It's been here for some time now, and not even once before have I seen someone complain about it. But a couple of days ago someone critized it, and all of a sudden everyone does it?
It's always like this on the Board, people jumping on bandwagons. None complained about Riven before. Suddenly one person did, and now everyone does it?
Marshbouy4 votesPromos and series and stuff are just ways of artificially increasing the elo grind. Everyone knows this and has known this for a while. Ranked, on a game by game basis, is a coinflip. Only over a multitude (10+ games) can skill really start to show. Promos say "fuck that, get a win streak or get fucked."
Issues come in waves on the boards. One of two people will complain about something, get a lot of attention, and then people start to copy/people realize it's an issue.
The "reeeeee promos" posts have been coming on and off for years. Trust me, I've been here for four years.
Kalikain2 votesEven if you lose promos, your next promo is +1 win, and if you lose that one, your next promo is +2 wins. If you cant climb with that, idk man. Maybe climbing isn't what you need rn.
Marshbouy2 votesSomeone with a 60% winrate can still repeatedly lose promos due to poor luck. The system is pointless and only serves to lengthen the grind. There is no reason to have it in place.
Kalikain1 votesThere is a reason, this game isnt a coinflip like all the butt hurt master stuck streamers/youtubers scream. Promos are there to stop people who arent worth of climbing. When you are in your promos, your mmr is close to the next tier, and you'll be playing with the next tier. If you can't stay in it with them, then you need to improve and stop crying and begging for free climbing. They already will give you free wins in your next promo. If you are too good for you elo, it will skip the promo already. ITS ALREADY A THING. Its only for people who are already too good even for the next tier. Theres no conspiracy with riot trying to keep you down. It's you who keeps you down.
Marshbouy3 votesCongrats, you completely failed to prove your point.
Assuming promos don't exist and I get to gold, I'll play against gold players. If I can't hold my own against them, I will demote to silver once more. Promos don't do anything except lengthen the grind.
FeministAreRight1 voteson one of my accounts i failed plat 4 promos 6 times (season 7) and still skipped plat 4 when i finally did beat them, i had a 85% wr and it was 65% when i beat them. you can lose them multiple times but it really doesnt matter.
in my case every single time i went 1/2 6 times thats 6/12 overall + 1 win to get back into them which is another + 6 then finally when i did beat them it was a +1 to get into them and clean 2/0 so overall 15 wins 12 losses
what did it matter if i beat them or not? my winrate wouldnt have changed overall it still would have declined if i didnt get the 12 losses in promos i would have got them at some other time in my climb. there isnt some losing curse for promos, and if you didnt have promos there wouldnt be any protection after ranking up.
its a common misconception that climbing is a direct correlation to rank its the furthest thing from the truth, its the mmr that matters
if you have good mmr you will climb extremely fast, usually skip divisions sometimes completely forego promos in general.
Kairoptra2 votesOh don't worry, PLENTY of people have complained about it in the past. I guess you just missed it was all.
Silly Neeko1 votesSure, some here and there have made a comment.... but currently it has reddit-mob-squad written all over the current upset. Possibly after a streamer had made some passing comment about not liking promos and then THIS happens.
This isnt a bunch of people going "oh hey, you know, you are right!".... this is within 2 maybe 3 days it has gotten so bad that the only thing that it COULD be is that there is a bunch of sheep that have 0 clue what they are talking about blindly following their "glorious leader".
ESPECIALLY since after about 10 minutes a post about it got 20 upvotes. Even Laughing Fish does not get that many so fast.
Kalikain1 votesIt's because there are hard caps to how far people can climb without actually improving. Everyone hard stuck wants the ez way out and to remove promos. Bad top laners want to remove riven because she easily punishes mistakes.
TrikzterzArma3 votesIt's because there are hard caps to how far people can climb without actually improving. Everyone hard stuck wants the ez way out and to remove promos. Bad top laners want to remove riven because she easily punishes mistakes.
Riven is broken though. Her win and pickrate shows that
Kalikain1 votesShe only has a good win rate in plat and above. She also counters every other top laner in meta right now. None of her true counters are meta. It's honestly only her itemization thats making her good. Spear + conq, without either she'd be back down to 47% win rate in plat.
PolarEclipse1 votesFrom what I've seen, most people complaining about promos seems to be bronze,silver or very low gold players, but I don't know, it feels like people have a really weird ranked mentality.
That being the super focus on the "climbing" part and not "playing the game" part, it feels like people are staring blindly at the rank and nothing else.
Jamaree1 votesDidn’t they add promos because people complained about people just getting lucky and going on win streaks and ending up in places they feel like they didn’t deserve, just another thing people forgot I guess.
Silly Neeko1 votesThere was a DoT Esports ad put up in google in recommended about removing promos. I pretty much see copy and paste what it says as an arguement and nobody can explain as to why.