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As bad as I was warned

RobbieFry13··2 votes·609 views

I started playing LOL this year, and I loved it. There were issues at times with players be having badly, but nothing worse than the comments section on FB, and hey you win some and lose it's just normals, so you can still enjoy moral victories.

Then I started playing ranked. . . And wow all the bad things from the boards have been true!

There are way more skips over bans Pretty much every game there is some one who wants to tell you what champion to pick, what items to buy and everything else about how to play, and that is without fail the player who starts 0/4/0 and types into chat, "why am I stuck with this noob team? FF@20" I have only played a handful of games and almost all have ended in surrender, and involved some form of drama, that resulted in feeding/trolling/rage quit I can't imagine why in the world ranked play would be worse than normals, but it really really is. My question is if something about ranked play makes players crazy why even have it below Platinum?

21 Comments

redfeenix3 votes

I've learned the hard way to always group and play with premades.

You CANNOT trust ANYONR in solo q. Ever.

Always expect the fucking worst and you won't be shocked or disappointed.

Unstoppable Monk1 votes

Sometimes you can't even trust premades.

If you weren't in gold you'd see a lot of semi-skilled for elo players throwing/tilting their team. I've had so many randos lose me LP by being cocky and refusing to play as a team comp.

But yes... TRUST NO ONE, NOT EVEN YOURSELF.

Horse Grenades2 votes

I'm plat 5 and I'm in like 8th or 9th percentile. Do you really want to cut off ranked for 91% of the community? Just because you suck at the game doesn't mean you shouldn't get a chance to improve and compete against ppl who suck equally as bad

RobbieFry131 votes

That is exactly what I suggested except for the bottom 91% we call the games normals instead of ranked, see there is no difference at that level so why add the burden?

Horse Grenades1 votes

I guess I don't understand what "burden" you talk about. Besides, platinum is full of people who have no idea what they're doing and some of the most toxic teammates you can imagine. By your standards we should just Challenger only ranked. You're ability to climb in spite of your team is mostly what rank measures. There is no increased burden at lower levels, just the perception of one because you haven't been to higher levels.

RobbieFry131 votes

Yeah kinda no one has been able to explain that one to me either but people seem to take the Ranked games way more seriously (even though as far as I have been able to discern there is practicably nothing at stake other than some online stats to brag about?) but Normals = It doesn't count, so less freak-out anxiety.

RcGjWO640w1 votes

My question is if something about ranked play makes players crazy why even have it below Platinum?

If I had a year, I couldn't explain all of the reason why this doesn't make any sense...

RobbieFry131 votes

It seems pretty simple to me. You get 10 promotional games to be ranked right? So after level 30 you can play those 10 games, and if you don't make Platinum ranked is disabled for a certain amount of time until you can attempt the promotional games again.

TheMinez1 votes

That would literally make ranked only for smurf accounts. About 3/4ths of the playerbase that is ranked would only be able to play 10 ranked games/year. That means that if you are placed in bronze you basically need to make a new account. I hope you can see why that would be bad for the new player experience, with a metric ton of smurfs ruining new players' games. That would mean that you need to make about 10 accounts to even have a chance to play ranked...

RobbieFry131 votes

I guess I don't understand the benefit of playing ranked. Can you explain to me the benefit of playing in Ranked Bronze or Silver over just normals?

BLACK REALM GOD1 votes

there's an exclusive costume you get at the end of the year if you make it to gold

Azure Hamster1 votes

Try Counter-Strike.

Caitlyn

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

I did my placements and got Silver IV. I deeply dislike the stress that ranked puts on people, so after I got my emblem I stopped playing ranked.

But I know that you can't give up hope in ranked. I spanned so many nirmals before I played Ranked so my mmr let me get matched with Silvers and Golds, so I could avoid some of the trolls.

In my first game we had an Aatrox jungle and a Pantheon Top. Aatrox hard carried.

In another game my main Brand was banned, so I had to go with Lux. Despite my rustiness with her my team was understanding and we won.

Don't give up on people mate, because there are solo players like us who want to win and support their team.

TheMinez1 votes

uhh... silver 4 is the average mmr of where they place people who have never played ranked before at the first game of your placements

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

it is? Then how do you end up in bronze?

Elfador1 votes

{quoted}

it is? Then how do you end up in bronze?

The systems decide that you belong in a lower rank. You lose way more pts in losses than you gain in wins and it takes a shitload of games to get back up.

TheMinez1 votes

Placements affect your mmr much more than regular ranked games, with the first placement counting the most and the rest counting less and less. If you lose your first like 3 games and go even in your placements you are probably going to be placed in some part of bronze.

Randomonium1 votes

People care a lot more about winning in ranked than normals so it's much easier for them to go on tilt if they feel like their team is hurting their chances at winning.

To be honest I'd be really frustrated if you were in my ranked game. Your builds are very sub optimal and your stats suffer because of it. I'm not trying to say that to be mean, I'm trying to help you out. There's a reason why you only have a 16% win rate in ranked and it isn't your team. Only way you'll get better is if you ignore what your team does bad and focus only on yourself.

RobbieFry131 votes

Oh yeah I just play for fun, do you see what Champs I use? So you kind of make my point for me, people like me who are not worried too much about rank or win percentage really have no business playing ranked so why have it? What bothers me though about the experience that I have had playing ranked (I just started playing league earlier this year and wasn't expecting to win much) is that the other players are awful. In a very small sample (only like 13 games ranked?) the matches have been uniformly toxic in someway, the incident that immediately preceded my original post was our mid likely not paying attention banned our Top Laner's Champ. Top lane threatened to troll mid, and instead of apologizing or admitting wrong doing mid egged him on so we had a Singhed running around the map feeding. In that situation both of those players might have actually been way better than me, and able to carry but thanks to their immaturity my poor builds weren't the reason we lost that game.
If had a 0 for win % and averaged 20+ deaths per game but actually got to finish matches without anyone flaming/trolling/rage quitting or begging to FF@20 after the first time they die, then from my perspective I would have nothing to complain about.

Randomonium1 votes

If you want to play for fun then play normals. People play ranked to win. Just because you aren't playing to win doesn't mean that there aren't other people who are. No one starts off that the plat level which is why its useful to have lower ranked leagues where people can be competitive even if they aren't very good. Your proposal would be like getting rid of all competitive sports programs in the US except those at the division 1 or professional level. Just because you aren't amazing at something doesn't mean you don't want to be competitive.

Toxic players are going to happen in ranked. I get trolled all the time. Removing ranked or changing it in some way isn't going to change that.

It honestly sounds like ranked really isn't for you and that's fine. The vast majority of people who play this game don't play ranked. Ranked is for the tryhards. I played this game casually for years before I finally stepped into the ranked ladder and my first season in ranked I was absolutely horrible and got my ass kicked. Its normal.

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