Why do you (still) play ranked?

[Earl Lemongrab]

I would like to know your reasons for playing ranked.

I quit it because 95% matches are one side and this is destroying competitive side of the game for me. I mean why spend a lot more time on ranked where ~30% of time, ~50% in most broken matches, is wasting on pick phase when you will get pure random mess where one team stomps another team. Same as casual but in casual you have much more freedom.

So I want to know. Thanks.

[Krusti3]

Well because in ranked, when the MM is actually working the games are anywhere between 18 and 25 minutes and it's hard.

On the other hand you get a lot of games, where your team mates, are drooling imbeciles with 4 hours of game play and the game ends in a stomp where the longest round was the time between rounds.

It's a frustrating balance, when it's right it's good when it's not it's awful, you play ranked for those few games that are good because they are at least more frequent the pubs.

[pinhamadeira]

Because casual doesnt mean ♥♥♥♥. Its 5 dps vs 5 dps, very different from what paladins actually is. Enemies are unpredictable and everyone is just trolling. Ranked is more organized and makes you actually learn the game. I play high diam-masters and only like 25% of the games are stomps and thats when someone messes up the draft. Low elo is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, lock zhin and hold w and you get diamond in the blink of an eye

[Aeonarx]

引用自 Krusti3：

Well because in ranked, when the MM is actually working the games are anywhere between 18 and 25 minutes and it's hard.

It's been forever since I had a game that lasted 20 mins last time.

[Jimmy9003]

I don't play it anymore. <Dabing in the front of rising sun>
I have stoped when They introduced tryliard rank resets per season, only thing this ♥♥♥♥ is doin for me its making me play with throwers and trolls each reset. So Yeah, I pass on that. Im not masochist.
Maybe devs think that way, well they have some right, cuse Im still playing this game but not on that scale...

[Vassago Rain]

I only play ranked for the split rewards. The people in ranked are awful, the match quality is garbage, the average level of skill is laughable, people give up during the first round if they die a single time, and actually, legit, for real, unironically throw, sit in spawn, scream at each other over mic over childish nonsense reasons, and generally act like walking garbage.

If they didn't give out the free stuff, I'd never go there. It's the opposite of enjoyable. The developers have made zero attempts to make it less garbage, refuse to enforce behavioral rules, and don't seem to care at all about the rampant smurfs and awful russians who go there exclusively to make life miserable for everybody else in the team.

There's also no indicators, charts, or anything you can reference to see if a player's good.

For a mode with such a simple mission statement, to provide better quality matches, it sure fails in every way I could think of. Paladins easily has the most pathetic ranked/comp mode I've experienced.

[Aeonarx]

引用自 Jimmy9003：

They introduced tryliard rank resets per season

I still can't understand a reason behind their decision to make a split last 2 month, it was a killing blow to ranked.

[RattyRatCathy]

I only play once in a while now to maintain my rank at this point. I'm considering not playing ranked during the split after next because most of the balancing changes that Evil Mojo said to the AoC were coming are BAD ideas. I'm certainly going to avoid ranked in the absolutely horrible meta I see coming.

[Vassago Rain]

引用自 Aeonarx：

引用自 Jimmy9003：

They introduced tryliard rank resets per season

I still can't understand a reason behind their decision to make a split last 2 month, it was a killing blow to ranked.

I'd argue it was dead long before that. Also, having splits and seasons isn't uncommon for actual comp modes. If they simply enforced their own rules, and actually banned or put garbage people on timeout, the mode would gradually recover. I had someone tell me just today that I should totally accept and put up with the bad behavior, because 'it's like any moba, bro.'

[Jimmy9003]

引用自 Aeonarx：

I still can't understand a reason behind their decision to make a split last 2 month, it was a killing blow to ranked.

Most of experts talking something about giving some kind opportunity to other players to climb to GM and M.
I keep seeing same people siting in same tables on GM and M rank, like They were sitting before this reset ♥♥♥♥ show... So Yep looks like its another high-rez marvelous treatment.... Treatment which do ♥♥♥♥.

[Aeonarx]

引用自 Vassago Rain：

I'd argue it was dead long before that

It was decent in S1 when split lasted half a year, masters mostly played with masters and matches were much more reasonable, MM had material to work with.

引用自 Jimmy9003：

Most of experts talking something about giving some kind opportunity to other players to climb to GM and M.

That would be logical, the only problem is it made things even worse, bacause it made MM worse and in this chaos it actually made it easier for pro parties and duos to climb, and gave them even more advantages. And isn't ranked supposed to be for getting proper balanced matches in the first place?

[HySy]

I don't, I just play for the gold chest. I don't feel rewarded playing it so why bother

[Graf Unknown]

I love to play MatchMaking because it's a competetive gamemode, that means both sides will try to chose the best champions, both sides will try their best and the match will be close and exciting.
But in this Stack I am making a break, because I got only trash teams at the beginning of the new Season Stack, so I couldn't even make my way out of Platin, even though I was Master last season stack.
The problem is, that you can't play in groups at high levels, so you always get random teammates. And if you are unlucky like me, you end up with teams, where you deal more DMG as a tank, then both your DMG together, while protecting your backline.
Match Making is cancer in this game, I know. But I am just a big fan of Competetive-Play in general.

[Vassago Rain]

引用自 Jimmy9003：

引用自 Aeonarx：

I still can't understand a reason behind their decision to make a split last 2 month, it was a killing blow to ranked.

Most of experts talking something about giving some kind opportunity to other players to climb to GM and M.
I keep seeing same people siting in same tables on GM and M rank, like They were sitting before this reset ♥♥♥♥ show... So Yep looks like its another high-rez marvelous treatment.... Treatment which do ♥♥♥♥.

It's because the 'masters' and 'grandmasters' farm eternal diamond players in duos, and the game itself also doesn't tell you that people are grouped up.

>can't see what their current skill is.
>supposed skill borders are from literally forever ago.
>duos of the top mega ultra super turbo class of players are allowed into the kiddy pool in the interest of 'not having them wait forever.'
>game doesn't tell you that people are in a party and you need to actually work together, rather than bicker in spawn because some guy picked 'a throw lego, waaah.'

It's a bit of a farce, honestly. I come from fighting games, and actual competitive shooters. Paladins is a very fun and great game - in casual. Ranked is just suffering, and seems designed to satisfy the eternal GMs with their ancient borders that totally prove they're mega skilled.

[Krusti3]

引用自 Aeonarx：

引用自 Krusti3：

Well because in ranked, when the MM is actually working the games are anywhere between 18 and 25 minutes and it's hard.

It's been forever since I had a game that lasted 20 mins last time.

50% of my games in Diamond last about 15-20 minutes, games over 20 minutes are like 10% maybe.

I'd say 70% of my games are 3/3 in ranked and 30% are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ roll overs.

[fabioecco]

I also only play it for the split rewards. It makes no sense to wait 7-10 minutes for a match as good as a casual one, which takes a few seconds.