League of Retarded Matchmaking
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4 Jan 2012, 04:26
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Journals
Since there haven't been any LoL journals today or yesterday or anything, I figured I'd break my awesome chain of pony journals and make one.
In fact, I just want input on this bullshit:
I mean COME ON. I'd understand if I had a 50/50 win/loss ratio because of just finding very equal opponents, but in 3/5 of the cases in that picture it's been because of retarded "troll" (I really despise using that word in this context since it's not really trolling, but it seems to be the generally accepted usage in the LoL community) picks. I mean, I've had >2 kill-death ratio in like every one of those games? Bar the Renekton one which stretched out to 50 minutes and involved repeatedly getting aced by the enemy with only their tank and support remaining who couldn't obviously push for shit.
Take that latest Lee Sin game for instance. I was first pick, figured I'd take a jungler as first pick because I'm uncomfortable taking laners without knowing what I'm up against. So I go Lee Sin, cause he's the one jungler I'm like really good at. Well, anyway happens so that the second pickers (ie. the second and third guys on my team) both wanted to mid, although only one of them said it out aloud.
The one who called his wishes out picked LeBlanc and quickly locked her. After about 10 seconds the other guy decides to pick Xerath without uttering a single word and lock, then saying "Too bad I'm mid".
Now being the sly motherfuckers our enemies were, they went all fucking tanky on our team of one bruiser, two burst casters and Ashe: they had jungle Irelia, Gangplank, Taric, Sivir and Viktor.
Now despite the scales being heavily tipped to the enemy (Ashe in top vs. GP, Xerath feeding Victor in mid, LeBlanc and Soraka being denied out in bot) I managed to score six kills and two assists through excellent ganks (and the enemies being pretty bad).
HEHE TOO BAD, come midgame and their team just fucking ran us over with me and Ashe being our only damage versus their team Negatron Cloak. I got three of my deaths in the brief periods between the end of the laning phase and our inevitable surrender when they destroyed two of our inhibitors before 30min.
Long story short: Fuck 1300 ELO.
In fact, I just want input on this bullshit:
I mean COME ON. I'd understand if I had a 50/50 win/loss ratio because of just finding very equal opponents, but in 3/5 of the cases in that picture it's been because of retarded "troll" (I really despise using that word in this context since it's not really trolling, but it seems to be the generally accepted usage in the LoL community) picks. I mean, I've had >2 kill-death ratio in like every one of those games? Bar the Renekton one which stretched out to 50 minutes and involved repeatedly getting aced by the enemy with only their tank and support remaining who couldn't obviously push for shit.
Take that latest Lee Sin game for instance. I was first pick, figured I'd take a jungler as first pick because I'm uncomfortable taking laners without knowing what I'm up against. So I go Lee Sin, cause he's the one jungler I'm like really good at. Well, anyway happens so that the second pickers (ie. the second and third guys on my team) both wanted to mid, although only one of them said it out aloud.
The one who called his wishes out picked LeBlanc and quickly locked her. After about 10 seconds the other guy decides to pick Xerath without uttering a single word and lock, then saying "Too bad I'm mid".
Now being the sly motherfuckers our enemies were, they went all fucking tanky on our team of one bruiser, two burst casters and Ashe: they had jungle Irelia, Gangplank, Taric, Sivir and Viktor.
Now despite the scales being heavily tipped to the enemy (Ashe in top vs. GP, Xerath feeding Victor in mid, LeBlanc and Soraka being denied out in bot) I managed to score six kills and two assists through excellent ganks (and the enemies being pretty bad).
HEHE TOO BAD, come midgame and their team just fucking ran us over with me and Ashe being our only damage versus their team Negatron Cloak. I got three of my deaths in the brief periods between the end of the laning phase and our inevitable surrender when they destroyed two of our inhibitors before 30min.
Long story short: Fuck 1300 ELO.
On the other hand, in the Tryndamere game, the enemy first picked Kassadin and our Karthus wanted to go up against him in mid for some fucking reason. Having numerous past experiences from ELO hell with AP carries "knowing how to play against Kassadin" I politely told him to fuck off and go solo top, letting me mid vs. Kassadin as Trynda. He actually stood at mid tower with me until the creeps spawned, thank goodness some of his polak premade friends told him to go top because midding vs. Kassa would be a suicide.
I had 3 kills on that Kassadin before 15 minutes.
I guess what I'm saying is that the retards around this ELO have no fucking clue of what countering even is. They're probably the sort of dudes who can only play one hero, and really believe everything that counters the said hero is severely OP. That's probably the reason Kassadin and Morgana are usually permabanned at this ELO - the same goes for Shaco and Lee Sin, although they aren't as often banned.
edit: just play premades
Early on when ganking and stuff as a strong midgame character (like Lee Sin) I tend to take the kills to myself. I don't in general trust anyone in solo queue as to not get disappointed, and usually the good hardcarry players only manage to prove themselves later on. In the case that they are bad players, the money I got from the kills will just benefit as I can better carry in the team fights.
Also, trying to 'leave' kills to a carry can turn sour alot of times, they are better off dead imo.
only see that you lose, win, lose, win, lose..
You gain ranked ladder rating by winning games, like Clanbase ladder rating. However, since you are randomly matched up with teammates, the player skill level around the starting rating of 1200 varies extremely much from game to game. Since it's a team game, an individual player's performance is often overshadowed by teamwork/-composition. I'm sure this happens in ET too.
To make it short, since your teammates are randomly selected and usually vary between different rounds, it can sometimes lead to a seemingly never ending streak of 50-50 win-loss ratio, which in turn means that your rating will neither improve nor decline. Of course some argue that this means that one *belongs* to that level of play - however, I believe that if one's individual performance is greatly above the team's average (see pic in opening post), then it's really just a streak of bad luck.
Obviously over extremely long time periods (I'm talking about hundreds, if not thousands of games) the only constant variable is you, which means that if you truly are good enough to have better rating, you will eventually achieve it. However, many players don't really have the patience for such slow progress.
In other words, imagine playing ET officials with a team consisting of random IRC mercs.
or is there one good combination that overwhelms everything?
(Wall of text incoming, if you've never played this type of games it might not be of much value to you)
Some champions are extremely popular and strong in lower-level play and versus unorganized teams. Generally they're champions that "snowball" easily (= good early game results in dominant mid- and late game). Examples are champions like Tryndamere, Gangplank, Kennen and Sion. Usually these are the sort of characters that can effectively carry a rather disorganized team versus another similar team, either by having lots of crowd control like stuns (Kennen from these has a very strong area effect stun ability), being very strong gankers (Sion pushes his lane fast and thus has a lot of free time to spend helping the other members of the team), or just being manly as fuck (Tryndamere is a high-damage melee DPS character who can go invulnerable for 5 seconds, Gangplank is a melee DPS character who can fill numerous roles, generally being built into a moderate-damage high-durability role).
The other sort of popular heroes are the ones that strongly counter the current metagame, or heroes that capitalize the enemies' mistakes. Champions like Kassadin and Shaco could be considered these. Kassadin being a very hard counter to mage characters in 1v1 (he has a silence ability which causes the opponent to be unable to cast spells for a few seconds, a free blink and high burst damage), however Kassadin is easily countered by heroes that don't much rely on their spells to deal consistent damage. Shaco on the other hand is a ganker character, who recently became even stronger than before because of changes to the neutral creeps. He very severely punishes careless play in the early game, having a combined blink+stealth ability that allows him to take idle pushers completely by surprise.
Many of these characters are often banned in solo queue, especially in lower ELO, because people don't know how to play against them. Admittably some of them may be a bit too strong right now (especially Shaco), but none of them are un-counterable.
Of course this is just based on my individual experiences. Anyway, there's nothing funnier than to pick Teemo when the enemy team has a Tryndamere (and especially if they have another melee character too), then just rush Frozen Mallet and kite them to death. Always works.
2. Pick jungle Maokai
3. Gank with 90-100% full succes rate (kill)
4. ???
5. Profit
It's really annoying how the new jungle made it viable to run annoying characters like Shen and Maokai there. Malphite has always been able to jungle but is even stronger nowadays. This sort of sucks because traditional junglers are comparably weaker now.
+ towerdiving is easy as fuck with maokai.
+ lol'd at vlad tier2, stopped there.
mpen red, flat armor yellow, mr/lvl blue, flat ap quints
I feel your pain though. This is how I feel when I solo que in HoN
ps: http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/
subreddit with 50000 people all there only for lol
I think hon doesnt even ahve 5000 :D
At least how it works for me
LoL is skilled game man!
e: playing euw?