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The Much Needed Rant

TheBear97·11/16/2016, 5:25:56 AM·1 votes·272 views

Hello League Players,

I have spent the past 4 years playing this not only challenging game, but very rewarding game as well. I am not one to turn to forums, this is actually my first post, but I have no where else to turn. With 1500+ wins under my belt I feel like I have a good handle on how the game is played and most of the mechanics of each champ I play. That being said, I have never been able to climb past silver 3. Actually, I have just recently (past few months) decided to try and climb the ranks. I was just a normal draft player that wanted to play the game for fun. I have been in lobbies with some of the best players and some of the most rage inducing individuals I have ever played with. So much so, I have been wanting to record my games because I feel like no one else can get individuals such as mine. Climbing elo seems nearly impossible because I believe the ranked system is sort of luck based. It seems either you get matched with laid back people who have a love for the game or bipolar kids who can't sit still for a mere 50 minutes. I don't know what I am trying to accomplish from this, but I am hoping to see that some individuals share my pain as a soloQ player. Given the amount of time I have put into this game I can't just turn my back on it. I love this game, but; simply put, the community is awful. The reporting system is wonky and no one sees it as a threat. I understand the riot crew has put countless hours in trying to improve the gameplay but, its time to improve this community. Possibly this can be fixed by basing matchups on wins, rather than elo. Because we all know for how many wins an individual has there are countless numbers of losses. This may be a worthless rant that no one sees or even cares about, but I hope some insight can be brought from this. I'm just another weekday league player. It's a place where I can login, find a match, and show my skill. But, without a proper mature team the fun factor of this game goes to 0. Thanks for spending time to read my rant and if you want add me! (sorry for any grammar mistakes).

Thanks, TheBear97

5 Comments

zeusjr6911/16/2016, 11:41:13 AM1 votes

Bro all honestly its not luck the art of climbing is being able to carry hard enough in a certain rank to win most of youre games not all usually the ranking system is pretty dead on to where you need to be. I was stuck in gold for along time before i progressed past it and the factor was i stopped making excuses and looking at the others and what they did and only focused on what i could do to win. hope this helps.

Korillo11/16/2016, 3:30:07 PM1 votes

I give most games the benefit of the doubt, but as soon as it appears that 1 player might be toxic in chat I just /mute all. While you may say it's unfair for me to /mute all due to 1 player, it has been my experience that it just takes 1 player to turn everyone against each other, whether it be on your own team or the enemy team.

It has made my games far more enjoyable, and makes attempting to comeback when you are behind a lot more tolerable, as from your perspective, nobody is saying anything negative and you are just trying to get yourself back into the game.

Yes, it would be nice to have a better solution where people just aren't negative & toxic in game, but there is simply no way around this. You can't just ban them all as this is just too difficult to police, and they won't just go away, so this is the best workaround I have found.

As far as climbing goes, climbing can be difficult and eventually you hit a wall. Just try to find parts of the game where you are struggling and improve on them. Focusing on trying to improve rather than trying to climb should make it feel a little less tedious, and hopefully provide some better results.

TheBear9711/16/2016, 8:30:17 PM1 votes

Alright, this is just ridiculous. I have spent the past months (starting from s5) getting to s3. Now that I have completed my provisional games for flex, I was placed in Bronze 2??? Like COME ON. Shouldn't my work at least be reflected in some sense. I do not want to climb out of bronze. It seems like riot is just screwing people over in order to keep people playing their game. Fuck this shit. This ranked system is really starting to get on my nerves. I can see why Dunkey quit this monstrosity.