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Climbing Ranked

SuicideJ·3/12/2016, 3:45:34 AM·3 votes·601 views

I would like an answer to how this is done with so many "OP" champs or terrible players (aka Stupid people). I've tried climbing the ranked ladder. But for all of my knowledge, thanks to several players that helped me learn, and how I learned to play the champs I enjoy, I cannot climb. I hear it's "if you play long enough you climb." Bull-fucking-shit. How you play in this game has zero effect on your wins/loss ratio. None. I can play 1 million ranked matches and stay Bronze 5 even if I got an S+ every match and went positive in kills by double my deaths. The entire match is based on how your team does. Which since I have not found an intelligent team to play with yet is impossible for me, and other like me, to climb out.

Tell me this is a healthy ranking system. Tell me this is what every other game is using as a ranking system, cuz you know if it is terrible, just keep doing the same thing. What could possibly go wrong? Tell me there is no other way to make it better. You haven't looked. You haven't even tried. Why not improve? Why be the most stagnant form of a game I have ever seen with the worst ranking system I have ever seen?

What ranking ideas have you tried that don't work? What haven't you tried that you think won't work? How can you make the game less toxic. At this rate I'd have more fun screwing my team over legitimately through Riot's rules so I never get banned and I always have decent stats even if I lose every match. Quite honestly, that sounds like it'd be more fun than being stressed out because of incompetent teammates. I make mistakes. But I don't make those kind of mistakes that screw the match over.

I had a team of all AP champs except ADC. I picked WW first as I was going AP WW which is strong against teams that build Armor. Then my team picks Lux top against a Riven, Cho'gath against Akali, Lucian and Soraka against Lulu and Jinx. I'm against Volibear in the Jungle. Once the enemy team builds all MR because we are all AP it was over. I couldn't adjust my build because of their toughness. I did good at first then my team runs from every fight. Lux feeds Riven after claiming to be the one to carry. Cho'gath tells me to build tank after it's too late. I do better damage to them as AP even if it is reduced a bit. Thier whole team is roaming together and mine runs from every fight leaving me to die. Cho'gath proceeds to tell me (as a WW main) that you never build WW AP, you build him tank and damage. As a WW main, AP WW works great.. unless your entire team is AP and squishy as frick. Then I knew that they weren't the brightest bunch and we were doomed. And then we lost with Cho'gath raging at me that I'm terrible and need to be reported because I disagreed on how to build and play WW after he ran from every fight.

This is what I have to deal with. If I was ranked based on my in game ranking then I'd go up in rank with an A-. i'd prolly be the only one to go up in rank on my team if only I go up by a smidgen. As it currently stands, it isn't climbable unless you have a smurf friend (which I do not) to pull you out of it. Riot gets mad at you for doing what you can to get out of the hell they have created. The next season you HAVE to go down according to Riot policy. Which is stupid and garbage. change the Ranking system to something that isn't trash so this game isn't so toxic.

19 Comments

Randomonium3/12/2016, 5:41:34 AM2 votes
  1. You average 4.6 kills, 6.1 deaths, and 4.1 assists in your ranked games. That is an average KDA of 1.43. That is not carrying.
  2. You average about 4 cs per minute when not support/jungle. That is not carrying.
  3. You pretty always deal far less damage to champions that the rest of your team (typically only one player is worse than you on your team.) That is not carrying.
  4. You have played 9 ranked games this season. Most players who are serious about climbing play hundred or even thousands of games a season.

Conclusion: You are not as good as you say you are. You are not carrying the game therefore you do not deserve to climb. For all the "knowledge" you have you still don't have the mechanical skill nor the in-game decision making ability to climb.

Recommendations: Any time you die in game ask yourself "how could I have avoided dying." If you can answer that question you can learn from your mistakes. Also, download a replay program like SkinSpotlights Replay and watch your replays. Analyze the replay as if you were watching a really good friend play who was struggling. You have to be brutally honest with yourself. Finally, there are free coaches that can help you climb (lol-coaching,com is my favorite site.)

Stained Spear3/12/2016, 4:30:30 AM1 votes

U lost me at bronze 5

ƒæµ3/12/2016, 3:57:11 AM1 votes

cant climb because ur bad and not getting better

ƒæµ3/12/2016, 6:59:51 AM1 votes

No the letter grade thing means essentially nothing. Only thing that matters is Win or Loss. You need to play well consistantly and yo uwill just naturally win more than you lose. For sure there will be games where you played well as an individual but lost the game, just keep playing well and you will average more wins and thus climb.

Dreadlocks3/12/2016, 7:07:13 AM1 votes

What rank are you exactly? I can prob help; )

ƒæµ3/12/2016, 7:33:21 AM1 votes

I disagree. Last thing you want is people playing selfish to pad stats and get higher letter grades. the letter grades will be perfect when keys and the hextech crafting system is out, so you can earn RP items for playing well individually; but at the end of the day it's a team game, you win and lose as a team. Your Rank is an accurate reflection of your skill at a role, if you play your role well and do your job to win games you will simply rank up.

ƒæµ3/12/2016, 6:41:15 AM1 votes

Game is not rigged, you play well you rank up simple as that. Elo hell isnt real.