Some Ranked Improvement Ideas

RAGEMODENOW·12/9/2014, 1:32:09 AM·2 votes·879 views

I am in Bronze, I accept that fact. I keep up well with Platinum and Gold Players. Most have more skill then I do, but I can keep up when we play in normals. I have improved greatly over the last year. Still trying to get out of bronze, I will make it one day. But I do have a few suggestions for Riot when It comes to the toxic people of the Ranked system. When I say "Toxic" I mean the following:

  1. Ping Spammers (Just to be annoying): I am not talking about the occasional ping spam, I am talking about sitting in base most of the time and trolling with the ping button.

  2. AFK'ers: People who are AFK the entire game,

  3. Rage Quitters: People that are having a bad game and quit

  4. Intentional Feeders: I understand everyone has bad games where they are 0-6 or whatever. That happens. But I am talking about the ones who run up the lane by themselves and go 1v5 every single time and laugh about it. Or people who are AD carries and build all AP items and laugh.

  5. Racial Slurring, negative people: There is a difference between constructive criticism that may sound harsh and just flat out being toxic. I have seen so many racial slurs against people of all races, it offends people. As well as cussing people out and trying to make them feel like crap.

This happens quite a bit in ranked. I have played probably about 500 ranked games since I started league years ago before the current ranking system. I find that people get very demoralized playing ranked because It seems like this happens a lot. I played 7 ranked games today and won 2. The five that I lost were as follows:

On one of the games they were just better, they were very good and earned the game.

On one of my games we had an AFK, he came back and did well, but another player quit because he was angry.

On one of my games we had 2 AFK's and a very toxic player who ping spammed, me and one other team mate were trying to remain focused but it was hard.

On one of my games we had another AFK and the same player that was mentioned above did the same thing, Was toxic, ping spammed and just fed intentionally

On one of my games we had 2 very toxic players, that for one did not play their role that they were supposed to play and did their own thing, costing us the game, me and the other two did well, but its tough to win a 3v5 when the other team is formidable.

This being said it was a depressing day. I was in a series and dropped back down to the bottom of the barrel. These are some suggestions for Riot.

  1. Keep in track of the AFK's. If a player goes AFK more than once in a "RANKED" match ban him from playing ranked for a time. Same with rage quitters. If an overwhelming majority reports.
  2. If a player is reported for being toxic by an overwhelming majority, instead of sending it to the tribunal send it to a "RIOT game moderator" to be reviewed. Obviously there could be a major problem with a player when 7 out of ten players report an individual. Once the moderator review and makes judgement a time ban from ranked or the game itself should be enforced.
  3. Another idea would be make a Toxic division. I mean dont call it "Toxic Division" but put those people who constantly do this type of thing in a Division where toxic people can play. If they want to be toxic, let them play with true toxic players. I bet this would solve a lot of problems itself and you would see far less people being toxic and it would clean up the ranked system.

I think that a time ban exclusively from ranked would cause a lot of players to straighten up their act. As well as a "Toxic Division". People that give riot a bad name would get a dose of their own medicine.

3 Comments

RAGEMODENOW12/9/2014, 1:48:02 AM2 votes

i read that thread good ideas

TrayvonsSkittles12/10/2014, 3:42:24 AM1 votes

Only problem I can see with this is the people who are trying that are trying and still feed. A lot of teams can be harsh on them regardless of if they're doing it intentionally or not. I've seen in both normal or ranked someone who busted ass and still managed to get reports from both sides for feeding. There would have to be some sort of checks and balance for that.