See, those things I could get behind because they protect the ranked experience.
The LoL community has this idea that dodging is an important part of climbing BECAUSE of how often you auto-lose games from circumstances outside of your control. And they're right, but only because of how badly Riot protects the ranked experience. I personally hate dodging, but I hate wasting an hour or two due to trolls and AFK's even more.
It kills me to watch riot spend so many resources trying to "fix toxicity" when the real problem is how they give other players so much control over your time in league.
I played 2 games of Dota last night. One 35 min (ranked) and one 43 min game (unranked). It took less than 5 minutes to find each game. I had one game fail to start due to fail to two players failing to load. Reborn has been having some server issues so it's not unheard of. Total time in game was like 1:30.
The ranked game was a complete stomp - 59-14 in 35 min but the losing team stuck it out for the entire game. We could have ended it 10 min earlier but we didn't for whatever reason.
No rage quits or gg ff calls or intentional feeding. I'm not highly ranked (no clue what the equivalent is in LoL; I'm just at or slightly above average) but it's rare to get RQs in ranked at my level.
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See, those things I could get behind because they protect the ranked experience.
The LoL community has this idea that dodging is an important part of climbing BECAUSE of how often you auto-lose games from circumstances outside of your control. And they're right, but only because of how badly Riot protects the ranked experience. I personally hate dodging, but I hate wasting an hour or two due to trolls and AFK's even more.
It kills me to watch riot spend so many resources trying to "fix toxicity" when the real problem is how they give other players so much control over your time in league.
Yeah, that's crazy. I don't have time for that.
I played 2 games of Dota last night. One 35 min (ranked) and one 43 min game (unranked). It took less than 5 minutes to find each game. I had one game fail to start due to fail to two players failing to load. Reborn has been having some server issues so it's not unheard of. Total time in game was like 1:30.
The ranked game was a complete stomp - 59-14 in 35 min but the losing team stuck it out for the entire game. We could have ended it 10 min earlier but we didn't for whatever reason.
No rage quits or gg ff calls or intentional feeding. I'm not highly ranked (no clue what the equivalent is in LoL; I'm just at or slightly above average) but it's rare to get RQs in ranked at my level.