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Bronze vs Masters.

Dr40UR·12/17/2019, 2:48:25 AM·2 votes·2,196 views

I'm not going to sugar coat things. I'm bronze. I play League of Legends pretty casually, but have been playing for a while. I usually play with some golds and that's fine. I'm fine playing with silver-high gold elo. That's cool with me, and I can usually do pretty well in those elo brackets. I could probably hit Gold if I actually took time to do more than play 10-20 Ranked matches a season. Instead, I like to dick around in RGM's, Aram, and sometimes norms in Rift. However, I logged on today and figured "Why not have some fun in Poro king? I remember that being fun." I got Veigar. Cool! Seems awesome, he's pretty good in ARAM. Unfortunately, the enemy team had a Zed. But not any Zed, noooo. That would be fair. They had a MASTERS Zed player. Literally Masters. Now, if you're telling me that Masters, the top 0.07% of players is anywhere NEAR Bronze, you're actually fucking joking. My team had two bronze players, 1 gold player, and 2 low plat players. The enemy team had a masters player. That's not even close to fair. I hate the logic of this game that quantity is better than quality of matches. I would prefer a fun, fair match with more equally skilled people than getting dumpstered for 20 minutes against a guy who blows my skill level out of the water. It's like if I went to the park to play basketball with some friends, and the enemy team had Micheal Jordan on it. Sure, we could play, but we would also get fucking bodied by him alone. His team barely even matters at that point, we already don't stand a chance. Why can't SOMETHING about the normal matchmaking be done? Why does Riot just not care?

8 Comments

Illabethe12/17/2019, 2:58:34 AM1 votes

To be fair; the game does assume everyone "wants" to get better, and that's simply never going to happen playing purely against peers.

If you play with Golds, you should have still been able to develop a strategy versus a masters Zed. That's kind of where Gold development is: being able to single out one opponent, irregardless their play level, and apply respect to them, but also develop team strategy around killing them.

If you suspected something was wrong, the very first thing you should be doing is evaluating whether or not you can buy items to either tank, or kill him as a team in .5 seconds. If your team has no chance of winning, go tank and bait the fight into revolving around you, but also keep flash handy in case he tries to set up for kills. If it's a URF style game, try to build items that both budget HP and damage, and try to get your team to enclose him.

Beerstein12/17/2019, 5:08:27 AM1 votes

Played it earlier with a 5 man premade, mostly plats, was legit 0 effort.

Brettuchinii12/17/2019, 8:36:59 PM1 votes

Im new in bronze and have a similar issue. It feels like the game is trying to run me off XD