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Ranked is actually rediculous

NeverGiveUpGuy··2 votes·1,200 views

I don't know how the ranked system is supposed to be fair. The last week alone I've gone from Silver 3 to Silver 2 and back to Silver 3 about 6 times. I swear it's like I stomp a game with teammates who are 2 tiers above me, or lose a game with 4 players who are 4 tiers below me. There's no in between where everyone is on the same page as me. Last game for example I opened middle, took inhibitor, and the two turrets guarding Nexus. One person guards base while enemy Tryndamere pushes, Irelia guards the enemy Nexus alone. My other 3 teammates, despite me repeatedly pinging to come mid and end the game, go bottom and push 2 turrets and an inhibitor before we lose to Tryndameres push. I'm saying in chat just simply "COME MID, END THE GAME" over and over, yet they go bottom and push for 30-40 seconds and we lose. 4 of us simply could have walked mid with our pushed wave of supers, and ended the game.

Its like my teammates are not on the same mindset of how to play the game as me. I feel like if there was 4 of me, in every role, we'd win the game. I'm not saying I'm a genius, but I understand the mechanics of how to play the game and what to do at certain points. I've been studying this over and over for months. Yet my teammates can't follow suit. Last game was an easy win, but because they couldn't see to come mid they lost. Seriously, go watch it, you will cry at the end when they kill 3 of the enemy with a pushed nexus open middle and they all go bot except for me.

I don't even want to play this anymore, the tables are always against me no matter how well I'm doing and I'll get a team that knows what there doing like every 1/6 games. I don't always win lane, but I still have a general grasp on how to defend when things go bad. Everyone else on my team just gets stomped and gives up.

Things need to change or people will eventually get fed up and quit. It's frustrating to lose games when you're trying hard and someone quits or goes to pee at 36minutes or trolls/afks/feeds/can't do simple things like end the game.

I know I'm going to get flamed for this post, and I don't really care. I'm not a pro by any means but the ranked system is completely unfair and I'm sick of it. If nobody complains it will never get better, it's the same with our society and look at how that's turning out.

13 Comments

Hoffdaddy3 votes

forget ranked....too many trolls, just play ARAM

NeverGiveUpGuy2 votes

Haha I might just do that! I honestly think there's more trolls than people actively trying to win games in ranked.

Madsin252 votes

I was hard stuck s3-s5 for months, and I bet many others were also stuck aswell.

The fact is I was bad. I facechecked every bush. I had garbage CS and garbage map awareness. I made 1v5 plays without thinking. I had horrible horrible mechanics.

The fact is all of this is still true, just not as bad as it use to be.

NeverGiveUpGuy2 votes

I agree. All the little things can add up to a lot.

STEG02 votes

I experienced a similar phenomenon and made a reddit post about it a while ago, i was basically alternating between chains of easily winnable games and impossible games. It's a little harder to verify now because this was last year and posters could see the match history but i did post some screen caps at points in the roller coaster.

I would have easy wins for about 10-15 games in a row until I ranked up then I would have games that were pretty much unwinnable due to both the skill levels of the two teams in comparison.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/6ttbbn/rapid_rank_changes_up_down/

I don't care what my rank is so I didn't post that to complain about it, but the pattern would be a statistical impossibility unless LoL's MMR system has additional tweaking that fixed games further beyond how an MMR system would work. By the end of the test when i lost interest in LoL for the season i had gone absolute straight up and down 5 times in a totally predictable cycle.

Here was one of the screen caps on the way up: https://68.media.tumblr.com/315eb5807fb25998a681fb9395ce1b2b/tumblr_ov39gk7B4i1ubnr1mo1_1280.jpg even here the losses were results of hard to recover things like early dc or very emotional team mate. Some of the climbs were pure 100% win rates.

and on the way down it was the inverse of that entirely.

I've learned that the best thing to do is play to win but not care about your ranking at all, it's out of your hands for the most part. Some people suggest to play normal but I think that's a mistake also because the games are to easy I can't improve there. I like ranked because it's a little more difficult the only issue is people are so much more emotional there that a majority of games do have people having tempertantrums and basically losing their games on purpose. More challenging games with more of them decided by who has a tempertantrums vs Easier games where no one is taking it seriously.

SangreDeNoche1 votes

I think I saw that post. I agree, just wanted to get that out there.

Add922 votes

Ok so it's gonna sound harsh but it's not meant to be harsh just tough love.

Anything from low silver to mid gold is the same level ( I won't talk about bronze cause idk how you can make it to bronze at all unless you int all your games ) . Same players with no awareness whatsoever , so even if you get matched with G5 in your games , the only difference is a nicer border .

Also, if you still linger in silver elo after 300 games , it's not your team . it's you . It sucks I know but it's you .

40% of the game are unwinnable you can't do anything even if you're challenger your teammates will just throw too hard, 40% winnable whatever you do or don't do , your teammates go even or win , everything flows 20% you'll make the difference.

Focus on yourself . Your macro , your csing , your champ pool , your matchups , your itemization , your laning phase , your wave management, your VISION SCORE which might be the most important thing and yet the most underrated .

Most new players will be placed silver 2-3 after placements on a new account, and the monkeys are on your team but ALSO on enemy team and you have to capitalize on it.

You wanna climb ? Play the god tiers champions well and play them often .

I recently got a fresh account level 30 , got place silver 2 after going 8-2 placements , stayed in silver for may be 15 games give or take .

Gotta accept the fact that half of your games you'll get the monkey on your team and you'll have to just deal with it . that's league at the moment especially in your elo

Watch streamers a LOT , observe how they play, how they CS , why they just decided to push a wave , how they create a slow push . etc etc etc .

NeverGiveUpGuy1 votes

"I recently got a fresh account level 30 , got place silver 2 after going 8-2 placements , stayed in silver for may be 15 games give or take . " This account I went 8-2 and got placed Gold 5. I climbed to Gold 4 at one point, then for some reason I lost about 17 games ina row (yes I know it's a lot, I couldn't believe it either). The games I was playing before that were nice, there was good communication, nobody was flaming, people weren't trolling. Then one day, I go to play ranked, lose 3 games in a row. The next day same thing. I wasn't frustrated, infact a lot of the games went good but just got lost at the end. After this huge loss streak I ended up silver 1. I hit promos a few times but the promo games were insane and I think I got back to Gold 5 once but immediately lost a few games and got demoted. From there it was just troll team after troll team until I hit Silver 4. I kid you not, I was climbing in Gold at one point. My last game, I was doing good with Yi. We lost because 3 of my teammates chased an Alistar bottom, while the enemy walked up our mid lane and killed nexus turrets/nexus. Go watch it! It's ridiculous! There was nothing I could have done to win that game, and I went back to Silver 4 64LP.

I thank you for the advice, but I honestly think I just took a few games too slack and got sucked into the endless void that is ELO HELL. My fault, but this account can't be saved at this point lol. Hopefully you're right, and I am shit, recognize my mistakes, and not waste my time grinding to Bronze on yet another account... but hey!! That wouldn't be any fun now would it? Where's the sense in that :D Have a great day sir!

Add922 votes

Best thing you can do to climb is take like a week off , just dont play at all , then reconsider your champ pool .

I find the easiest way to climb is to play jungle usually cause if you get slightly ahead your laners will have a tendency to listen to your shot calling . Look at the god tiers junglers and learn one of them in normals .

My one trick is nocturne , it works at any elo and it's amaziing to increase your map awareness as your ult is a semi global ult .

give it a try ! You can check my build or some replays on my main account Add92 so you can see pathing , how to gank as noc pre-6 post-6 etc etc , let me know if you need any help , the basics to climb out of gold are fairly easy to understand and master bro !

NeverGiveUpGuy1 votes

Thanks for the advice, I'm going to try again and just play better, smarter, faster stronger. Together I'll work it out.

BlueBilberry1 votes

Keep in mind that we are now in the silly season for ranked. Boosters and boosted are going to be quite evident. On top of that, the effects of such boosting are going to artificially lower the ranks that some players are at.

JawoPaul1 votes

Even if you have the better stragegy, in your team yu cant just do it without your team if they do not respond to you pings and chat. Then stop doing it and play along with them. Makro play.

Also silver, feel the pain, happens ever 3 game

HyyerCosmos1 votes

You don't know the struggle until you reach Platinum 1 - Diamond 5.....those games always seem unwinnable.

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