two years ago, I wrote a review for this game saying this game is strategy based. Fast forward to now with a much better insight into this game, this is my new review.
What i wrote in my previous review while it is completely true, is not as serious enough as i understand more about the situation in the game. I wrote that this game is just like an episode of black mirror where one can get chat ban for expressing arguments like what a human being should, losing your account that can be worth thousands of dollars.
However, i also forgot to mention that riot doesnt do a good job in enforcing rules. There was a deranking coalition in the ranked games i played and shockingly, riot did not punish them even after i send in a ticket. They continued to play for a few more days before popping up again on new accounts up till this day. Needless to say playing against griefers are usually a lost cause. They will just give enemy kills and the enemy team will have a huge gold and xp lvl lead which punishes harder then even people going afk.
Their rank system is frankly, a joke. Instead of having fair and fun matches that correspond to my skill level with mmr, i am forced to play with low level noobs and also the system will put me in a secondary position that is not my main. These usually happen after 6 to 8 win streaks in a row. The noobs in my team have mostly ~21% to 35% winrate and sometimes they are unranked or either inflated to bronze where they dont belong and always below lvl 100. Most of these low level under 100 players are either smurfs who know their stuff or noobs who have near zero understanding of the game. I have seen mostly all - sup who doesnt roam, steal cs, push wave when i asked not to as we are scaling champs and one doesnt even buy a sup item and scolded me when i said you shld buy it because they think their dorans ring is better. I myself play all roles and i dont even get 21% on my worst role, so why should i be paired with one? is this some kind of a joke where the player with the lowest rank are supposed to carry the player with the higher rank instead of them pulling their own weight?
As i have said earlier, despite submitting evidence to riot with video links for griefers, my lp wasnt reimbursed.I would say, after at least 1000 games played, at least 30 diff champs s- to s+, MVP many times on op gg, only 2 out of 10 times were my match evenly balanced. The rank system is so deceiving due to this lousy MMR system i can no longer tell if a person in low elo is as skilled as me until i played against them. You either have a smurf 1/5 the time, inters and noobs and derankers the other 3/5, and only 1/5 of the time the match feels balanced, not to mention when i win i gain 8 to 11 lp sometimes but lose 16,17 when i am literally playing 2 div higher. Your individual performance in your games do not even matter. Your teammate can feed your lane and go 0/7 which cause the game to be heavily favored for the enemy team but they might just lose 5 LP in rank due to this lousy MMR system even though they are higher ranked then you while you the better player or decent does not do badly but will lose 14-15LP on a loss even if your visible rank is lower.
One game take at least 1 hour, queue times are way too long, from 5 min to sometimes 9, my worst record was when i had to wait 25 mins for a queue in low elo (lol?) and frankly its nothing but a time wasting fest. It feels to me that rank system is just like playing lottery at this point where only the chosen ones get to rank up, i am starting to believe Riot is doing this on purpose so as to keep more players playing this game.