You're forcing people to play a game a day in order to not decay? That's essentially what the change comes down to. Isn't that a little obscene going from a game every ten days to a game a day?
Sure maybe ten days is too long. But halving that to 5 would be reasonable.
Jbels5 votesChallenger is supposed to be the place that our LCS teams go for new blood. What do they find? Spot monopolization and getting to challenger just for the sake of getting to challenger. Maybe it's time NA actually had a decent pool of challenger players to draw from instead of the people lazing about in challenger doing nothing to deserve being in challenger
Serevas1 votesThere's the added realization that in challenger the pool of players is very small, queue times can take forever forcing auto fill and pushing you into an off role, and when you do get games it's often with much lower ranked players causing a complete disaster of a game, where you as a challenger are against all masters with a team of d2-d1, so you drop 30lp from the loss as there's a huge difference between masters and diamond players, and if you win you only get maybe 10 points.
The reason they sit around and "spot monopolize" is because the ability to get decent matches is so awful with the dynamic queue system it's barely worth continuously playing, so you end up with players like Nightblue3, IWillDominate, and IMAQTPIE, who have collectively close to 20 smurf accounts in order to get decent queue times and decent matches.
To me it just feels like a huge slap in the face to the highly skilled players that sit in challenger, playing very little, simply because dynamic queue turned out to be a complete shit show.
Kind of a we fucked up but you get to suffer situation.
Jbels1 votesThere's the added realization that in challenger the pool of players is very small, queue times can take forever forcing auto fill and pushing you into an off role, and when you do get games it's often with much lower ranked players causing a complete disaster of a game, where you as a challenger are against all masters with a team of d2-d1, so you drop 30lp from the loss as there's a huge difference between masters and diamond players, and if you win you only get maybe 10 points.
The reason they sit around and "spot monopolize" is because the ability to get decent matches is so awful with the dynamic queue system it's barely worth continuously playing, so you end up with players like Nightblue3, IWillDominate, and IMAQTPIE, who have collectively close to 20 smurf accounts in order to get decent queue times and decent matches.
To me it just feels like a huge slap in the face to the highly skilled players that sit in challenger, playing very little, simply because dynamic queue turned out to be a complete shit show.
Kind of a we fucked up but you get to suffer situation.
Just give it time, now that people are actually forced to play in challenger, the smurf accounts will eventually be forced out, and the skill level will naturally flow back to what it's supposed to be in challenger. Remember, the reason why queue times and skill match up matchmaking wise is so shit is because of how few challenger players actually play. This isn't a band aid solution, this is ripping off the band aid. It's going to sting and hurt for a bit, but it will feel better after a bit
Serevas1 votesI'm not saying the smurf accounts are in challenger I'm saying they figured if they're going to be playing with diamond players anyway, they might as well be on diamond ranked accounts so they don't risk dropping out of challenger from getting awful match quality.
There's 250 people in challenger at any given time, it's completely unrealistic to say that there will always be a match able to be found of all challenger players whenever you feel like playing. IWillDominate plays in the tiny hours of the night through the morning, not a lot of people playing then, IMAQTPIE and NB3 play during the early stages of the morning when it's like 3am on the west coast, where a large portion of challenger players are anyway.
It's not like ripping off a bandaid, it's more like putting wallpaper over crumbling drywall. It looks better and kind of holds the wall up, but in the end it's still junk underneath and the moment you pull at it you're getting half the wall.
RegisZZ1 votesi can understand for challenger. But there are unlimited spots in Master, to apply this decay to Master as well is ridiculous imo.
Kaioko4 votesThey let you store games though so you can go up to 10 days without playing. They just want you to be playing at least one game for every day you're at that tier which I don't think is ridiculous.
Calabok2 votesThey should make it 10 minimum games a day
Spicy Rice4 votesWho the fuck has time to play 10 games a day?
GULAG 4 U2 votesSomeone who lives in their mother's base room...
Spicy Rice1 votesExactly, that or they were like me last semester and just didn't give a fuck because they were switching to a different major
Calabok1 votesWell obviously those challenger players define their life through LOL so they should not have issues with 10 a day, or even 50 a day. Its not uncommon for followers to also do the same.
GULAG 4 U1 votesAre you high?
50 a day?
alphaz xDDDDDDDD1 votesYou kidding right? This is a great change overall. Less people that monopolized challenger/master spots, less boosted players, more smurf accounts that were artifically kept in the high elo just for purpose of having this rank will be decayed to d1. Challenger and Master will become a more active place in which all people actually play the game often. Queue times will definitely lower and no Riot doesn't force you to play 1 game daily. You can choose on which day you wanna play, you can play 3 games today and you dont have to play for next 3 days. That's how the banked games system works and its good.
Pretty sure any Challenger/Master player will agree with me, unless they got boosted to this division, or were playing only 1 game a week to keep themselves in the division they are. If that's what you did, then you obviously don't deserve to be in one of this divisions. This is supposed to be a place where people compete against each other for being one of the best in the world, or to get recruited into Challenger Series or LCS. If you randomly get into Challenger because you played a lot and tryharded, and then afterwards decide to play just 1 game per week which was the minimum to not decay, just to be able to call yourself a Challenger for the entire year, you didn't deserve it. Meta shifted a milion of times during that time, and if all you did was play 1 game per week on that high elo, then you just abused the system, nothing more than that.
Any challenger or master player has the high elo decision making and mechanics, which aren't gonna go anywhere just because you play one game per week. Even if meta shifts, your winrate will at most lower to like 40% which still won't decay you from Challenger that fast if you play 1 game per week and assume you get 40% winrate.
Wistrolcillo1 votesWhen starts this new decay system? In other account and a other master friends can't check the "banked games" on the league tab. Do you know something?