Im a C1 peak player, been playing the game for a long time now, over 1000 hours. I just returned to the game this season and so far it feels even weirder than usual in ranked.
Im in GM2 or 1 right now(can't remember) but the teammates im getting are absurd. So. Many. Throwers. And im not talking just about people throwing cause their pick got banned or something, im talking about people who start the game off throwing literally for no reason at all. I must have had like 5 or 7 games yesterday with throwers on my team and even more if you count the other team
Yesterday I had a Luna ban me right off the bat simply cause I hovered Spidey. Not sure if the Luna had a vendetta against Spideys or what but I was like wtf, alright fuck it ill play Venom I guess. Then she proceeds to purposefully look at me and not heal me the entire game while the entire team is flaming me in chat. Im like dude, what the fuck do you guys want me to do, 1v6 with 0 heals because this Luna refuses to heal me for some unknown reason? Lmao
A few games later the team im playing against has a duo throwing that threw two games straight in a row. Same people on the team throwing both matches purposefully
Shits so weird. Is this some sort of smurf meta or something where people are trying to derank to play against scrubs or something? Is it just griefing? Is it cause theres less players now so theres more toxic players in general that have stuck around? The matchmaking has always been shit but it seems even worse now, like you can just blatantly tell when the system is trying to put you on a bad team versus a good one. You could always tell before but its just way too obvious now, I dont remember so many teams of people throwing right off the bat like this