Quote Originally Posted by Portions View Post
Before anyone gets cranky, I got crystal in previous seasons. It was arduous at times, but it wasn\\'t uncommon to have solid upward progress.

For my part, I\\'m going to have to vote an emphatic "no" on splitting the ranks in two tier sets. I got to gold in two nights, and I\\'ve been deadlocked at gold 4 since. Even when I got a few wins going yesterday, I spawned into a nice 1v5 match just as a subtle f u to any chance of a streak bonus, because the game considers that an entirely fair match where I just didn\\'t play well enough instead of declaring unreasonable matches null.

The main issue I see is that you can be a fantastic player (which I\\'m not, but I am better than average and have the screencaps to demonstrate it), and by default when you hit gold you\\'re statistically more likely to be paired with players who are on the left side of the bell curve. While I don\\'t think the previous system was perfect by any means, a wider spread of skill levels meant that regardless of where you are personally, you\\'re more likely to make progress if you keep at it even IF you are being somewhat carried. The new system basically means that skilled players bottleneck at gold and are by design playing with people who are not climbing out of bronze, and as a result personal contribution means less. Not less than it means in frontline, but the implied point of a ranked system is some level of meritocracy. For me personally, my interest in CC will wane pretty significantly if devs continue in the direction of your skill and experience making it less likely for you succeed.
This couldn’t be more real. I even changed to playing Summoner as the OP meme spec, which I find quite enjoyable and I have a knack for it, in order to be more competitive. But there are no competitions in 17 to 4 kill blowouts where I manage to get 600k damage in a 2:30 fight, but the bottom 3 players on my team are all under 100k with 4+ deaths each. You just can’t carry that. This version is so much worse than last season. I got to Diamond 2 before CC just outright died on Crystal, but this season is just deflating