9wins-1loss in promos and bronze 4 AGaIN!!!

travishunna·1/22/2015, 5:57:42 AM·4 votes·1,140 views

I cant believe this elo hell is real! i just won 9 straight games in a row for the new season and it put me RIGHT back in bronze 4. seriously RIOT..i was bronze 4 before the ranked stats reset, played amazing all day won 9 games in a row.. and right back to bronze 4!?? why do you hate me RIOT. i play with my silver ranked friends all the time and saw silver ranked players all day with the borders and icons and we won, consistenly, all day. i cant believe how you are screwing my account like this riot, not acknowledging my improvement at all. i am seriosuly upset with this. fix it.

12 Comments

Go the Spoils1/22/2015, 6:05:01 AM3 votes

I believe rankings are done with MMR, so yours must have been low to start with.

COWmanLord1/22/2015, 6:37:52 AM3 votes

To start it off I feel you pain man, but I think I figured out why you placed so low despite incredible success. Now one key thing about the provisional is not only how many times you win, but WHEN you win. You were bronze 4 before and because riot mentioned how they expected many people would end p placing slightly lower than where they were before with some of there changes to the system the game probably started you off at about a b5-b4 level in your provisional. This where the timing of your wins comes in. According to your match history you lost the first game you played. This is important because it means that you starting mmr is very low now. The other 9 wins affected how far away you got from that starting point, but because of that first game and the reset it meant you basically started at the very bottom of the ladder. Riot also tried to fix the issue where people would get a lucky win streak that put them way ahead of where they need to be. This means that each win is going to advance you less than it normally would in the old system. So you won 9 games, but because you started at the bottom of the ladder, and each win gets you less you ended up in an unfortunate scenario where you do not advance much at all. There is a bright side though. It should be very easy for you to get out of bronze given your record so far.

You clearly have been winning at your current level. Having a 9 win streak at this level clearly means you should be placed higher. If you really do play at a higher skill level, then you should be able to continue this win streak. My brother placed silver 4 last season, but made it to silver 2 in less than a week because he won every game in silver 4 then succeeded in the promos and skipped silver 3. If you can continue this win streak then you will be out of bronze in no time.
You seem to have a solid main. Overall your 9 wins were all with leona. Having a champion you main will ensure you can consistently do well in your games, because you know what you need to do with that in champ in the situations you end up in. By not playing whatever is FOTM you don't have to worry about learning new mechanics all the time.
You play support. I commend you for actually doing this. There are so many people in bronze who cannot support at all, and they are frequently the biggest cause of losses at that level. I recommend you stick with that role at least until you get to silver. It should get you some easy wins as many supports have no idea what they are doing.
Finally, If players who are silver appear in your games and you are b4 then you should get incredibly high amounts of lp for winning.

I wish you luck in your future games and hope I do well in my provisionals which I will be tackling this weekend. The support role got me out of bronze last year, so I hope it does the same for you.

Onegarion1/22/2015, 6:14:39 AM3 votes

You really shouldn't have put Lolking up here because it explains EXACTLY why it happened. Look at the LK score graph of how it change. You went from 907 (which is really low) to 838 in the end of december and stayed there until right before the reset. You had a VERY SLOW increase from 833 to 870 (where it is as it was last recorded) in almost 2 weeks. Thats a lot of stagnation and shows very little growth at all since you are still lower MMR than you were back in Mid-december at 907, where you peaked. Honestly you should feel lucky to actually get where you are considering all things.

travishunna1/22/2015, 6:11:41 AM2 votes

it wasnt without effort! wtf!? i ahve been playing this game hard and improving constantly.. elo hell is real

travishunna1/22/2015, 6:07:40 AM2 votes

apparently MMR never goes up because there is no reason i should stil be in bronze after this big improvement. i was good like this last season too but was stuck in elo hell.. elo hell is REAL!

Axxuka1/22/2015, 6:07:02 AM2 votes

It's a soft reset. There's only a low chance you go higher then you were. Technically they could have put you Bronze V since it's a RESET (it lowers the ELO) and the placement doesn't matter as much as before. That just means that when you were Bronze IV you deserved lower (lol) and now you're a real bronze IV !

I went from Gold V to Silver IV stop crying already. If you are good, Bronze is a joke to get through. You deserver your place if you think Elo Hell is real. I'm not even scared of my silver IV, I will go back to silver II-I in a jiffy and work from there like last year.

travishunna1/22/2015, 6:05:17 AM2 votes

http://www.lolskill.net/summoner/NA/travishunna/champions

here is my lolskill

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/49065149#profile

here is lolking profile

i play with good people all the time and am better than them yet they get ranked silver and lose most of their games.. i just really dont get it RIOT, why are you doing this to me, it honestly just wants to make me quit playing this game if you just want me to think im failing all the time when i actually do good

Durzaka1/22/2015, 6:44:04 AM1 votes

You started with an LK score of 833...

That is so incredibly low. You are absolutely where you belong.

To give you an idea, im Gold V, and i have an LKS of 1519. And that is actually below the average for Gold V.

So no, you arent a special snowflake. You are bad at this game. And the only place Elo Hell exists, is when you finally reach the place you belong.

That said, you played 9 games of Leona in your placements. You are literally the definition of cancer in ranked.

Deep Terror Nami1/22/2015, 6:10:09 AM1 votes

New season placement matches aren't a free pass to skip divisions without any effort...