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Low-level game need to be fixed

LeDaver·3/2/2018, 9:07:56 AM·1 votes·371 views

Hello everyone, Today we're gonna talk about a big issue. That issue is named League of Legend.

Now, most of you will be shock with what I've just said, but it can be explained. The major issue with this game is beginning. You start, and in your first game, you will play with nine smurf. Seems pretty cool right? It is indeed something pretty interesting. So you are a brand new player, and you have to play against experienced players, get one shot almost every minute and get criticized for it by your experienced teammates.

I'm complaining, but there's two easy solution. One that can be taken by the player, the other by Riot.

First- Stop playing, there's no point anyway

Second- Lets take an example on Dota2. This game have a system that will detect skilled players and match them together, leaving new comers and less skilled player in their game, having a chance to learn and experience a more enjoyable game play. (Dota's matchmaking is divided between Low, Medium, and high-skill)

So to end this, League is an extremely bad experience for new-comers and Riot is doing nothing about it.

Lots of salt LeDaver

5 Comments

Awf Meta3/2/2018, 10:26:53 AM3 votes

Riot claims new players are already separated from the experienced players. Does not seem to be the case for co-op vs ai games though.

I believe a better tutorial system would be super helpful for new players. I'd like to see pre-made situations. For example: Put 5 bots in a bush. Show what happens when the player "face checks". Then show the player a safer method like using abilities to check the bush, or trinkets.

TattooedOni3/2/2018, 9:59:02 AM1 votes

Getting pub-stomped by smurfs has been part of the game since the start. It isn't fun, but its good early resistance. If you are trying to learn a new game you probably want to know how to not get killed so fast and will learn to play safer.

Dnyarri3/2/2018, 10:21:17 PM1 votes

From my experience it already does separate smurfs and new players.

When I leveled this smurf I obviously played mostly botgames to get closer to 30. The first normal I played I got matched with completely new players and (apart from the fact that I got flamed super hard) had the score you'd expect. Alright. Queued up for another game and got matched with golds / plats. That's how it stayed since then.

Oxyrotten3/2/2018, 10:38:13 PM1 votes

It separates skilled players and less skilled players in the first few matchmade games.

But Riot's matchmaking is completely beyond repair to begin with so that doesn't mean much.

To be fair though League has a huuuuuge learning curve, and there really isn't any easy way into it. It does need far better tutorials (multiple) but nobody would play if you had to spend a week learning the very basics before you could play. And also low level really doesn't mean anything.