Faker is clearly tired of rankeds. He has been loudly speaking about it for several days.
Average LoL players often complain about the state of SoloQ in LoL. In theory, Riot is still working on improving the situation of rankeds, but as of today, everyone realizes that it is very difficult to get everyone to be satisfied.
Riot has repeatedly explained that rankeds always carry the same emotions – when people lose, they are angry and complain. When they win, they have no comments. But that’s not entirely true. And even the developers themselves know it very well, hence the idea of “objective bounties”.
Faker is expressing his feelings about SoloQ
Faker is an incredibly recognizable player. Virtually everyone knows him, regardless of whether they ever played LoL or not. Therefore, the words of the professional must be taken into account. In fact, every statement by Faker about some dispute, mechanics, a champion is then discussed by Riot.
Riot Games must heed his words, and this time they are definitely not positive. Faker has been openly criticizing the condition of the ranked queue for some time now. A week ago, he touched on the subject of betting and inting regular matches, and now he compared rankeds to slots, the popular coin toss phrase.
If I wasn’t a professional gamer I wouldn’t be playing SoloQ because it’s not fun.
Then he added:
9 out of 10 games are like slots. If that’s the goal, then I don’t see the point in playing.
Of course, it immediately became a popular topic on Reddit. 16,000 points is a result that even information about new heroes can not achieve.
And you can’t blame him. The player does not feel the competitive aspect of the game and a large proportion of his games are won or lost by bets. Depending on which side the bettor is on. Faker is currently in the Challenger with a 53% win rate.
Fortunately, this problem does not apply to other regions. Both in the US and Europe, there are currently no sites where players could bet on the results of SoloQ matches of professional players. Riot Korea, on the other hand, has a difficult nut to crack.