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Ranked and what is wrong with it

LukeNuke8·2/28/2015, 11:51:01 PM·1 votes·960 views

So as a s4 silver 4 i was proud of myself. then s5 placements come around and i get placed bronze 4, kinda sad but i was determined to climb, within a few games i reached my promos and lost them because 2 games i had afks/ toxic. nonetheless i decide to persevere and continue climbing, unfortunately when i reached my promos again i lost again, one game i simply lost fair and square, the second another afk. I decide to try climbing once more and once i am hopeful i have conquered the low elo promos, another afk. I don't know if it is because it is so low elo that afks are normal, and i have afked myself, but never in ranked, i feel as though ranked afks are more serious and should be treated with severity because it seems as though there are punishments for afkers, i people still afk constantly. to clarify I dont really care if people afk in normals, but in ranked, you have devoted yourself to 9 other people that you will play your best for as long as the game needs you too. I am wondering if anyone feels the same way as me. sorry for the long post, kinda just had to complain and cry about it.

3 Comments

Very Hard Engage3/1/2015, 12:21:32 AM1 votes

that is a major problem, you have to be on a spree to get to promos, and rito assumes you can keep the spree up. like say won the last 3, now you need to win 2 more out of the next 3. you would think that just accumulating 100lp would be enough saying "ive consistently won enough games to warrant me going up" honestly 2 things need to happen. first they need to make afks not count towards promo matches. second the game should take into consideration what league everyone else is in (gz your team is all s4~s2, whole enemy team is s2-g5) rito - "but its ok, everyone in your room has the same MMR" (not the case at all, the people from g5 may have just been on a 0-3 losing streak, making it very likely they're going to win the next game) and your s4 buddies may have been on a 3-0 win streak which will abruptly halt right now.

squirrelah3/1/2015, 12:29:23 AM1 votes

im currently silverish and im a lot better than the majority of silver players, but ive consistently gotten worse teams(to be fair my team and the enemy team generally isnt silver level cause my mmr isnt silver). Im convinced that you need to have a duoq to rise consistently. 2 people can carry a game, one cannot. I would say this is even more true for people in bronze than people in silver because such a huge portion of the playerbase is bronze and the lower portions of that are probably significantly worse than the upper.