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About Placement Matches...

aedinfell·10/13/2016, 10:25:18 PM·4 votes·1,340 views

So I've recently hit Level 30, so I have, of course, been doing my placement matches for Ranked. Since the XP requirements were halved, that means I reached Level 30 fairly quickly. I don't consider myself great at the game, or somebody who plays a ton. But I have not been enjoying placements at all. I've done 4 by the time I'm posting this, and I have to say, it's a little disheartening. I'm pitted with mostly teammates who criticize my gameplay, and enemies who are unsurprisingly much stronger than I am. (I guess placements start in silver?? I really don't know much about the game itself.) One Miss Fortune said she'd been playing since at least Season 2, and told me I wasn't just a noob, or just bad, just that I was actually horrible at League. I was even apologizing, because I know I'm not that good, reminding them I'm in my first placements, and even admitting that I'm not a great player. Our Jungler, Vi constantly told me to never even try to finish my placements and just play norms. People probably think I'm just whining by this point, but I honestly just feel that people in their first placements shouldn't be put with people that high above their skill level. I understand it's to try and find who is actually at your skill level, but it's kind of making me want to stop playing the game. It stops being fun when your teammates tell you you shouldn't play League of Legends because you're simply not good, without even encouraging you to try and improve. I feel that placement match ups should be revised to try to stop people from being toxic towards players with less skill and experience simply due to literally everybody else in the game being better than you fundamentally from sheer experience and play time. This may be the wrong place to put this, but I think it's important too, so people realize how toxic players in ranked get towards less experienced. It's easy to forget that it's just a game, and games are for FUN, not just to win. The reason I play is not for glory or to become challenger, it's to pass time and have fun playing.

TL;DR: When noobs in ranked placements get put with stronger teammates, the rest of the team gets salty and mad at them. Dear Rito, please change this? Thanks.

18 Comments

Rajin Kajin 10/14/2016, 12:28:19 AM2 votes

Dude! This makes me feel wayy better. I just posted almost the exact same thing here..

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/YhqJ43q1-ranked-toxicity-and-report-system

I just submitted like five minutes ago. I feel your pain man.

MeilinII10/13/2016, 10:48:34 PM2 votes

To be perfectly honest you really shouldn't be playing ranked right after you hit 30.

Flaherty10/13/2016, 11:21:03 PM1 votes

No matter how many games you play or what rank you are there will always be people that are critical of you, I say just try to finish your placements as best you can so you can better gauge what your skill level is. Just play safe, farm under tower if you need to, ask your team for help, and if someone says something extremely negative to you just mute them. You might want to stay away from any role you're not super comfortable with as well because your mindset can easily affect gameplay and if you're nervous about playing something it's going to make your games harder.

WretchedSoul989810/14/2016, 1:44:22 AM1 votes

The best advice I can give you is to mute those players who are being toxic. Second, spend some time to watch the pros at the World Championship and LCS tournaments. Furthermore, ranked (sadly) has been composed of very toxic folks caused by other toxic folks. Find someone to get better with and give advice to each other. You might want to spend some time in Normal to focus on two lanes you wish to play in. After you have decided this, proceed to find three champions that really seem to feel natural to you. For instance, I play mainly Syndra and Ahri mid-lane followed by a Heimerdinger if both get taken (or someone else depending on the mid). Generally, the higher the skill cap of the champion, the greater potential the champion has for damage and play making. Syndra, Yasou, Heimerdinger, Ahri, Cassieopia, Ekko, and so forth are examples. Mastering those champs will put you at a huge advantage over the person who masters Olaf or Yi. Those champions generally easier to play with fall off late game. Once you have mastered all aspects of the champion through critical self-evaluation after every death, missed cs, loss, and general gameplay should you play ranked. Silver IV as a support dropped to Bronze V. Play top, jungle, and mid for the greatest impact on the game. I finally switched after a massive dosage of desperation in the support role. I've been climbing ever since after I started asking myself what I've been doing wrong in games. (This has been quite recent: October 1st to be precise). Send me a message if you have any questions and a friend request.

ShinkoMinori10/14/2016, 4:07:44 AM1 votes

SO YOU ARE THE UNRANKED SCUM!!!

Ok whenever I am in high silver or low gold I get matched against people like you, and let me tell you... you are the worse kind of teammate I've ever encountered and I am glad I don't need to play ranked anymore so I don't find horrible players like you. Its not your fault but Dynamic Queue's fault. You are just not ready for ranked and yet this season encourages you to ruin others games. You are a long long long long long long long way to go to be ready for ranked and yet you already tried it, don't be surprised to find people getting mad at you for being nothing more than dead weight.

Your options:

Learn how to play before playing the game Play only norms

Just don't ever dare to go into ranked and go 4/11/12 and expect people to don't get mad at you. Hell if you were in my games I would report you for intentional feeding and hope you get permabanned someday.

VictoriousBard10/14/2016, 6:05:52 AM1 votes

Word of advice, get yourself some tier three runes before you start playing ranked again. You also might wanna look at some sites like probuilds and such to get an idea of what good rune and item builds are for the champions you're playing.

xReadyPlayerOnex10/15/2016, 6:57:28 PM1 votes

I think your attitude is wrong. Instead of focusing on THAT people are frustrated with your play, focus on WHY they are frustrated and use it as a learning opportunity to get better.

Awesomedude888810/16/2016, 1:08:53 AM1 votes

This is what I would do:

  1. Play more normal games. I started playing this game around the MYMU, and didn't really start ranked until I won ~200 normal games, and even then I haven't played much ranked (B3 with all 10 placements + 27 post-placement games). I STILL managed to feed my ass off in all 10 of those placements.

  2. If you insist on playing ranked, please: a. /mute all at the start of the game so you don't hear people flaming you, and b. know that you're gonna play against much better players in your placements, and that you will probably feed, and c. you will be placed with players of similar skill to you after you finish all 10 of your placements, so games should be of much higher quality.

That's pretty much it. Don't fret over ranked, and do feel free to play more normals until you're comfortable on your champ to go into ranked.

WoonStruck10/16/2016, 1:16:15 AM1 votes

Play a champion you enjoy, and play ~200 matches as them. Get as much experience that way as you can.

Pay special attention to what you should be doing at any given moment, rather than "kill the enemy".

That's the quickest way you'll fit into ranked. There's a huge, huge difference between someone who just hit 30 and someone who's been playing the game 'competitively', which is to say attempting to do everything as efficiently as possible and minimizing risks.

If you aren't consistently coming out of lane with really good CS, despite kills, which you shouldn't be prioritizing, or dying, which you should be minimizing as much as possible, you probably aren't ready for ranked.

Even once you get those skills down, you need to know how to have game-ending impact. Where to be, what to do with advantages, etc.

https://na.whatismymmr.com/

Use this as a guage. Until your normal MMR is about 1300 or greater over 200+ games, you probably won't get much out of ranked. If you want to improve your MMR (if its low), play one champion, one or two roles (if they're capable of flexing well) with that champion. Learn the ins and outs of them so you don't have to worry about champions as much as you do about macro-gameplay. You'll pick up on those skills soon enough and be ready to expand a bit if you're comfortable doing so, or just one trick up to gold and higher.

Any time you're playing below gold, focus on farm. Just farm. Ignore your team unless its convenient to show up and help them. Knowing when you'll have an impact on an outcome is one of the skills you'll pick up from doing that, and its crucial, even if it makes you feel like a jerk at times. This is especially true as a jungler and top laner.

Learn how to farm safe, and learn how to consistently outfarm your opponent, regardless of lane advantage. That's how you get up to gold, and you can start learning a lot more about the game past that.

WoonStruck10/16/2016, 1:22:23 AM1 votes

Also, support is one of the hardest positions to climb with at low MMR because you're very dependent on another player, and other players cannot be considered really reliable below ~1500 MMR. Hell, they aren't really reliable below diamond, probably.

Play kill lanes to climb if you insist on supporting. If you still want mages, go mid. If you don't care, find something you really like in normals and stick with that until you play ~50 games or more, then try it out in ranked.

Use this video series to learn the basics of how to competitively play LoL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iko2tqmDpJQ

grug10/16/2016, 1:23:31 AM1 votes

offtopic, but jesus christ

can you guys use paragraph structure l0l more often.

Kei14310/13/2016, 10:58:22 PM1 votes

Ghostcrawler did say that MMR splash between modes is a pretty important topic for them to tackle.

I hope they have some solutions when the new client is released or for season 7.

BTW, you might want to look up some youtube videos on CSing, positioning, and map awareness. Then you just want to practice it.