A small update to LP: LP over cap

So one of the most tilting things for players, is when we are playing ranked, and mostly ranked and we get to that horribly dreaded 85-99 LP mark. This is a very annoying mark, for it makes one feel like, they have to play 3 promos games instead of 2. it's even more so extremely annoying when you reach the 95+ mark.

But why does it feel bad? Well as I said, it makes you feel like you have to do 1 extra promo game than you were suppose to. You have to work extra hard, because a unlucky train of events led to you being just short by 4 lp. Scenarios like -the team comp was literally beyond disgusting or toxic, so you had to dodge -You had a bad losing streek, but just worked hard to fix that and now your back on the right track, but your lp games are still pretty bad. -for some god forsaken reason you got 19 lp one game and 20 for the rest and now your at 99.

Regardless something happened, and here you are at 95 Lp or something close, and it fucking sucks.

But here is anothing reason it sucks. Let's view League of legends like a job, and LP as money, and promos as some drivers license test or something.

To take the drivers license test it costs you 100 dollars (let's say each lp point is one dollar).

You work for riot games, and after every game you win, riot rewards you 20 dollars. (so thats 20 dollars a hour). So essentially it takes you about 5 hours to work up for enough money to take your test. However, here is the one annoying thing about the test. They don't give you back your change. So you had 95 LP, your short five dollars, and had to work one more hour and you earned 115 dollars. Riot is not giving you that 15 dollars back. they just keep it. Let's assume this happens a bunch of times, for it actually does. Riot in total has probably stolen 100 dollars from you in a time frame of a few months.

What am I suggesting? I am suggesting that Riot actually gives you back "your change". So let's say you were at 95 lp, you get to 115 for your promos, let's say you win your promos, riot will give you 15 Lp to start with, when you enter the next division. That way, over capping on LP doesn't feel so bad, and you feel like you actually got something out of it, and not cheated to do extra work for the same reward. That way everyone is doing the same work for the same reward.

What do we get out of this system? -Players no longer look at 95 LP as a utter annoyance, but instead as a chance to get a head start in the next division -Smurfs and good players will climb faster, so now climbing is easier and bad players don't have to endure good players for to long -Less excuses, for over all it's a new advantage being given to people to climb, and they now have less excuses to not climb.