Ranked requirements: can we have more?

Auturgist··1 votes·394 views

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only requirements to play ranked right now are that your summoner level is 30 and you own 16 champions. There need to be more requirements. Some suggestions:

-- Players should need to have at least two different, full rune pages using tier 3 runes exclusively. Really, not having at least one page each for AD and AP is insulting to everyone else on your team, especially if they all have multiple, diverse rune pages for different roles and champs.

-- Players should need to have more than just 16 champions. I'd say 30 is probably a much better number -- one for each summoner level seems fair. It's an advantage to be able to trade first/early picks after the ban phase to players who want high-priority champions, but if a player only has 16, it's not very likely he can even trade with teammates, especially when many of the high-priority champions are newer and cost more IP/RP.

-- Players should need to have completed some high number of normal PvP games across several champions before being able to play ranked. Bronze should not be a division sprinkled full of people who are too lazy to learn the basics of the game or a champion in normal PvP matches.

Honestly, many of these suggestions stem from the fact that there are people in Bronze who want to get out (I am one of them!), and their climb shouldn't be sabotaged by teammates who are unwilling to learn basic mechanics or put forth what others consider the true minimal amount of effort needed to be able to compete. I've been in this situation before: the person on my team with first pick and ban control has two empty rune pages. Am I seriously going into a game with this guy? Fuck. That. Shit. No, uh-uh. I'm dodging this queue and taking my -3 LP, and using the time that I'm unable to queue again to post on the boards, because I'm appalled that I was teamed with that asshole. #TrueFacts

3 Comments

LiveYiOrDieHard2 votes

Bad players are bad, rune pages and more champions to be bad with aren't going to help you or them be any better. Stop blaming your teammates and l2p.

guys I have a bunch of rune pages

guys I have a bunch of champions

guys I have a bunch of normal wins

guys why do I get matched with a bunch of teammates who don't have any of these!!!!

And the simple answer is your skill level with all of them is equal to those other idiots who have none of them.

Auturgist1 votes

You are totally wrong when you think that a player with empty rune pages cannot be helped by having even a bad rune page.

ANY additional stats > NO additional stats

You fail at logic and the ability to compose sentences properly or build arguments.

EDIT: I should expect as much from someone with the username "LiveYiOrDieHard".

DrCyanide1 votes

Switch to discussion view if you want to reply to someone. Otherwise they never get the notification.

The champion number is currently based on the number of bans. For 30 champions to be required, you'd be banning 10 on each side. Having champions in no way, shape, or form makes you decent with them.

You should know how horrible the League tutorial videos are. If someone doesn't have any runes or decent runes, advise them to get some. That said, website's don't pick up every rune page. I've noticed if you have a page with a ' in it, that page won't show. So they could have named their pages "ADC's page" and "APC's page" and I'm assuming a website would just show blank pages.

Wins being a requirement would put bots in normal PvP games. For better or worse, many botters use bots to get a smurf ready for ranked. If they can't use their bots in coop vs AI, then they will use them in normal games. Having inexperienced players in ranked us better than having bots in normal.

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