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Shielding & MMR Tanking. How to restore LP gains?

Sonic Adventure·3/27/2019, 7:32:30 PM·1 votes·1,099 views

Scenario: You're at 0 LP of division IV of any tier, and have a loss streak.

Shielding prevents you to demote from Plat to Gold -for example- for a while.

However there must be some penalty for losing, reasonably.

So, after that loss streak, instead of gaining 20 LP, you gain 12-14, and lose 20 LP instead.

You can't really complain about this, because if there wasn't any penalty of losing at 0LP, it'd be an incentive for people to troll there.

My question is, how do you truly recover that back?

Since there is not a similar scenario where you "keep winning but the LP stays the same". If you win, you climb, so how do you recover MMR after losing at 0LP? Seems really hard. And hoping for a 20 winning stream is not realistic.

1 Comments

Quepha3/27/2019, 7:37:46 PM2 votes

MMR is basically a zero sum system: Just win more and your MMR goes up. This is the number that matters in the long run.

LP is heavily weighted to push you towards the rank associated with your MMR. Just keep playing games and in the long run your rank will hit what's appropriate.