Made Silver 5 How ?

Moopeye·1/28/2016, 5:31:57 AM·1 votes·470 views

I'm pleasantly happy about making silver 5 after my first placement in ranked play. As I have only played normal games before this season. Oddly though I'm not certain how I got there with 5 wins and 5 losses. Granted a couple of the losses were due to trolls that went mia or were just toxic, I tried to stay positive regardless. Of the games won there were some grinders, where the team dug out of serious holes. Didn't expect silver with 5 losses and I'm just curious how an unranked untested player gets silver 5 with basically a 50% win rate.

11 Comments

Juggernaut6281/28/2016, 5:37:14 AM1 votes

If this is your first ranked season, you start with an mmr of 1200 automatically and get placed in low silver. Placements barely affect that. In season 4 I went 4/6 and got silver 4 so...

jaymc11301/28/2016, 5:55:04 AM1 votes

Silver 5 is an average level of play. About 50% above and below. A 5 and 5 showing in initial placements will put you there since 5 and 5 is an average showing. Most players fall significantly after placing at about that level.

Dediguise1/28/2016, 5:55:34 AM1 votes

You're not guaranteed it at all. But it is certainly much easier to achieve when you don't have a bronze mmr from last season. I've never placed below Silver 4. Part of the reason why is because I never fell into bronze.

TaoistMaster1/28/2016, 3:27:07 PM1 votes

to be honest, bronze/silver

not much of a difference until high silver.

Sounds like you are a level headed player. thanks for not being toxic, keep it up!