Barely reached staged 2 and 3 people got 3 stars on their team already. Get into stage three's and those people now have multiple 3 stars. What's worse, you're trying your best barely reaching two stars and you're forced to fight the top 3 players who have multiple 3 stars.
I don't think that anybody is saying that Poker and TFT are the same game. They just mean that the RNG in TFT is comparable to card games.
They COULD make actual LoL poker...
I agree with OP. We should have ranked ARAM before we have ranked TFT. Ranked TFT won't signify anything.
Right now, it's a pleasant casual game with almost zero toxicity. It doesn't need to be more competitive.
I feel like, instead of pretending that some skill is involved, they should continue with an option for a kind of gambling system, where players can bet tokens or BE. The size of your purse (or your total winnings) would be plenty indicative.
I'm in matches and players occasionally grumble on what they receive. I ask them if they also complain at a casino... (many do, of course)
Because, given any setup in TFT, the choices to give the player the best chance of success are calculable. A computer could play this game. It wouldn't always win. But it would have the best chance for success in any match.
The real skill would probably come, as with backgammon or blackjack, with managing the betting cube over dozens of games.
People keep defending it and their excuse is it's all about skill. There's no skill involve. Pray to the rng gods for good champions and pray for items. More rng then aram and people say aram is too rng base for rank lol
This game should never have a ranked system. It's absurd.
Yes, that's part of the game, to play AROUND what RNG is giving you. It's gambling. Poker is RNG heavy, and people play it competitively and even professionally.
Let me put it this way: If every now and again, you get fucked by RNG, then you chalk it up to bad luck, it happens, it feels bad. But if you ALWAYS feel like RNG is fucking you, then I'm afraid you might just be bad at the game.
It's kinda like solo Q and your teammates, occasionally they will suck, but if you feel like they suck all the time, it's probably you that is the problem.
Also, you could always just, you know, not play it. SR is still around.
because the people that climb will be the ones that adapt the most consistently to what the RNG throws at them effectively making them climb instead the people that only rely on getting those RNGeezus drops of 6 recurves while getting only ranger/gunslinger drops will stay stuck in w/e elo they get placed in
Games with RNG, people with better decision making skills will climb to the top. You can't win every game like being an elite person at an FPS, but that's just the nature of the game. Not sure why you are so concerned, if you don't like it besides a casual fun time, then just don't play the competitive mode.
How do they have poker tournaments when the cards you're dealt are random...
For that matter, how can they have ranked in such a buggy mode?
Because it's not about win or loose - which indeed would not work in a ranked mode. It's not abot being #1 - it's all about not being #5-#8!
It's about consistently doing well and adapting to the RNG the game throws at you. Over time there is nothing like bad luck. Only players capeable using what they're given at any time.
If RNG mattered as much as the boards seems to think it matters, you wouldn't have people that consistently place top 4.
There's RNG in Texas Hold 'Em. There's RNG in Magic: The Gathering. There's RNG in any professional sport. There's RNG in League of Legends.
Yet there are people who rise to the top and stay there in all of these sports/activities.
So instead of doing the easy thing and blaming an external force for your bad experiences, do the right thing and evaluate your own performance and analyze what you did wrong and what you could do better, how you can improve as a player.
Unless you're just not interested in improving as a player, and this game mode isn't for you -- that's fine. But say that. Say "This game mode isn't for me."
Not "This game mode is inherently flawed and unfair" -- because that's just blatantly false, and you sound like a sore loser.
Are there things that could be changed/balanced better? Of course there are -- But that's not why you're losing. At least its not why you're CONSISTENTLY losing.
