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The current state of leveling up.

itslio2·11/18/2018, 8:19:35 AM·1 votes·2,547 views

Since its pre season, and i didnt really feel like stressing over playing ranked games in preseason , i thought why dont i create a new account and level it up for fun? and up until level 13 right now, ive had the worst experience of league of legends ive ever had.

1: After literally about 5 games, i was paired against others smurfs endlessly. Some of who are over master tier. Now i understand why thats happening, but its making the leveling experience horrible, punishing the people who do well in their games, rather than "even the fields"

2: Queue times are insane. Im talking sitting there waiting for over 10 minutes , only for someone to dodge. I cant imagine there is this few people playing league at lower levels. Queue times are essentially similar to high master- early challenger games where i sometimes even forget im in queue.

3: Autofill is a real issue here. Its not like ranked where you get your role 8/10 times and you autofill twice, this is more like you play 2-3 games of your main role, then you are almost garunteed to support the following game. in a day where i play 10 games on average, i had to support 3-4 times AT LEAST. If i was a new player trying to enjoy the game and play the champion i found interesting, thats the best way to get me to give up on the game and do something i actually find enjoyable.

5: Now lets say i get autofilled and i played my support game and got it over with, The next time i get ADC, the support does NOT support whatsoever. Im talking getting irelia support that Q's every minion to take it, and threatens me to either get a relic shield or he will continue to take every minion, or an ahri support that kills every wave with his Q and realistically as an adc, you simply cannot out damage the irelia with her q with an auto attack at any point in the game. despite that, i decided okay ill do what he wants just so we can play the game, i brought the relic shield, but he continued to take every single minion, and the minions i did manage to take by luck, he got the gold for it through the relic shield i bought.

4: Up until level 12 you cannot pick your own runes, and from levels 1-7 you dont have ignite or flash or any of the better spells. Which never made any sense to me. Is there any reason why this is a thing? ive read somewhere that this was the case so people can focus on learning the game and worry about these things later.. but making your own runes and having the better summoners is part of learning the meta and understanding the game... and in games where you have ghost and heal while your lane opponent has flash ignite( which unfortunately happened WAY too often) it could make or break the game.

Why are things like these not reportable? I understand if a support wants to shove the wave, get a relic shield stack or whatever, but when hes blatantly picking a mid laner and taking EVERY minion from minute 1 then why cant i report him? Yeah i dont OWN the minions per say, but putting the adc behind that badly is essentially helping out the enemy team , and ADCs are the weakest champions in the game without proper items which cost a ton of gold that is being denied from selfish people who refuse to support even 1 game. It creates a horrible gaming experience and makes me not want to play adc at any point until leveling is over.

Ive played this game for so long, almost 5-6 years now, and still nothing ever gets done about this. It may sound like im ranting but i just want to see what the community thinks, and maybe ill get answers to each point from a riot team member. Thanks for reading.

4 Comments

HavokDash11/18/2018, 8:32:51 AM2 votes

Que times are longer because the "smurfs" and the rest of the community is so entirely full of themselves that new players are not ALLOWED to make mistakes. I made a post about how I was called an "intentional feeder" for going 1/3". Another post where a new player was threatened and harrassed with reports for going 0 and 6 on Thresh , a champion the player made clear they have NEVER PLAYED BEFORE" This community is so hung up on thier own self importance that they are actively chasing away new players. If you dont play at a master tier level from game 1, you will be harrassed, shot down, spam pinged and reported for "inting/feeding"

I mean looking forward to SMITE coming out on my switch next year.. But this community is doing wonders to actively chase away new players. No New players means a shrinking player base. shrinking player base means LONGER wait times to find a match.

But this community would rather distract by pointing to a random match 3 months ago, or the fact that yeah, I take smite despite NOT being jungle (I find my own uses for summoner 11 outside of jungle.

I would say, enjoying the dying game as the community pats themselves on the back. I personally dont mind rescuing players by directing them AWAY from League. This entire community is a lethal poison, hung up on thier own self-importance. Brought on by riots push to be the "Solo carry" The best way to destroy a team game? Tell each of the players on a team that they are "too good for this team"

DuskDaUmbreon11/18/2018, 8:26:27 AM1 votes

1: After literally about 5 games, i was paired against others smurfs endlessly. Some of who are over master tier. Now i understand why thats happening, but its making the leveling experience horrible, punishing the people who do well in their games, rather than "even the fields"

Just because a new player did well doesn't mean they're going to be considered a smurf by Riot's system. It measures in degrees of success.

You don't get to the smurf queue just by doing well. You get there by doing better than any new player could reasonably do.

2: Queue times are insane. Im talking sitting there waiting for over 10 minutes , only for someone to dodge. I cant imagine there is this few people playing league at lower levels. Queue times are essentially similar to high master- early challenger games where i sometimes even forget im in queue.

Part of this is due to you being in the "smurf queue", so to speak. The other part is simply there not being many people with that few games.

3: Autofill is a real issue here. Its not like ranked where you get your role 8/10 times and you autofill twice, this is more like you play 2-3 games of your main role, then you are almost garunteed to support the following game. in a day where i play 10 games on average, i had to support 3-4 times AT LEAST. If i was a new player trying to enjoy the game and play the champion i found interesting, thats the best way to get me to give up on the game and do something i actually find enjoyable.

Autofill means nothing at low levels. For starters, they're doing blind and bots at that time, not draft, so they physically cannot be autofilled. Also, everyone is equally terrible at everything there. They're doing random shit all the time anyways because they're still learning, so what lane they do it in hardly matters at all. And that's not even considering the absolutely minuscule chances for a player to be autofilled.

4: Up until level 12 you cannot pick your own runes, and from levels 1-7 you dont have ignite or flash or any of the better spells. Which never made any sense to me. Is there any reason why this is a thing? ive read somewhere that this was the case so people can focus on learning the game and worry about these things later.. but making your own runes and having the better summoners is part of learning the meta and understanding the game... and in games where you have ghost and heal while your lane opponent has flash ignite( which unfortunately happened WAY too often) it could make or break the game.

It's how Riot decided to do it. You don't get as many options, but at the same time you don't get info overloaded. It's a tradeoff that I personally find worthwhile.

Chef Spaghett11/20/2018, 5:19:39 AM1 votes

Playing ranked in preseason affects your mmr for next season. If you're aiming for better ranks, play a bit before the season starts