New ranked accounts should start in bronze

sirfuhkstain·6/13/2016, 3:43:02 PM·5 votes·669 views

I started ranked last season, got placed in silver and didn't go anywhere. This season i started bronze 3, ranked to silver 2 but i keep running into new worst players than when i was playing bronze. MAINLY because all of the newly ranked players get placed in silver making it the real bronze and difficult as fuck to solo out of. If you have a basic understanding of league, you won't be in bronze for long. It's unfair however people are getting placed higher with lower skill because they made a new account. My shitter friends that don't even care about getting better abuse this by making new accounts and ranking them One of my friends even got an account to Gold V doing this!?!?

9 Comments

Critmaster Garen6/13/2016, 4:17:18 PM3 votes

the only way to fix this woul be to go back to season 1/season 2 ranked system, where bronze elo started where silver 1 is about now and have everything below count as unranked.

riot decided they wanted to make everyone feel good by giving even the crappiest of players some sort of rating, and basically invented a medal for being the worst of the worst of the game, by making the lowest divisions bronze.

otherwise, the 10 placement games decide where youre going. and the truth is, that the average skill level of a completely new player who just got through his placements is probably somewhere in silver.

Oldwisepotato6/13/2016, 3:48:57 PM1 votes

Yea its ridiculous. New accounts starting mmr is waaaayyyyy too high. My cousin got placed into gold 4 last season............................................................. Ofcourse he dropped down to gold 5 0 lp and quit playing. But still got those season rewards. Somehow he lost account info and had to make a new one and this season his placements did not go as well and got placed in low silver. Now he is stuck in silver 4. Now he understands why I was so pissed last season when he got placed into gold 4. The climb is real and you need to learn the game. People should not be given handouts. Especially since a vast majority of players are in gold, silver, bronze. Each division is like 5% or more of the population. Those ranks should mean something, and by having new accounts with such a high mmr it really hurts the meaning behind low elo ranks.

Dedrius6/13/2016, 4:01:49 PM1 votes

That doesn't make much sense. When I first started playing I was placed in silver 5 and climbed to silver 2ish where I stayed for a majority of the first season I played. Saying everyone should be bronze to start is saying that all players have the same skill once they reach level 30, which is not true. Someone who leveled their account playing only Co-op vs AI is going to have a different level of skill compared to someone who only played Summoners Rift and should not be arbitrarily placed just due to it being a new account.

Also then even more low elo players would complain about smurfs, as most real smurfs place in gold anyway and do not bother the players in bronze/silver.