Why do i always lose my promos

Malaborath·Oct 7, 2015·4 votes·7,446 views

I win every ranked game, but the second i get into promos i get matched with autistic monkeys why the hell does this happen?

6 Comments

JacknifeOct 7, 20151 votes

There's a law of averages in the game's mmr system. 40% of games you're statistically set to win, 40% for the opposite, and 20% that your play actually becomes a factor. The system is set up to keep everyone at a balance of 50% win/loss ratio as best it can. What promos do is test your mmr to see if you deserve to climb by making it harder for you to win, by actively working against you and making your teammates somewhat worse, and your opponents somewhat better. Basically in promo situations you have to be better than everyone in that game combined in order to hard carry. If you're winning around 50% of you're games though, statistically you won't break through, and set yourself in the promo loop of win 1, lose 2, win 1, lose 2, with small variations of this. You might be good enough for the next rank, but since you're around 50% anyway, the system won't let you climb due to the law of averages. Only way to break it is to just get good real quick and make the 20% where you matter count, which is kinda bullshit seeing as how its forcing you to be the shining star next to a bunch of black holes. All I can recommend is to study up as best you can and practice if you want to get better, and improve the attitude a little bit. Even if your teammates are "autistic monkeys", its better not to actually type it.

OUINNOct 12, 20151 votes

That makes a lot of sense, but then it's not only that you lose promos, you drop to 0lp extremely fast after you those promos. This happened to my friend once, he was in Silver 3, and doing really well, then he gets into promos 8 times, but fails them all, and ends up getting demoted to Silver 4. It seems like promos is just a gate where they don't let you pass. Same thing is happening to me, I was on a roll with wins, get into promos lose my first game, win second, then lose third and lose the whole promos, that happened to me 3 times; as in I lose 3 promos in a row, and now I'm on a losing streak which is honestly really frustrating. Not limited to but I seem to get more self-centered people who only care about their kda, fuck with you when they lose lane ( eg. coming into your lane taking cs or just plain AFK) or just people who actually AFK because they're raging or even from the start.

TobeymAgMay 24, 20191 votes

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There's a law of averages in the game's mmr system. 40% of games you're statistically set to win, 40% for the opposite, and 20% that your play actually becomes a factor. The system is set up to keep everyone at a balance of 50% win/loss ratio as best it can. What promos do is test your mmr to see if you deserve to climb by making it harder for you to win, by actively working against you and making your teammates somewhat worse, and your opponents somewhat better. Basically in promo situations you have to be better than everyone in that game combined in order to hard carry. If you're winning around 50% of you're games though, statistically you won't break through, and set yourself in the promo loop of win 1, lose 2, win 1, lose 2, with small variations of this. You might be good enough for the next rank, but since you're around 50% anyway, the system won't let you climb due to the law of averages. Only way to break it is to just get good real quick and make the 20% where you matter count, which is kinda bullshit seeing as how its forcing you to be the shining star next to a bunch of black holes. All I can recommend is to study up as best you can and practice if you want to get better, and improve the attitude a little bit. Even if your teammates are "autistic monkeys", its better not to actually type it.

This is so backwards and such a way to tilt people. Then Riot wonders why players get salty and 'toxic' obviously we would be if we are losing because of factors outside of our control? Why the hell am I spending so much time trying my best if the game will determine when I ought to win or lose?

alasarcherOct 7, 20151 votes

Because you know match is important to you and every mistake throws you off course and you see everything bad that happens as your teams mistake. Also since its very important match you dont make risks you would usually make and dont commit into fights. You have to treat promo game like any other game. If you are talking about your game with Trundle, if you look closely, you were one with most deaths, least farmed. You havent even upgraded your trinket and for 42 mins game you should have placed at least 25 - 30 wards, or buy sweeper to deny vision to enemy. I can see that you have pretty good score with Malphite. I suggest you stick to champion you can play and not experiment in promos with devourer trundle.

Spaceman5pffOct 7, 20151 votes

In short for both of these other replies: You overthink your promo games and the result of that is you tilt yourself. I do it too. It is frustrating and difficult to fix.

DolorDeusSep 8, 20181 votes

I am at the same situation (G1 supp main trying to get to plat)- im on average winning 2 of 3 ranked games. yet when i got into the plat promo (3 times) i ALWAYS lost the first three gmaes right away- with players likee 1/11 tresh mid, 0/8 karma top, 2/12 illaoi top. It got frustrating after losing it three times in a row. As a supp i cannot hardcarry. Advice?