Honestly considering quitting ranked

Genis94·2/13/2016, 7:50:07 AM·2 votes·995 views

I've been trapped in bronze for quite a while now, trying to escape by carrying my teams kicking and screaming. I've encountered some of the WORST players during these attempts, a full attack speed Sona, a Garen that refused to leash or play passively against a Pantheon, and a Akali and Ereal that fed so hard it completely offset my domination as Sion. I feel like there's a fundamental problem with ranked when players can just afk, build completely ineffective items, or outright feed, and yet they are still allowed to continue throwing games in ranked. I feel like it'd be much more successful for everyone if there was an afk detection system or an abandon buffer to help lower the amount of IP lost or if abandoned early enough/not even connecting would allow the team to leave without penalty. Likewise it might be effective for players who intentionally build items like Statik Shiv on Sona to actually have reports impact them. Perhaps not a ban from the entire game, but a temp ban from ranked. I just want SOME kind of system to help players who actually want to climb in ranked achieve that without trolls/feeders keeping them chained down.

11 Comments

HEAljvLykd2/13/2016, 8:02:20 AM2 votes

You're not good enough to climb. You might as well quit, you're not going anywhere with your current mindset.

Jamaree2/13/2016, 10:01:13 AM2 votes

Sorry to say this buddy, but if you can't "leave" bronze, it isn't because of the trolls, your skills aren't up to par yet.

funbuttluvin2/13/2016, 5:23:31 PM2 votes

You are exactly right, people who ctan't play are not excluded from ranked.

I was just 14 day ban hammered after I went Toxic on a team of 4 for being just this.

Lux support went full APC and didn't poke at all and stunned in the worst cases everytime. She stole CS first 5min, KS shot all day, warded red at 1:00 after telling her i would at 1:30 and to save her ward for river.

After the team went full retard and supported her for having more kills than me, I finally flamed them all and got shitty back with them after about 10mins of them flaming me.

I was then reported by them all and 14 day banned for no reason really other than calling out a bad Lux.

I was then emailed with the chat logs on why I was banned, and guess what riot did.... they deleted all the rude comments they left for me and just showed my main rude comments, It's like quoting the bible out of context and reallllllly shitty imho.

Mods or helpers shouldnt just judge based on # of reports

I just got a whole team of retards prolly playing on the same comp/ip in a virtual machine setup... ya get me..

on a better note im done with league after this and ranked is just trash.... pure trash... I could code a better way to match retards with retards and its not hard....

Samus722/13/2016, 8:23:28 AM1 votes

Quitting ranked has certainly crossed my mind. And I've encountered some doozies myself. Despite what several people on the forums tell me, many of the losses I've had in ranked are not all my fault. It's tough to ADC when your support rushes in thinking THEY are the ADC and don't heal / shield you. Of course, these are the same people that would scream bloody murder if you were the support and doing those things.

VcJOWiSNH42/13/2016, 8:20:05 AM1 votes

If you are talking that much about it then you don't actually care about improving yourself. Go watch streams or watch your replays and do something more productive than talking all day.

Sythriel Draken2/13/2016, 7:56:35 AM1 votes

It doesn't get much better on the climb. I'm currently back a rank under where I ended last season (silver 3 so I'm silver 4 right now) and it's almost as bad as bronze. I've been taking a hiatus from ranked for a week or two and been playing blind normals, where riots matchmaking is totally fucked up right now.. Teams of 4 vs 5 solo players? yah right, riot fix your shit. It's doing two things, One, it's improving my skill with some of my weaker champions, and two, it's just me finally playing the game without fear of getting de ranked because riot can't match up equal skill level players.

YossarianSensei2/13/2016, 7:51:39 AM1 votes

Enemy team is dealing with the same thing

If you're more skilled than a Bronze player and don't go on tilt you'll be able to climb