Why I think this game is going downhill

The Positive Guy·12/5/2018, 3:38:02 PM·3 votes·1,328 views

Not a salty thread and I'll keep it short and sweet.

I've been climbing up towards 30 now for somewhere around 3 months now, give or take. I've had a lot of fun playing normal and queued fairly often with gold/platinum/diamond players, and I even seen a challenger guy once. I could not WAIT to hit 30, and prove to myself and everyone else how good I was. Overall it was a fairly good experience up until now, with the occasional toxic players who I would mute/ignore. Some days I got feedback reports after nearly every game for other people being toxic, blows my mind haha I wasn't even 30 yet!

Anyways I hit 30 and a couple of my friends told me that the Ranked System is pretty bad. They said I would probably get a lot of trolls/feeders, but I knew how to handle them and I didn't find it affected my games much up towards this point. My ranked games went as followed: My first 3 placement games, every single lane had at least 3 deaths by 10minutes, not even joking! My 4th game went extremely pleasant and everyone worked together. And every game after that had someone who was either flaming everyone else the whole game, would intentionally feed, or would just straight up quit the game and afk. I got placed Silver 4 but optimistic as I am I thought maybe I'll climb out! The last game I played I went 6/0/0 and lost, we lost at like 22minutes cause my team surrendered 4 to 1. I did not even have a chance to try and win, despite playing nearly perfect (I'm really trying to watch my wording here, this is my first account so IDK how good I am). I can only assume that since the majority of my Ranked Games have been like this soo far, that it will only continue.

To end, if Silver 4 is truely where I belong after all, with all these toxic players who just surrender without even trying then so be it. But it has killed my momentum and it is really demotivating to not be able to be even given a chance to win a game. Read this and think of not me or you but of new players coming into the game. Do we really want them to experience the game this way? I recently watched a video before posting this about how skewed the Ranking system is, especially near the higher elos. People paying to win games, intentionally losing games to prevent people from ranking up... it sounds like Ranked isn't about skill, but more about how lucky you are with getting the winning side.

TLDR: Ranked community needs to step up the niceness factor abit, it is really impacting the experiences of new/veteran players! Sorry, abit longer than I thought so posted a TLDR! :) Thanks for reading, have a wonderful day! <3

2 Comments

Galiö12/5/2018, 3:47:53 PM1 votes

Hey you're lucky you place yourself now because you woulda started iron next season ;)

Also the league community is garbage. It's been that way since S1. It's never gunna end.

The JigSAW12/5/2018, 4:17:04 PM1 votes

People forget this is a team game.

They rush to get kills, even with a full build. They -have- to take every kill, have to keep their team behind so they can "carry" a game and show off how good they are every single game. They play more as individuals, and then complain they get bad teammates when I've seen people go 25-30 kills and every single opportunity they had to let one of their own team members get fed they'd take the kill for themselves. They believe warding is only the supports job and they do not need to use a sweeper or control wards anywhere. They also take the role they want regardless if somebody is far better suited for it then they are, when a team should utilize its best laners in their lanes for an optimal chance at victory.

After nearly six years I just don't even listen to all the trolling anymore. Its old, boring, and nothing I haven't heard before. Good post!