The uproar over modern League of Legends ranked continues, with players this week declaring they’ve been “miserable” for much of the Season 14 grind. The biggest issue, fans agree, is there’s simply too many competitive League splits now, with the near-constant resets slowly driving everyone away.
As yet another ranked reset looms in League Season 14, players are putting their feet down and demanding Riot Games take another look at the ranked model.
The consensus from burned out fans is a third split being added this ranked season has quickly become “way too may” with many deciding to walk away from the League climb before the third split has even ticked over. (It will go live on Tuesday, Sept. 24.) Some declared a revert the only solution, while others condemned the change as one designed to “make League our fucking jobs.”
One of the biggest complaints revolved around time investment; many see the climb as too intensive when it resets so regularly. “This killed the game for me,” one disappointed League player lamented amid the complaints. “I don’t have the time to play every day.”
One growing issue I’ve run into amid the League resets falls a little more on the quality side of things: With how often everyone’s ranks are shuffled around, most matchmaking battles quickly descend into lopsided stomps. That’s another issue Riot is looking in to, but everyone scattered across the ladder often kills balance.
Previously, longer ranked campaigns meant people spent more time duelling other competitive League players around their own skill levels; a state of play which likely factored quite heavily in Riot’s decision to split things in three. When ranked was two seasons—or even one, going further back—there was complaints the ladder was too stagnant, even though that was mainly because everyone was in their right rankings.
Those older issues are why some League players came out of the woodwork to defend the abundance of splits. Many said they had actually been playing more while others suggested they liked having several chances.
The larger sentiment is for Riot to make changes “quickly” before more and more players abandon the grind. Whether the ever-present League competitive queue would ever drop into dangerously low territory remains to be seen though; more than 10 million gamers still roll up their sleeves in ranked campaigns each year.
Riot has yet to respond to today’s latest League ranked complaints.
