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Ranked Requirements?

Faster Plz·10/22/2016, 12:12:48 AM·3 votes·1,093 views

I know this is just a thought because I have lost 3 times today(2 in a row), should riot make people be required to win 1 unranked match every day before they play ranked? I know this sounds bad, but when you charge into ranked, say right after school for example, you will ruin the time for everyone else by feeding or just making a bad game. Here are a few questions you may have that can be answered easily

Why require 1 win instead of 1 match of unranked before you can play ranked? Because it will keep players less toxic. I think that also 1 win would encourage people to play more unranked matches.

How about those pre-made lobbies? I say that the players in the party of the pre-made are required to play ranked together and cannot solo queue until they win 1 match by themselves. This will prevent someone from bronze to invite 3 of their plat friends for the easy win in the unranked matches. Also after you and your friends finish the solo queue match(of unranked), and all of you passed, then you should be able to queue up together.

What if they played 1 unranked match and won, then went to school and tried to hop on ranked? They should be required to play and win 1 unranked match every 2-3 hours of inactivity(no matches). If they play an unranked match, then play a ranked one they have 2-3 hours to queue back up before they are required to play another unranked match. The time should pause after you queue up to prevent people from dodging every minute to prevent you from playing ranked.

Honestly though at least 1 person per game I see from 4:30pm ish - 10pm ish(during the weekdays)are either toxic or feed(cause they are bad at the role they picked as their secondary, or even primary) and ruin the experience for everyone because they just came back from school (might have had a bad day). They just run right into ranked solo queue to ruin the experience for others. The rules will also encourage people to get better BEFORE ranked matches by forcing them to win 1 match by themselves, or as a team if they want to team together in ranked.

I honestly wish riot implements this into league to enable a more positive system. Also after you reach a certain rank like platinum then you don't have to do the unranked match anymore. I say platinum because some people boost others to diamond.

5 Comments

xReadyPlayerOnex10/22/2016, 4:26:09 AM1 votes

Honestly, I'm not against this idea... but I think there's better and more helpful ideas that could aid in newbies being able to play League more effectively.

There's just a million mile difference between the guy starting ranked for the first time and the teams he's going to face. It's not going to be fun for anyone. The sandbox mode and cs practice will help next season but there's a lot more that should be done. Simple introduction to the meta, why warding is important, roles in team fighting, and other basic things that most newbies not only screw up but also have no idea what they're doing wrong.

KVbqbFsC8e10/22/2016, 4:28:02 AM1 votes

I don't like that idea at all. And where do you get the idea that anyone who feeds is just getting home from school? That seems real odd.

Telephone Booth10/22/2016, 6:07:56 AM1 votes

I already play a warm up match before I hop on ranked but still in my opinion, terrible idea.

Edit: I'll explain I guess hehe. I already have ways to untilt myself. I am very self aware and know when I'm tilted. That combined with a very Zen mindset that I'm lucky to have, allows me to get over it by reasoning with myself... "ok 3 losses, that happens, that's 3 out of the way, maybe next game will go better, big deal, it'll even out over time and I'm still learning by losing", for example. Easy way to untilt yourself. I don't care about my rank... I care about improving my skills. Also I have a cig every couple games which helps... though I do have to quit smoking, that shits killing me, of course.

Now I don't want to play with my friends, lose a couple unrankeds, all warmed up, but I can't jump into ranked because of some arbitrary shit where I have to win an unranked within a couple hours of playing ranked. Your reasons seem very presumptuous for wanting that guideline. It's just arbitrary to me because I don't think everyone is tilted going into a match cuz they just lost one. Most people probably get tilted in the middle of a game, not go into games tilted. I could be wrong, I don't want to assume that the way you do, but I can't believe that everyone just stays tilted game after game. Even if 50% of players do stay tilted, I dont.. so I don't want some dumb stipulation where I have to win an unranked in order to play ranked.

Also your idea that people are toxic or feed because they're bad at their primary or secondary role is assinine. You ever think maybe the other person was just slightly better? They got outplayed? Doesn't mean they're bad at their role.

Ada Wong10/22/2016, 6:58:27 AM1 votes

Please add a role below bronze some people are just that awful ); doesn't matter the moba...