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[@Riot] Alright, I'm officially done.

ClockHead·1/25/2015, 7:15:06 AM·3 votes·994 views

As you probably know, Provisionals can be a very stressful experience, because it sets the bar of your skill. As you also know, things tend to go wrong in provisionals a lot, and those things going wrong are the reason that I have to be in bronze. Frankly, I'm done. Let me give a few problems, and my solutions.

1. Trolls: You know the little bastards. They have 50 or so alt accounts that are bronze or silver, and feed every game just to make others do worse. They love to watch others do bad in provisionals and ranked in general, because they think spending months of their life ruining others' days is funny.

2. AFK's: These guys are the ones that either leave the game because they're butthurt, or the ones who have connection problems. Now, I've heard that if you afk in provs, you can't get into Silver. I don't necessarily believe that, but if it's true, then scrap that. That's a dick move. Anyway, these people have problems with internet, or they're mad. I've had several games where there's been afk's, and also several where there have been two afks. These were all in my season 5 provs.

3. League Server Issues: There are issues with the Servers from time to time. (They also get DDOS'd sometimes) You know it's true, I know it's ture, nobody can deny it. There's not a lot you can do about it, and I understand that, but if server issues are the reason I get into bronze, I'm gonna be pissed. In my most recent game, the last 5 minutes of the game I literally was stuck in spawn, not moving, with the walking animation playing insanely slow while I watched the other team destroy our whole base. THAT, is a problem.

Alright. Here's my solutions. First, if there's an AFK in a ranked game for more than 20 minutes, make the game only count as a loss for the AFK player. Next, for god's sake, don't base somebody's rank mainly on their wins or losses. That's stupid. Change it so that it has different percentages for each stat. For example, it could be determined based on 40% KDA, 10% Farm, 20% Win or loss, and 30% towers destroyed. Next, if somebody leaves a game on purpose, give them a warning for doing it. If they do it again, ban them for a day, then a week, then forever. This is only if they purposely do it, and not if they do it on accident. Can't address the issuses? At least offer redo's on games. Thanks for hearing me out, even though this post probably won't improve anything or sway any opinions.

6 Comments

Red9For LEON21/25/2015, 7:25:07 AM3 votes

I've already posted a similar argument. Basing your rank on Win/Loss is asinine. I just lost my first 3 placemen games all thanks to feeders. Firs game, I go 2.0. Second game, 3.0. Third game, 1.0 but my entire team was negative. Now, I know theres a lot of factors to base a game off of, but I can assure you that I did well in all my games and my team was the problem. So even though I personally did good, I'm probably going to end up in bronze even though last season I got as high as Gold V.

There NEEDS to be an individual scoring system. My problem is that the way you set i up would never work. First off, it cannot be based primarily on K/D. That would cause everyone to pick carries, get a few kills, then sit in the back and farm out while trying no to die. Secondly, basing any stats on "# destroyed" is a mistake. You can have 5 people taking a tower, but only 1 is going to get the stat. That would deter from teamwork because everyone would be fighting for last hits. Instead, base the stats on damage done vs total damage done by your team. This can be extrapolated for healing, (kills+assists)/total team kills, turret damage, and many other things to compensate for different roles. This way its comparing you to others that Rito's algorithm say are supposed to be close to your skill. If you are consistently playing better than the people around you, you should be bumped to a rank that better suites your skill.

Glamazon1/25/2015, 8:52:16 AM1 votes

There's so many people complaining/ blaming their rank on trolls or feeders or whatever. This happens to everyone! It's not the system trying to sabotage you. Focus on your play and if you're learning and getting better, you'll climb regardless.

Also there seems to be a misconception that if I go 10/10 in my placement matches I'll be diamond 1. Most likely is you'll be a couple or several divisions lower from where you ended regardless. Honestly, if this game stresses you out this much you should quit. Playing the game/ranked should be fun. Forget about your lp. That doesn't do anything to help your game play.

Sarutobi1/25/2015, 9:19:26 AM1 votes

The only thing I don't like about the percentage is the fact that too many people already complain about them getting their KD ratio up and it's mainly because the people doing that think this game is like COD or other FPS game and that is not the case. I agree that they should change it but not soley on ones KD!