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Support roles ELO Hell, Idea to help

gaming zombie·10/29/2017, 4:00:48 AM·1 votes·250 views

I prefer to be a support main ie I am a big time Sona player, I am not a great player by any means currently in Bronze 5. Here is my issue, I can play just as well in silver league as I can in bronze 5, however because I am a support player and play a champion that can't hyper carry I am dependent on getting put on a decent team that believes in teamwork if that doesn't happen the game is a loss, which sadly happens way to much. Teamwork is very important and it seems most Bronze players don't get that. I do get mostly S's, A's and B's even on loses I have gotten S's which tells me it's not me. Because this happens so often I go and play mid and jungle as well, in mid I play AP champions, in the Jungle I play mostly tank classes. I find in these roles I have troubles as once again I have really bad luck when getting placed on teams and end up with the players who don't like to play with teamwork, or all lanes fail in the game I jungle in at the same time and then they blame the jungle player for the loss because we can't be everywhere at once or I get teams the when we do group up, since I play a tank class most of the time, when I engage in a team fight rather then my team jumping in to help they run and leave me to die and that's why I don't like jungle role. When I play mid well the other teams jungle ganks but my jungler doesn't, that's the bad luck I get. I know may of you will just say, whine, whine, whine, stop crying and uninstall the game.

Well I have noticed something over the years playing this game which I do like except for the ELO hell I am in and that is that League of Legends seems to track just about everything which leads me to my idea to help Support players but not just support but everyone.

Here is my thoughts for whatever it is worth.......

Instead of moving players up and down the ladder by the wins and loses use how well they perform and work with there team IE are they getting S's and A's a lot or C's and D's move players up and down the ladder by this instead C's and D's go down based on how bad B's stay about where they are and A's and S's move up based on which they get. Still give rewards for wins but grade the players based on performance and include in that if they are playing with the team or not because if they just go solo and kill the weak champions when they can catch them out, make there grade lower, but if they work with the team give them higher grades which I think is already a part of the grading scale used now with the kills and assists they tell a lot. Well I know this idea will get slapped down and ignored but I just wanted to voice my current opinion because I bust my butt to move up and the get really bad teammates for a long period of time and knocked back down. I do have bad games but most of my bad games are because my team as a whole fails and because I play champions like Ziggs in the mid he moves so slow junglers and assassins rush in and blow him up before I can do anything. As far as when I play Sona if I get a bad adc I can't do much when they get hit by ever shot fired at them as it uses up my mana so fast I would have to go back constantly and then when I go back they die anyway; In Bronze this is common and is why I give this suggestion.

1 Comments

MysterQ10/29/2017, 5:21:06 AM2 votes

The letter grade isn't that important. From the first para, all I could think is carry yourself up a little higher. If you are truly Silver level, you should be able to carry to bronze 3/2. At bronze2, I noticed the ADC quality is actually pretty good. When I was there, I constantly thought, ok this ADC is better than me mechanically. Maybe that is even true at B5, but i didn't play much support there. Build damage to one-shot opponents as support. No need to teamfight if you just keep killing them. Or play another lane.

Your idea is not great. Now my first sentence is even more important, letter grade is not important. (Honestly, in low ELO) they should just stop moving people down the ladder. It isn't important.

But, you get an S? So what does that mean? If you lose, you still lost. The problem is how do you get the S? You don't die, you farm cs. How do you not die? You don't teamfight. If anything, this is going to make your complaint even worse. Jungler jumps in? Peace out, if I fight here I might die and might get an A instead. although playing for good KDA, no deaths, etc is great and should be encouaged. In the end, I want my team to fight when it matters. Nothing is worse than a 3/1/3 player saying "I did good" when your inhib is down and he is farming bot lane avoiding a teamfight. Right now I do not think it judges too much based on kill participation. CS is the most important factor.

If you want to be carried. Not this season, but I am willing to play some games with you. I can't guarantee getting you to Silver. But I can try tog et you higher and leave you to yourself.