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Why can some players not get ranked suspensions until they improve?

freakyjef··7 votes·886 views
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If a player is so bad that having them on your team is a loss 99% of the time, why can they not get a ranked suspension until they improve? Realistically if a player is going 2/23 in a bronze 5 game trying their hardest, ranked is obviously not the place for them. They need a lot of practice, and ranked should be out of the question if they dont even have the basics of the game like csing, pinging, or, well, anything. A system i would have in mind is if a player is performing like this in numerous games over and over, they have a week suspension and until they show improvement they get to do placement type of games to prove they are ready for ranked which would be available once a week.

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I suck at Jhin2 votes

Because if that was the case, we would have only 5 different ranks.

Challenger, Master, Diamond I 90LP, Diamond I 0LP, Permabanned from ranked.

Zelorxon1 votes

Ok i'm horny now.

I suck at Jhin1 votes

Go wank to ahri?

TrulyBland2 votes

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If a player is so bad that having them on your team is a loss 99% of the time, why can they not get a ranked suspension until they improve?

Because if they really have such an abysmal winrate over a significant amount of games they will play against people who would not have done any better in their place. People do extremely badly when they are matched against far better players. Punishing people because Riot didn't find them a proper match seems beyond ridiculous.

Edit: I mean, just consider what usually happens within the first week after the soft reset. Lots of lopsided matches that are simply created by matchmaking having to cope with people climbing and falling back to where they belong. You could have lots of gold players screwed over completely by bad luck, who on top of this might then get suspended in ranked... and for what? For performing on their average level while being matched against people that before the reset were ranked plat and diamond?

freakyjef1 votes

Well the account i was playing on was i think b2 and had a 75 ish win rate yet i got matched with a bronze 5 0 lp person with a 7 (i think it was 7 when i checked op.gg) win rate.

MatthewRT21 votes

We don't discriminate here unless you main Yasuo; If you are a Yasuo main just move along because we don't take to kindly to you persons.

freakyjef3 votes

They are a katarina jungle main who just went zed top and went 0/7/1 with 31 cs in a 22 mintues game Q_Q

MatthewRT21 votes

Well I bet the tried as hard as they could.

freakyjef1 votes

And sometimes that isnt enough which is why i proposed this solution :)

MatthewRT21 votes

Bronze is mostly about being able to carry, I don't play ranked because of people like these and just take it easy in norms.

there's a reason they are in bronze 5

freakyjef1 votes

Yes but if b5 is too high of a skill level, there are issues

MatthewRT21 votes

alot of people have a skill ceiling of b5 0LP

JQKAndrei1 votes

That's not true, they're actually a minority.

FioraWillCarry1 votes

Last season I had a long spell at B5 0 LP where I lost multiple games in a row. My MMR was so shit that I was gaining something like 15 LP per win at Bronze 4. Guess what, I made it to Silver 5 by the end of the season. As of this post, I'm sitting at Silver 2 with a decent shot at Gold. If I had been banned from ranked when I was suffering in the depths of Bronze 5 last season, I would not have had a chance to learn the things I need to get out.

Today, I can't get stuck in B5, even if I tried. I've come a long way since then and even that guy can too.....unless he's stubborn like Lyless.

King of Demons1 votes

Bronze 5 for a reason.

But no reason to complain /shrug

freakyjef1 votes

I am not a bronze player but this is my smurf, and from what ive seen if people dont understand the basics of the game ranked shouldnt be an option. That is one of the reasons i think level means you should do ranked. But this person with the way they talked and calling people " a holes" is obviously a young kid and needs to learn the actual basics of the game and its kinda sad to see thme like this XD. I mean they blamed the adc (me) who went 10/3/12 for not going to their lane to help top. So idk, i just feel for the low elo players

Supz1 votes

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freakyjef1 votes

Yea occasionally i like to stomp people after a tilting game. My main is plat and I like to play on a b5 account for fun sometimes and to help newer players or players that aren't that good with tips. Thats why i play jg on that account because i can constant help the team

Killed Inaction1 votes

Your performance in Silver 5 is more indicative of a Bronze 2 - Silver 3 player than a Plat one. You consistently CS poorly and fail to ward as much as is optimal.

zPOOPz1 votes

....and you are STILL b5. Either you are too shitty to carry or you PURPOSELY lose some games to stay b5.....either way, so sad...

d4rkshock1 votes

I thought the punish.ent came after the crime and being a shit player isn't a crime. Inting is. Also "TILT ED. defeat defeat defeat. The o ly reason why this was a win was because I fucking carried it. Shouldn't have won fucking ***. Adding that shit to the list".

  • Tyler 1. I don't condone that behavior though. Im just joking about the old Tyler 1.
Zezockary1 votes

I don't think we should force anyone to play anywhere, and all punishments should be for everywhere.

To put it bluntly, I play mostly normals and I want him on my team as little as you do.

Justicial1 votes

No. These gatekeeper attitudes of "only play ranked when you're good enough" is way more elitist than it needs to be.

I understand your sentiment. I do. It's frustrating to watch that Katarina lose trades, lose cs, and so forth. But someone who's just bad needs guidance, patience, and support. Were you always fantastic at this game?

No, you weren't.

So, ultimately, no, you don't get to decide when that player is "ranked ready." You DO get to decide how you're going to treat another player on your team, however.

And the idea that you're proposing here (namely, that you belong in ranked, that he definitely doesn't, that you can take a screenshot of his KDA and his CS and his gold like it's solid proof) means that you yourself need to take a step back and be humble.

I would rather team with that 2/23/4 Katarina than with anyone who thinks that "go back to Norms" and "banned for being bad" is a legitimate, worthwhile idea.

Give me that player's screenname.

Paradise Proxy1 votes

dude if you get THIS pissed over one person not doing as well as you want them to IN A VIDEO GAME, quit this game and try something simpler

furthermore, if riot punished people for doing poorly in a video game, you would've been banned at least once, op

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