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Me and my fucking rant with Ranked and Honor.

breakordoom444·12/16/2018, 7:19:11 AM·1 votes·1,826 views

so to make sure I don't go insane, I will write 2 sections:

Ranked: If ranked Ques already take... (20^4 x 25) hours, why have auto-fill? it makes ques shorter, but it just lowers winrate and sometimes is the reason a team loses, either intentional or not.

There needs to also be a higher minimum level, so trolls have a harder time trolling in ranked. or alternatively, a game played count of lets say.... 50? 100?

(personal problem) Gold is HEAVIER and SOFTER then the metals below it. seems impractical.

honor: why can't honor reset for everyone? yeah they were %%%%s last season, but why do we have to just stop them form EVER having a chance? (for reference, people below H1 can't go up to H2)

Can we have a more visible progression of honor? Yes, I understand there are checkpoints. yes I understand that they said they want it to be a progression system that kinda happens.

instead of random drops, daily/weekly drops would be easier and more consistent.

Yeah I'm complaining. please don't mass downvote.

15 Comments

mtothe6thpower12/16/2018, 7:41:04 AM4 votes

So how do ranked queues take 4 Million hours? I'm very concerned with that math.

You can go up to Honor 2 after you get to honor 1, I don't see the issue. You have to actually progress to get back to honorable status.

Daily weekly drops might be easier but it requires consistent honorable behavior to get drops, why do you deserve them if you're not being honorable?

SUPERSATANA12/16/2018, 11:05:51 AM2 votes

Serious question: are you fairly new to the game? Cause there was a time without autofill and was PURE H-E-L-L. You think the average waiting time is too long now? You have no idea...

Umbral Regent12/16/2018, 11:48:36 AM2 votes

So, for your Honor-related gripes:

Why can't Honor reset for everyone?

Because you're supposed to reclimb into Honorable status, not wait for the yearly reset. If you got punished and are Dishonorable because of it, you have to prove to Riot that you can do better.

Why stop people from ever having a chance?

They don't. Just because you can't jump from Honor Level 0 straight to Honor Level 2 doesn't mean you don't have the chance to climb to Honor Level 2. You may not be able to jump to HL2, but you can climb to HL1, and then to HL2.

Can we have more visibility?

Practically speaking, I'm pretty sure the Checkpoints are as good as we're going to get. We can't have clear visibility (like an actual progression bar), since Riot wants to avoid making Honor a senseless grind to the end of the bar, as well as to avoid letting players get a better look at the math behind Honor progress.

Granted, there may be other ways to increase visibility to some degree, but they wouldn't be offering the kind of visibility that people want.

Can we have more consistent rewards drops, like daily/weekly?

Well, depending on what rewards drops we're talking about, there already is a degree of consistency.

Key fragment drops are random, but Milestone rewards are, if not semirandom, at least consistent in the respect that they outline your progression.

Making daily/weekly rewards drops (I'm gonna assume this would refer to key fragments) would oversaturate how many key fragments players get, and then the rewards (key fragments) would lose their value, since, getting a fragment a day pretty much means you'll never experience a time when you don't have a key compared to not having a chest.

And, if that ultimately became the case, the next big question would be;

Can we have more rewards?

Which, the only way I can answer that hypothetical question is with another question: How many free rewards can Riot give us for being Honorable without rewarding us overmuch?

Caretaker Jack12/16/2018, 10:32:30 AM1 votes

I actually relate to your first point... I feel like the new system resolves it though... Just wait for it to become active.

Your second point isn't too big because getting honor is easy as fuck. I fell to zero like 3 times and I'm almost h3 again.