Option to reset ranked stats and elo?

Food4Life23·12/18/2016, 9:58:29 PM·2 votes·3,598 views

So I really think that having the option to buy a reset for your ranked stats and elo would be a nice thing. It's just that I think it's a bit unfair that if you're in bronze/silver, you're surrounded by these trolls Trundle and feeders and just horrible players. Now I know a lot of people are going to say that the only reason I want this is because I'm a trash silver player and that I deserve to be in this elo. However, I think that the current way it is doesn't really reward you for your improvement fairly. I was a really horrible player when I started playing ranked a few seasons ago. And while I'm still not that good of a player, I definitely think I'm a lot better than I was before. But I'm stuck down here because my teammates sometimes drag me down. I'm not putting all the blame on my teammates, I make mistakes too, but I can't help it if someone goes AFK or trolls around on my team. The way it is now if you're in a low elo you have to get out by completely carrying your team through your games, and I just don't think that's fair at all for support mains or for people who main a lot of champions who fall of late or are really weak early. You can't control your team's actions, so it isn't really your fault that your team didn't want to group and end while you had a lot of power or just play passively to get through the early game. And you can't really carry 1 vs 9 as a support player. Riot is trying to encourage more people to play support because the majority of the community does not like to play support and this is making the queue times higher and Autofilling is happening more often. Nobody wants to play support because nobody can carry their entire team as a support player, which is what you have to do to climb. I don't really know what goes on at higher elo brackets because I've never been there, but right now at the lower elo bracket if you want to climb you have to do everything yourself. It really discourages teamwork and communication, which I think is a real shame. If we had something to clear our ranked stats and elo it would make a more accurate determination of rank, especially for support players, and reward improvement more directly. I'm totally sure not sure how the elo system works every season; from what I know they reset your elo to a certain number that was around what you were the last season. Sometimes this can drag people down, and I want to have sort of another chance to play your FIRST 10 promo games again, where those were the games that determined your elo.

A lot of people are going to bring up how this would be abused. Say some spoiled 12-year-old is stuck in bronze 4 and gets his/her parents to buy like 10 resets for them. I think it would be fair to put a rather higher price on it (20k IP, 30K IP, this can be debated upon) and make it so that you must have at least say 150, or whatever amount of ranked games played before you can purchase it. This way people can't buy it as soon as they're placed just because they hate their rank.

As for resetting stats, that's just something I'd like to have the option to do. I don't like it when people can just go on Lolking or something, search up your name, then judge you and flame you in a game for having a bad KDA or win rate or whatever. Maybe it's just me, but I think if you're gonna clear reset your elo might as well reset your past stats too so you can start fresh. Some people might want to keep their stats, so it would be nice if you made them separate or when you purchased it an option window pops up or something.

Please tell me your thoughts on this idea!

11 Comments

MagicFlyingLlama12/18/2016, 10:02:19 PM3 votes

Why?

All it will do is make people in high silver/low gold have to deal with twice as much falling trash ruining their games. Trash will just fall back to bronze V and stay where it belongs. They ended up there for a reason.

Actually getting better at the game seems like a good strategy, instead of asking for a pay2win feature that would not actually help at all. Consider riot's stance on boosting. This would just be officialized boosting.

hi im Rizzuto12/18/2016, 11:17:37 PM1 votes

honestly i had 2 account start from B3 and B1 and i got both to plat only Solo. Watch your replays and learn to play for yourself( By that i mean don't die for your teamates cause they won't carry you ). Play hard carry champs and win. ( Panth . Tristana. Kat ) Have fun :)

RogueWill12/18/2016, 11:48:10 PM1 votes

If such a thing existed it woudl (or should) reset you back to B5 (800 MMR) otherwise everyne who just hit bronze woudl reset so they can go back to 1200 MMr which you have upon starting ranked on a new account.