Demoted even with protection

LazinessEvolved·Nov 12, 2018·1 votes·1,131 views

As stated. Was at Gold 5, 0 LP. I checked for the presence of ranked protection and it was there, red exclamation mark clear as day. So I joined a game with my friend. We lost.

Demoted to S1.

So here i am on the last day of the flipping season frantically trying to get my rank back up for season rewards that I had earned, until the UI lied to me.

This is a bug. Your UI improperly displayed that my rank was protected. I would have not taken that ranked game if I knew demotion was even possible. Your UI said it was not. I believe that regardless of whether I succeed to re-promoting myself, the S8 gold rewards should be mine.

12 Comments

MíelláNov 12, 20181 votes

There are 2 Things if ur at 0 LP.

Yellow: You can lose as many games as you like, you wont get demoted.
Red: You lost too many games. Lose some more times and say good bye to Silver, Gold, Plat, etc.

Since you said that u were on red, its pretty obvious why you got demoted.

LazinessEvolvedNov 12, 20181 votes

The text on the popup was plain as day. Protected from demotion. Troll elsewhere.

MíelláNov 12, 20181 votes

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The text on the popup was plain as day. Protected from demotion. Troll elsewhere.

You said it was red though.

LazinessEvolvedNov 12, 20181 votes

The text on the popup said what it said. Protected from demotion. For that to not apply to the game I queued for is a flat misrepresentation.

MíelláNov 12, 20181 votes

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The text on the popup said what it said. Protected from demotion. For that to not apply to the game I queued for is a flat misrepresentation.

Read what it said, but carefully. I showed you the 2 screenshots.

MíelláNov 12, 20181 votes

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The text on the popup was plain as day. Protected from demotion. Troll elsewhere.

http://prntscr.com/lhk48d Did it look like this?

http://prntscr.com/lhk4id Or like this?

LazinessEvolvedNov 12, 20181 votes

Photo one, red triangle.

Text clearly says "you are being shielded".

I've done this before. I check my profile and screen before every game I queue if at 0 LP so that I know what to expect. Never before have I gone into a game with that flag active, lost, and been demoted. Only this time, on the last day of S8.

It's a bug based on that text. It isn't ambiguous at all.

LazinessEvolvedNov 12, 20181 votes

"You are being shielded".

How is that at all unclear as to the effect of the flag on my profile? You're either shielded, or not. If I had all the information, that a loss could demote me, I'd not have queued ranked. Period. I was essentially tricked into participating in a queue by the UI's false claim that my rank was still protected.

And now I get to fight the matchmaker to see if I can rip a 5 or 6 game win streak since I lose 23 LP a loss but gsinu13 per win. At least I have the free win if I can get to series.

MíelláNov 13, 20181 votes

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"You are being shielded".

How is that at all unclear as to the effect of the flag on my profile? You're either shielded, or not. If I had all the information, that a loss could demote me, I'd not have queued ranked. Period. I was essentially tricked into participating in a queue by the UI's false claim that my rank was still protected.

And now I get to fight the matchmaker to see if I can rip a 5 or 6 game win streak since I lose 23 LP a loss but gsinu13 per win. At least I have the free win if I can get to series.

You're being shielded but are critically close to being demoted because you have lost too many games to maintain your current rank. Winning more games will prevent you from being demoted.

Now look at how it said "but are critically close to being demoted".

It doesn't go away the more games u win, it warns you that, if you lose more games, you get demoted. Win more games to not let that happen. That's my last answer, if you still don't understand it, then that is your problem.

LazinessEvolvedNov 13, 20181 votes

And your inability to parse plain English in the tooltip is your problem. Get lost, troll.

LazinessEvolvedNov 13, 20181 votes

Gotta love the try hard trolling in here. I'll await Riot's response to the bug report. This is a very misleading UI element. Crow all you like, but the fact is that bad UX is bad UX. "You are being shielded" isn't a fuzzy statement. It indicates that you need to win more before that protection becomes unneeded, but the protection is still active. Yet every time in the past, so long as that was displayed, a demotion didn't take place. This is the first time I had ever been demoted from any rank with that still visible. It's noteworthy, regardless of your attitudes towards my literacy or skill.