[Poll] Leagues - Do Players Care?

Daen·9/2/2014, 6:54:29 PM·10 votes·1,949 views

Hi everyone,

This will be an uncharacteristically short post as I don't have data (sorry), but I'm curious as to your opinions.

To clarify, I am referring to the groups players are randomly placed into such as Karma's Redeemers, Amumu's Friendless, Vladimir's Bloodsuckers, etc. Not Tiers and Divisions.

Do you actively involve yourself in Leagues, and what about the system do you like/dislike?

Results are located here, as well as a new poll if anyone's interested!

25 Comments

AbiwonKenabi9/2/2014, 11:18:43 PM11 votes

It seems cool, but really doesn't mean much in practice. They were all like "YEAH you and all your friends are gonna be in a league, constantly competing against one another and it'll be AWESOME" but really one or two friends in the same league (and not usually the same tier) is all it ends up being.

So then I said to myself "oh it would be cool if I played with the people in my league the most frequently." I had always liked how higher level streamers all knew each other and recognized a lot of players. It would be really cool to be able to be like "oh its AbiwonKenabi again. Watch out for her Nami" and consistently compete and work together with the same group of people. That level of familiarity could be fun, make us feel like pros. It doesn't have to be every game: just enough to where we start to recognize people in our own league. Alas, this isn't the case.

Instead, all it really turns out to be is an arbitrary way to organize players further. No one asks you what specific league you are in ("Are you in Nasus's Urfriders?"), they only care about your league rank ("Are you in Gold IV?") and couldn't care less about Nasus's Urfriders.

Also, does anyone else not care for the names? Some of them are so random. I didn't make Nasus's Urfriders up, that's a real thing. Also, Alitstar's Tricksters. Why would Alistar have Tricksters? Some are ok (Corki's Scouts, Karthus's Blightlords) but a lot are just weird.

TenSlashTen9/2/2014, 9:01:37 PM4 votes

They're useless, if anything I'd like to see a huge list of all the players in X league at any given time. Not 50-200 players. Definately needs improving. I know it helps riot with moving around data though. But still. Then again I haven't played ranked in like 6 months unless I was specifically asked to by my friend at work/irl friend that lives a few hours north of me. ADC meta really makes me sour.

Logicknot9/2/2014, 10:57:42 PM3 votes

Why can't I vote that i just don't care. Why does my opinion have to confirm with your poll.

Wasabo9/2/2014, 10:44:02 PM3 votes

What does it do when you are in one?

Gibbius9/3/2014, 3:08:23 PM2 votes

I'd like to actually play with and compete with people that are in my league, like Abiwon Kenabi said. But it's not what happens.

Pryotra9/3/2014, 3:46:56 PM2 votes

I believe that being in a certain League means diddly right now, but I have some Ideas how it could be better:

Allow us to choose between leagues at our level, and allow us to switch every so often.

This allows for a bit more customization, and allows for dumb things like Shaco's Redeemers to be chosen if you want the amusement factor.
There could be a cool down of a week or so, if you want to prevent abuse.

Have a League chat for each league.

This would give each league more personality, as some may be more dog-eat-dog, and others could be more newb friendly.

Have MM attempt to side you with people in your league on your team.

This is meant more for a sense of a team, as you could be matched with people you meet through your League's Chat.
This might end up impacting Queue times slightly. As I see it, MM really would just attempt to match similar MMR's like normal, and from that pool, attempt to match players in the same league to the same team if possible. If not possible, it would just try to make a match for a game.

The hope here is that you could have a bit of control with who you are matched with. Notice I specifically left out MM trying to pit you against teams a certain way, as I feel that could be abused. While some could say the same for matching 1 team together, note that it won't exclude you from being matched against someone in the same league as you. So if you join a league with some really good players, there is still a chance you play against them.

Tapu Fini9/2/2014, 8:47:41 PM1 votes

The best thing I can really say about it is that some of the names are cool. That being said it doesn't really seem to serve any real purpose to the user, other than cutting the amount of data they have to look at.