Why Do People Like This Play Ranked?

Gandalf010812·Aug 27, 2015·2 votes·1,516 views

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It hasn't just been this game, there are so many people that don't know what the fuck they are doing, yet they play ranked. Why? I really don't understand. I wish there was something that actually measures your playstyle, and if you don't pass the "good enough" mark, you can't play ranked. Because these scores are ridiculous, so many deaths. And the worst part is, the opponent team was all AD. Any good team would have been able to easily win this with armor.

Really don't get why people just can't practice in normals and then once they are good, go to ranked. It's really discouraging to even play ranked. These are honestly the type of games that hold the good players up from actually ranking up.

43 Comments

Deep Terror NamiAug 27, 20153 votes

You have less than 50% kill participation. Running from all the teamfights to preserve your KDA doesn't mean you're better than them.
Half of all players in every match will lose. Sometimes the enemy just snowballs and you can't stop them. Are half of all players just supposed to stop playing Ranked after every game? There would only be 1 person left in the end, and even though Mastery Yi is a Highlander, that's not the kind of game we're playing.
Do you want me to pick out a game where you were the one with a negative KDA? Everybody has those games. We should make a bet; if I find one, then you quit LoL, and if I can't, I quit. Ok? Sounds reasonable, since you think those people should quit, right?

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Preserve my KDA? Who the fuck cares about that, I am here to win the game. I could give two shits about KDA, I'd rather look at wins and losses. And maybe my participation is so at 50% because most of the deaths that happened early game were in other lanes where I am not even at, because of the feeding. Sure I may be focusing on KDA on my post here, but this is plain feeding.
If you have consistent bad games, then yes, you should stop playing League. And if you're losing in lane, then you don't continue to try and hack at it and try to kill the dude and lose more.
Yeah I have bad games, but I understand basic concepts, which many of my teammates didn't. You seem to miss the point that these people I played with aren't just having a "bad game", otherwise they'd have listened to some of the advice and me and another teammate gave. Otherwise the feeding wouldn't have continued. The people I played with aren't ready for ranked, and those people need to stop playing ranked until they are ready.

Deep Terror NamiAug 27, 20152 votes

Preserve my KDA? Who the fuck cares about that,

You highlighted your team's KDA as an excuse to shame them. If you didn't want to use it, you shouldn't have brought it up.

If you have consistent bad games, then yes, you should stop playing League

Again, you are failing to defend your own argument, instead making it worse. You only linked one match and are using one to judge them. If you were talking about them being consistently bad, you would've provided proof that this happens to them more often than not.

And finally, do you not understand the concept of the Ranked Ladder? People who consistently do poorly drop down, while those who do well maintain their rank or move up. You're just a salty jerk that needs to accept his losses and stop blaming his team for everything.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20152 votes

Okay I am just not going to type anymore, because you obviously can't read or understand what I am saying. You're knitpicking 2 sentences out of my entire post. You know as well as I do that I have a point. Yeah, maybe I am being a salty jerk at the moment, and I have no shame in admitting it, because this type of crap happens 7/10 of my games. But know what you are, and what I bet you won't admit, just another wanna-be know it all, who thinks he can continue to throw that same cliche redundant phrase at people "if you're good enough you'll climb", look at my games, maybe watch my games, and get some more reliant stats, then come talk to me again.

God, I hate people like you.

Deep Terror NamiAug 27, 20151 votes

I think you hate everybody, and that is your real problem.

LaceUp23Aug 27, 20152 votes

From an outside source, kind of have to agree with him lol. 1/10 top laners should not be playing ranked games. Period. Also, no1 can EVER have a negative KDA. 0 is the lowest it goes. I just think, for some weird reason, the League mentality is shitty lol. If a baseball player averages a 0.05 batting average, they sure as hell aren't making it onto a varsity team. People don't have them batting clean up because "it's just a game dude". Not sure why the League community is different than any other competitive activity lol. I mean, it is literally ok to go 0-59 in this game. But lord forbid you say, "can you please not troll" and the other person isn't intelligent enough to mute you. Bam. 58 game chat restriction in coming.

Backbone18Aug 27, 20152 votes

Matchmaking has been broken. Just stop playing ranked if you can't deal with playing with shit people. I know it sucks. I know it should be fixed. But it isn't, so either deal with it, or stop playing it.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

You're supposed to rank up like this. Lol.

LordofthepitttAug 27, 20152 votes

I feel like you are the type of guy that flames peopel when they do poorly.
EVeryone has bad games. Quit whining about it and move on to your next, or quit playing league.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

View MilfHuntUnitXJ9's comment.

LordofthepitttAug 27, 20151 votes

For one, I'm not going to trust what he says at all due to his ridiculous name. Like... milfhuntunit? Really? XD Secondly, my comment still stands. Everyone has bad games. No point in sitting around on the boards whining about it.

Gandalf010812Aug 28, 20151 votes

There is a point. To know that you're not the only one and that there are other people to give you advice or adhere to your rant and give you comforting words. Perhaps there's no point for you, but there if for me.

After all, what I've been told is that playing ranked is a very high "mentality" driven type of mode in League, so how does that NOT have a point of posting on the boards where your mentality can change for the better (hopefully not for the worse).

LordofthepitttAug 28, 20151 votes

You're post does not imply that you are here for comforting words or advice. Your post is nothing short of whining and blaming.

BakedLotionAug 27, 20151 votes

to be fair half of jax's dmg is magic damage,malphite went ap. Also renek and yasuo has a fair amount of magic damage from their ult and e.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

That still doesn't justify the terrible scores. I thought matchmaking was fixed.

Chaotic SageAug 27, 20151 votes

You're playing Leona in Bronze elo. Trying to play support is hard as it is there, Leona makes it more difficult cause she's too team reliant. Becomes a lot easier to use her in high silver and beyond. Just a bit of advice there. Also thornmail isn't the best first armor item since it scales the more armor you have, better to build something else first, probably a frozen heart that game. As for the matchmaking being fixed, it's gotten better but you are still bronze. The amount of people there is so high and varied due to the people stuck there due the people that are exceptionally bad and then the people that belong there that you're going to get the baddies from time to time unfortunately. Certainly more frequently than silver to gold and above.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Yeah well I like playing team orientated champions... And besides I'd rather give other people what roles they want so they can actually have a chance at doing good, so support is always left over.

Chaotic SageAug 27, 20151 votes

Leona is team oriented, yes, but my point is that she's really difficult to play in your elo due to both team oriented and team reliant. It's fine to play support though, I've done it from silver to close to mid gold, poke supports are just better at lower elo, like sona, zyra, or hell even thresh though he's a bit harder to play. All of those also have huge (thresh exempt here cause only a small box) AoE ults for your team oriented preference.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

No wonder my Sona win rate is higher, makes sense now, even though I do better with Leona when I usually play with my friends. Then again my friends are better than the bronze noobs.

Chaotic SageAug 27, 20151 votes

Yes, Leona is excellent when you have communication. Sona is better for soloque cause the power cord Q hits nice, hard and pretty consistently if you get her range down perfectly. Just be wary of blitzcrank and engagey supports.

Loli no ChikanAug 27, 20151 votes

I don't think Leona's a great matchup with Vayne. You need someone bursty like Corki, Lucian or Miss Fortune. And I think Leona's better in mid-gold+, where your ADC will actually follow-up on your aggression. And like the guy stated before, you'd probably be able to rank up by playing harass/burst supports like Annie, Zyra and Sona. Or, since you're in Bronze, there's a good chance there will be a lot of players out of position on both teams, and Thresh is a great solution in both cases.

BakedLotionAug 27, 20151 votes

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That still doesn't justify the terrible scores. I thought matchmaking was fixed.

ahaha matchmaking is terrible

nomeLAug 27, 20151 votes

They had a fed tristana, which is a stronger lategame than vayne, they had renekton countering darius top, and you had a teemo.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Yeah, and the Darius wouldn't stop fighting him even though he knew he was being countered and beat. So why continue to do so. I mean come on, if I know this simple basic concept and other teammates don't then how does that even justify matchmaking. Ranked is so broken.

EcstaAug 27, 20151 votes

So tell them the basic concepts, you may lose, but you're making better players for the future. If they don't listen, just report and move on with your day. Bard Bard Bard Bard Bard Bard

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Everyone knows very well that this community is the last one you'd want to give advice to people, because people are too arrogant to take any.

Linna ExcelAug 27, 20151 votes

Sometimes the other team has 1-2 people that can outplay yours and there's little you can do about it.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

If ranked or matchmaking wasn't so broken, then maybe that wouldn't happen.

SmokedAlmondsAug 27, 20153 votes

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If ranked or matchmaking wasn't so broken, then maybe that wouldn't happen.

So when other people do poorly its because they are bad and shouldn't play ranked, but when you do poorly its all matchmaking's fault?

Ranked isn't some magical place for only good people, its just a place to be ranked. Not everyone's rank is going to be good.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Not everyone's rank needs to be good. But if you're going into ranked I'd expect you to understand some of the basic concepts. And clearly from the last game I witnessed, many people lacked basic concepts.

Otherwise why would they require you to be 30.

nomeLAug 27, 20151 votes

also, you went 2/7 on leblanc, 3/10 on sona, 4/8 on skarner, 4/7 riven and 1/11 on leona, those are just some of your games

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

The 2/7 LB I remember, and that was because it took 5 hours for me to connect to the game and came in when everyone was level 4 already, but the others? Where are you pulling those from? A year ago? I know what you're trying to do, show me that I am not that awesome either. And yeah, maybe I am not, but I am certainly better than the people I play with on my team.

OhBoyItsaMegamanAug 27, 20151 votes

Nice thornmail.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Yeah for an all AD team.

OhBoyItsaMegamanAug 28, 20151 votes

What does it accomplish? It is a terrible first buy on a support tank. You don't have the health to make it effective, and you do not win any fights by making it hard for the enemy team to focus on you. That's not what makes you do your job better. Your team needed a Frozen Heart and you needed to be the one to buy it. You have a lot to learn about itemization.

Just like Darius has a lot to learn about early laning and Yi has a lot to learn about picking fights and Vayne has a lot to learn about positioning against teams with good engages.

See, there are A LOT of things you need to learn about League in order to be good, or even average. You know some of them a little bit. Knowing them a little bit means you're blown away when you encounter people who don't know them at all. It's blindingly obvious that they're doing it wrong. But you are doing just as many things wrong, they're just different things. Like buying the wrong items.

Instead of worrying "what did these guys do to get up to the MMR I'm at?" you should be worrying "what did I do to get down to the MMR they're at?" and actually trying to find the answer. That's how you get out of Bronze. Complaining about how bad your teammates are—and suggesting that people who are at that skill level shouldn't be allowed to play ranked—is just going to get you laughed at.

FHMarshyAug 27, 20151 votes

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=gandalf010812

I mean, there are games you played horribly, too.

That 2-7 Leblanc, 4-8 Skarner, 4-7 Riven, etc. Why are you playing rankeD?

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

FHMarshyAug 27, 20151 votes

No, if you filter on ranked solos, all the numbers i've pulled are from games within the last 20....

My point is not trying to say who's better and who's not, just the fact that people have bad games. Bad games don't justify how good a player is.

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Right bad games don't. But not listening to teammates or making terrible decisions continuously, even after told what would be a better method, does justify it. And that s what I was dealing with.

DeynaTaggerungAug 27, 20151 votes

Except what are they supposed to put in as a "good enough" mark? Take a written test on the concepts of league? Win a game against proven players? any of that is silly.

Neither should you be angry at other people for not being as good as the people they're facing. Those people are just going to keep losing till they're matched against people they can beat. Also, on any given day people play differently and some games people are on tilt or frustrated from real life things and can't focus. So the enemy team snowballs. You lose the game.

Instead look at yourself, focus on how you can carry harder. If you can't carry in B3 you're not going to make it at B1 or S5, I say that as a former B5 member currently in silver. I recommend carry.gg as a good site for analyzing your games and why you're losing. Check out leaguecraft 101 for tips on trading and strategy. And remember there are just as good odds the bad people are on the other team as well. Exploit them and try to shore up your team's weaknesses

Gandalf010812Aug 27, 20151 votes

Thanks for the advice, and the sites. I just don't play any hard-carry champions I guess. Don't really know.

DeynaTaggerungAug 27, 20151 votes

I'm...a little surprised, thanks for being gracious. Riven, olaf, leblanc would all fall under hard-carry status. Keep trying and good luck!

MilfHuntUnitXJ9Aug 27, 20151 votes

I play a few games with u, ranked too. When i did we had a troll team, since i usually play brand you might remember me. But u weren't a troll or a flamer, it was these retarded ass teammates so the people calling him troll/flamer etc dont know what they are talking about. He is good player

Its not so much that they are bad its that there are so many trolls until you get to plat.. i have heard countless stories of trolls and throwers even in gold rank.