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Problems with Ranked soloque placements

Arkaneth··2 votes·923 views

Hello everyone I'm Arkaneth and I've been experiencing the same issue I've had in the placements of flex queue with the new soloque that has just come out: two days ago I started my placements after finishing plat 3 (22LP) in preseason, and after having a good run and quite tryharding (I ended my placement matches 7 win 3 losses ) I ended up in Silver 2 with an averege plat 3 elo (1900 mmr according to op.gg). I tried playing some matches and I noticed that I'm playing against all plat 2-3-4 players and after going 1 win 3 losses my mmr seems dropped from 1900 to 1700 (always according to op.gg) so from plat 3 to gold 1 in 4 matches. I'm quite scared to play, and I feel I would lose a lot more than what I win anyways you can check my match history to get proofs of what I'm saying:

http://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=arkaneth

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/22745968

So as you can see on lolking I had an average plat 3 elo and you can see on op.gg when I started my placements (games played 2 days ago) and how I ended up 7w 3L in silver 2. Other thing you can see is the mmr that is shown atm on op.gg is gold 1 after only 3 losses and 1 win from plat 3 mmr that was shown at the end of my placements. I know I'm not the only one having those troubles but I know it's not a very common problem so I hope this gets noticed because it's very frustrating especially because I'm playing league quite a lot lately.

8 Comments

Eedat1 votes

op.gg and the like are literally just educated guesses. With how the soft reset is changing things up they're probably very far off

Dukues1 votes

damn and I was coming here to rage about my placements but I went 2-8 so after hearing this my rank is probably deserved. Gold 3 to bronze 1 :(.

I think they fucked their system up again. No reason you should have dropped to silver 2 going 7-3, plus I have heard of low ranked shitters getting ranked higher than they were per-season (although they didn't specify if it was solo queue or flex). Once again Riot fucked up. Hope they fix it soon. No one should drop more than a tier or tier + couple divisions if you do really bad like me. But no reason someone gold 3 should be in bronze just like no one who was plat 3 last season should be in silver.

B00B001 votes

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damn and I was coming here to rage about my placements but I went 2-8 so after hearing this my rank is probably deserved. Gold 3 to bronze 1 :(.

I think they fucked their system up again. No reason you should have dropped to silver 2 going 7-3, plus I have heard of low ranked shitters getting ranked higher than they were per-season (although they didn't specify if it was solo queue or flex). Once again Riot fucked up. Hope they fix it soon. No one should drop more than a tier or tier + couple divisions if you do really bad like me. But no reason someone gold 3 should be in bronze just like no one who was plat 3 last season should be in silver.

glad to hear I'm not the only one having shitty placement matches it feels like sometimes its 1v5, horrendous placements this year.

Dukues1 votes

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glad to hear I'm not the only one having shitty placement matches it feels like sometimes its 1v5, horrendous placements this year.

the whole 1v5 thing is no joke. I know I am not great at the game but I finally got to a point where I was playing with people who had some idea of wtf to do in mid-late game. Placement games though? Nope... back to the same shit. I call it silver mentality (although it happens at other elos but in my experience its the same thing almost every game in silver). Games close going into 30-35 min range and then team just completely losses focus and touch with reality. People throwing themselves into the shittiest situations dying for no reason forcing 3v5 or 4v5 fights and giving up free objectives because of it. And not like once or twice late in a game... but multiple multiple times. It is so annoying and makes it not even fun to play. Out of my 10 placement games all but like one of them was fairly close going in to the 30 min mark. In my 2 wins I, and multiple teammates got S's because we worked together past the 30 min mark and stomped enemy team. Other games... teammates just ran around randomly with their heads cutoff at 30 min mark trying to force fights or split push and die over & over again giving up multiple free barons and turrets. ....Come the fuck on Riot placements shouldn't change ranks so much. I didn't even have a troll or afk on my team yesterday like other people will get but still go 2-8 being titled/getting teammates who don't jive together or pick shit late game team comps and get stomped.

Every year multiple people get fucked by placements. I usually don't care but I am really mad this year. I haven't started in bronze in multiple seasons and last season was my highest ending season ranked achieved yet. I know I can rank back up but at what cost? Games are going to be random as hell with ranks ranging all over the board. Half the time if I win its stomping someone I was over a tier rank higher than last season so its not fun. Other games its just continuous piss poor play on both sides and unfun because the games are just boring ass clown fiestas where one team throws a little harder than the other.

-End rant-

Karn Bishop1 votes

yeah placements are borked, was sitting in gold, won all 10 placements and got silver 3, now i am playing with plats who are also slotted into silver 1-3.

Anags1 votes

This is the same as every year. Challengers start in plat. What did you expect. It all evens out just forget about your stupid rank and play games.

I was gold 2 last season and even if I were to go 10-0 in placements I would expect to be placed in high bronze or low silver at the beginning of the season.

If you are afraid to play because of your rank then you probably need to re-evaluate why you play the game. Just think about how silly that is.

Dukues1 votes

I am not afraid to play obviously just don't have fun playing games now since placements so random and start of season so chaotic.

Would you or would you not approach a game a little differently if you were playing in gold 2 elo rather than silver 3 elo? Would you play the game the exact same way? Expect the same thing from your teammates? Would you look at your games the same way if you were playing on an average bronze account? I don't think you would.

And that is my problem now. I have no idea what to expect from my teammates or enemies. Not even a guess. Your right I will have to go back to the core of trying hard and having fun and will rank up but games are so boring now. Get a Braum support who goes 0-10 by 20 mins in. Tries to force fights in bot when the enemy adc is items ahead and we already lost the other fights he initiated. That is not shit I had to worry about when my account was between gold 2 & 3. Now I do because that happened 2 games a go. Yea.. if I was a great mechanical Jinx we would have won but it still gets annoying seeing your support continuously die for no reason while your jungler has no idea how to play his champ. Its not even games ending in stomps or anything its just frustrating not knowing how to play the mid/late game since not sure how skilled your team or enemy is.

Your right I am just salty.

Arkaneth1 votes

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This is the same as every year. Challengers start in plat. What did you expect. It all evens out just forget about your stupid rank and play games.

I was gold 2 last season and even if I were to go 10-0 in placements I would expect to be placed in high bronze or low silver at the beginning of the season.

If you are afraid to play because of your rank then you probably need to re-evaluate why you play the game. Just think about how silly that is.

It's since season 1 that I play and I've always had bad placements (4-6 / 3-7) and my account got max -3 divisions, in fact it's called "soft reset". Challengers get plat 1 though their mmr is always higher so they will never be matched with real plat 1 players. Moreover I spoke with some friends playing and they went like 4-6 and got placed plat2 from diamond 4 and stuff, there's no doubt the system is broken atm. I'm quite afraid to play because I know in flexqueue they fixed it (in fact I got placed right the same way as my solo, from plat 4 to silver 2 and after the fix it sent me directly gold 3) and if I play having let's say a 60% winrate against plat players who are recognised as silvers, my mmr would drop drastically and my fix match would send me on low gold or stuff so I pref not to play for now on this account

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