What is the highest a brand new account can place after winning 8 provisionals?

sunamcm·1/25/2019, 8:32:59 PM·1 votes·2,888 views

I recently leveled up a new account (not this one) and won all of my 8 provisionals with soaring performances in every game. However, my final rank was bronze 3. Is this supposed to be like this? Before I could get placed gold or even platinum. I did read the ranked update patch notes where they said new accounts would be seeded towards the bottom but this seems a bit too much.

13 Comments

ModKnightsKemplar1/25/2019, 8:54:59 PM1 votes

I don't know why it would be too much... they should treat new accounts as new people, imo. No need to cater to smurfs. If you're really that good, you'll climb quickly anyway.

Malix Farwin1/25/2019, 9:08:16 PM1 votes

That's normal now. it doesn't start you in silver/gold anymore because of how miserable fresh 30s were making silver/gold games feel before they fell to bronze. Now instead it starts you from the bottom but gives you a ton of LP/makes you skip divisions if you are good enough.