League of Legends: Ranked play observation

Recently, I’ve been super focused playing leauge of legends, more specificly ranked games. The problem is, it’s not fun anymore. Stessing over who plays what role/lane is just stupid. Afrer  about 100 games it’s become plainly obvious that 50% of players who call the lane, outside of pick order generally fail at the role they choose.

I dont have that much else to say. I believe in esports but not the way Roit has it currently. See in real life when sport teams are formed, players try out and if they make the cut, they become part of the whole. They practice together, sometimes live together but more importantly they respect and commuicate with each other. There are, on an average about 9 to 11 players on the feild in play, of any team, at any given time. Now numbers of real (non-esports) teams consist of more players than can be allowed on the feild, thats incase of injury and so forth.

With esports,  it’s a little different.  For instance in leauge of legends there are 2 ways of getting matched up. There is solo queue, and match makeing, in which you can invite up to 4 friends.  In solo ranked queue you are matched with random players who are supposedly close to your skill level. What is unfortunate about that is there are no pre-set positions when you join a match. So, it’s basically first call gets dibs on that role or more likely someone will troll. I know most players don’t mind that sort of dynamic in non-ranked competitive play, but a lack of structure in competitive play costs solo queue player’s greatly. 

When you have a teir consisting of 5 players in order from highest Elo to lowest Elo, it would only make sense that the players who pick first get there choice of champian and lane. Forcing other lower Elo players to:

A. Play roles/champions they don’t normally play because of their status in the Elo bracket.
B. Practice these champions in non raknked play to better learn the different roles and thus become a better player increasing their Elo.

Which would trickle down the Elo latter helping everyone out over time, making League of Legends a better game and the community a better place, because players are growing and not being frustrated by what we currently have.

League of Legends: Ranked games summery

Sorry for the absence this past month, we just moved and I’ve been busy finding out exactly how much crap my family and I actually have.

Game # 19
Role:Support
Champ: Fiddlesticks

Team comp.

Support  - Fiddle
Top         - Darius
Jungler  - Cho’Gath
Middle   – Fizz
ADC        - Corki


Outcome: Victory @ 47:53

I am at a loss for words. I went from winning 3 out of 5 games in ranked only play of League of legends in Bronze divisions 5 and 4. Well, so far I’ve posted about 90% of my winnings and losings, because I want to be honest and up front with the anyone who read this blog.  After moving up to bronze 3 however, now,  I don’t even have a desire to continue working on this project and it’s mainly because of the players attitudes, and general poor sportsman like conduct.  Players have been 150% more negative in the chat and  in team selection it has become ridiculous game of tug’a'war for what ever lane you/they want. I firmly believe in PICK ORDER, so the player deemed highest ELO or Captain gets to choose first, and so on.

From the first game it was obvious that the so-called “ELO HELL” that was the in the old system rating of sub-800, but closer to an actual 300-600 rating, now resides in the League of Bronze 3, it’s the same trash talking, no-skill, no warding, cry, bitch and moan at everything in League of legends.

This poor sportsman like conduct only perpetuates ill behavior among other players who try to avoid the pit fall of negativity, but eventually give in due to the over-whelming frustration of bad players. I don’t know what more to say, except I wish Riot would place some sort of pre-designated spots for champion select, or an in-game tab thing that players could select their role and then queue and be matched with other players and their selected roll. Kinda like World of Warcraft does with their match-making system . 3 dps(adc, jungler, bruiser/mage), 1 healer, 1 tank. Blam done.