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How We Can Improve Solo Q Climbing

Roll in Grass·10/30/2015, 8:16:55 PM·2 votes·738 views

http://imgur.com/nVVPeTy.jpg http://imgur.com/r5Iezr6.jpg Solo queue is not really an accurate representation of a player's skill. Koreans and Chinese understand this, as many players in LPL and LCK are in Platinum or Diamond, unlike NA and EU being strictly Challenger. However, this is merely my claim and is highly arguable. A common argument being, "If you're good enough, you'll climb. How do you think challengers go from Bronze 5 to Challenger without losing a game until Platinum." This is true, however I'm not claiming that I am, or anyone below challenger is at, a challenger skill level. I am stating that most players deserve a higher or lower tier than they're actually in. It doesn't matter how well you perform, if your team is incompetent, you won't win. Before you quit reading, I will address some counterarguments later, but let's address the competence factor first. http://i.imgur.com/ylI4uKv.jpg Occasionally you'll get a series of competent or at least decent teams which are very carriable. When a team is competent, you're able to finish your lane quickly and sacrifice cs to help the rest of the team. When your team is incompetent and goes 0/3 or something before you're even able to finish your lane, that lane ends up roaming before you're able to roam, shuts down the rest of the team, and gets fed.

So, where am I going with all of this? Well, really that was just my anecdote on how unfair solo queue is. It's not a real representation on how good you are as a player. So how can we fix this? Change the factor on how LP is earned. Instead of gaining and losing LP just on MMR, you should also gain and lose LP based on how well you perform. If you go 20-0-17 with 11cs per minute and win, you should gain a high amount of LP. If you go 20-0-17 with 11 cs per minute and lose, you should lose a low amount of LP. Also factor in MMR because if you go 20-0-17 and your MMR is lower than your division, it isn't impressive, it's expected. And if you go 20-0-17 with your MMR being higher than your division, that's extremely impressive and should also increase how much LP you gain.

I know I said I'd address counterarguments, but I really can't think of a reason we shouldn't implement LP gains and losses based on performance and MMR instead of just MMR. So, if you have an argument, post it in the comments and I'll address it the best I can. Let me know what you guys think :D!

7 Comments

Kãtãrinã10/30/2015, 8:26:24 PM1 votes

Ranked is working as intended. If you have a negative winrate you shouldnt be climbing elos and it is a team game so its grades on win/lose cause you win/lose as a team. If not then all id do would be KSing and worrying about only me having godly KDAs

tonzillacrayon10/30/2015, 8:51:27 PM1 votes

yeah but plat/diamond is like challenger in NA and they also take it seriously where norther american players are all trash below diamond/masters and basically gold in korea. Ill agree the ranking system is not completely accurate lower than diamond 4 since everyones so bad its just a mixture but it does show that you are either really bad anyways or decent. If you are below diamond you shouldnt even be worried about your rank because its irrelevant since everyone in bronze/silver/gold/plat are just extremely bad

Ionian10/30/2015, 8:54:56 PM1 votes

I see you have a good winrate with Ahri and Sivir. Why don't you play them more? Soloq is literally just carrying people. The better you are, the easier it will be to carry the bad players. Although soloq is very luck based (some games you just can't win), skill undeniably plays a huge role in climbing. This has been proven time and time again, by people making smurfs and quickly getting them to diamond+. I myself, as a diamond, got my smurf from silver 2 to plat 5 in just around 80 games (60 of those with Ahri). http://prnt.sc/8x7lf8 (smurf stats) Just practice and you'll climb.

Sythriel Draken10/30/2015, 10:53:33 PM1 votes

eh, I've had a week of terrible games that brought down my mmr.. now I'm just stomping bad bronze players and slowly climbing.. only getting anywhere from 11-18 points a win, but it's a: a win and B: still getting points.