It’s been nearly two months since the launch of Season One and, at the outset, I would never have thought I could pull this off. I finally broke the 1500 ELO barrier.
So far, there isn’t much to report. Players do seem to be marginally concerned about dragon, which is a nice change. I even convinced some teammates to take dragon before we went for the tower that had minions pushed right up on top of it. There are still plenty of inexperienced players, though. Yesterday I played a game in which our Fiddlesticks insisted he take middle, despite our having a Vladimir and maybe a Tristana if I remember correctly. It’s not that Fiddle is a terrible champion, but he’s a shadow of his former self and compared to many of the new characters, he’s a lackluster mid. That was also a game in which my teammate first-picked Master Yi (which the other team countered by taking 3 stuns and two exhausts). That game ended very poorly.
The really surprising part in all of it is that 1500 ELO and above represents the top 5 percent of players in solo queue. These are players who presumably outperform 95 percent of the other players in their queue. Am I delusional in thinking they should know better than to take Fiddle mid? Do I misunderstand my own skill? I think the reality is that all of these things point to the complicated nature of a team game with an individual rating system. At any ELO there will be a large number of players who have been misappropriated, for good or ill. Bad players get highly ranked and good players fester in ELO hell because their teams are either above average or below. It is nice to see that I’ve made my way up the rating list, though. There is some hope of improving your own rating.
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Where did you read that 1500 = top 5% of players? I’d love to see a breakdown of ELO’s to percentages.
I think there are still a lot of people who got dragged up and are still stumbling downward… at least that’s how it seems most of the time, wherever I’m at.
I’m having a hard time enjoying the game lately, between leavers (2 games with 2 leavers in my last 10ish games) in unranked and unreliable people in ranked (Ez is still an auto-ban if you can’t get him, until the nerfs go through, right? Because last game he wasn’t banned and yep, fed Ez mauled. Sigh)… it just gets old. Then again, I’m due for a huge winning streak any day now.
I just took a look at the rankings – at 1508 ELO I’m ranked at 1832 out of 46503 players in Ranked 5v5 Solo. That puts me just above the 96th percentile, or the top 4 percent. The last guy at 1501 is ranked 2070, which is still about 4.5 percent of the total players in the queue.
Jeff that might actually put you higher. After my first 10 games or so I was down at 1040 and you don’t even show up on that list. I didn’t appear until I drug myself up to 1200. That said there are some terrible team comps. One person clearly played Soraka for the first team time last night when we needed an off tank or tank (Singed + 3 squishys) and complained that her heals were too weak to save anyone but singed…. The other team had only champs with CC so naturally we lost quickly and my team complained that I (Tristana) took too much of the farm and didn’t do enough early on …. …. … … (I just don’t know how to respond to that).
I think you might be right, Zebano. I originally thought that everyone lower than 1200 just showed as 1200 but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Sounds like a rough game. Not sad to say I missed out on that