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Why I Hate Ranked - Episode 1

JustaNewb·4/22/2018, 7:24:40 PM·1 votes·741 views

Okay - so one of my accounts had wound up hacked due to my ex-wife's new boyfriend finding one of the notebooks from work that had all my old passwords in it. Fine. He knocked my account down a bit in ranks, managed to get dishonorable, and apparently chat restricted. Talk to support via live chat - solved the honor issue, the chat issue, reset my punishments (had never been punished before), and I went about my merry way.

So, despite the fact that I have had zero interest in playing ranked since season 1, where I was platinum, I decided that I was -not- going to have a silver border after years of having no border... I mostly just dislike the color. I set off to fix my rank, at least to platinum, wherein the colors get decent again if I have to look at it every load screen.

  • Win 3 games in a row
  • Lose 1 game
  • IP is now LOWER than before I won the 3 games

What the hell sort of system is this? At this rate I can win 3/4 games, for ever, and I will never budge in rank, in fact I will eventually be demoted. There is no reward that I could ever possibly want, especially since all but one of the ranked skins has either been hideous, or a copy/paste of an older skin with updated coloring. Considering the simple odds of getting trolls, or AFKs, in my ranked games... I can play until the end of season and I will stay exactly where this guy wound up putting me.

You wonder why people troll in ranked? Honestly? Zero reward, and at a certain point it stops being about your skills as a player - locking you in to a bracket for the entire season with a mysterious 'MMR' system that is never fully explained, nor can you check on.

4 Comments

Kairoptra4/22/2018, 7:27:54 PM1 votes

This sounds like a bug. As someone who plays Ranked on a regular basis, that honestly makes zero sense. I'd suggest submitting a support ticket.

KlydeFrog4/22/2018, 7:48:28 PM1 votes

You sir have a low mmr is why

LightIsMyPath4/22/2018, 8:10:27 PM1 votes

Your mmr is very very low. Keep playing, maybe do some duos with someone with a high mmr and eventually you'll find yourself with the same mmr of the rank you are in. At that point you'll start earning the same LP as you loose and can start rising. A friend of mine was high gold last season, trying to get plat. Towards the late season I once found her in my enemy team (silver 3ish mmr) and I was like WTF. She explained she had experienced a really bad loosing streak , dropped to gold 5.. And stood there despite keep loosing. Her mmr had tanked like a truck but she wouldn't be demoted to silver 1 due to protection and the fact that once she untilted she actually won more than lost. So there she was earning 10 LP and loosing 27 (!!). Eventually she intentionally dropped herself into silver , and kept dropping until silver 3 despite having a positive winrate in the period. Her mmr ( who she estimated around silver 5 value when she was stuck in g5) increased due to the wins while her rank was decreasing slowly and eventually she started earning and loosing normal amount of LP and got back to her gold 2 in a month (she doesn't play a lot due to work)