Ranked, why?

one boosted bird·2/5/2016, 10:02:27 PM·18 votes·1,647 views

You know, I know this gets said a lot, but why is it in ranked, specifically when you are in promos, why are you so much more likely to get afks, rage quitters, trolls and feeders? Last two games, first one bot lane had a huge arguement that resulted in our support (blitz) afking and our adc (varus) to intentionally feed. He didnt want to play anymore and made it even worse when decided not to surrender. If riot is so strict about this toxicity being punished, then why is it so prevalent?

My last game, support picked Lee for support and built all damage after losing lane. Ezreal was raging and flaming the support, all the while me and the jungler had 6 kills and 0 deaths between the two of us, we were doing well, i pinged whenever mid would roam and even ping bot to back off, and they would dive in. i can win 5-6 games in a row, then just straight up lose a series to games like this. I know i still make mistakes, quite often but I try to learn from them, This same thing happened last season when I was in my gold promos. I was in my promos for gold no less then 5 times. lost every series. I didnt get an afk or a feeder every game, sometimes you just lose, which I am okay with, but it just always seems to be that whenever its down to the last game, or when it matters the most, the worst tends to happen and it doesnt matter how well you play, you cant carry a team that doesn't want to win. I understand that i made mistakes that last game i was in, i ended like 5/2/2. It just seems so much worse because it feels like the tiniest of my mistakes are so much more impactful because of the bad play by the other lanes.

Ugh. Tilted.

28 Comments

62227164DEL12/5/2016, 10:30:23 PM16 votes

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Penns2/5/2016, 10:42:38 PM6 votes

I guess its because in promos you get people with a lower win rate or lower stats on your team, which are more likely to be trolls or intentional feeders.

Robbit Mang2/6/2016, 3:36:37 AM5 votes

took me 8 total series attempts to get to gold 5 this year, took me one total last year

i felt very tilted almost losting my fifth series out of silver 1.

I hate ranked in general pm

DeloricVI2/6/2016, 6:02:05 AM3 votes

Riot should definitely have a tier of Ranked Play bans. Seriously, if you're toxic enough, have enough afk's, or just end up doing stupid shit like this very often, ban them from ranked for a week or so. I get having a bad game; I'm talking, when this guy goes 3 games, feeds, gets reported in every game... yeah, ban him from ranked for a while. Not because he sucks, but because ranked is the 1 place that you really do not need a perfectly good 5v5 turn into a 2v8 because your team is attacking you, afk'ing or intentionally feeding.

And also, this could encourage Riot to use longer ban times, which could possibly help some people who are tilting from losing too much elo.

But that's all idle speculation, I guess.

swordartonlineyi2/5/2016, 10:17:15 PM3 votes

There is a magic solution to this problem. Play as a 4 or 5 man team.

High52/6/2016, 4:19:43 AM2 votes

I don't play ranked because of afks. Promos are a lesser problem that gets exasperated by afks.

The best problem is that Riot expects every player to reinvent the wheel. When they reinvent a square are wheel and some tells them how shitty their square wheel is, that person gets punished.

Solution, mute everyone and play norms. Enjoy the good games, move on from the rest. Complaining will not affect the basics of the game I.e. Promos and afks.

KING ATTILA2/6/2016, 6:15:10 AM1 votes

They should make it to where if evidence of legitimate trolling are clear, then offenders would be banned from ranked for a long time. Or just perma ban since they clearly don't care about winning anyway.

Only Play Darius2/6/2016, 7:32:07 AM1 votes

I could have sworn they said they were going to change promos to best 1/2 instead of best 2/3

Left Hook Larry2/7/2016, 2:36:08 AM1 votes

Riot does it on purpose to make it extra harder to climb