A Message to Riot
I would like to start off by saying I'm using a smurf account to write this. I'm a high level coach that would prefer to remain relatively anonymous.
That being said, I'm gonna say this from the heart; I absolutely love League of Legends and I love Riot Games. I've played this game since the beginning of Season 1 which means that, I've been playing for half my lifespan now. I have a ton of great memories of this game and I've spent well over a thousand dollars and around easily a couple months of my life in total play time just grinding away on the ranked ladder and I've done pretty well. I've hit mid diamond, I've been on a few amateur teams just trying to figure out how to get better and how to climb faster. But I'll be honest here, what in the actual hell is going on for the balance department? What's going on with the banning system? These are legitimate questions that I really want answered. I know you guys work hard beyond belief and I fully respect that but look at the state of the game! It's literally dying because of poor balance, between now you guys straight buffing Fizz?!?! and poorly addressing Aatrox (you buffed the most overpowered laner in the game). Quinn is beyond broken, Graves still is ridiculous, Nocturne is still ridiculous and Mundo is casually in a "I will never die even with Grievous Wounds on me." The fact of the matter is that balance right now with those specific champions I mentioned is BEYOND out of wack. Furthermore, what about the bugs? Irelia straight up can't reset on her Q on casters occasionally (yes, there are replays of this), people are auto attacking other people in Guardian Angel and yet you guys give Viktor 100 range on his W and buff arguably the most powerful midlaner in the game, Vel'koz. And don't even get me STARTED on matchmaking. Why are Platinum one players worse than gold fives? Why are diamond four players who shout the N word and running it down mid every game not being banned? Why do I get D2-D1 players in my game on the enemy team with a D5 player? Why are challenger players right now getting matched with low masters versus 800 LP challengers and just losing because they can't carry? SoloQ is beyond terrible. Today on a smurf I got a Gragas ADC that decided to int 6 kills, a Trundle that afk'd after first blood, a Yasuo that was inting all in one single game. This is ridiculous, as these people do this EVERY game. I checked their match history. Why are these people still at P1 - D5? They clearly got boosted or bought their accounts and, even if they didn't, they do not belong at the top 1% of NA. Not even close. And please don't give me NA OMEGALUL. These people belong at the lowest of the lowest of tiers. You know what the ultimate issue is? The game has gotten too easy for too many players and, as such, people without being good at all climb to extremely high ranks where they clearly do not belong. This creates a lot of rank discrepancies between what it means to be a, for example, P1 player versus what it means to be a D5 player. They should be about the same skill level, yet it's completely randomized. A P1 player could have the skill level of a D3 player (which I see a lot) but hardstuck in P1 for no reason or a D5 player with the skill level of a Plat 3. I've coached hundreds of people, someo of which are D2 with ZERO game knowledge of even when Red spawns or timers on Raptors and yet they are jungle mains. What is going on at Riot games? I love this game. Please fix this in literally any way. Adding more Tiers is good but you need to ADD divisions, not take it away. 6 divisions per tier and add the other two tiers in. I'm fine with waiting 6 minutes for que and I think most people are as well as long as we get a good game. Remember Season 4? Season 5? The matchmaking was BALANCED and you got actual games. Now? It's a fiesta. It's like you guys are putting 10 hellen keller monkeys in a game and watching them play as a social experiment. This isn't much of a problem in, say, Silver or Gold, but is a MASSIVE problem coming into high plat and gets only worse and worse. SoloQ has become who can carry better than the other players. Please fix this. Everything here. It wouldn't be hard. Kick people who are D5 down to Gold because that's clearly where half of D5 belongs. Kick 25% of P1 players down to P5. Kick approx 15-20% of P2 players also down to P5. Kick P5 players down to G5. That or ban 99% of them because they're all toxic and run it down if they lose first blood anyways.
