I have never in 3 seasons of being diamond 4/5 seen such inconsistency among individual skill

Boosted animals

It's almost like everyone's boosting because of DQ. You're a bronze player with a couple of gold friends? Looks like you're a gold player now. A gold with a few diamonds, they'll get you up into diamond easy. This system is just so crap.

On EUW Diamond 4 is a decent rating still. I'm diamond 2 at the moment and most diamond 4 games were winnable and somewhat equal unlike plat 1/2 games were I found a lot of boosted players but also boosters.

There were much more inconsistencies in previous seasons due to people not getting their main role and then feeding their ass off. It used to happen much more frequently. There were people tilting before the game had even started because they did not get their role this was the case at any rating. So League really improved on there these benefits are not mentioned much but they are noticeable.

What I did see though especially when I played in platinum is that it is filled with people who have been boosted to diamond, then fell and are obviously not a diamond or even platinum player. Boosting occurs the most at divisions under diamond 5. Above diamond 5 boosters often charge large amounts of money which makes it not worth so much I guess.

Boosting was a huge issue and dynamic queue made it much easier for boosters to boost accounts in a group of 3 or 4 people. 5 people groups are not that good in dynamic queue since you get another group of 5, its easier if you're just going in with a premade of 4 and then just dominating the game which you would do if you're boosting, you can easily get a 97-100% winrate with that tactic at below diamond. The few percentages below 100 is if your 5th person that you got decides to walk down mid lane or feed extremely.

As a multi season Diamond Pride member; I completely agree.

No one that was even remotely a decent player could possibly disagree with this reality.

It's because of Dynamic Que.

Consistent skill begins at high diamond 3 and at diamond 1 you're basically playing with masters(many of which are challengers just smurfing for the shorter queue, which is perfectly fine) and some challengers which makes the skill level pretty consistent from my experience anyways.

Who even pays real money to make his account in an electronic game look more respectable, and then feeding and getting permabanned?

I don't agree that it's "inconsistent", since the total community makeup of each rank has stayed the same, relatively speaking. Before Dynamic Queue was introduced, approximately 8% of the Community (Worldwide) was Platinum, and barely 2% were Diamond.

After Dynamic Queue was introduced, 7.86% of the Communtity (Worldwide) is currently Platinum (Less), and 1.38% are Diamond (Less).

Silver is still where the majority of League of Legends players reside in ranked, at ~32% of players. So I don't really see what you're talking about when it comes to inconsistencies.

I remember Oddone asking someone who complained about him shoving the lane after a kill "Are you plat?"

Everyone sucks, everywhere, it's a meme for a reason.

I'm currently plat 4 in EUW and I'm really not content about this. Last season I made plat 3 and even though there were quite some loud flamers, atleast it was obvious they were in this elo for a reason. Now my experience is that it's surprisingly quiet, (probably due to people skyping?) and it feels like I'm still stuck somewhere between gold and silver. It's either me somehow carrying or my team just getting completely stomped. I can very rarely say that I lost because I was outskilled this season. Ofcourse bad games always happen but when it becomes the norm it's just obvious you're boosted af.

And then there's the boosted animals in the enemy team going 3/2/10 and then shining their flashy badges as if their skill won the game when their premade jungler was just on your as* while completely ignoring the other lanes.

This is actually a funny tactic I came up with by the way, and it practically always works. Just check through lolnexus if your opponent laner is premade with their jungler (check the match history). If yes, expect to be camped and just stand back and farm. If not, place a ward just to be sure but play without any pressure, cus the chances of him ganking you are close to 0%.

Doesn't this just mean that all the fake bronze players who got boosted to diamond you'll easily be able to defeat, be pushed up into master, then you'll end up with opponents that are actually challenging for you?

D5 was always a dumpster filled with boosted and "i dont care, im diamond" players, and now you got premades along with gneral trolls, afkers and feeders.

this season is meaningless, i have no respect for any kind of achievement in ranked this season, comeback next season we will see if there any competitiveness since the surrent season lost it all.

Diamond 4/5 has always been full of boosted animals.....Its no different this season, it's just how low diamond is......Don't keep scapegoating DQ..

And it's only gonna get worse. As individual skill deteriorates, even legit players will slowly have their skill level wither and decay because you no longer need to know all roles and you can just get away with 2 roles.

Maining is one thing but playing 1 one role all the time regardless of elo is a very bad thing. And i feel like higher tiers will suffer a lot more from this because of autofill

but i thought this season is literally legit boosting season

LOLBoosting SEASON

Plat player here, I think its due to the increased snowballing this season. I've noticed that games are much more one sided than before. If you get behind early you have a VERY hard time now.

no, diamond 4/5 just doesn't mean much anymore. DQ has changed the way the ranks work but they really need to adjust the system There is no diamond anymore, in fact I wonder if its realistically possible to get 75% of the community into diamond.