Season 9 suggestions

While Elo hell is getting to me, rather than be a sniveling complainant I figured I would suggest some changes that might help improve game play"

1.) Consider adding honor voting buttons for opponents as well as team players. This could add some credibility to use in ranking/LP gain given that you are less impacted by duo pairs that self vote regardless of performance. As an example, if a player gets 4 or more votes for play from all 10 players in match, there should be an LP bonus of some sort. Lots of potential nuances here and should be easy to impliment.

2.) With the general encouragement for players to try all roles in season 9, you need to enhance rune option limits from 6 to 10 to allow players to custom blend for all role champs rather than rely on third party add-ons, or scrambling rune adjustment pregame.

3.) I strongly suggest you reallocate some funding to report investigation department... the videos and merchandising are cool, but they aren't what is drawing players in, nor what is driving players away. Three matches this week where I am 10+ KDA early in match on SR and have players afk or just troll the match intentionally trying to throw. I record their names in an independent data base so I can dodge if paired with them, but they continuously crop up... clearly the ban threat to toxic and trolling players is not being taken seriously. The only thing that is apparent to being enforced is the verbal abuse (which is player solveable through mute).... but players who go intentionally troll and keep their mouth shut continue playing without consequence. I had one player 3 days ago admit pregame he was going to troll, then in game said he was going afk (went 2-23), so I reported him... then was paired with him the next day and again last night, and looking up his stats, he has had continuous matches in ranked where his KDA is 0.15, troll builds and he has no ban... this means there is inadequate funding allocated to enforcement support, or your punishment criterion needs adjustment. I suggest players this intentionally bad (through lack of skill, toxic attitude, or just trolling tendency) be suspended from ranked play and only be allowed to play ARAM, ARUF and Norms. Then report enforcement can apply a week/2-week long ban without really affecting the players ability to play the game and develop skills,** but not at the expense of other ranked players **(this is the root of elo hell).

Food for thought, please use it. The new ranking systems is well recognized as a legit effort to improve game play and peformance recognition, but there simply is inadequate means and consequence to non-performance outside verbal abuse.