Change the promo algorithm and remove promo series between regular divisions

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I've played a LOT over several accounts on both NA and EUW. In every single promo series, it's like Riot intentionally makes the games as hard to win as possible. I remember failing my Silver 2 promos two times as a D3 mid / support, simply because I queued for support and couldn't out-carry the blatant inting players that I was matched with. How is giving someone players have 9 losses in a row, going 2/11 in mid AND top, fair in a snowball meta?

Change the algorithm that exists in promos so that promo games can feel fair. At the very least, allow 1 or 2 free dodges in promo series. Why do people insist on picking garbage team compositions when someone is in promo series? I remember getting a teamcomp with 4 ADCs (Twitch jungle Corki mid Vayne top Lucian adc) and me as support while the enemy picked Malphite, Yasuo, Jarvan IV, Nami, Caitlyn. I couldn't dodge the obvious loss (we got steamrolled) because I was in promo, but it could have been avoided with a better-designed system. Conversely an enemy adc was in promo, and his team composition was absolute trash and my team steamrolled his.

Change demotion between divisions so that you can't demote without having 3 losses in a row at 0 LP. I shouldn't be winning an extremely hard promo series, win one game, lose the next 3 and bam demoted again to where I have to win the next 4 in a row to promote (in Plat+). Stop matching promo players with obvious smurfs with 86% winrate on Kassadin, or 67% on Neeko with only 40 games played.

Because I know nobody will actually listen and remove promos between regular divisions which is the best option.

3 Comments

haaaaaaalp1 votes

You get the same bad players in regular games as you do in promo games. No algorythm will fix the fact that league is full of bad players who will end up on your team every game.

Fricknikkrsbro1 votes

you actually get moved up 1-2 divisions in mmr in promos and it makes it harder to carry those bad players compared to carrying players 1-2 divsions lower.

Ephixus1 votes

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you actually get moved up 1-2 divisions in mmr in promos and it makes it harder to carry those bad players compared to carrying players 1-2 divsions lower.

Not anymore.

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