Ranked, is there a point to it?

DividedVirus·Oct 12, 2018·2 votes·3,341 views

While I am probably wasting my time typing this I feel the need to ask the community, what is the point of ranked? (more specifically NA ranked)

So far this whole season I can't get out of silver. Yes I know I myself should improve more to do that, but I think we can all agree even if you are having a good game or you get fed if some other position in the game feeds or doesn't know what to do or rages and starts feeding or whatever the reason, that's the game (a vast majority of the time).

I am now Silver 3 and have been for awhile and have gotten to promos 2-3 times, I can't remember exactly, but every time I get to promos I get a troll or someone that has just started playing league or simply someone that can't survive under tower and farm as best as they can.

For example yesterday I was leashing red at the beginning of the game for my jungler. We were invaded, he got caught and died. At this point I had just went to my lane to get away from the invade. When the jg respawned he continually ping spammed me and my support to help him rather than going to a different camp. Since neither my support or I went back to help him he decided that he was just going to walk down bot lane for the rest of the game and feed. Respawn after respawn he would walk straight down bot lane and right to the enemy team and stand still. By the end of the game he went 0/27/0. Of course we lost. And yes my whole team reported him and not long after got a message that something had been done. But I still lost LP.

I get it we lost, I don't have a problem losing, IF it was an actual game. This person went out of his/her way to ruin the game for us. Like it just seems completely unfair that we had all lost LP because this person didn't get a leash. Then would have to basically just farm through more ranked games to get back to where we were and deal with more trolls or feeders.

This isn't the only kind of situation that I feel needs to be looked at. I know this post is a waste but it's so frustrating how difficult it is to play in Silver just because so many people don't care and just want to troll or feed. Hopefully with the new season things will change but I doubt it. NA servers are terrible for ranked...

12 Comments

Totally Not JinxOct 12, 20183 votes

The higher you wind up in any elo, I've noticed, the harder it is to find calm teammates.

Tensions are high in the upper echelons of all tiers, because every single one of you (barring smurfs I suppose, or trolls) is grinding really hard to get out and up to the next. That leads to a lot of behavioural issues that can manifest in poor performance.

League is a game of the mind as much as a game of skill. If you have teammates who are:

Tunnel visioned on kills
Defiant to shot calls
Micromanaging other teammates
Tilted from Champ Select
Lacking map awareness
Fixated on things like Baron or Drakes at the expense of another objective or kill
Calling GG because you're down a surmountable amount of kills

You're not going to fare well. Now, these behaviours don't necessarily mean that a game will go sour. This is where your own skills come in to play. If you can keep calm, and get a couple additional teammates to work with you, you'll have a much easier time. Things like team composition, Summoner Spell selection, and positioning are critical to having control of the map. Ideal circumstances would be to get the middle inhibitor first, then Baron, then push side lanes to keep map pressure optimal. However, there will be times where it is more beneficial to your team to give up those objectives in favour of forcing a team fight and then regaining the advantage.

These are all things that people should learn the more they play. No single player can carry a game from First Blood to Victory, I don't care who tells you otherwise. That Middle lane player that's 15/2/3? They had help. If they didn't, they wouldn't have snowballed so well.

At the end of the day, the ones that feed are the ones that feed. You can't control them, only your response to them. Losses will happen, and they will be infinitely frustrating, but taking those losses and turning them into 'What can I do better?' will help immensely. That and reporting the ones that actively cause problems, because the more we can weed them out, the easier the climb could become.

Best of luck in the Rift.

HavokDashOct 17, 20182 votes

I find it hillarious how people act like league is nothing more than a call of duty style free for all. They dont look at anything outside of "look at Meeeeee, I got most kills! tell me how OP i am!" and then when the match is lost because they were too busy racking up that 17/2 kda to attack towers, Too busy waiting for teammates to die THEN jumping in for cleanup (as opposed to trying to actually help teammates when they are....ALIVE...cuz that means they arent -Guaranteed- the kill) That mid laner? they will let you HELP them get the kills, then turn around and tell you how much of an "inting feeder" you are when the enemy takes a tower while mid was busy running after a full health enemy while at 15hp because they wanted +1 to K/d/a They turn around and talk about how trash thier team is when the enemy team gets 3 dragons and all our towers, but that ONE player is too busy talking about how all thier kills suddenly make them a superior player.

I found a fix for that, I take my adc's kills. Giving up kills and farm to the adc is a COURTESY by the support. Supports are JUST as entitled to the minions, JUST as entitled to kills. But they give up both as a courtesy to the adc. I however, no longer have any respect for ranked, no respect for my team. So I take the farm and kills for myself. Play like its single player, and you will lose like its single player. Everyone in this community thinks they are the next faker. I mean as if suddenly the moment they reach 23 kills, the game stops and you see a "kill limit reached, VICTORY" That is what they are expecting. They dont care about actually having to take towers if they can go for "most kills" and then flipping thier shit when they lose because rather than taking down towers, they chose to run from one end of the map to the other to chase EVERY single kill that came up...and spammed "OMG report X for KSing me" when anyone other than THEM got the kill. (a sort of "All kills are mine by default" attitude)

Totally Not JinxOct 18, 20181 votes

Welcome to literally every 'carry' role in Silver lmao.

If teammates don't want supports taking matters into their own hands, they might do better to start listening to them since their job is macro/map awareness 100%

Zombie GerbilOct 12, 20183 votes

Shortly put: Ranked is there to improve people's skills. Overall improving everything they know about the roles and the champions they use. The point of ranked is about improving and climbing to seek out the rewards. Nothing more, nothing less.

FullmuteAll playOct 12, 20182 votes

Well I guess play on other server ? I doubt any other server is better pre Diamond.

Nik NikersonOct 12, 20182 votes

I know it hurts, but, maybe you're just a silver level player.

KareshiOct 12, 20182 votes

The whole point of ranked< is to tilt people as much as possible using non discrete ways such as pings< emotes and making it look like not feeding even though you actually are< ( just dont go above 13 deaths< thats an automatic ban)

so by doing all this you make other players jumpy and they use chat or retaliate by feeding ( in the obvious way or afk)

and the end result is you report them in the hope of them getting a perma< which if they did all of the above and you triggered them in that way then they get the perma and you keep going

its a process of elimination, thats what ranked is about<

my kill count is 17 players on my main< who got permas ( checked their history after u get an instant feedback report)

tis the cycle/purpose of ranked

AshleyFluttersOct 12, 20181 votes

oh booo hoo im stuck in silver. come back when you're in bronze.

Telephone BoothOct 12, 20181 votes

It has the same point as unranked, but it tracks and compares you and your games to other players. So idk, its still just a video game man. Its just for fun.

mlm olo mlmOct 12, 20181 votes

Someone probably should have helped the jungler. They died and lost buff camp at level 1. Now the jungle monsters are harder and you want them to go leash-less. What about the enemy junglers health? If it was like a healthy Lee Sin, your jungler probably just lost at least half of their farm, and can be killed again at any time.

FaneseekerOct 12, 20181 votes

Keep on fighting man. It's not supposed to be easy. Think of it this way, getting out of bronze, silver, gold, and into the higher leagues is almost like breaking poverty in real life and hit millionaire status. It is that difficult.