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How To Fix Ranked

wafflebastard·5/23/2015, 2:13:28 AM·2 votes·589 views

Riot I've been playing ranked for a while now, I believe since season 3, and I have had my ups and downs as everyone has. Now, ranked has had many issues such as a lack of sportsmanship and cooperation or trolls, and these should be expected in any game with as many players as league. The major problem though, in my personal opinion, is that too many people who are good are being dragged down farther than they should be in ranked by unskilled players on their teams. Now I'm not trying to bash players in low rankings, I am currently in bronze so I cannot judge, but there is a serious dilemma with unskilled players seriously dragging down their teammates who are ready to enter a higher rank. Nerfing and buffing don't really solve this problem as the cycle always leaves some champions OP, but there is another way to balance champion picks at low ranks. Simply put, there needs to be placed a restriction on which champions a player can and cannot pick in ranked. I have seen too many Lee Sin's claim to be "good" at such a high skill champ to end up just feeding and falling behind. To protect these players from themselves, low ranked players should only be allowed to play easy to play champs. IMO, players should only be allowed to play simple champs in bronze, intermediate in silver, and finally all champs in gold. I'm sure some bronze players are master lee's but the majority are not and thus are likely to be liabilities to their team. People should still be allowed to play whoever they want in regular gamemodes, but the ranked system must be redesigned to prevent low skilled players from playing high skilled champs. In challenger zed can be amazing against a heim, but low ranks are almost always the opposite and the win rates of both champs show it. Please do this riot, ranked is currently a mess.

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Nightingales Sky5/23/2015, 2:45:26 AM2 votes

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Riot I've been playing ranked for a while now, I believe since season 3, and I have had my ups and downs as everyone has. Now, ranked has had many issues such as a lack of sportsmanship and cooperation or trolls, and these should be expected in any game with as many players as league. The major problem though, in my personal opinion, is that too many people who are good are being dragged down farther than they should be in ranked by unskilled players on their teams. Now I'm not trying to bash players in low rankings, I am currently in bronze so I cannot judge, but there is a serious dilemma with unskilled players seriously dragging down their teammates who are ready to enter a higher rank. Nerfing and buffing don't really solve this problem as the cycle always leaves some champions OP, but there is another way to balance champion picks at low ranks. Simply put, there needs to be placed a restriction on which champions a player can and cannot pick in ranked. I have seen too many Lee Sin's claim to be "good" at such a high skill champ to end up just feeding and falling behind. To protect these players from themselves, low ranked players should only be allowed to play easy to play champs. IMO, players should only be allowed to play simple champs in bronze, intermediate in silver, and finally all champs in gold. I'm sure some bronze players are master lee's but the majority are not and thus are likely to be liabilities to their team. People should still be allowed to play whoever they want in regular gamemodes, but the ranked system must be redesigned to prevent low skilled players from playing high skilled champs. In challenger zed can be amazing against a heim, but low ranks are almost always the opposite and the win rates of both champs show it. Please do this riot, ranked is currently a mess.

The problem isn't the champ selection pool but the skill of the player. If you started restricting champ selections you would have to increase the number of champs (or you have to force new players into getting the champs that are 'required' to enter rank) which would cause confusion and make certain champs that you may have started using since level 7 summoner level unusable in ranked.

The real issue wouldn't be champs but rather making it so you couldn't do ranked till you master 'X' number of champs (since there is a grading system now), or making players play a certain number of normal matches before enter ranked. I noticed a lot of players only have 100-200 wins on my teams before enter ranked. That means as soon as they hit level 30 they try rank. That is the wrong answer, you are right by hitting on the fast that under skilled players are dragging people down. There have been many times that I wished rank was based on individual skill level instead of the team.

However, the only way to counter any of it would be making people actually play normal until they actually do get the hang of it. Champions will always be able to abused in different ways no matter how you nerf/change/buff/balance someone.

wafflebastard5/23/2015, 2:15:32 AM1 votes

If you would like to see this change, please up vote and share. Also, feel free to add any other means anyone can think of to rebalance ranked or make my idea better.