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Adding a copper league, stricter rules and certain amount of masterys for Ranked play

batdan 1·6/7/2017, 3:32:12 PM·6 votes·741 views

So these are my thoughts on league ranked. I know people that are really good can say oh ya Bronze is easy to get out of because yeah you are really good or you got really lucky in your placement matches. There is something wrong with the level of where people should be in this game in ranked. Here is an example. I am not that great at this game which I can live with its a fun game and I enjoy watching esports of this game. But this season I played with a friend "we lost a lot" and had an issue with my client so lost connection on my placement matches and got stuck in Bronze V. Then I played with my other friend, we killed it in our placement matches I got Silver 5. Now when I play quick matches I am playing with people that are In Silver, Gold and Bronze sometimes Higher. The matches have been really good theres rarely every people arguing and I actually have been getting a lot of wins. I am almost even with my W/L ratio in QM. When I play in my flex Queue I generally do pretty good. The team syncs well and things go ok even when I lose in QM or flex its not usually frustrating because there was generally just bad plays happening or I was lacking somewhere and I get it. Now when I get into my solo queue there is always that someone. OR if someone loses a lane its generally over. People are constantly fighting, arguing, talking in chat. I just don't understand. (This whole everyone has bad players on their team and salty ones is a load of crap even if that is the case it still shouldn't be that case these people need a real punishment not just a chat ban). I feel like due to the lower level of players just hitting lets say 30 then automatically jumping into rank which is a lot of people and people with second or third accounts. Or you get players who maybe had one good game in QM with a new champ and just jump in rank queue to play again only to get demolished everyone fights, reports and wastes time. Shouldn't there be a limit to where you have to be atleast Mastery 5 in a certain amount of champs and you can only play those Mastery 5 champs? Or maybe a copper league for the players who legit just want to jump in and troll? I am just uncertain where this should be fixed. I literally just don't want to play Ranked anymore because going from QM's where you play with a wide range of players who generally care about their plays or know what they are doing to jumping into a Bronze match where everyone is on a whole different level of play style I just get confused almost. Like I said I am not saying I am super good because I'm not but there is something wrong with this scenario.

7 Comments

Dragfin6/7/2017, 3:43:22 PM4 votes

I only agree with the fact that they need another lower rank. Too much trash in bronze and if you are unlucky you will have a lot of said trash on your team repeatedly. The problem is that RIOT is too ignorant to provide skill related incentives to improve play. They give us keys and chests.

batdan 16/7/2017, 5:18:03 PM1 votes

I feel like more people need to post their opinion on this topic.

Dukues6/7/2017, 8:33:01 PM1 votes

I wish they would do something, even if it's just working on fixing their placement system. I hate grinding to mid silver and having a brand new level 30 first time ranked player on my team or on the enemy team. Just turns into a slaughter. Obviously with all the smurfing and people who play norms a lot but not ranked would make this sort of confusing but. I think the first couple games players should start off lower rather than higher. Instead of starting at the 50% mark (like silver 3) they start at like bronze 1 mmr. If they win first game or 2 they jump up to like silver 2-3 and then up to gold or w/e like it does anyways. But instead of starting mid silver drop it a few divs so if people are actually new they will get to low bronze quicker and if they better they can still get placed higher like they would anyways.

I just hate this game's placement system. It's too all over the place and since the system is a ladder 10 games in placements should not have as much meaning. Especially if a player is ranked from prior season. Idk the system just so damn inconsistent. I can see why they don't want to add variables like k/d/a to placements but..... fuck man they need to add something. I literally had a player a couple weeks ago still in silver 3 mmr game even after going 1-2 in first 3 games (hard carried in their 1 win). Their kd/a was literally like 1-10-4 or something in their first 3 games. And then in my game they literally fed their ass off. It should have been clear after 2 games they were clearly not silver 3 mmr but.... nope. So they ruined how many games on their way down to like bronze 3-5.

I also hate people can do placements at different points in the season and get placed higher than at the start of the season. I get there is a reason for this but... the gap is actually quite large. I am still planning to test it this season in like Sept or October if I still feel like it. I can pretty much guarantee my account that was gold 4 last season with like gold 2-3 mmr will get placed in gold as long as I go like 4-6 or 5-5 or better. Meanwhile although I did bad it doesn't really matter with early season rank resets so my gold 3 mmr acct dropped to bronze 1 at the start of the season. Now If I quit playing I end the season in bronze... even if my mmr is higher. So you HAVE to play to get to your prior elo. And since everyone losses ranks you generally have to play a good amount to get back. Or you could just be like my buddy and quit playing for over a year... jump into the game without knowing any changes... do ok in placements and get placed higher than you were in another season. It just ruins the fundamental of climbing the ladder when some people are forced to really climb while others only have to climb a little to reach their current skill level.

Terozu6/8/2017, 2:51:16 AM1 votes

Shouldn't it be called Wood?