Rankings in LOL;
Ranking System: There is a huge part of LOL that is a "Teamwork" aspect no doubt; and I will state this before this idea gets crucified.
There has to be a better way to choose rank and I believe it is by each games K/D/A and that ALONE.
A part of me wants to say it would be to create a Solo Queue to be ranked at the beginning of each season, but the facts are, that is not a good idea due to the many different aspects of play and not everyone's K/D/A is indicative of their playing ability.
At the end of the day, when I am consistently trying to run between lanes to try and keep my partners lanes up and I am missing CS and other achievements because I am helping a teammate, yet still they continue to lose towers and farm way past the river without a single ward in our Jungle. It's just ludicrous and gets old ... and more importantly makes the game CRAP.
The only way to play League in a ranked format anymore is point blank to play with people you have already played with. Sadly I have went into games with 4 people (PREMADE) and gotten a Bard ADC, then a few games later gotten a Twitch jungle. I try to be positive and not just "Dodge" the games, because I try to give people a chance, and think maybe if they just don't feed, yet it happened both times in these two situations. I'm talking just running into lanes, not just making bad plays but either #1 being on bad connections, or #2 not knowing how to play the game. At least I would like to think they are not doing it on purpose .. I mean, "Why would they ?"
I don't want to play with these people anymore. Is there any way to stop this, other than playing with people whom I've already played with ? Sadly I think the answer to this is "NO". And this is sad, as I love to play with new people ... even if they are not just awesome players. I can handle a player getting stomped in lane, but to continuously run into bad situations. It's Sad, and its making me look for a better game. Whatever that may be.
Continued Fan of LOL ...