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The Good, The Bad, and The League : 1/31 - 2/6

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The Good, The Bad, and the League: 1/31 - 2/6

Your weekly dose of server problem-os, NA League news, and other!

9.3 makes you love or hate Akali again, we’ve got a new loading screen, and there’s some new items in game. Take a gander before playing, or rush right into Ranked (we all know what happens…)

Follow-Ups:

  • Wrong Season Border should be fixed
  • Holler if they’re not!

Server Stuff:

Hey! Look! Nothing broke this week in regards to servers getting players in game properly!

**Game Stuff: **

Games show flex queue borders incorrectly (1/24, ~2 weeks) A bug caused incorrect ranked borders to be displayed in different game modes. The fix required a full redeploy, so we bundled it in with 9.3 and should be fixed! Be proud and show off your Bronze Border!

Player Support Trend:

With a new patch out, if you’ve got an issues updating, check the patching guide here. Also, if you’re running out of space, take a gander at /Riot Games/League of Legends/Logs/ and see if it’s larger than a gig. If so, you might want to nuke a few dozen... hundred logs.

Morgageddon & Couch Commando

31 Comments

TyroneWatermelon5 votes

Why does Riot Customer Support always lie about having "high volume of requests" for years, its just an excuse

zPity1 votes

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Why does Riot Customer Support always lie about having "high volume of requests" for years, its just an excuse

nah, people keep asking for social media skins that expired August 1st, legit 5000 a day

Ozzburne4 votes

“Makes you love or hate Akali again”

It’s rude to say you hate the dead, Riot

Sedirex2 votes

I assume you guys are aware of the issue with pinging Baron and dragon, right? Is that something that can be fixed before the next patch?

RiotRiot Morgageddon3 votes

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I assume you guys are aware of the issue with pinging Baron and dragon, right? Is that something that can be fixed before the next patch?

For verification's sake, could you go into detail if you wouldn't mind! Want to make sure.

hotshotdrip3 votes

Do you guys even play your own game? When you hit tab and click drag, baron, etc it doesn’t signal in chat the timer. Also what’s going on with the LP losses and gains? Yesterday i was gaining and losing 20/-16 now I’m +13/-21 and ive only been winning mostly.

Virtüosó2 votes

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Do you guys even play your own game? When you hit tab and click drag, baron, etc it doesn’t signal in chat the timer. Also what’s going on with the LP losses and gains? Yesterday i was gaining and losing 20/-16 now I’m +13/-21 and ive only been winning mostly.

Looks like I'm not the only one with the random LP gain/loss change. Mine did a complete 180 as well, even with a 66% winrate.

Sedirex1 votes

Since the new load screen went live, I can't ping herald, dragon, Baron, or the buffs. People are reporting on Reddit that it's not quite 100% repro rate but anecdotally I haven't seen anyone able to ping them in any of my games today.

Couch Commando2 votes

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Since the new load screen went live, I can't ping herald, dragon, Baron, or the buffs. People are reporting on Reddit that it's not quite 100% repro rate but anecdotally I haven't seen anyone able to ping them in any of my games today.

We got a team looking into this, and there should be a ticker up today notifying players of the issue. Thank you for popping in and sharing this issue with us!

Couch Commando1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Couch Commando,realm=NA,application-id=6WpmgL9O,discussion-id=EwmEnhOi,comment-id=0001000000010000,timestamp=2019-02-11T21:40:27.015+0000)

We got a team looking into this, and there should be a ticker up today notifying players of the issue. Thank you for popping in and sharing this issue with us!

Should be fixed now! Please jump in though and let us know if you all are still experiencing this problem even after a fix was deployed.

Draconic PoweR2 votes

Can the Mastery icon for your champ be placed on the front side top left like it was before? It's one of those things that I think players would prefer seeing first rather than flipping the player card and then seeing it. Simply put, when you see the front visual of the champ with the mastery icon to its left, you just feel good...Idk how to explain it haha. I know it's a small nitpick but that's my 2 cents.

GritsNGravey2 votes

there Change while playing Jungle gave me no Increase in jungle i got 0 lp in jungle and 5+ mid 5+ bot when i was playing jungle.

Swiff Swish2 votes

Also having a really hard time climbing in the new ranked system. I'm losing more than I am gaining when it comes to LP. People say I have lower mmr than what I am supposed to be at, but if I can't get to the spot where I need to be in the first place, then its useless even playing ranked and trying. Especially when ranked is a full team game and the outcome is not only based on your level of playing in lane but everyone else's level of play. I don't really know what I can do, thoughts about this?

sébs2 votes

It feels like it's been harder to climb cause I'm experiencing alot of smurfs in my game which often alters the Tier Average. I got demoted to Plat 3 immediately and in that game was matched up against a Silver 4 smurf. The Tier Average for that was Gold 1. Maybe it's just too early in the season right now to be playing with the amount of people on their smurf accounts.

RiotRiot Morgageddon1 votes

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It feels like it's been harder to climb cause I'm experiencing alot of smurfs in my game which often alters the Tier Average. I got demoted to Plat 3 immediately and in that game was matched up against a Silver 4 smurf. The Tier Average for that was Gold 1. Maybe it's just too early in the season right now to be playing with the amount of people on their smurf accounts.

I would say anecdotally, the worst (or best depends on how you look at it) times to play ranked are right at the start of a season, and at the very end. You can get an extreme amount of variance in skill from players because it's the very beginning and everything's getting sorted out, and for the end, players are charging towards personal goals, possibly doing riskier trades/champ selections because they need to get just one more promotion with only 3 days left.

Usually, after a few patches, everything's settling down, and you should be playing against people who mathematically are where they should be in order to improve.

Grey Wolf1 votes

But does Riot understand the problem with this? You made the "season" shorter by breaking it up into 3 parts. Then you made moving tiers harder because we now have to play 5 times the placement games, 5 times the promo games. LP Gains and splashing need to be doubled or tripled if we are to climb with all of our positions before the end of the 'split'.

Mr Boombastic8172 votes

This game is starting to suck real bad

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

...5013 R3d logs at over 2 GB dating back to Dec. 2014

[sg-ahri-1]

RiotRiot Morgageddon2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Deep Terror Nami,realm=NA,application-id=6WpmgL9O,discussion-id=EwmEnhOi,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2019-02-08T00:09:02.627+0000)

...5013 R3d logs at over 2 GB dating back to Dec. 2014

[sg-ahri-1]

Could be worse.

My old desktop had over 20 gigs of logs from around 10k games.

...oops?

Advacus1 votes

Could you elaborate on the choices behind locking position trading? I just played a Yas game and was assigned mid and traded lanes with my top laner so that I could dodge a zed matchup (not that yas is bad into zed just didnt want that skill matchup) and once we won the game I found that the win didnt count toward my mid lp and was counted as top alone. While not the end of the world in terms of importance but I feel this is a poor side effect of the new ranked que, it punishes teams with better communication if your trying to climb in one roll.

Anecdotally one of my favorite things about League is the position mind games of dodging bad matchups and finding good ones so thats why this sucks extra for a player like me.

RiotRiot Morgageddon2 votes

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Could you elaborate on the choices behind locking position trading? I just played a Yas game and was assigned mid and traded lanes with my top laner so that I could dodge a zed matchup (not that yas is bad into zed just didnt want that skill matchup) and once we won the game I found that the win didnt count toward my mid lp and was counted as top alone. While not the end of the world in terms of importance but I feel this is a poor side effect of the new ranked que, it punishes teams with better communication if your trying to climb in one roll.

Anecdotally one of my favorite things about League is the position mind games of dodging bad matchups and finding good ones so thats why this sucks extra for a player like me.

We're not the best team to answer that question, since we don't work on matchmaking at all (just keep the servers up that do matchmaking). You might have a more informed answer from the balance section of Boards. The best I can provide is that because you did in fact play top, you were increased in ranking due to where you were, instead of getting mid points for winning, when in fact you were in top lane.

Think if you did that 100 times in a row, traded mid for top, your team won, and still your mid score kept on going up and up and up and up. When you finally got to play mid again, you could be rated significantly higher than you actually are, where you'd be unable to compete without having the skills for that MMR (again, assumptions. For all I know, you're the next Faker).

XxMasterBluexX1 votes

Why nerfing irelia why akali now akali is not a champ its not so good your logic ha we rework akali we make it strong but fo nex 5 pathches we are going to nerf like is going to do no damage i think its better to rework to old akali

Cryojhin1 votes

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The Good, The Bad, and the League: 1/24 - 1/30

Your weekly dose of server problem-os, NA League news, and other!

9.3 makes you love or hate Akali again, we’ve got a new loading screen, and there’s some new items in game. Take a gander before playing, or rush right into Ranked (we all know what happens…)

Follow-Ups:

  • Wrong Season Border should be fixed
  • Holler if they’re not!

Server Stuff:

Hey! Look! Nothing broke this week in regards to servers getting players in game properly!

**Game Stuff: **

Games show flex queue borders incorrectly (1/24, ~2 weeks) A bug caused incorrect ranked borders to be displayed in different game modes. The fix required a full redeploy, so we bundled it in with 9.3 and should be fixed! Be proud and show off your Bronze Border!

Player Support Trend:

With a new patch out, if you’ve got an issues updating, check the patching guide here. Also, if you’re running out of space, take a gander at /Riot Games/League of Legends/Logs/ and see if it’s larger than a gig. If so, you might want to nuke a few dozen... hundred logs.

Morgageddon & Couch Commando

I really like that you get a rank for each spot but please riot get rid of autofill in ranked I don't wanna play support so its just a waste of my time

Interact1 votes

@Riot: Akali was not as busted as people overhyped her to be. People haven't even had time to learn how to play against the champion and you hammered her with nerfs every single patch. This last nerf was going WAY too far. If you were going to remove something, remove the heal OR the shroud. NOT BOTH. It was absolutely ridiculous to entirely remove her heal to begin with. You could have reduced the heal early game. You could have reduced the heal late game. It makes absolutely no sense for a champion that has to get in melee range to have absolutely no heal. Not to mention her kit revolves around standing in the middle of a teamfight with people who can just mash abilities into her shroud. I'm entirely okay with her not being able to dive tower. Akali can't even use gunblade anymore after removing her heal entirely. Her Q with gunblade spellvamp is absolute garbage! Why can champions like zed and talon poke from a distance but also get access to lifesteal items that actually provide a decent heal late game where gunblade does not.

Also I don't even have time to climb 5 ranked queues! That's absolutely ridiculous. Splashing is actually weak. It's like a huge step backwards this patch. I'm not happy with it.

Evíl cookíe1 votes

Do you guys can have a look at the CPU usage during champion select? While fighting ingame i have 15-30% CPU load and during champ select ~80-90% (CPU: i7 5820k, RAM: 16GB DDR4, AMD Fury X )

Couch Commando1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Evíl cookíe,realm=EUW,application-id=6WpmgL9O,discussion-id=EwmEnhOi,comment-id=000e,timestamp=2019-02-13T09:03:51.066+0000)

Do you guys can have a look at the CPU usage during champion select? While fighting ingame i have 15-30% CPU load and during champ select ~80-90% (CPU: i7 5820k, RAM: 16GB DDR4, AMD Fury X )

Is it only in Champ Select? I would ask you to check this Support Article out to see if this helps. If it doesn't, then I would ask you to write in Player Support to get a Tech Agent to help you out as soon as possible. I know that it can feel like I am just pushing some of these issues onto PS, but it is a start to help us understand if its an issue we can address on our or your end.

Evíl cookíe1 votes

It's only happening in Champ select. Outside of champ select everything is fine (ingame i have 144+ fps and cpu usage 15-30%).

Evíl cookíe1 votes

Just an update...

My client broke during my first game yesterday (got 3 bug splats during champ select and an error after a few seconds ingame - not able to reconnect - client needs to be repaired https://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/372dfa-1550223972.png I lost this ranked game cause of this :(

[sg-janna]

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