Preseason brought some substantial changes to the game (learn more about preseason here, so we’re again running a soft reset before placements kick off.** As with previous years because of the soft reset, you’ll likely place lower than where you ended last year.**
Promos for accounts that have been in say Silver 1 for the whole season win 6/10 get placed in silver 4 when new accounts never played ranked win 6/10 get placed in silver 1 !?!?!?? plz tell me
Uh englando plz?
In all seriousness, you are placed based on your promos and your play in previous seasons. This includes your MMR which new players have to generate from scratch. This means that they may (and that is a big may) place higher, but that they will have larger MMR shifts allowing them to drop faster. Also they have to do really well in placements to get S1.
This combined with the prevalence of smurf accounts is part of what contributes to a glut of players being stuck in silver and below. Basically if you place in bronze, and remain in bronze, you are better off making a new account. That being said if you are good and persistent you can climb effectively.
