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We deserve better ranked environment during preseason

Nora v2··19 votes·12,160 views

TL DR: Ranked games are hard to play during preseason, the chance of getting trolls and AFKs (in either team) increase dramatically.

As a player that has been playing league for over 4 years, I would like to express my concern regarding ranked queue during preseason. Even though I fully understand that preseason means less competitive in ranked games, I still feel frustrating to encounter bunch of trolls and afks in my ranked games (in either team or both). This has happened way more than regular seasons, making ranked game almost impossible to play and less enjoyable. My thought is because people don't care that much about their LP or honor level. As a player who spend almost 90% games in ranked queue, I have to step aside and move to normal game to 'normally' play the game. My friends are experiencing these frustration too and the only way for us to play ranked normally is to premade as 5.

Preseason are doomed to be mess, I get it. I could enjoy playing with teammates picking orianna bot or vayne jungle if they ARE ACTUALLY trying, but playing with lux with 6 tears and consistently running down mid is a torture. I prefer ranked over normal because most players are trying hard in ranked games and I will improve more if I play against the best states of them. Preseason, however, is actually a disaster for ranked queue players. What is the point of having ranked during preseason if we can't get a healthy and competitive ranked environment?

16 Comments

disregardable7 votes

we deserve to just not have a preseason.

LeftyRaydy1 votes

To be fair a preseason is a good idea to test out new ideas and maybe new good things could come out of it. In practical use though Riot has consistently BUSTED champions, Masteries, and Meta's with stuff that they should have tested a little before opening it up live so we dont have League of Tanks, League of Dark Harvest, and so on.

Liquidify4 votes

I agree. I messaged Riot Support right after the “IsItMeta?” people started plaguing Ranked and was told the only solution would be stop to playing Ranked during pre-season. Pretty pathetic when the only answer to something is to just “avoid” it.

After being told that, I asked them if it was okay to leave a champion in an awful state gameplay-wise simply because you can “just ban it” and was ignored.

Xivilai Anaxes1 votes

{quoted} After being told that, I asked them if it was okay to leave a champion in an awful state gameplay-wise simply because you can “just ban it” and was ignored.

You honestly thought that would get a response?

Fit2 votes

Don't play ranked if you feel uncomfortable with it. But I do agree the preseason is too long.item 3151

Plat HardstuckXD2 votes

Im having that problem a lot on my alt account. So annoying people saying, "its preseason i dont care", as if its a justification to int or play stupidly.

Blenos2 votes

"we deserve" LOL what did you do to deserve literally any of that?

Nora v22 votes

Riot analyse our data in ranked to improve balance of the game. As participants in preseason ranked queue, I'm pretty sure we do deserve that : ).

jurrrr1 votes

they are doing that right now . everytime you play a norms atm. you can hover the question mark at the end of a normal game for more info :)

Zertryx1 votes

afk trolls who build tears and run it mid are all season long .. not just pre-season and i never see an influx durring pre-season ever

22 Caliber Rifle1 votes

http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=Gliave https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/oce/Gliave

Your welcome,

This is my last 2 days, used to be Gold III and now I'm Gold V 0 LP. used to have Gold I MMR and now have Silver III MMR.

This game is fun

Zertryx3 votes

{quoted}

http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=Gliave https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/oce/Gliave

Your welcome,

This is my last 2 days, used to be Gold III and now I'm Gold V 0 LP. used to have Gold I MMR and now have Silver III MMR.

This game is fun

out of those games ... only 1 had an afk ... from the start (which makes me wonder why no early remake?) the rest seemed like normal teams with avg kdas for gold / silver ranked, maybe you are just pushing yourself too much and are getting tilted so your performance is lowering which is why you have dropped elo, maybe take a break for a day or 2 come back with clear head .... but none of the games show anything out of the ordinary Infact your games are much more normal than some of the recent ones ive had and i havent had issues with any afkers or tear building running it mid ppl

22 Caliber Rifle1 votes

Haha, at least someone else is in the same situation as me <3 much love bro. Will just say obviously all my losing games aren't a factor of afk players and I have made bad decisions in which 2 games were my fault. If I remember I played Camile which was a bad pick and I played terrible considering my skill and knowledge.

If not mistaken the afk player game was with the pyke?, he left mid-game because I asked him to play safe and the whole team including enemy was harassing him. He was playing aggressively against a veigar in mid lane.

Sleep On Stream1 votes

i legit get a afk every game even being gold 4 rage quitting unreal

ArfBarkBoof1 votes

I've uninstalled the game, since I don't want to blindly chase the stupid LP carrot. Can't improve because every game ends up either being a roflstomp or the enemy team comes online and murders the snot out of us unless I get lucky with a random pick like Renekton or Yorick. I was middle of to higher Silver III and just from the past two days I've dropped to 0 LP Silver IV.

Screw this noise.

Karn Bishop1 votes

They could fix it easily but they choose not to since it distracts people from how poorly the game is balanced.

How to fix it? make a top 10 reward for each division from silver up that gives some sort of reward like Essence, or an icon that is exclusive to the end of preseason as a reward for the most skilled pre season masters.

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