Currently there is nothing to stop a player from being completely locked out of doing okay because they got screwed by bad rng. Whether by item or Champion rng, there needs to be a system in place, or we might as well be playing a game of poker where all of the skill involved is non-existent. Players should be punished for mistakes, not bad luck.
Poker, in fact, is a highly skilled game.
its not bad rng its rigged...I've seen too many games of getting hosed by the selection when you have even a full stable
you know nothing about poker if you think there is no skill involved. The amount of depth of skill on surface level and buried is actually quite insane. You as a person, your personality also effects the game.
I generally find it to be pretty rare for a game to be entierly lost by rng. Sure it happens sometimes, but usually there are at least some options available to handle bad luck, either by changing strategies part way through to whatever is available or by making unorthodox itemization choices to make the most of what you have.
Item rng is also already getting cut down substatially on the pbe, which will help remove what I feel is the main factor in games lost by rng, ie the ones where literally no items deop ever.
There are also some builds that have less dependence on getting 3 stars then others, which can help make things more consistent. My favorite build is wild shapeshifter dragon, which Lets me win fairly often despite rarely getting any three stars, as they just aren’t needed for the build to work.
Its also important to recognize that getting first should only happen 1/8th of the time, and is not required for the system to count a game as a win. 4th place or greater is all it takes, and that helps ensure that a game is not truly lost by one or two people getting exactly what they need.
