Ranks are Broken in S14!

[@naranka41]

Is it only me or the damge is super high its litrally one shot or get oneshot ty riot

[@Rewleague]

Check my other videos and comments in them it’s definitely not just you

[@naranka41]

@@Rewleaguelove you video keep the work going ❤

[@Rewleague]

@@naranka41 you’re the goat ❤️

[@StephGoKrazy]

Be the one shotter.

[@rarigate]

Adcs got weak because of damagecreep, they cannot kite, so what riot did is increase their dmg as well. Good job more damagecreep

[@Justanothermusicnerdxo]

Was in diamond last split, now stuck in gold. Honestly if my skills got rusty and I was inflated I don’t mind being in emerald, it just feels weird to share the same lobby with people who fundamentally do not understand the very basics of the game (like waves or even vision).

[@Ffoo_ffighter]

It's rigged.

[@deforestdelpech7528]

Same, and as a support main it's impossible to tell who the winners and losers on my team are, bronze and emerald players all in gold games. You basically need 3rd party apps to tell you who to ditch.

[@guydunn8259]

Its harder to climb because of how you can be easily demoted if you lose a single game.

[@exiledwolfch]

Same thing they did in wild rift this season 😂 , Everytime I got a promotion to Master i suddenly got queued with trolls and crybabies then after some losestreak I am paired to a normal team again... Thats why I quit this game and wild rift once and for all .

[@gungnir5031]

​@@guydunn8259 yeah. Also i think the opposite. Right now rank seems more balanced than the the last 2 splits where everyone had inflated elos.

[@crimsonplane7723]

For me, its the fact that all ranks seems to be mixed. As plat, ive found myself going right into bronze 3. And here in bronze, you can see faker and literally a newborn baby in the same match. If im "bronze", let me play with "bronze" so maybe i can climb, but being forced to play with people of my lvl when im bronze, wont let me climb. Does anyone feels like this?

[@Rewleague]

this is 100% a feeling a lot of people have

[@Peppita_]

newborn baby term made me rofl 😂

[@1killer911]

I haven't played league since vanguard, because I don't trust it. But before I left, I went 9/10 in placements. I got placed silver4. This on its own wouldn't bother me much, fine, I placed silver 4. In early seasons that happened then you just climbed out of it. But I was legitimately placed in full emerald games with even LP gain/loss. If every single player on both teams is plat2+ EXCEPT ME, and I am gaining and losing equal LP, then why on gods green earth am I ranked silver 4 instead of plat 2? It honestly drove me away from ranked. If you place me silver, fine, I get it. But give me full silver games so I can climb to where I'm supposed to be.

[@tinymike318]

This isn’t the ranked system being broken. This is the MmR system working as intended. The same thing happens in Call of Duty ranked, as well just most multiplayer games with a ranked playlist. In every rank, you are playing against players of equal skill. It is designed to keep you playing the game for longer.

[@kurrwa]

@@tinymike318ranked split season, totally broke ranks. In plat there were literally bronzes or trolls every single game I had. I needed 40 LP to get into next rank I went to silver in 5 days. Now I’m bronze and I see quite few plats last season in bronze. Bronze Que is so clueless but some games are just Smurfs you clearly see the difference gap. Mmr is broken

[@ryayan9500]

Was master last season, currently sitting on 33% wr in diamond 3 and i'm getting trolled into oblivion

[@captnclutch5768]

I wonder why the trolling is so much worse this year. I'm not that great, typically a gold player but I've been bouncing between iron 1 and silver 1 all year. My buddy on discord who used to be diamond is having the same struggles in plat right now, just getting trolled a ton.

[@LeagueofArchery]

Bro, it’s so funny how much I go from Win streak of like five games to my only two losses being to a soft enter, who has an ego and just a grief game and an AFK. Not because skill issue, but just troll and AFK’s biggest causing my losses.

[@JoshDoes]

@@captnclutch5768 my brother has had 7 players leaving games in bronze and silver and we always carry

[@azmalguthek4502]

​@@captnclutch5768 It's really, really simple. The only people who have League installed in 2024 are addicts. Everyone in this thread who still plays included. People who already enjoyed trolling are now enjoying it tenfold because playing the game normally is all-time-high unbearable, thus trolling affects people much more significantly. People who didn't previously troll are now starting to because they're so dissatisfied with the state of the game and Riot's incompetence. Riot has consistently made the game worse year after year for several years. What people are experiencing now is the culmination of community frustration and dev incompetence.

[@mintman5145]

just lost and not joking 7 games in a row to greifing not like playing bad like runnning into tower and emoting went from master to d4 never in my life have i encountered this many inters before ur spot on its insane

[@DantesxTarzaned]

streaks where i'm winning = I'll play until I lose streaks where i'm losing = I'll play until I win even game that was actually balanced = that was tough, gotta take a break Riot just wants you to keep queueing up

[@kaneka5002]

Tip to when you're just losing: play like you have a mental problem and the opposite will happen, you'll get carried instead of your teammates. Always works.

[@davemassa7249]

@@kaneka5002 i actually started climbing better when i just ACCEPTED that there'll be nothing i can do about those things and will just be a fuckin insane player doing what I WANT, PINGING THE SHIT OUT IN THE MAP, trying to play the right play for me and hoping 1 or 2 guys follows me

[@rouladensind-gut5201]

damn thats so true after a banger 40 minute game theres no chance i que again especially if i won thos lp gotta be mine that i worked so hard for

[@myke9137]

yeah most queue are bullshit, it seemed like rank game was design for pro play.

[@TheAxelFII]

funniest thing about those conspiracy theories is that people don't admit that they lack self control when it comes to how much you play, or are maybe even addicted to video games. no, no. it's all riots fault. simple solution

[@dsaikon]

Went from Diamond 3 to Emerald 4, every game is Coinflip. Either your team has hands or not

[@Ffoo_ffighter]

I worked in actuarial for the biggest insurance companies. It's 1000% rigged matchmaking. That's why I quit.

[@m4770]

idk what do you expect from a game where players have avg. 49 to 52% winrate... most games will be a coinflip. and there is stochastic variance. lol

[@Ffoo_ffighter]

@@m4770 I'm a data expert. Most games are forced give you an 50% winrate. That's impossible without Riot fixing your matches. You're an idiot.

[@PlunkSama]

To be fair, that's how it is in every ELO I've played in from Iron to Gold. You either get the team that knows how to play, or you don't, and it feels like you have no agency in most games. If you play top, your bot will feed and you'll have a support in your lane at 12 minutes. If you play bot, your top goes 0/8 and loses T2 turret by 10 minutes. You play mid and your jungler ints your lane all game. It's insanity.

[@Ffoo_ffighter]

@@PlunkSama that's match rigging by Riot Games. For example for this season it became very difficult to climb compared to last season

[@H0m0f1rST]

My theory has always been the same: Money. Imagine the fizz main. He probably has every fizz skin he likes. But now he's probably spending barely any money on the game. So how do we sell him the same skins twice? Have him make a new account. Riot massively profits from people buying smurf accounts, hence why they haven't really cracked down on it. So I think riot in some shape creates more incentive systems to buy new accounts to sell more skins. Like the broken volatile ranked ladder or the hyper sensitive automated chat detection dishing out instant bans and chat bans. Either that or gross incompetence.

[@Rewleague]

this is 100% reason they dont ban smurfs but It actually would make sense they are actually trying to get people to have multiple accounts

[@LewixDlol69]

Interesting theory, probably not far from the truth unfortunately

[@diabolique181]

Bro, they ban smurf accounts. 6 months ago , alot got banned like milions. Wtf ur coping? @Rewleague

[@Rewleague]

@@diabolique181 thats dota not league.

[@H0m0f1rST]

@@diabolique181 They do ban SOME botted accounts. But those bans only happen months or sometimes years after purchase. And guess what most people who buy throwaway 5$ smurfs do after their smurf gets banned like 2 months in?

[@tunaa1]

I just came back from a long break. I used to be gold and now am bronze 4 (not even sure how I got placed there). I swear every game feels like a coinflip and I can't figure out why. I go from 4-7 to 25-1. I have been playing for years and this has never happened to me. It used to feel that when I went a rank up the game got much harder but now if feels like I'm up against players who could be in plat or players who should be in Iron. I don't care so much about my rank personally, but I don't like stomping off-role Iron players and then getting stomped by mid-elo players, it just doesn't have much sense.

[@Ffoo_ffighter]

They are rigging your games. I'm a pro stats expert. The #1 reason you win/lose is your TEAMMATES. Quit this rigged game.

[@myke9137]

Most gold are bronze 4 right now, dominated by ADC, Mage, Mage, Tank, Tank.

[@EtSlagFisse]

I just came back from a break too. Took probably 10-20 games to get back to the same rank the account has last time. I played in all elos, and if you can't carry in low elo (Bronze, silver, gold) Then you can't be very good, because if you just know a little about how the game works and know how to play a champion decent, you can 1v9 almost every game in that elo, simply by not being bad.

[@Rewleague]

@EtSlagFisse midbeast has a 65% winrate in plat why isnt he carrying every hame?

[@EtSlagFisse]

@@Rewleague Link account? Is he tryharding? Also with a 65% winrate he is winning the majority of his games, so he will be climbing fast. If you ended last season plat 4, you will start the new climb usually around gold 4, considered you have normal mmr.

[@Itchy__]

Ah yes, this explains why I get previous emerald players in my bronze games

[@Rewleague]

crazy how this has happened. day two of asking for a gojo profile pic

[@DerayYG]

Ngl, I have a smurf in Bronze and almost every game on that account some weird shit happens. On either team team someone is throwing a fit that is costing their team the game, someones playing with their monitor turned off, (Usually the jg) no one understands that there is more to the game besides araming after 15 minutes, and the occasional, "Battle of the Smurfs." (The battle of the smurfs is the most hilarious thing. Just seeing a 20 kill irelia ego and int it on repeat is comedy gold.) I'm slowly climbing out of it but I do sometimes get a string of games where I have no idea what to do because all the wrong things are happening. Kinda does feel like a coinflip when it shouldn't

[@clyp3016]

thats different, smurf accounts now get stuck in smurf queue and there game quality there is absolute dog fertilizer

[@marckniphfer2416]

I got this recently, where it's impossible to win, despite seeing the enemy teams mistakes. Teemo goes 0/3 and then tells the team he's gonna troll. Mid yasuo doing actually well and then going afk for whatever reason. Support playing kennen and then fighting every chance they get, despite being outnumbered, to the point where my first death is from a 4/0 adc and a 4/0 support. Jungle waiting for me to back before ganking, only to die under their tower, or give my support kills, or just my support purposely taking kills to where I'm 0/0/9 by the end of laning phase, and the top Darius and mid aurelion sol are both 9/0.

[@Rewleague]

they removed smurf q

[@irelia_master4487]

@@Rewleague no they dont , /that is what they say bud in real . is not ) Riot is lier, !!

[@DerayYG]

@@irelia_master4487 They did remove smurf queue. The irelia I was talking about was a fresh lvl 30 account doing mechanical god plays. Probably a gold player tho since while they had mechanics, they had no decision making skill at all.

[@johnster02]

my friend and i literally quit. both sitting with 30% wr. it was just queuing up and losing over and over. so disheartening to be emerald 1 then the split happens and im silver 3. impossible games

[@pika1111]

Quitted this week. Good job rito.

[@Wardelicious]

Ned flanders meme is goated 🐐

[@hplaserjet5902]

I wouldnt wish emerald on my worst enemies

[@lobobanguela6349]

Here's my most recent tale. It happened to me last week. Was on a game, as a Pantheon OTP top. Me and Skarner jungle were hard carrying the game. It was a nigh impossible game, but we were still making it a little bit close. Then my adc just decides to stay at fountain, sell all items and buy 6 daggers. I proceed to call him out on chat, explicitly saying that he is at FOUNTAIN for 5 minutes, sold all items and bought 6 daggers and was the reason we were losing. Well, we ended up losing the game, and afterwards, in the end game lobby, I received a message from Riot with the log screenshot, stating that my behavior was unfitting their game and was reported and so, I got a restriction and wasn't allowed to play ranked games for the bext 5 games. Mind you that in the LOG was the entire portion of the chat where I described with every word what the guy did. I literally was trying my hardest to win the game, had a troll on my game who FORCED me to lose, then said Troll proceeds to report me, and I was the one who got restricted. That's how bad Riot is at managing their game.

[@kishi8774]

same happened to me in aram.. won a game against a veigar 16 6 or something like that.. told him.. "get the fuck down". just that. nothing more.. got suspended for 5 games.. since then i just try to ping and dont use chat.. 2 or 3 people report you and you going to get ban 100% for ANYTHING you say.. you could say greeting people and get ban too.. doesnt make any sense and if you try to get help from support or they ignore you or say you were banned correctly..

[@lemadmem1224]

Damn, I thought that I just became bad. P3 peak to G1, split reset, S4. Up to G1, down to S1, I feel like I'm about to die. I'm literally evolving to get pleasure from lost game, just to cope with that shit

[@theicmers9658]

Same here lol 😂

[@EtSlagFisse]

If you get demoted a whole tier (From G1 to S1) Then you cant be doing good, because it would require much more loses than wins, that means you have no positive impact on your teams.

[@Lav-Lukic]

​@@EtSlagFisseso you did not watch the video, examples of people with impact drop 15 full divisions 4 ranks and are here to rage bait, you sir can go screw off to the hole you came from

[@evenask]

Every game is 50/50 if you belong in your rank. If you are better than your rank, you will tip the scale in you teams favor in the long run, if you are worse you will tip it in the enemy teams favor. Its that simple. Only 4 inters on your team while there can be 5 inters on enemy team if you play good.

[@MrQuiroz94]

Come on guys let's make that 97.4% to 99.9% 💪

[@Rewleague]

You are actually the Goat 🐐

[@TopLaneChad]

a problem in high elo recently is that riot resets everyone's mmr master+ to be diamond 1 or so. so you will have grandmaster players stomping diamond players, then whoever just plays more games in early split gets inflated to grandmaster+

[@jaylenpatterson611]

It’s not a race bro

[@peschionator7873]

@@jaylenpatterson611 Regarding the top end in the first week(s) of a split it is a race. A lot of players can get a higher rank that they cant maintain if they grind enough games early on to profit of the ranked chaos. Happens to streamers pretty often and they get downplayed if their ranked successes are early into the split.

[@andypae]

Fresh accounts are placed to high gold by default and my plat account of 10 years gets placed in high bronze / low silver every season. Makes me ask myself why do I even bother to play on my main account? Last split I peaked plat 1, then I couldn't win a single game at all and during my climb I still felt like the quality of players didn't change one bit.

[@PlunkSama]

I have literally had accounts with a 56%+ winrate get hardstuck in high Silver because I gain like 18LP per win and lose 23 per loss, with a positive winrate. I played against someone in a normal game earlier this season who had only played their promos. They went 1-4 in their promos and were placed in Plat 3. How does this even happen? How does Riot let this happen? You essentially get punished for not just making a new account every season.

[@andypae]

@@PlunkSama My friend has the same problem. His account's LP gains sink like a rock after a few losses in a row even when his split is sitting at like 55-60% winrate after a few dozen games. Must be really demotivating being gatekept like that from climbing even though he's been doing good on average so far. Riot said they tried to rebalance the LP gains into more positive direction faster after it dips, but I don't know if that has happened or not.

[@christiannavejar3026]

I made a fresh account and it placed me in bronze too

[@EtSlagFisse]

My old hardstuck account got the most insane mmr after I started playing on it again. Way better than any fresh account could get from going 10-0 in promos. You just need winstreaks and a positive winrate. It might take 10, 50, 100 or 200 games, but if you have a positive winrate and winstreaks your mmr will get fixed.. Losing streaks are very bad for your mmr aswell.

[@johnster02]

when he said people started to troll i didn’t even realize i was doing it to. emerald 1 last split to silver 3. i just started playing any lane and whatever champ. i guess it was a bit int but the games were always unwinnable. my friend and i both quit because it was so messed up

[@xRx39]

Been playing sense season 1 me and my friends quit this year. Half our games are smurfs or kids on new account running it down none of us want to play anymore it’s not fun or competitive anymore

[@xRx39]

I’ve been saying that for years lvl 30 accounts and bot accounts are killing this game

[@ayonafulls3364]

Hi Rew, i took a 6 months pause of playing league, and i did my best of 5, and now i am plat.

[@Rewleague]

Pretty happy with that im guessing? No idea what your previous rank was

[@ayonafulls3364]

​@@Rewleaguei believe it was gold.

[@Rewleague]

@@ayonafulls3364 gratz! Diamond this season then easy

[@sfeeralol]

the reason for this should be hidden deep within rioter's tweets. last season they said that a lot of players had lucky winstreaks/unlucky lose streaks that put them where they don't belong, because it messed up their mmr and lp gains due to some glitches in the system. they then tried to repair it and implemented something else than losers/winners queue - the game now (supposedly) determines your skill by monitoring many factors and tries to put you in the rank you "deserve" at 50% wr. i think that it's somewhat true because when I played on a low rated account and actually tried my best I had almost 90% wr and lp gains moved from +18 to + 28 (sorry for ruined games). what I'm getting at is that rank is ultimately superficial and as it's a hard pill to swallow, people belong in certain ranks and not everyone can be eme and above (as rank stats clearly display)

[@Rewleague]

true but I think everyone wishes rank wasnt superficial and some bronze didnt go to emerald etc

[@sainssaint]

current low master, have multiple smurfs to play with friends and wife, when i play in gold elo it s either i go 18+ kills or 11/11/2 while the rest of my team all have negative kda, i legit question how they can hope to win a game if i m not there to keep them afloat...

[@mormas3413]

I knew that it wasn’t only me experiencing the worst teams like I’m in an iron lobby. I’ve steadily climbed op over the years, and this season has been super rough. From like 7 loss streaks where I swear my teammates are bots to win streaks where it’s some of the easiest games ever. I went from a climb up to emerald 2 down to plat 2 back up to emerald 3 this season. It’s the most coin flip I’ve ever seen.

[@doman1472]

that happened becouse they added emerald and increased lp gains so players could catch up easier to their rank but later they decreased it so people now get to their real ranks

[@SS-wh7uo]

If someone made it to emerald and is now bronze, they were either a new account that got lucky, or they are actually bronze and were being boosted via doing with friends.

[@huathebard]

We know why this happened though, Riot said as much. Last split, new accounts basically started in plat/emerald mmr, so it was easy to climb new accounts even with slightly negative win rate. Riot changed it so the new account mmr is silver. They also went back and adjusted new accounts from before the change, so people who were abusing new accounts before have a more accurate mmr. It’s likely that most of these players were never really plat/emerald level to begin with.

[@somasaasaa4850]

No, I was emerald last season and now I’m silver 3. Admittedly I did change roles but the fact I’m losing against bronze junglers is actually insane to me. My skill at this game is not at a silver level and I’ve only continued to improve at this game but at the end of the day I don’t mind being in my rank that much because I feel like I’m going against evenly matched opponents.

[@TrueAlexCv]

@@somasaasaa4850 Send opgg, you are not emerald, last season gold players climbed to emerald cuz riot fucked up when adding emerald.

[@MattHatter360]

Yeah I feel the same tbh

[@Rewleague]

the only this is though emerald + inflation was 3% that doesnt explain people going from bronze to emerald/ dia

[@zat1245]

He’s showing accounts that are years old

[@jinyoshida321]

It's crazy how me in S1 keeps getting high gold and low plat players and how am I supposed to play vs them when I am not at their skill level ... i first have to lose 2 in a row to get low golds or S1 players...

[@Rewleague]

this is a huge problem, like you get your silver thats fine but when your silver you want to play vs silver players not plats

[@themagician6310]

Here’s the thing with League. No matter how hard you try, how well you play, how little mistakes you make; it has nothing to do with your individual performance if the enemy bot lane or jungle is 20/0. If the enemy team has better items than you, it’s over. Personally I feel like league should be more about personal impact than it being a necessity for a team to win. I get it, it’s a team game, but in solo Q you won’t always get a team to win. It sucks when you’re playing so good against your laner but then go 1v1 the enemy laner who has 4 items and you die instantly because he happened to just have more gold than you.

[@Rewleague]

its definilty slowly switched from the best player carries to the worst player loses

[@gorgistanojevik3196]

Yeah it kind of felt like that in S11 S12 where damage was high and the new op mythics released and I personally like that type of game more because there were a lot of more outplays where as now I can just rely on my champion not myself.

[@forsencd8904]

It sounds like there’s been a few games you’ve played recently where you didn’t have the agency you wanted because a teammate inted hard. Across 1000 games most of your team won’t int and therefore its on you to carry, the 30% autowin, 30% autoloss and 40% you can carry ratio is a pretty good one. Make sure to focus on what you can do to carry the game, sometimes if the enemy laner is so fed you should avoid them at all costs to increase your income, and hopefully the gold you’ve earned becomes 4-5 items and you carry harder than them. Once you figure out this formula, league becomes way easier and more relaxing (I know it sounds insane) to play.

[@henrylin6537]

@@forsencd8904 yes but the issue comes from. the 3 splits. The avg player maybe plays around 200-300 games a season. But now thats cut in a 1/3 with the 3 splits. So now. the avg person. if they just unfortunatly manage to get the first 30% of the auto losses in there first 30 games. They just start trollling or quit. thats what this video is focusing on. How these splits are impacting games/ranks. Noones going to tilt as hard as they will if they know they have alsmot a fulkl year to play before the season ends. but now its like 100 days. and they just spent the first 30 days lossing. they going to quit while they still gold 4, or plat 4 etc

[@jeslucas2515]

Been saying this since I started playing in 2016. It boggles my mind how we get individual performance grades and yet it has no bearing on how our lp is impacted. It makes absolutely ZERO sense to lose lp at all for getting an S- or higher.

[@SL_Mirise]

I am a Shyvana main and peaked in em 4 in the second split of 2023. In exactly that split i climbed from bronze 2 to em in the span of 4 months. After that i got stuck in plat 4 in the first split of 2024 and got placed into gold 3 this split. Right now i got out of a 14 game win-streak and ended in emerald 4. Currently still holding strong. Before my win-streak i had a 10 game loss streak so it´s really f*cked up this split.

[@SoundZQ]

currently emerald 4 with 53% wr, i've been emerald for the last 2 splits all with positive wr so no way my mmr is gigalow and now i'm getting +18 -25 for NO reason, last split i was +26 -19 average, and don't let me get started on the players i have in my games, not just on my team, i've had enemy players just straight up leave after my teammates killed them, teammates that run it if ANYTHING goes bad, like a failed gank or them missing a cannon. It isn't just not fun to play soloq anymore, it's straight up infuriating and it's really weird since i haven't had these issues in past seasons, no one gets banned anymore, even LionL9 or the bateman guy that int games constantly are getting banned less and less.

[@wandiadem2737]

I went from plat to silver and i feel pretty much stuck

[@p3zzzz]

Thought I was going crazy dropping from plat/diamond to struggling in gold 3 with a 45% wr. Kinda nutty though that 1/3 of my losses is someone dc'ing

[@77Playmaker]

A couple of things you made me realise: - I have a friend that one year ago was master. He played yes but not this much. 4 splits he lost 4 ranks. We've done placements and i was plat 4 0 LP. HE GOT PLACED BRONZE this split. - Last year I skyrocketed. I've been silver for like 3 years. Then got gold last year. Then they added emerald, and i succeded in not only reach gold, but even plat. - Last split I did a 30 game winning streak. Finished at emerald 4. - But this after doing a 15 game losing streak starting from plat 4. Thank god demotion shields still exist. - THIS SPLIT IS THE SAME. I placed plat 4, won a couple of games, then LOST 20. WITH THE CHAMP I REACHED EMERALD (Kayle) and had 65 WR I ended this week at gold 1 20 LP and 22% WIN RATE. Lucky that this master friend that was now bronze had an account at silver level he let me break the losing streak and now i'm back to plat, but as a lone gamer i'm starting to fluctuate again. Dunno what happens. - I fear that if i'm not able to place emeald this split i'll end up in gold 4 next one if things now work like this. - My games are like: I love lategame champs. But i always end up like: top or bot feeds, or flames on 2 deaths, or just braindeads go wild if u don't do what they want. Even while drafting i'm seeing a flame i've never seen. Really. People that pick yuumi jgl as a retailation since u didn't let them last pick. Insane. My promo game to plat was one where my team went 35 deaths in like 25 minutes, but luckily i was kayle and was the only one to stomp the adversary. I succeded in reversing 10k GOLD disadvantage into 9k GOLD LEAD. A GAME WORTH OF WORDS MATCHES AT GOLD ELO.

[@77Playmaker]

In that game i ended doing 70k dmg in 39min and was 12.1.13

[@77Playmaker]

But I'm lucky that i play hypercarries. A zed could not have done that job in doing 1vs9.

[@Pendragon_ytt]

I have the same issues. I got Diamond last split with almost 70% wr with kayle but this season I have like 45% wr in E4 with kayle despite high kd's and 9+cs a min... now im role swapped to jungle because it's so unplayable

[@obsessedwithcats]

@@Pendragon_ytt Scaling champs in low elo is TORTURE, no one understands how scaling works and blames you for not having perma prio over the snowballing laners you’re against. It’s really annoying, even if you explain it you’re just the scapegoat to them, it’s never their fault for invading with no prio or forcing bad plays :/

[@Rewleague]

its literally riding the waves of teammates for winstreaks and loss streaks it feels awful

[@E1barto212]

I've been easily getting Diamond since season 4 and was happy with that rank, so I stayed there for 10 years! Last split, I decided to push and got Masters! This split, I'm struggling to stay in Diamond. I've basically been sitting at D4 0LP this entire season with a 30% win rate after 50 games. Thanks for providing your examples. I got a theory based on all of that. Riot said they were going to test different ranked systems. The results could be affected if you tell the playerbase, so it looks like they tested one for a split without saying anything. You showed people heavy spiking up, which is peculiar as well. It's a new split, so they probably are running a new system or just correcting the inflation from the 'easier' system.

[@stephenjamborino7493]

No they introduced Emerald and changed the distribution of players in each division last year. Along with promotion series changes and LP gain changes there was a lot of elo inflation that Riot has been making LP adjustment and matchmaking changes to combat. This is the elo. The introduction of Emerald cause a mix and push up of players that do not belong in a higher rank. Now that the inflation has been curbed and is being corrected these players are complaining because they are not skilled enough to hit the inflated ranks. Masters inflation has also been occurring for years. Take a look at the year over year growth of Masters tier for the past 5 years. GM is the Masters of 2 years ago.

[@E1barto212]

@@stephenjamborino7493 You're totally right. I completely blanked on the inclusion of Emerald and it's affect on people's OP.GGs. I was back in Diamond before finishing placements so it didn't affect me and, therefore, skipped my mind.

[@lazyruntzzz]

this entire season the rank has felt off. I spent all of split s13 learning the game, and slowly making my way to silver 3. S14 drops and i immediately dropped to B4. it took me the entire season to climb back to S4. split 2 is here and i'm b3 again already. and was placed B2 at the start. I don't even feel like playing if the game is literally stopping me from climbing. mega positive KDA but soloq is so cancer with players that genuinely don't deserve their rank, makes it impossible to win consistently. There needs to be loss mitigated for when teammates do exceptionally bad/basically int. I have had so many games with 0/15 bot lanes that are unwinnable games, and nothing happens, both to them or me. except we both lose LP because they couldn't stop dying. Leagues rank ladder is broken, hidden MMR makes no sense. Lack of discipline for players that int or smurf. There's so many things they could add to improve the ranked ladder, but they refuse and would rather us sit there with people who genuinely don't want to win, or straight smurfs. People just get away with anything and its disgusting.

[@MrRakan.]

Aside from the rank, I noticed a stark difference in my games now vs all the years before. In the past, even when losing, I had satisfying games where I felt like enemy is at the same level, and my teammates are of similar skill to me. It seemed more or less fair. Now the games are either me winning so easily against some noobey enemy, or losing hard against much more skilled people while also having a weak team. I noticed, even with me not being an expert or a pro, that my teammates lack basic understandings of the game. I feel like matchmaking loads my pockets with stones to drown me. I stopped playing a month ago, the game became really draining and I don't enjoy it anymore.

[@brandonalexisruizpino1230]

Sooo i have noticed this very much right now. They started lowering ranks and the more skill you have the harder it is to climb. Now i have also noticed I started playing heavily for macro and have had success in climbing back in my ranked games. I got a different approach which is, why fight when you can win the game. Which i started focusing more on wave management, skermishes management and even started to ping objectives and choices for teammates. Its been overall better for me and my games.

[@SirArtorias]

6 months ago I was Master. I just came back recently after the break and after 90 games I'm still Emerald. Now, this is definitely affected a lot by the fact that I have no ranked goal and I have a chill outlook in the game, but still, I'd never expect to not make it to at least Diamond after 90 games, even if I'm just chilling.

[@rareshkanchuk]

This is very relatable for me I peaked Emerald two splits ago and now I'm sitting in Gold, initially I thought it's because I went to uni and I am playing on a shitty laptop, but even with that, while trying to get used to playing on a very shitty setup I still managed to get Plat II last split, and now 3 weeks after the new split I have a 38% wr or smth in Gold, even though I've just been playing Aphelios consistently for the last year or so Kept blaming it on myself, but this video kinda opened my eyes regarding why this is happening, I keep getting bad teammates but I had the impression that it's just because they are Gold and I'm simply playing so badly I can't win consistently, but now I think I just should take a break until things calm down and I can play on my PC again, thanks for the info!

[@Sharkguy808]

It’s funny that this vid popped up on the day I went on my alt since I‘ve been on such a losing streak. Every game feels like a stomp win or lose.

[@DKong100]

Essentially, what is happening is that all of the bad and boosted players are dropping in ranks due to the ranked + matchmaking changes made in the last 2 years; however, because someone always has to lose the people that shouldn't be losing are getting caught in the crossfire. Which is what is leading to a lot of people losing far more than they used to. The solution to this is to simply stop playing during your region's prime time, and to stop playing so many games per day. Less games = higher chance to win + avoiding prime time = less shitty teammates.

[@erikkovacs2142]

Legit almost every game I have a loosing team

[@davo4074]

And theres me currently peaking higher than last season thinking these gold games are feeling quite sweaty indeed.......

[@stephenjamborino7493]

Elo inflation is being decreased, game quality has increased overall

[@dougman72]

Yeah, last split, i got emerald 1, and thsi split im stuck between plat 1 and emerald 4. The game feels super restrictive atm. It feels like if you dont play the op meta stuff, you lose. This is even more than usual since 14.10. Honestly idk but adcs are super oppressive atm

[@MIIC2]

I saved my mental by writing ranked diary. I over estimated the amount of trolling in my games. Replays revealed how hard my team was actually playing and how many times I miscalculated. I also thought I got stomped more than I got carried but it was actually 50/50. I also noticed that my rank dropped every time I played while tried or hungry. It is hard work to perform at your peak. I didn't start to climb faster after starting my journal. But it saved my mental.

[@blueridgeorc]

My highest account is emerald, my oldest account is now struggling in silver. It was plat last season. The issues im having is multiple games in a row where i have multiple lanes turbo feeding and then the whole other team is fed, and with how much damage is now in the game its unwinnable. Then on top, the turbo feeders are super toxic and also wont ff so now ypu are stuck in a game with toxic feeders and its sucks the life out of you. So hard to maintain any sort of mental.

[@oskiloski3312]

i can solo win ur games in silver even when my bot goes 0/15

[@dari1761]

​@@oskiloski3312"Multiple lanes turbo feeding". I have seen it all and hands down nobody can carry a game with all lanes feeding, even if you're the biggest smurf. No shade~

[@blueridgeorc]

@smetek8451 i didnt say just adc, imagine its your adc, your midlaner, your toplaner, and your support. I cant count how many times ive had this happen this season. I can also carry 1 or 2 losing lanes. When im 5/0 and every one else on the team is 0/5 it starts getting dicey, especially with how much damage there is in the game now.

[@oskiloski3312]

@@blueridgeorc ofc u can like silver players will just die even if they are 15/0 u can win 19 out of 20 games maybe 15 uw still will climb like how can u say u will be stuck

[@oskiloski3312]

@@blueridgeorc its 100% the players fault he is stuck or drops to a lower rank dont spout such nonsense who cares if my team goes 0/5 it only matters if u reched ur skill lvl give me ur acc today when ur silver i will hit gold today

[@bryceamas]

Thank you I thought I was going insane. I'm old peak plat and now struggling to stay in silver. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[@cristichifan4453]

last split I has top 50 kayle players on EUW and not I am sitting at a 30% wr account like I started to question myself if I ever bought the account

[@NikGlt]

I had a new account, leveled it to 30 and with a 5 win steak it placed me in Bronze 1, you dont get placed any higher than that no matter how well you performed, but what you do get is a high MMR so every game you win rewards you with 31-33 points and every game you lose decrements 12-14 points, so thats a HUGE thing.

[@hugouhlir1869]

i have seen like 3 of your videos and you are already my favourite person who talks about lol news ❤

[@Rewleague]

Grinding youtube more than league now 🤣🤣 thanks for the support!

[@DismalParadise]

Fell from emerald to silver 2. Climbing out of the muck and filth of elo hell is something I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. Still recovering as plat 4

[@Test-xx5xc]

Emerald 1 last season and plat 3 rn so I haven’t been hit as hard as some of these accounts but I definitely thought it was just me until watching the video. Good stuff man

[@AlexHamelMusic]

The reset set most accounts nearer to their MMR, rather than their visible rank as far as I know. A lot of accounts between Gold and Emerald were highly inflated over the past years. While that does knock down quite a few players who didn't deserve their rank, there are an equal amount who have climbed back to their original ranks already, without a problem. For example, my main account has already reached the rank I had last split and last season. However, my level 40something smurf account (which I enjoyed levelling myself) got knocked down 800 LP in placements due to the inflated MMR of new accounts the past years. My main account was made in Season 5, so, it has a reliable history. Accounts made since 2020/2021 are very inflated. So, one of those people may have gotten away with being the heaviest person in a platinum game. But it's a lot harder to get away with it in silver. You may be the hyper-fed assassin player, but if you don't know how to close out games... what good will it do you?

[@arctic1054]

This is wrong, I have 3 accounts 2 I have in diamond 1 d 2 1 d4 my main I can’t get out of plat this season. Literally have had 17 lost streak of 2 or more people running it down

[@DispelLoL]

@@arctic1054diamond is inflated elo the last couple seasons and it shows if u can’t get out of plat. Ur not being inted or ran down any more than the enemy team gets their own inters.

[@arctic1054]

@@DispelLoL that’s just wrong, I literally have 2 diamond accounts this season one in high diamond, I’ve also literally tested it duoing with a masters buddy of mine. So we had 2 people doing good every match on my main. I’ve had more afks/hard inters on that account than not. While my alts don’t. I have a 78% wr to climb one of them with a 4.2 kda.

[@Slidmirror]

I can feel this, peaked plat 3(ended plat 4) last split but my first placement(I did lose) put me in silver 2 and ended silver one. I’ve been duoing with friends because that’s the only way I know how I can close out the match if there is someone I trust to help me. Currently hovering gold 3/2 on other champs but my main champ I have a 38% win rate on and I don’t know what changed

[@sam9067-p8s]

Fun anecdote: My longstanding acct from 2016 ended up getting MMR tethered. The past 3 seasons I'd end up in high gold/plat. I ended up stuck in silver with a negative LP 67% ratio over the course of 4 months. Win Rate over 300+ games was 63%-65% and losing rank. Ended the season in Bronze 1 playing against hard smurphs. It's nice to see a youtuber that is observing the same things I've been observing for some time now. The system seems to be picky and choosy whom it favors. Perhaps it has something to do with the report system. We don't know. In the state the game is in it's much more fun to build weird builds or pick weird picks to see if they work. There's really no point to go full sweat in a game that pre-determines wins and losses and rank based on an algorithm quota instead of merit.

[@Druath]

That Ned Flanders meme made me subscribe. I already love your content!

[@Rewleague]

cheers bro!

[@calic737]

at least having the scripters with us was balancing out the teams lol having so many accounts drop all at the same time is also putting a larger variety of people in lower elo games making those silver matches sweatier than they've ever been

[@vovamorlino4573]

Was in D2 last split, now D2

[@Bro.Synchro]

I reached Emerald 2 with no issues last split then got chosen by Riot to curse me with unplayable games i had a game i went 20 kills with 2 deaths and all they needed was a fed adc and well my teammates did less then canon minions dropped to Emerald 4

[@Rewleague]

Atleast you managed to save it at emerald 4! Imagine dropping to bronze ahahaha

[@xiopia3940]

@@Rewleague im iron 1 yuumi jungle main and i cant climb even with 30 percent winrate

[@Brandon-rt9ei]

Same here, I was cruising last split through emerald reach emerald 1 about to hit diamond then for the next 5 games after my teammates all of a sudden felt like they weren’t even players no offense to them. And I just kept losing and eventually hit emerald 4 and said fuck rank 💀

[@nicelypenn]

@@Brandon-rt9ei that happened to me like three times before. back when plat was what we now called emerald and there were still placement matches. i was in my diamond promos. 2-2. lost the last one. from there, demoted down to p4 (what is now e4). said fuck ranked. came back again the next year after a long break. got to e1 98 lp. needed 1 win. at this point i was like 30 w 3 l. went on a massive loss streak. back down to e4. said fuck ranked. now this year, last split. almost the same thing happened. went up to e1 78 lp. demoted down to e4, but climbed back to e3. this split so far. peaked to e1 80 lp, down to e3. back up to e2 60 lp. back down to e3, back up to e2 87 lp. however, since i know more about the game. there were a few loss streaks i could've avoided. in my head i was saying i should dodge those games because i knew the enemy team would just destroy us (they had better comps). but i was like," surely my team doesn't int." well guess what, when you have someone pick ornn into a vayne, they're going to lose 9 times out of 10 and just int. and for whatever reason certain junglers, teammates just can't figure out how to not die to it. e.g. diana, shaco, nunu, or whatever. for me, i have like a 0% wr vs diana after probably 5 or 6 games with her on the enemy team. idk why whenever there is a diana, my teammates forget how to play. but had i actually didn't ego and just dodge games i knew were lost just based on comp or i knew had a high likelihood teammates would int just from experience, i could've avoided some major loss streaks. especially when those loss streaks started, you just gotta not play. i kept tilt queueing, which contributed to more losses than i should've got because i wasn't playing optimally and just making tilted decisions.

[@notconsti2646]

@@xiopia3940 yea cuz 30% means in 10 games ur winning 3 u need atleast above 50% to be "climbing"

[@guydunn8259]

I feel this, because I can't climb on a smurf, the smurf is 35% WR, that i cannot get out of bronze because of how the new system works. I really like that I can go 3 wins in a row, only to have a game where there is an inter who demotes me the next. That's super fucking cool and not at all annoying, or bullshit.

[@evanpennington1130]

losers que feels so much more aggressive this season, previous seasons losers que games actually had a chance to be redeemed, but now they're COMPLETE stomps

[@Ausku_24]

I was a d3 hardstuck player but didnt play ranked for 3 years i came back in s13s2 played duo with bad champs got to d4 with 80% wr then in s14s1 i placed emerald 2 and from a 65% wr i started to lose so much i got to emerald 4 40 ish lp 41% wr in 120 games it was impossible to win. I wanted to uninstall the game but decided to lose 3 more and played without a care in the world and i got to master for the first time in my life within 81 games with 78% wr up to 140 lp. And i can tell u is much easier to play in master than in emerald. This thing with winning and losing a lot imo is related to riots bad mm and the mentality u have during it, if u only focus on yourself and try your best each time i dont think u wont improve in 100 games .

[@Rewleague]

this is great advice and gratz on masters thats an insane achievement

[@Ausku_24]

@@Rewleague well i did it on jg the second easiest roll in the game. For me it was much easier to gather gold and win alone from jungle than the other 3 solo laners so i cant say it will be a similar experience for everyone but if u focus on 1 role only and 3 champions (your main champ, second main and a comfort pick to work in any situation), never get mad during the game only after the game is done, understand that everyone has a bad day, watch replays when u did a big blunder or u performed rly bad to see what u did and never do it again and watch guides/other high ranking players u will surly improve. I used to play 3 games a day, watch a replay, watch 1 challenger game of my champ and 2-3 videos of jg coaching each day and if i were to lose 2 games in a row in which i wasnt 1v9 i would stop and try again tomorrow with a clear mind. Also last season u couldnt duo in master like this season so that might also hinder your climb.

[@garrettmcintosh3208]

I think a lot of this is issues from the previous split where people were placed much higher then they were supposed to be. Now we see the system recognizing that and trying to get them back to where they should be now.

[@Rewleague]

Its a tough one because i think thats half the problem but plat 1 to bronze 3 is craaaaazy not even inflation is doing that. The problem they have now is 90% of players are going to hit as a higher rank as before and it makes them feel like they’ve gotten worse

[@Rewleague]

Just to add on though if this does fix it and it was all just inflation its for sure a net positive

[@BabyKnxckz]

Yeh last split i somehow winnstreaked to emerald despite beein silver forver

[@clyp3016]

so you are telling me that the average silver 4 has any clue about wave magement and level up timers? i was boosting my gf the other day and almost everyone a silver II-IV lobby had around 9 cs per minute. this is not normally

[@BabyKnxckz]

@@clyp3016 i think it is players just got better, 9cs maybe not but deff 8ish

[@SkizzyTheOne]

I've been in emerald for 2 seasons now and on my way to climb there again this season, when i reached plat 1 i fell all the way down to gold 2 with a 17 lose streak over the course of 3 days. I am not the person that blames teammates for every loss, i do look for improvement in myself whenever i can. However this lose streak was with unimaginable teammates, even when the match started i could tell we would lose, enemy always had an average winrate of 55-60% while my team had an average of 40-45% sometimes even lower, 3 losing lanes for 17 games straight, no matter how well or bad i performed, i lost, however now that i got some wins in gold, somehow my gold and silver team has more brain and knowledge than my plat 1 team. I don't know what is happening, but every match i do see another person who was plat or diamond and is gold now. Never in my 6 years of league did i play 200+ games of ranked and been lower than where i startedy promos from...

[@helsreach8954]

no wonder everygame felt like fighting pro

[@lestonclark2398]

Ikr i was no way these guys are this good backing away when I'm about to be lv2 first, getting like 8 to 9 cs per min im like what??😂 knowing when to slow push then shove... its insane..😂😂

[@elben5037]

I swear there are two different ladders hidden beneath the ranks. I have one account I supp my GF with and it is playing legit bronze to silver games and you feel it. Then I am on one of my main accounts that dropped from plat2 to bronze 2 and I am getting 3 man dove with a stacked wave minute 4 while they juggle 5 tower shots perfectly. And i'm like yeah, this feels like bronze to me. Not to mention the guaranteed lvl 30 account every 2 games that crushes its opponent 11/0 by minute 12.

[@robanvisser8714]

I play top: botlane feeds 9/10 times. I play sup: toplane feeds 9/10 times. It feels like a script at this point. Picked up my kayn again because it’s somewhat strong again, and I seem to be able to carry easier but damn, I don’t know how it’s that consistent

[@Rewleague]

facts

[@lestonclark2398]

Before u used to see people typing bot gap or top gap now we seeing people team honestly its team gap..😂😂😂

[@clyp3016]

try kha zix, feels better than kayn imo

[@shrimp5303]

Sounds like you're a lil delulu. It's always skill issue

[@robanvisser8714]

@@clyp3016 the thing is, I have 40 lvls of mastery on kayn, so I dont have to focus on micro that much when I play kayn

[@robbiestalkingts]

100% accurate gone from silver 4 to iron 5, can't win a single game teams are mismatched, too much one shot damage, same champs constantly getting buffed, and nerfed the game is unplayable for the majority of players. Riot have lost the plot

[@chillalex7]

They put in trueskill 2 And honor level is included into the algorithm now. If you troll or type, you get queued with trolls/typers in your game.

[@Rewleague]

could be this

[@sirjilo8635]

Ended last season at a 60% win rate on Gangplank in Emerald 1. I have now played 15 ranked games, I’m emerald 4 and literally cannot win on my main whom I have thousands of games on. Every single game is just a coin flip, either your bot goes 0/15 in 10 minutes or their bot does. I recognized this problem extremely quickly and have completely quit ranked until it’s fixed.

[@MrNo0p]

I'am an emerald player and am close to quit league. At one side grinding league 3 splits a year is burning me out, at the other side the placement matches are hella trash which makes the burn out even worse. Just won my first 10 ranked games in a row and got ranked B2. I really can't bring up the motivation to grind anymore. I was high plat low diamond before emerald was introduced. EACH SPLIT SINCE THEN. and got ranked in B2 after a 10 game winrow. How is this possible?. I've had an ARAM loosestreak before and have become superstitious that even recent aram games are counted towards your placement MMR. I can't explain it any other way. btw in my last placement matches I've had to play with a wide range of ranks. From high gold to low emerald. People saying that it was better in the past and indeed it was. At least were the displayed ranks of your mates/enmies much closer together. But now its the wild wild west.

[@IWannaPlay7]

You can submit a ticket on a fresh account that is 2-50 in ranked with blatant troll stat lines, and no action will be taken on riots ends. I have watched account activity for multiple days after having one of these accounts in a game that I submit a ticket on. Like it does not even make sense how they currently moderate the trolling.

[@tituskeksimusmaximus4956]

Wow no way. I peaked Master 250LP last split and this split I have been fighting for dear life to stay in Diamond III. At first I thought that I somehow became washed up overnight but then it kept going and I started thinking that I am cursed or something since when I honestly looked at my games, I kept performing well. I literally felt like a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks the system is out to get them XD. This video makes me feel so vindicated.

[@fmb6945]

Bro I feel the same way. I reached Master around 180 lps in both splits last season 13. This split im stuck in Diamond 4 games with positive winrate but still +17/18 -22/23. Im already struggling to keep my mental and i took the decision of quitting the game. Feel like shit having to play perma shit quality games for no reason where its imposible to have any consistent fun and not get tilted after max 3 games. Tbh i feel like i have to play like Nemesis or other pro Challenger player to just get back low master tier, game is broken and every day it makes less sense to play it. And lets not talk about the 3 split thing, in the current season 14, its the hardest ever to climb and you have the lowest time ever to do so. Completely garbage season, Riot clearly only cares about proplay or releasing new 500€ shit skins.

[@HamsterPants522]

I had a 60% winrate in Plat 1 over the entirety of Split 1 with my main champion and role. With no significant nerfs to either, now in Split 2 I have a 30% winrate and am plummeting into Gold very rapidly. I don't understand what changed.

[@coolmasterjg2450]

S2-S1 RN PEAKED P4, I KNEW i was playing against ex-diamond, emerald and platinum players bro... lp gains are ridicc and backdoor splittings HAPPENS A LOT in my games man... silvers n golds be doing mechanically sound sht sometimes

[@borisnikolov1697]

when are they incorporating the adc health buff and damage nerf?

[@Rewleague]

Hopefully soon I think they accidentally leaked it

[@jirivanderka2547]

Do you really think adc needs a health buff? They are already at more then 650 base health when midlaners and supports are at 580-600. Even toplaners arent that high.

[@Buaam]

as soon as they removed the 0 lp then loss into 50 or 75. people got absoluely crushed. statistically.. you can shave off tons of lp if you have +3 lp and get down to 0. then loose again into 75 or even 50. Now it feels way worse to be inbetween divisions because demoting 1 game then promoting then demoting then promoting like im doing it just feels like no safety net and an endless grind

[@robbinlockeslyie]

I just won a game where we had an apc galio with ghost and smite. I told him flat out I wasn't dodging. I know I should have but I was really pissed off at the bait and didn't want to give him the satisfaction. Then I remembered the challenger top splitpushing Janna (old school player so Janna is my main. Bae, wifu, otp all that jazz. I play Dota and really only start up league when I miss her. But since finding your podcast I kind of want to climb a bit before I get back to Dota.) Anyways I was able to pull off some great plays, built my own splitpush build and ppulled it off. On a different problem with ranked is I have had so many "2 autofills added" and then after a couple of games I get filled and not support. It's kind of annoying. I don't think the 2 autofills are additive and it's just another reason I try to stay away from league. I got back into the game and spent like 150 bucks this season. I haven't played since 2015 though so it evens out.

[@Rewleague]

never played dota but so many positive comments about it tempts me

[@ayonafulls3364]

Riot is finally dealing with ranked inflation? Nice.

[@thestoebz]

Yeah but fucking the ladder up completely. Good shit Rito

[@Drialux]

I have seen so many, so many s13 emrald ended up in silver now, it's because it was inflated elo, and now this is deflation, it returns a bit like season 12, this is better now

[@U_Geek]

I see this, well not in winrate but in gameplay on my second account. Currently levelling it so I can duo with my friend and play solo too. Luckily the game did put me in my mmr quickly so I'm not ruinning too many normals by smurfing but I see something weird. The enemy team keeps track of where I should be and rotates(as expected from high plat/diamond players) But my team literally afk farms the whole game. Adcs? Still bot after 25minutes dying on repeat to enemy mid. Top? Ints lvl 3into a Nasus 3 times. Mean while the second a scuttle spawns enemy mid and applicable sidelane disappear and rotate. Not impossible to play but it's so frustrating that I can't take more than a single game in a session. Something IS broken about matchmaking it feels like it takes 10 people and instead of balancing them it tries to make the least balanced teams possible. But also somehow it seems dependant on something because this happens very rarely on my main with similar ranked people when I play normals. I hope that it doesn't carry over into ranked when I unlock it.

[@nojz8557]

i have been plat-dia since season 5 and played normals since season1 and last split diamond with 60% winrate over 200 games. now i went 0/5 in placements because of trolls and got placed plat and im stuck with a 38% winrate in emerald 3-4 over 50 games and i no longer play ranked. i play mostly aram or draft normals now and at a 75-80% winrate now in normal draft pick, i think this split system is very bad and will probably make me quit since i dont have time anymore to play atleast not that much that i would have to get to diamond 3 times a year.

[@jacobcannon8876]

I do think that with level 30 accounts a lot of it is just Smurf queue: They put you (an emerald player) in silver with a bunch of other emerald players on their silver smurfs. This way, you have huge LP gains and will eventually hit your true rank, but your climb is miserable because you’re already playing against people at your skill level or better. Why let a Smurf coast through silver and gold with a 75% WR when you can force the em to slog through the same ranks with a 45% WR. Smurfs being matched up against other smurfs protects the non-smurfs, while still letting those Smurf accounts “eventually” reach their true rank. It’s incredibly frustrating for people who want to learn new roles/champs because they’re probably just losing a shit ton in the beginning despite obviously being better than what their rank shows. I feel like all of this could be solved by using an MMR system but the existence of shiny and segregated ranks is great for engagement aka $$$

[@Joji_14]

This is actually happening to some streamers too. Also for some reason there are sooooo many trolls even in s13.

[@Valentineishere]

It also really feels just like a highroll, either you get a normal team or you get a team where every lane ints which is just wild to me

[@impos1bl366]

Interesting video. This why i see players in my game what last seson/split was 2 ranks above and now they just run it down.

[@ehoops31]

I took 3 years off and came back. I was definitely rusty at first, but now I’m stuck in iron. Weirdly once I got to iron 4 I swear the match making got better. Maybe my expectations just completely changed, but I don’t think so. I’m not a troll, just an old lady playing for fun. I’ll probably never be that good, but I used to be gold/plat every season.

[@NepahelmShadow]

I used to flame people for saying Loses Q was a thing, but I know I have experienced the exact crap in this video. I am not trying to say I am good at the game by any means. I hit was consistently a Plat 1 player, until Emerald came out. I was emerald 2 and 1 most of season 13, and grinded the last month for Diamond 4 after almost 200 games I think. I felt I had improved finally and gotten past some bad habits I know I've broken. Season 14 Split 1, D4 in 30 games using knowledge of the habits I broke in my first Diamond grind. Topped at D3 with maybe 40 games cause I just wanted to keep Diamond. S14 Split 2, I thought I would aim for Masters, well, almost 200 games and I am struggling in E3 E4 on the verge of Platinum. All my games feel extremely one sided, whether I win or lose. I'm not sure how many games I played over vacation recently, but well over 50 in a week. I can recall two games where I was so happy that it was a back and forth game, close the whole time, and one I barely won, the other barely lost. I didn't even mind losing that one. Overall, thank you for bringing this to attention, Riot needs to fix this. The game is noticeably not the same quality it has been. I was also under the impression they were lowering overall damage in the game but full damage Garen is outdamaging any assassin I play at the moment and out tanks all the damage I throw at him as an example. I had high hopes for the new manager at league or whoever he is, but this is not a good direction to go.

[@miquelpro1059]

Here an esmerald who was placed in gold IV and derank to silver with 33% wr. I was playing better than last season, but my teams were bots. Now i'm gold 2 with 50% wr. My performing is worse now, but I have humans in my teams.

[@kalenz100]

I was between d1 and master season 11 and 12, i played in a team competitively and i was being coached. At one point totally randomly drop to plat 4 - 0 lp almost demoting to gold. I gained +13lp / -29lp. Despite this I managed over time to climb back do master promo 3 times by manipulating the queue algorithm. ( basically if i lose 1 game i quit playing for a day, if i win i keep playing forever, the league algorithm realised that to make me play more it had to make me win games and i climbed back up). Then i dropped again because i stopped using this method, rhinking that now i could play normally in my elo, that account is stuck in d4 0lp to this day and with negative wr. It is totally doomed in loser's queue again. That enormous fluctuation is proof that something is wrong The matchmaking changed totally, look into what is EOMM and you will find the reason. Riot has full interest in making the queue a hell for you, because you will spam games to climb back up which means you play more and more. Riot doesn't care about the quality of your games

[@Rewleague]

this is it, it is quite losers queue its EOMM which is pretty much the same thing. Put people 3 ranks below and force them to climb, had a guy comment a similiar thing and he played 180 games in two weeks to get to p4 his peak was p1 and he thinks its a good thing he had to play 183 games to not even get back to his peak.... like come on man you cant see they are milking you for games. Masters before inflation to plat 4 is crazy though likeeven on auto pilot you would be 10x better than a plat player

[@Alkalote]

Good old mmr. I had this problem, Peaked gold 1 went back to gold 4 2 seasons in a row since my team never had an ounce of knowledge about the game and randomly played. These 2 seasons I was placed like silver 2/1 . This season I got the bronze 3 placement and it was hell to climb back to gold (had to use weird strategies which I wouldn't think that they'd work this much) but yeah it feels like You can see 8 "bronze" being GOLD+ players and 2 being real ones and when you get both on your team it's gg

[@ZephraFPS]

Was plat 1 and now bronze 1 with a terrible WR despite playing well. It’s insane how every game there is at least one person practically running it down. Changed account and now have no problem climbing. Pretty annoying my main account is cursed or some shit.

[@TheArenabros]

I never comment on videos. At the end of last year, i finished in E3. Last split i started in Plat 1, and this split im stuck in silver. I didn't know this was affecting so many people.

[@AVECENTRAIN]

I'm normally gold, started iron 2, went silver 1 82lp, then back down to bronze 3 in the most frustrating loss streak ever. I had 72% winrate. Now 49% all the game i lost felt out of my control. The ennemies got so fed so quickly, its dumb. This game's a pos.

[@rokmeznar6541]

This is interesting because im a d4 peak and this season was like any other. Im on a steady climb to d4 curently emerald 1 with 63% winrate.

[@EpicVideoMaster11]

I also believe that most people don't play enough ranked games for their true rank to be shown. A lot of players hit Gold/Plat/Emerald and quit ranked or go play on smurfs. There's no Decay and 0 punishment for bought accounts so why not yk nobody wants to lose their shiny borders because seasons are shorter which in turn ruins the bottom of the ladder even more.

[@KledtheSped]

You have to play at least 300 games to get placed in a place you actually belong. Think about it, To climb to diamond from gold assuming you’re 20lp per win/loss with a 52% win rate (which is good) for every 100 games you play, you’ll gain 40lp (on average), so you just have to play an insane amount of games per season, and get placed higher season by season over time.

[@yournemesis192]

I was Grand Master in Season 12 and now I’m hard stuck D4 with a 36% win rate. My champ pool is a lot weaker than it was back then but my main problem is being auto filled a lot and getting 0/15 team mates very consistently in some kind of weird diamond-low masters Smurf queue. I am not even mad but it’s just annoying that I can’t play the game normally. I duoed with a Master 300 lp player as well and he’s also hard stuck D4 now. Finding a game takes almost 10 minutes so there’s definitely something wrong with my account

[@SpykeSpiegel]

this happened to my flex rank as well. Peaked emerald 3 last season. Had 49% wr in plat last split due to playing more for fun and trying champs. Got placed in bronze 4 this split. If you look my soloduo rank you'll see I am as consistent as it gets, no major drop there. Just my flex rank decided to jump off a cliff

[@Rewleague]

oh flex makes legit 0 sense but its way more casual so hard to compare

[@ranolol]

Comparing height and rank is wild. If you want a real comparison, think about income. It's like you lost your job and are being paid peanuts because of AI.

[@nfc14g]

If they got rid of MMR, it would fix it. Your rank is your rank. Never struggled to get to gold for the skin in the past. Currently playing vs previous emeralds in silver games, hard to carry.