Ranked System
So in my situation I won 5/10 of my placement games.
So you know I'm expecting to be in a relatively same elo/divison as before. WRONG It dropped me from gold 3 to silver 2. So wtf... that doesnt make sense. Maybe just Maybe if I was playing against silvers and got this score it would make sense. Maybe...
But! Thanks to all of our numerous websites that allow us to look at our enemies team during load screen (eg. lolskill lolnexus 2ez.gg) I know that I was repeatedly facing golds
Then To further the fact, now that Me and everyone else that didn't win 10/10 (yes exaggerated whatever) games is down 5 divisions. Queing is terrible. After spending the entire season getting to a point where I belong I get shot down even lower.... If I was playing against other silvers it would be reasonable to say if I belong in gold I'll relatively quickly just win and win my games until I'm back.
UNFORTUNEATELY, I'm playing against every other gold that didn't have what they needed in their placement games. It makes it so even though I am placed in silver, I'm facing gold elo.... where I unfortunately stopping excessively winning against. Meaning I'm forced to climb from silver to gold while facing golds!
This is stupid and It shouldn't work this way. I don't believe it was intended to either.
I highly doubt riot wanted to implement a system where we had to face our own elo to get out of a elo that has already been defined as worse than us in a previous season.
Granted I know i deserve to be dropped at least a somewhat because I went 5/5. I expected this, but to be dropped from gold 3 to silver 2 just to face other previously gold players is illogical. LITERALLY we are gold players in silver elo.
It may be "just a game" ,but you know people invest alot of time, money, and some people even make a career based around this "game." So while I may be "raging" or "mad and posting because of it" I have merit to do so.
Now, since I'm not one of those "toxic" players (gonna have to trust me on that, I promise I'm not toxic IN GAME I'm going to give me "fix" to the ranked system. I don't know if people have proposed this before or what, but thinking about it I feel as though it makes sense.
1.) Keep the heavy drop rate if you don't do good. It is good to motivate people to spam ranked get better study stats etc. 2.) Look at the season wide elo/mmr ... if you consistently climbed or had a steady win loss win loss be more forgiving for those who clearly belong in the divisions that are at. 3.) Look at player stats to see if they are doing good and teams might be bad or throws may have been done. (While everyone goes over the top with how bad it is, no one can really argue that it doesn't actually happen.) 4.)Riot will love this one! A Money Making Technique --> You get 10 placement games then you get a rank! But wait for the granted expensive but reasonable 1500 RP price which will assure at least a 10$ purchase possibly 15$ if you don't have stragler RP laying around. You could give a Re-roll. YES just like in ARAM! This would mean your hidden elo and placement games are reset. BUT it's risky.... if you use it you are reset... there is no taking the higher score. Once you reset you just start a new! like you never played an ranked this season back to gold 3 back to 1640elo (lolking.net) and still 10 games to play until you get ranked. PS: THIS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING RANKED JUST A SIMPLE NEW PURCHASE IN THE STORE :D 5.) In the beginning of the season... everyone may be everywhere, but make it so you still play against the correct elo teams and correct games. How would you do this if everyone has different MMR and ranks that what they had last season!!! WAIT. LAST SEASON... for an entire month, or lets say 2 to be GENEROUS make your teams build around last seasons mmr. Place gold last season players that got placed in silver against silver elo of last season players who were also placed silver.
Ok Time for the problem with number 5. If silver players who belong in silver are facing golds they will drop! You would think yes, but it's not the case. With this new way of queing people who should be in higher divisions will go on win streaks and disappear from lower ranks as their elo will jump they will skip divisions if they are good enough and get back where they belong making the game more fun for them! And people who don't belong in a higher division will stay there. Additionally the lower elo players lose a game or 2 they will be where they belong and wont lose as much lp in these games. Or even make it so if you face enough people that are of higher elo last season lower the rp loss on slightly SLIGHTLY increase the lp gain. I emphasize slightly because you don't want lower elo people getting carried by a friend to hard or getting lucky and putting them out of place.
I know I just wrote an essay! I appreciate anyone who takes the times to hear my thoughts, reflect on them, and help to build a better way to make ranked operate. I know there are some flaws, and issues with my ideas, but it helps to build on one collective idea to help please the community!
Any up-votes or whatever is much appreciated!!! The more Riot employees that see this the better! It helps the people who make the final decisions take into account the communities opinions likes dislikes and what they want to see!