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This thread was added on March 21, 2024, with posts from phroxz0n.
I’ve just had a game with someone on my team who has been placed in Gold 1 with only ever playing Intro games. Not even Blind/Draft pick. It’s a joke that I can get put with someone on my team who’s supposedly at the skill level of a high Gold player yet goes 0/6 in the first 5 minutes then proceeds to basically afk under nexus for the rest of the game.
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It's on our list of things to fix, yeah. But this type of case is not ideal :( We don't get seeding information from bot or ARAM games
Can we please just get a minimum number of draft games required for ranked? It’s far too easy for account sellers to level up accounts in bot games and have them ready to go ruin ranked games.
Even a 10-20 draft win requirement will go so far towards fixing this smurfing issue. And accounts should be required to play draft before ranked so they can at least guarantee some experience with playing around the pick/ban phase before jumping into ranked
It's something we've talked about and think is generally valuable. It's a lot more complex than it seems on paper to implement though...