3 Ranked Splits is Too Much

League of legends games are very long. The process of queuing up, champ select, and finishing a game takes around 35-40min on average. This combined with the fact that you only have the influence of 1 person on a 5 person team makes the ranked process very high-variance. You can be decently better than your rank, and still only win about 55-60% of games. Not to mention unlucky losing streaks that happen to everyone. I’m not claiming that climbing is “impossible because of noob team” or anything like that, but it is statistically a fact that it may take a large amount of games to reach an accurate rank for your skill level.

I miss having the entire year, or even half the year to play ranked before the split ended. The current 3 split system feels really bad for those of us with jobs/busy lives/other hobbies. 4 months feels way too short to make meaningful ranked progress, especially since you get reset an entire tier with each new split. It feels like I’m spending 90% of the split crawling through low diamond, and once I get back to my previous rank I’m so mentally exhausted I don’t even want to play the last 2 weeks I have remaining.