Ranked System

XCkrazy·Oct 28, 2013·2 votes·266 views

So...I've been playing ranked for a couple of months now. I started in B5 because I had no idea what to do. I had then climbed all the way to G3 with 1700 elo and was almost into G2; and then I started losing. I lost so many games because for some reason I was all of the sudden being placed with players who wouldn't communicate, wouldn't strategize, and wouldn't listen. I know you might say "what if you're just bad? what if it's you who started sucking?" You just have to believe me...I am getting horrid streaks..Anyways, this caused me to drop down to G5 with 0 LP and 1500 elo. I currently play with mostly S4-S2's, and I'm usually the only Gold player. I now receive 15 LP for wins, and I currently lose 20 LP for losses. My losses are more consistent than my wins, so statistically speaking, I'll never get out of G5? I see huge flaws with this system. If someone who's been in this situation can help me, that'd be great.

Thanks.

(P.S. - I usually win my lanes as well. It seems my opponents have so much lack of awareness and map presence and I know exactly what moves they're going to make and what their team is doing, but it doesn't matter...because my team is usually more uncoordinated than theirs.)

19 Comments

Void2258Oct 28, 20133 votes

I've been trying to get to Silver from Bronze 1. I played 17 games yesterday, including 2 silver promo series. I won 10. Guess EXACTLY where those 7 lost games fell? Right, all but one lost game was in my series, where I had such brilliant teammates as a 0/10 Singed top, a 0/7 Morg mid, a 1/10 top Nidalee, and a Leona who stood there waiting for an "opening", didn't do anything, not even an unpowered autoattack or a ward, except walk in circles until 17 minutes in, and yelled at me for being zoned by a Vayne-Thresh lane.

This stuff happens at every level. I would love to say it's worse where I am, but from what I have read on the forums that is not the case.

ScafeOct 28, 20131 votes

I finally got to silver now...Had a trolling afk shen and a fid that trolled because it was my promo.

XCkrazyOct 29, 20131 votes

That sucks....yeah I feel like it's the same in every division almost lol.

XCkrazyOct 28, 20131 votes

Oh also...this losing streak has happened over about a week and a half now. It was very sudden..

Solan StonewhipOct 28, 20131 votes

yeah expect it. lots of elo boosting going on. people trying to get to gold, etc. next seasons gold 5 is going to be the biggest elo hell of all.

it will go on for another few weeks then prolly die down.

congrats on getting to gold though man.

my recommendation is go back to normals and improve at your weakest roles so you can fill. that helps people be on their stronger roles. the other thing to do is find someone to duo with. that helps enormously

XCkrazyOct 29, 20131 votes

Yeah it sucks. That's a good idea though, thank you.

Solan StonewhipOct 29, 20131 votes

it's just for a few weeks. probably.

SIDxVICIOUSOct 30, 20131 votes

They are going to have to institute a way for people to fall out of tiers by obscene amounts of loses.. If people are sitting Anything V and losing constantly then they deserve to be sent into a lower Tier. Sometimes you just have to recognize that these individuals have fallen from this level of play and need sent back! This falling would have to be earned over a lengthy period of games to prevent one bad streak from reducing someone's tier. But we have all seen those Anything Vs that don't belong where they are placed/at. This is a weakness in the League system which needs addressed before Season 4.

Solan StonewhipOct 30, 20131 votes

how do you do that though so that it's fair? how do you define enormous losses? im not saying i disagree, but the problem is actually elo boosting. this is just a byproduct. anything V will always be elo hell as long as there is elo boostng they have to make the whole of the lower tiers more fun to play in. i don't know how they do that. i would increase the graduating rank that you need in order to play ranked for starters. it's too low. but beyond that? i don't know. more tutorials too perhaps.

ZanjotheMonsterOct 28, 20131 votes

What i think happened to you dude was you got stuck with either boosted or smurf accounts and no one cares while playing those so they just do bad cause they have no idea what they're doing

XCkrazyOct 28, 20131 votes

You think so? I feel hella stuck haha.

ZanjotheMonsterOct 28, 20131 votes

haha i can imagine the feeling :P i'm not ranked yet so i'm sure that i'll run into the same issue eventually lol.

But I'd suggest trying, in the event of this continuing, if you have those people (hopefully just one :P) forcing them to learn from their mistake.

I had a game recently that a Pantheon called top on purple side and then went bot and let my fiance, who was playing Jinx top since she's still new (only level 10), by herself against a Trynd and then kept feeding him while stealing our Rammus's jungle. We ended up winning the game cause my Swain was the only mage and they had no MR so i wrecked everyone XD but that Panth learned from his feeding/trolling cause i didn't help him till my Fiance rage quit cause of him.

It's just something i was taught while i was learning and it has helped me see who actually helps the team and who is just a festering pool of wasted time. But i can understand if you don't take that into ranked games since it has a bigger consequence

TheGraveOneOct 28, 20131 votes

Yea there are always people that don't care who play but those aren't the worst the people are the worst are the people that just join a game and leave and go afk because they didn't get the lane they wanted which happens a lot in gold and below

ScafeOct 28, 20131 votes

That sucks man I can't even get out of bronze:/ I get to promo's and have a troll whenever it matters:'(

XCkrazyOct 29, 20131 votes

Sorry bud!

cold2dOct 29, 20131 votes

I know the feel xD, Been stuck in G5 for so long or im just bad.

XCkrazyOct 30, 20131 votes

IDK man it's pretty dumb.

Solan StonewhipOct 30, 20131 votes

welcome to elo hell. i'm on my way to join you. hah.

X3MReaperOct 30, 20131 votes

I have also been having that prob but in Bronze 5 right im about to get promoted to B4 ATLEAST i start getting AFK's and trollers Isnt there like a way for us to like rank up in Solo Que without having to depend on other players? like i dont know we could rank up base on our kills/deaths and assists instead of the end result. or something like that.