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Outdated and unfair ranked system (Solo queue mainly)

Gy5WY1qEmB·9/16/2015, 5:59:43 PM·2 votes·354 views

Hello everyone,i acknowledge that there have been a lot of QQ threads about ranked system in the past,but lets take a serious look on how the current ranked system works,especially in solo queue.

Well,currently we all know ranked system works in divisions,the higher division you are in,the better player you are thought to be,even thought there are a lot of people who are currently in divisions they dont deserve,that devision be a higher or lower one than the one they should be based on their skill level,for several reasons like eloboosting/smurfing (we have all been matched with that D5 guy who plays like Silver if not Bronze) or because people are stuck in a division because of bad luck even though they deserve a better division,having AFKs,trolls etc in their side of the team.The problem with the current solo ranked system,is that it is supposed to determine your own skill level,but in fact it punishes you based on how your team performed,and if you get or not pts (or how the hidden mmr drops and icnreases) at the end of the game is clearly determined by the outcome of the game (victory or defeat) and not by your own performance.Which means no matter how good you will play,if you get an afk or someone trolling or someone who doesnt deserve to be on that division and just cant do anything right against your experienced opponents,you are most likely to lose and have 30~50 minutes of your life thrown away,the problem with that is that in my opinion it happens a lot more frequently lately.

My personal experience which almost forced me to quit LoL,is that i hit Plat V after trying a lot,down from silver 4 this season as a support main,but once i got to plat V i got some really bad luck and ended up playing 10 games straight on 0 pts while having an AFK and the AFK was always on my team which lead in a 10 lose streak and my MMR getting rekt hard,well that thing lead me to be matched with gold/silvers,and usually i had really bad ADCs since most low elo players cant play that role right,some times i succeed on carrying as supp and winning games when everyone wouldnt feed their lanes and they would make use of my help,since all a support can provide is HELP ot get you ahead and after that help,you have to know how to use that headstart effectively but most of the times i ended up in the weaker of the 2 teams,and so i happened to lose more games than i could win (into all these games i met a lot of AFKs/trolls mostly in my team again (bad luck) ).So in conclusion,after spending a lot of time and trying hard to win games,i didnt make it because of reasons that i cant control and dont really determine my skill level at the end i dropped back to gold 1 and that's why i am thinking of quiting,i believe people in Riot know that AFKs/trolls etc destoy a lot of games and they are the main source that creates toxicity,you people must understand that noone was toxic from the start,it's not like someone woke up one day and decided to log in and be like (Insert heavy insult here) into League chats,because everything was fine.

Anyway the reason i make this thread for is to ask Riot,if they really care about their players and the ranked system or if they just care of the Pros and i wish some day this ranked system will get re-worked to judge player's performance better,like not losing a bunch of pts/mmr because someoen had an afk in his team since a 4v5 is never fair or because someone has real life troubles decides to go and troll and drag others behind with him and everyone will be in the division he deserves.The ranked system used to be good back when the community was a lot smaller like s1/s2 but atm it is outdated and really unfair against new players in my opinion.I would love to see a Rioter answering my thread and what other people think of the current ranked system.

3 Comments

Decision9/16/2015, 7:54:35 PM2 votes

I agree with most of the OP's topic.Even though, I do not get many AFK's and not many trolls, I have to say that the ranking system has many flaws.

To begin with, it matches you unfairly.To give a fair example, i have seen a couple of games where im matches vs teams with 800 Ranked games, and my team has only the half.Now, this is unacceptable, only by the fact that my team has played the half of the games and has less experience.Also, people with low MMR like the OP should be matched with people of the same MMR. Furthermore, League's awards for behaving good in a game don't work.LET'S BE SERIOUS IN THIS ONE.Crests of honor do not by all means, make people to act better.They maybe had when they came out, but I don't think many people care for them/ or even own them anymore.So aditional awards should be added. Finally, and since this is an answer/review to the OP, I totally agree with him that the game punishes you depending on how your team acts.No , I won't say that i always win my lane and that other people feed.That's bullcrap(sry Riot).But, you should gain/lose LP according not only to your victory/lose but your perfomance aswell.Anyway those are just ideas to expand the OP's thread.

OhBoyItsaMegaman9/16/2015, 6:30:01 PM1 votes

It is a bit difficult to read your post because of the lack of punctuation and paragraph breaks.

What date did you hit Platinum V? I looked back 19 days but did not find anywhere that you had a stream of 10 losses with AFKs. Your longest losing streak during that interval was 8 games.

V Nomad10/17/2015, 7:29:14 AM1 votes

Honestly the ranking system on solo queue is unfair for simple reasons.. Many people who would belong to a higher elo cant get there due to the way their teamates play and also many people who should be on lower elo are higher because someone carried them. I understand the concept that its a team game but its called solo queque, that means you are alone playing to rank up yourself but the LP you will gain or loose depend on the rest of your team, only that should sound unfair.Also many people would say if you are better help their lanes etc, but how many of you have met teamates that ignore what you say, keep doing their thing go fighting alone and even if you would actually have won they make you loose? I meet them every day and they do not deserve to be carried. At any case this system messes up all the ranks cause in the end people who would be platinum are silver and people who would be bronze are gold for example so it doesnt only ruin the ranked games for the low ranks but for the higher too ..

(About a different ranking system, now they have those ranks that depend on the way you play S A B etc it would be easy enough to gain or loose LP based on that and it would be way more fair, it is affected both by the victory or defeat and by the way YOU play)