Am I The Only One That Enjoys Ranked?

ZDrahgonz·Oct 5, 2015·1 votes·202 views

Lately there has been a lot of posts of people complaining about ranked, but honestly the only reason I play League is because of ranked. This might just be my competitive side talking but i find it exhilarating to play against others at the same skill level or even better than me. Recently i played in a tournament against an all Diamond team (Note that I am Silver) and we got rekt but that was the est loss i ever had. I know feeders and afkers suck but take it as a compliment, you're too good that you need a handicap.

7 Comments

MacDeathOct 5, 20151 votes

Only with duoq-partner or on a nice day. I'm not really into competition but I'm glad for you :)

HexaDecimelOct 5, 20151 votes

Yes, I do believe that you are the only player that enjoys it...

DaenOct 5, 20151 votes

i find it exhilarating to play against others at the same skill level or even better than me.

I do too, but the way League of Legends approaches solo/duo Ranked play is ridiculously contrived and counter-productive to actually enhancing the experience of competition.

I despise Ranked games, because I know that in order to get to whatever my true LP is I have to jump through constant hoops with promotional series' and deal with champion select being a giant headache constantly.

AxestsOct 5, 20151 votes

I liked ranked because people actually try and i like competitive environments. My difference is I give 0 shits about my ranking, i'm plat 3 and have basically no chance of falling below gold and losing my victorious skin so who cares if i go on a losing streak.

OhBoyItsaMegamanOct 5, 20151 votes

Ranked is pretty sweet. I thoroughly enjoy it. I'm not happy that it is being replaced with Team Builder Draft. :(

DaenOct 5, 20151 votes

Any reason in particular? Seems to me it's nothing but positive, seeing as it allows a player to specialize and removes the stress of having to compete for roles.

OhBoyItsaMegamanOct 5, 20151 votes

I feel that being both willing and able to fill in the role that your team needs is a skill that ought to be measured. Taking this away means that people who, for example, are terrible junglers will rise to a division that they really don't deserve, because that skill they're lacking will never harm them as opposed to occasionally harming them.
Going right along with the previous point, if you do not play a role you have less of an understanding of that role, which hampers your ability to coordinate with your team. You could limit your ranked experience to just two roles (and perhaps 1-3 champions) and never learn all the valuable things you need to know about the other roles in order to do well.
While arguments in champ select are lessened, there will now be queue-based insults: "never queue for mid again, you are the worst", " I can tell you went adc because you wanted a short queue, you suck at it", etc.
If someone is going to be rude to their team when things go wrong, smoothing out champ select isn't going to fix that. I don't believe there are cases where someone would not rage/troll/afk if only they got the position they wanted.
Putting everyone into their favored roles gets the team off on the wrong foot because there's no need to compromise, cooperate, or even communicate at all prior to the game starting.
Longer queue times for some roles.