Why Does Riot Purposefully Set You Up To Fail In Promos?

JaJankenGuu·9/15/2017, 5:21:58 AM·2 votes·387 views

Back to back ques with trolls in champ select. Banning each other's picks, locking in Teemo jg without a second thought, etc, etc. Me and my premade literally left que for a minute in hopes of the trolls dying down, yet as soon as we qued back up it happened all over again.

The game before my promos? Everything was fine. No arguing, no bitching or whining, nothing.

As soon as I hit my promos? Toxicity.

What gives?

3 Comments

Ariel the Cruel9/15/2017, 8:04:38 AM1 votes

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Not exactly.

The system will not let you advance unless you can prove you're able to play at a higher level. So it will statistically stack the odds against you slightly. Whether that's by giving you lower MMR team mates, or higher MMR enemies (affecting the team average). If you're on a winning streak, the system will try to force you back to 50% win rate. This also results in higher MMR enemies / lower MMR allies. Neither of these systems purposefully give you "bad" allies. They give you enemies that are statistically better than your allies.

If you're on a massive winning streak and in promos... RiP.


Also. When match making tries to make a balanced team, it will average everyone's MMR. That means pairing the best player in a group with the worst. This isn't unique to promos though; just some perspective. Being in promos means your at the highest MMR tier for that division. So all players will either be a higher division, or worse than you.

War shrike 979/15/2017, 10:19:48 AM1 votes

Think about it this way: The enemy team is just as bad. So just destroy them on your own. If you can't do that then you are just as bad as your team.

Mordepool9/15/2017, 11:42:23 AM1 votes

YOU have to be the difference between the win or loss. What's so hard to understand