Well I Didnt Get To Gold This Season.

I messed around too much with Duo's and didn't take it seriously, i thought i could get it over the weekend but a string of bad teammates up until now put an end to that. I tried in 3v3's but Riot's matchmaking is ridiculously unbalanced in 3v3's, placing us against Diamonds and Platinum 3v3 teams when we are Silver and our team is comprised of Silvers... No this is not a QQ thread, what's done is done, I will get Gold next season, this is 100% fact, and look back on this season with hatred and block it from my mind like i did with the time i was in bronze.

I did learn something though:

• Ranked MMR is stupidly inaccurate, specially at lower elo's (specifically Silver). You have all these people of different skill levels ranging from Wood 5 to Diamond 1 shoved into Silver for one reason or another (carried, abusing OP FotM champs, elo boosted, smurfing, etc.). It also will put all these different people into one game. Its a little insulting to see i am the same Rank as some of my teammates, who on further investigation, continually do bad in lane and all game in KDA, in CS, Wards, where they die, etc. etc...

• Ranked matchmaking is unbalanced, for me to get placed with and against some of these people who are either really really bad or really really good, is insane. This creates situations where someone will go 20/1 or 0/10 before 15 minutes which just exacerbates the Ranked MMR issue even further. I'm not sure how to fix smurfing but you can easily fix people who are clearly getting carried, you don't place them in higher ranks in the first place...

• LP gains and losses are annoying, i hate winning 3 games in a row gaining 16 LP and then lose and bye bye 26 LP... It sucks even more when you win lose win lose win lose... I win 50% of my matches sometimes more, but im dropping in rank? Thats silly. 50% should be rising not falling, slightly below 50% should be stalling or slowly falling, further below 50% should be falling.

• Balance of champions has a huge effect on lower elo's, mostly due to teamwork. It feels like you are punished for playing Tanks with no damage or supports, instead of playing Yasuo or Lee Sin or Ekko or Vayne. Like as Malphite i can ult all 5 of them but if my team doesn't follow... im dead. As Morg i can Q one ult 3 more, black shield the engager or carry (whoever needs it), but if my teammates have no focus or dont follow up... im dead. Like if i was Yasuo and i knocked up 5 people by myself, im walking away with a triple kill at the very least... Lee Sin can get one or two people easily and go in and out as often as he'd like... Champions like Malph really shine when you have well coordinated teamwork, thats why i love being him, with a well timed ult i can turn a teamfight. Unfortunately because i play champions like him if i have no teamwork i have no impact, we lose. That is only part of it, there is also the multitudes of "OP" champs like Garen, Darius, Veigar, Fiora, Gangplank, Morde, and Tahm. Garen is not OP, Veigar is not OP, Fiora can be shut down with teamwork, and Darius is just easy to deal with if you know what to do. Gangplank, Morde, and Tahm are all too strong still. Even though i try to tell my teammates this, they continue to lose and feed these champions only proving to themselves even more how OP they are.... NO they are not OP they are fed and there is a difference. OP is what they are from the beginning, Fed is what they are when you died to them for the 5th times because you are continuously running at them with no strategy or plan....

• Promos are a dumb system, sorry but its just really bad... The promo helper is going to help but i think promos should just be done away with entirely. First off what does winning 2/3 more games prove? Idk what this proves... second off it always seems like Promos are waaaay harder then normal games, like your teammates are extra bad with a side of AFK or your enemies are all diamond challenjour smurfs... why? makes no sense. Third and lastly, why do you even lose LP for losing? you already proved you can get to 100 why do you need to do it over and over again? why not just restart your promos and then if you lose those you lose LP? Honestly it should be "get to 100 LP then play 1 game, if you win you are promoted if you lose you get 1 freebie before you start losing LP. That makes more sense then the current Promo system, although id prefer to just remove them entirely and have 100LP be auto promote.

• 3v3's matchmaking is stupidly unfair... Me and my friends are Silver I, Silver III, and Plat V, our team Mega Puff Rangers is Silver I and we failed our promos 3 times for Gold. Part of the reason we lost was because of our opponents, why were we being matched up against Plat and Diamond teams with plat and diamond members? Yea we are going to lose those... they are better mechanically... if i could go up against Diamond opponents without a worry, id be Diamond myself... I am Silver I because i am bad... how is my MMR at the level where the game is matching me up against Diamonds?

Yea these is just some things that have been really irritating me about Ranked for the last week... Seeing as i went from Silver IV to Silver I in like 4-5 days just shows me i could have gotten to Gold if i had been trying all season, but whatever thats not my issue. My issue is how horrid the ranked system's balance all over is. Matchmaking is bad, MMR is unfair at low elos, Promos are a pain in the ass when you can never tell what your teammates will do. Recently i have been losing quite a bit, partly due to bad teamamates but also that i just stopped caring... "top lane gave first blood? oh well" 5 min later "Well top lane is 0/8..." 10 minutes later "well the enemy top laner is in our base..." 15 minutes later "guys we need to group... no? oh then might as well surrender cuz they are taking our inhibs...". Going through more then 3 of these situations in a day takes so much out of you its a wonder i can even smile. I know its just a game but its a game meant for fun, this isnt fun, it is anti-fun. Ruins my mood which then effects the rest of my life... so why keep playing? because it can be so much fun! and not just winning, ive had fun losing too, when its just a good game it doesnt matter. I just wish i could enjoy this game but its so hard when i need to deal with the people in my elo, they are either super bad or super toxic or, god forbid, super both.