Ways to fix how people treat ranked.
The problem that mainly comes into the ranked environment is that people do not care. "It's just a game." "Video games are suppose to be fun." I understand what these people are saying and are right in a way but there are time and places for that. Ranked is not one of them. Ranked is a very stressful place where most people come after 'training' growing their skills and want to put what they can do to the test and climb the ladder. Ranked is not meant to be fun not at all, the amount of time i get "First time (insert champion)" or "I'm trying this new full Ad mage build." People do not care what happens to other people as long as they get what they want and there is no punishment for it and other people have to suffer. Reporting does not help because it takes too many reports for something to get done and the enemy team will not report someone on the opposite team because they hope to go against them again for an easy win and the rare time that something is done it's not enough to punish the offender to make them change, but the people that screwed over have to suffer the most. Take me for example: Last season I was in my promos of Gold 5. I was 2 wins in and just need 1 win. Someone on my team says "Hey, I can't jungle can I swap roles with someone?" I gave up mid too him like a good player who cam play multiple roles should do. 10 seconds into the game the person that I gave my role too says. "Guys I'm trying to be the worst player in league so report me after the game." He then disconnected form the game leaving it a 4v5. We lost the game. I was mad but didn't sweat it too much and went into the next game. I lost the next game because our top laner wanted to play top for the first time and insta-lock a champion they have never used before and had seen a pro player use. He fed his lane and got mad at the rest of the team for now camping his lane and went and fed every other lane. That was the spiral to my mmr dropping so much that I get teamed up with people that just hit level 30 and want to jump into ranked but that is drifting for the point of what I wanted to state. Fixing how ranked and punishment are treated.
WAYS FOR FIXING RANKED
1: Change how the report system works, You can start but limiting how many times you can report like in Dota 2. This way if a person receives high number of reports it will mean that they are bad for the league community. I understand that a lot of games go on every hour but a team needs to be made to hand ranked reports.
2: Punishment needs to be more severe, Banning someone for sometime or perma-banning is not a threat because smurfing exist, Smurfing was created back in the early years of league when high elo queues took 30-45 minutes. Now it is used to troll or make people feel good about themselves for crushing weaker players. If people get too many reports with limited report system there should be levels of punishment. Strike 1, warning telling them they have been getting reported a lot. Strike 2, low-priority punishment where they can only play play with other people they are like theme toxic,ragers, etc. Strike 3 Division lose. Make them lose rankings. Gold 5 drop to Silver 1 no matter how much lp they have. Yes it is harsh but that is what they are doing to the people they are playing with I have had friends that have been dropped to bronze because stuff like this so those people should suffer as well.
3: Test a kick feature in champ select. A meta exist for are reason and in rank it really should be followed because I can not talk to people that I queue up with they are not my friend they do not know who I think and I do not know how they think that's why a meta is created to to help with throwing a game plan together. Have a kick vote in place. If someone says "I want this or that or else I feed." Let us be able to kick that person. There would have to be trial and error to make sure its not abused.
4: Reward people more/better. I have been giving the good sportsman award every season it has been out. I had the ribbon, I have the icon I have the skin, Which says I am a good person more or less but that doesn't help my rank, people with the system in place punishes people for losing when it could be completely out of their control, I will take a lose if I deserve it but other people or myself will mess up bad and cost the game how is that the other peoples fault? A way needs to be made to help with this. Instead of lowering peoples lp because of them losing raise it until the reach the next rank, then it can reset?
These are just some thing I can think of they may be good they may not but suffering for other people is not why I play ranked and is not cool.
