FIX THE RANKING SYSTEM! FIX THE COMMUNITY!
I have played league of legends for all of season 3. I love the game. I can't stand the community. But, after thousands of games played and trying to get through the gold elo struggle. I have decided that ranking up is merely luck.
Think about it this way, every ranked game that you are apart of, you are only 1/10th the final equation. This means if you play your absolute best, you can only affect 10% of the outcome. This means every game you only have a 10% influence on your win.
In my honest opinion this is unfair, and I think that the ranking should separate skill lvl by fundamental things such as.: -AVG CS / MIN -kill participation -towers killed -dragon participation -ward participation (placing / removing) -towers defended -objective participation
Having a set of fundamentals to rank off of would be a good threshold to even compete in ranked. That way if you cant even meet basic fundamentals... you should not be playing in a ranked game. With this requirement, going into your next ranked game at least you can have faith that your teammate knows what the hell the are actually doing in a game.
I know one argument against this idea would be that, "well then everyone would just farm a bunch and only go for objectives"... and to this I say YES!!!! exactly. I find in the bronze / silver / gold elo, the reason people have such struggle, is because most do not push their lanes before leaving them., or because a team doesn't pick up a tower after a few kills, or a dragon, or a baron, or an INHIB!!!!
I win games when I go 0/15 and lose games when I am 15-0.. Why is this??? because I am only 1/10th of the equation... 10%... try passing any class where you only have say over 10% of your grade. It would be impossible, and if we allow for the other 90% to be determined by your classmates. Then your final grade would be 10% + whatever your classmates do (hope your classmates not only put in the effort, but also did the work correctly).
My point is, to decide who ranks up purely on WIN / LOSS seems slanted opposite your favor. Not to say, that the best players will eventually make it to the top, but this system requires 1000s of more games to play because it isn't based off of you gaining more skill or exp or knowledge. It is based on luck... every game you have a 10% affect on the outcome of the game
simple odds will tell you that 1/10 * 1/10 * 1/10 * 1/10 * 1/10 = 1/100,000 overall affect on outcome, simulating 5 games played at random
Even if this math is somewhat bias, as every new game has its own separate chance . You must now understand my point. No matter how good you do in any given game at the lower elos, you are only as good as your feedin jinx adc, who seems to think 63 cs and a pick axe = FED, 1v3'in every chance she gets.
League of legends is a heavily reliant on your team working together to succeed with a victory after all said and done. Maybe a basketball comparison will be a better example. One kid on your squad of five, cannot dribble the basketball. This is going to have extreme affect on your teams ability to do anything in that game. Because whenever that one kid gets the ball. He can't dribble. I know what you are thinking, this is exaggeration to the fullest. But i am trying to prove a point. Now imagine you have 2 kids.... 3..... who cannot dribble the ball... a FUNDAMENTAL of basketball.
Just like dribbling is a fundamental of basketball.. CS, vision control, objective control, etc.. are fundamentals of league of legends.
There should be a 'FUNDAMENTALS REQUIREMENT' before being able to compete in ranked. period. period. period. Just because you hit lvl 30 on your account does not make you a master of the game.. ready to compete against other players.
So either there should be a requirement before you are even able to enter the playing field of other ranked combatants, or ranking should be based on personal improvement up to a certain skill cap, so at least you know that every team you get placed on.. the other 4 people w/ you have also hopped through the fundamental hurdles to be able to compete at this stage in the game.
I will stop playing league of legends based on the idea, that I am sick of queuing up for ranked games at a crap shoot to whether my teammates will be able to perform at a certain skill lvl or whether it is a bronze fest of chasing enemies from our nexus to theirs(WURF that 300g and loss of both mid turrets dragon and our support for trying to come to aid).
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS RIOT.
I believe League of Legends has the worst rap for a horrible community on 3 basic facts:
- feeling like you have no control over your wins and losses no matter how well you personally do. This then turns into raging at your teammates, to let your frustrations about riots dreadful ranking system out on someone else. This in turn shows other players its ok to rage.. and the cycle begins.
- having no control or influence on your rank, because you are only 1/10th of the equation in any given game
- there is no reward for personally improving, which gives no incentive to become better
DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR RANKING SYSTEM RIOT.
The ranking system .... especially in SOLO/DUO queue... should reward ranks based on your improvement as a player. Not on your ability to carry 4 other players who are not yet competing at your skill level. You should also be rewarded for doing "team plays" like dragons, or vision control, or towers, kill participation, BUT on an individual basis. I should not be punished ELO wise for having 3 d/cs in 3 back to back games.
Anyways, I think I am getting redundant.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR RANKING SYSTEM RIOT IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR COMMUNITY.
When players feel they have direct control over their personal gains and rewards, that player will have better energy and positive energy towards the activity they are participating in.
When players feel they have little to no control over their personal gains and rewards, that player will have negative energy towards the activity they are participating in.
BASIC PSYCHOLOGY
Fix your ranking system to better reward individual improvement based on fundamental league of legends skills, and you will better your community as a whole.
Thanks
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