Ranked Exploitation - Factually Occurring

WellLubedRammus·Feb 14, 2020·2 votes·1,390 views

There is a simplistic way to drastically alter the odds of your ranked climb that involves two specific methods, and has been de facto observed by a fairly significant portion of the playerbase, even if they didn't realize it was occurring right under their nose.

The problem is twofold, and both are enabled by Riot's failure to limit TFT ranked play to Solo-only. This really was braindead obvious, which of course meant Riot would overlook it. (No surprise there.)

Simply play with friends, but make it their duty to help you climb, to which you will log one of your many alts and pay the favor back later. Intentionally throw early to remove optimal picks and items from carousel by simply looking at the other players boards. In this way you simply remove the likelihood they will top-4 place by minimizing their champ pool drastically, as well as ensuring poor itemization.
Simply do the same as above, but with a sock account (or 4) on your portable device(s). The slow rate of TFT gameplay, and how gameplay is stepped makes managing multiple accounts over several portable devices a breeze and allows a single player to isolate and target solo players for easy reduction in potential win, again, via items and deck digs.

What you will notice, if you pay any attention whatsoever, is a player intentionally pulling several different people's champions by deep-digging the deck because they do not care about gold investment, and also using their bottom-placement status to prioritize picking off anything on the carousel you may need that is proficient with your given comp.

It is frequent you will see 2 of your Zyra's, 2 Mundo's (another players), 2 Volibear's (another players), a level 2 Varus, and 2 level 1 Varus (Vari?) on their bench, while playing a comp not consistent at all with the digs, which in no way will be victorious (1 of each origin, for example).

Riot had to of known this would happen, and is allowing groups to have monopolies of gameplay over solo players kind of like a degenerate mob, instead of fostering an equal play environment. Their failure to account for this simplistic metric is, however, not surprising at all to me.

So, that is how the exploit is done, and for those who never seem to find their champs, and always get outpositioned (to include legend blocking) at the carousel, now you know why.

Enjoy!

12 Comments

ProƒytFeb 14, 20202 votes

no offense but you are playing berserkers like every game, maybe change it up a bit?

WellLubedRammusFeb 14, 20203 votes

Your critique has literally a sum total of "zero" [0] to do with the exploit. Also, this is one of several alts ("smurfs") I use, and where it is at at that moment Zerks get it done.

Your complaint about my composition (egotistical attack) probably stems from your usage of the exploit and dismay at my pointing it out.

Nothing of value was gained from your post. Thanks for that.

Edit: Irony = Finding out that I diversify more than you do on this shit account. Nice Ocean/Mage count my dude.

ProƒytFeb 15, 20201 votes

chill out, im just saying you probably are losing less to exploits and more to you playing not very good comps and builds. I agree that duo-ing in this game is whack, but it isnt an exploit its literally how duoing works- working together to do better, DUH

ProƒytFeb 15, 20201 votes

also i work hard to do well at this game, you are silver 2 complaining about people hacking, you are a scrub shut up

WellLubedRammusFeb 15, 20202 votes

I have several gold+ accounts. No. None of them are Diamond. Stroke your narcissistic and very basic ego at your leisure.

Getting through silver is easy, at this point in time, with Zerks.

You also accused me of not rotating, and then I look at your history and you don't ever rotate off of Ocean/Mage.

Get far the fuck over yourself.

ProƒytFeb 16, 20201 votes

proof? I don't think im better than you, but also for SOME REASON when i was in silver, climbing to diamond, i never experienced groups of people sabotaging my progression, how odd?

True GarenFeb 20, 20201 votes

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proof? I don't think im better than you, but also for SOME REASON when i was in silver, climbing to diamond, i never experienced groups of people sabotaging my progression, how odd?

What OP describes is well-known.

My observation is that the game attempts to compensate by matching premades with premades. There are certain times of day when premades are more common, and I try to avoid playing those.

KelvynnFeb 15, 20201 votes

You forgot to add that an alt or friend throwing the game also guarantees that you will never finish 8th no matter how badly the game goes.

WellLubedRammusFeb 15, 20202 votes

Which is irrelevant if only the top 4 matter, and they do.

True GarenFeb 15, 20201 votes

Yes, the possibility to slant matches with shills is inherent in this game. The mode is also ideal for actual gambling, since one may enter with parties of 8 in norms.

WellLubedRammusFeb 15, 20202 votes

If you were required to have a party of 8 to play, I wouldn't have even posted. That would present a whole other stacked-deck issue, but not the one I am describing. Presumptively, that would be no scenario where you can mob a solo player.

The problem is that it is a sliding ratio of match dominance tilts evermore in your favor with throwaway sock accounts or a friend counterpicking and throwing.

Ranked TFT must either be a solo affair for equitable gameplay, or not at all. There's literally no other way it works without shafting thousands of solo players.