Make it so that promotional games are ONLY going from Silver to Gold, Gold to Platinum etc....

Arch Mage Magnus·Oct 8, 2014·12 votes·1,139 views

It's a real pain in the ass to get constant AFK's, feeders, and just flat out disconnects during promotional matches. I know it happens on normal games, and thats OK, but when you only have a few games to move up, it's such a headache. I've been picking away at promotions forever now, because I ALWAYS get an AFK, or disconnect in those games that matter.

Please just make the promotional games be for tier advancement Riot.

9 Comments

JamareeOct 8, 20142 votes

While this doesn't help in the slightest, just think of all the games you won because of afks, it helps me calm down a bit at least.

RaptameiOct 8, 20143 votes

While this doesn't help in the slightest, just think of all the games you won because of afks, it helps me calm down a bit at least.

Winning because of an afk and then losing because of an afk doesn't change your rating but you just wasted two hours on useless matches.

Arch Mage MagnusOct 8, 20141 votes

While this doesn't help in the slightest, just think of all the games you won because of afks, it helps me calm down a bit at least.

If people AFK.... sure it happens, not much I can do about it. It's when they AFK during my promos that it angers me the most. Sure I get wins when my opponents AFK, but who cares if they don't do it during my promotion games. Seems to happen so much that it almost seemed staged by Riot.

"Oh, 2 people in a promotion game.....hmmm, lets disconnect one of them, so that individual is guaranteed to play a little longer in that tier".

If you get the wins, you deserve the promotion through the ranks. However if you want to advance to the next tier, than it makes sense to have promotion games to feel that accomplishment. This really has me not playing ranked option, feels like I am jumping through so many hoops, when a ton of them are out of my control.

People say to carry, however I am a supp main. I do very good as a supp as well. However if other lanes lose..... not a whole lot I can do aside from stun people for my team, and soak damage.

Just hope Riot looks at this for the upcoming season. With the new Master tier, something needs to change.

Why such madnessOct 8, 20141 votes

logged out so I could spam logged in to upvote

3ngin33rOct 8, 20141 votes

I don't understand the need for promotions when MMR already affects LP gains

RagnarokChuOct 8, 20141 votes

Or we can remove all AFKs and DCs from the game instead of removing promos only to still have AFKs and DCs.

aWildFizzAppearsOct 8, 20141 votes

Get better and carry harder early, and people wont afk as often when you're winning.

McDestinyOct 8, 20141 votes

Huh, I might actually play ranked more if this were the case. As is, it's way too much work to put into something when it can be totally ruined by an unlucky afk in a few games.

deathTouch2kOct 9, 20141 votes

The stupid thing about promos is that in order to get to the promo match you are required to win >50% of your games assuming your MMR is roughly aligned with your current rank. However once you hit your promos, regardless of your MMR, you are required to win at least 66% of your games within a short period of time (3-5 games) irrespective of your MMR.

Thus, as far as I can tell, it's theoretically possible to continuously fail your promo matches yet have a rising MMR due to your >50% victories outside of promo matches, making winning your promos even more difficult by placing you against comparatively higher competition during promo match.

Not to mention that once you do get promoted, outside of the 5th divisions, if you lose a string of 2-3 games (another very small sample size), sometimes to things outside your control like trolling, AFKing etc, you get demoted, resulting not only in the losses incurred but an additional penalty of 5-6 games as your LP is dropped, requiring you to go through the whole tedious process yet again.