Came back to the game since launch

I played the game at launch with some friends for like 2-3 weeks, then stopped. Just came back, heres my thoughts:

For context, I play League of Legends, just ARAM, but got to masters in ranked.

I like the game, the mechanics are simple and rewarding, the pokemon are pretty unique. I like the fast games and how much fighting there is.

However, one thing really surprised me and is turning me off of the game…ranked.

This is the first season I’ve played through. I climbed from veteran to Ultra 2 and just saw my rank reset. Ranked is a complete slog. I was thinking that once I’m in masters, I can get draft pick, and enjoy hopefully higher quality games. Didn’t even get there…

so I have 30 days to play roughly 100 games to get to Masters, and then finally enjoy the high rank for what, a week?

I suffer through constant AFKs, double center (somehow I always end up in the solo lane), defenders who go off and split push or solo objectives just to die, a player base that doesn’t know how to play MOBAs, just to get my rank reset? Yes it resets in other MOBA’s, but there’s at least an MMR system so your early season games still feel similar to before.

I assume the subreddit has dedicated players, I really want to know, what keeps you playing ranked? Do any of you spend most of the season is Masters+?