Series Hell: Fact or Myth?

thePandev·5/1/2015, 7:40:12 PM·3 votes·1,221 views

Do promos purposely match you with ''worse'' teammates?

Or is it just a myth we believe true and put in our heads and coincidentally end up with more trolls in our matches?

Just curious because holy shit sometimes comparing a normal ranked game to a promos ranked game is like apples to oranges. It sometimes is that bad.

Any thoughts on this? Have reds previously stated that promos are indeed harder or just a coincidence?

25 Comments

KingSlayz5/1/2015, 7:44:46 PM3 votes

I know exactly what you mean, i played my promos for silver 4 8 times in 3 days. Every time i got into promos, i get the biggest trolls or people rage and afk. item 3070

Lugg5/1/2015, 9:56:24 PM3 votes

It seems that way, but it comes down to statistics. If you had enough wins to get to a series, you "used up" your good luck getting good teams and then get the inevitable "bad luck" and end up with the afk'ers and feeders. The best way is to carry a couple crappy teams into the provs and then have the odds in your favor for a good team. Hopefully that makes sense.

Neo Cyrus5/2/2015, 4:36:23 AM2 votes

I've literally never had a promo match that wasn't absurd in terms of either how troll it was in general or how hard I had to carry. In all of those I was the only one in my promo series, naturally.

It definitely matches you up with worse/more toxic/troll team mates for promos, it can only happen so many times in a row before it's more than just a coincidence.

Centuros5/1/2015, 9:35:57 PM2 votes

In a perfect world, everyone on both teams would be in promos...

The Bíg Ticket5/1/2015, 11:56:35 PM2 votes

Its a myth people use as excuse because they are not good enough yet to advance.

TotalJerk5/2/2015, 8:05:51 AM1 votes

I recall reading that the win rate of players in their promos is 47%

GundayMonday5/1/2015, 8:27:56 PM1 votes

Yes.

Dark Trigger5/1/2015, 8:23:19 PM1 votes

You suppose to carry your pornos that how rito determines your league

Very Hard Engage5/1/2015, 9:32:19 PM1 votes

its even worse when you have a very high mmr and you're trying to leave your league but still having to play against players in the next league (win THOSE games to obtain their rank because logic)

Nucleophilic atk5/2/2015, 10:53:27 PM1 votes

Fact. They dick you over.