To preface, I’m a Plat II peak player. I maintained my rank through most of Act I just fine. Some wins, some losses here and there but for the most part I felt plat was equal parts fair and challenging.

Since Act I I have deranked from Plat to Gold, then Gold to Iron II after a short break, then ranking up from Iron II to Gold, only to fall back down to Iron II again and climb to where I am now.

Over the course of playing this game I’ve experienced:

1. Five red screens.
2. Countless wall bang one tap headshots.
3. 180 degree headshot spray transfers.
4. Three different Reyna teammates who I’ve observed & could see blatant “magic gameplay” through spectator cam.
5. One instance of a spinbot. (Game not cancelled.)
6. Two instances of invisible players defusing the spike. As in: the spike ring starts going up by itself and no one is beside it.
7. A small number (haven’t counted) of ESP sellers promoting their sources in chat.
8. Two different teammates (both playing Omen) glitching below the map in Ascent to get free, uncounterable kills.
9. And finally just now, two players on the enemy team glitching out of bounds on Breeze B to ensure we can only play on A, then four stacking on A. The Yoru and Breach would take turns switching between who abuses the bug and who plays with the rest of their team.

And countless other suspicious players who may simply be smurfing in low ELO.

I just don’t understand how erratic the ranking system can be to allow me to rank up to Plat II, then fall all the way down to Iron II, and yo-yo me all over the ranked ladder. At some point, Riot need to address their anticheat system and implement kill cam & match replay features yesterday.

I know it’s nigh impossible to post on this sub decrying magic players without being punished or drowned in a tsunami of “I’m X rank and I’ve never seen one single hacker in my whole career,” but I thought I’d vent my frustrations and open a platform to hear other people’s experiences. I do enjoy a good bout of feeling sorry for myself.

Experience: Reached GN2 on CSGO a while back when I was new to shooters, and quit for Overwatch, where I hit high Masters 4 times and normally play around high diamond/low masters.