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LoL players accuse Riot of making rankeds unfair. The developers respond

LoL developers have responded to allegations about ranked queues in LoL.


The ranked queue in League of Legends has always been controversial. Players are supposed to be selected unfairly to win first and lose later. This is supposed to keep them in a perpetual grind phase.

The allegations in a thread on Reddit were commented on by one of the employees. According to him, it is completely different and they want everyone to be able to play a fair match.

Ranked games work unfairly

Five lost matches, then a few won, then randomly lost and won. Eventually, after dozens of games, one is in the same place. Even though you have won more games than you have lost. This is how players describe their adventure with ranked games in a nutshell.

One of them even commented on the entry that the system works just like that. First it is to select the team with a higher chance of winning, and then the team with a lower chance. Rioter was quick to respond to this post:

As you can see, he confirmed a different operation of the system and this can be considered official information. For this reason, there is unlikely to be anything to worry about unfair practices of the developers. Everything works, as it should, although probably sometimes there are anomalies.

Especially since there is such a thing as a smurf queue. It can be hit not only by the better ones, but also by returnees to the game. It can be very uncomfortable, and getting out of the constant battle of low-level pros is extremely difficult.