seeing huge flaws in it now). In fact you could probably have just named the game "Summoner's Rift" or if you must "League of Rift" but then people would have got it confused with "Rift" the mmorpg. Maybe the name of the "game mode", or more accurately the map, should have been changed to "Summoner's League" or better yet "the only map we have" would probably win my vote.
I can't stomach playing the same map, with the same half baked players, pick the "new" and broken champ that made one we used to love obsolete. And the backside of the League bottle reads... rinse and repeat
Oh snap, we hit 3 different topics... this should have been posted under rant! Oh well, it doesn't matter... I hope that some of this information helps on some level. I am outa here.
