How to lower MMR without losing Gold

Illivashi·4/3/2017, 11:47:56 PM·1 votes·440 views

So as I explained in my previous post, I had a G2 MMR while I was S1 (2 days ago) and faced plats in my gold promos and am still facing plats now that I am in Gold 5. I definetely enjoy the challenge, and the plats keep asking me if I have a main account (which is this G5) and add me after. However, I would also enjoy getting the proper rank with it. Op.gg says I will skip 2 divisions in my next promos but that's another promo series against plats and I get the feeling climbing would be so much easier if I was facing other gold top laners that I would crush. How do I lower my MMR without getting demoted from Gold 5?

3 Comments

Thrëat4/3/2017, 11:55:10 PM2 votes

Honestly it is pretty annoying when you are constantly almost a full tier higher than your rank. My S1 smurf had G2 MMR, did my series into gold, got Gold 5, had G2 MMR, skipped to G3 after having to play series, now G3 with P5 MMR. If you are climbing consistently it seems like you are always lagging behind where your MMR actually is. I wish there were measures in place to make it so you can catch up to your actual rank faster. I obviously don't care so much since it is just a smurf, but I can understand how it can be frustrating to be one rank while going against a much much higher rank.

They made it so you can skip divisions, but skipping the promos all together should be much easier. If you are able to skip from Division 5 to Division 3 it shouldn't need you to also do promos to do it. I also think demotions should be faster/swifter, but that is a whole different story.