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Season 6 Ranking Placements Explained

KyroRayne·2/4/2016, 4:51:16 PM·4 votes·3,797 views
The 2016 ranked season is now live!

As many of you have noticed and have expressed concerns about, your ranking in Season 6 is roughly one full tier below last season.

Some of you feel betrayed that you went 6/4, 7/3, 8/2 and still placed in Bronze from Silver in the last season. This is because of the soft reset that was implemented. Those of you who did well in your placements will notice that if you finished Silver 5 last season, that you started Bronze 3. That's 2 full divisions above the others who fared far less.

Preseason brought some substantial changes to the game (learn more about preseason here), so we’re again running a soft reset before placements kick off. As with previous years because of the soft reset, you’ll likely place lower than where you ended last year.

Ranked isn't supposed to be a stagnant place to get borders, skins. It's supposed to be a place where you can show that you've bettered yourself, a place that you have to climb to maintain, and a place that you're not content with just always being Bronze, Silver, Gold, Plat, or Diamond. This is meant to push you to go farther than you did the past season without you starting in the same exact place as you finished.

Why should you start in Silver just because you finished there? What motivation do you have to get back to that point or surpass it if you're already there?

You should always strive to do better than you did before, strive to prove yourself every season, and strive to show that you deserve your rank.

If you think that you should be Gold, prove it. If you think that you should be Plat, prove it. If you think that you should be Diamond, prove it.

Put in the effort to get there. Complaining about matches won't do anything except show that you make excuses for why you can't make it. It is a team game. Yelling at your teammates for mistakes won't help them learn. If you think that you know better, then coach them. Don't demand that they do things your way just because you say so. You have to explain things RATIONALLY AND REASONABLY.

Apologize for your mistakes. Don't make excuses for why you're losing lane. Ask for help politely. Don't demand it or yell at other lanes. You have to show that you want to be better than toxic players who bring the game down.

Yes, there will be trolls, AFKs, RQs, and players who are having bad games. These make having a good game difficult, but you want to have fun while playing. If you turn this game into a chore, you'll start to hate it and complain about everything.

Have fun and prove yourself this season, KyroRayne

12 Comments

Swïft Hïkarï2/4/2016, 4:54:19 PM4 votes

I keep posting this thread because people keep complaining. It just will never stop. Everyone wants things for free now :/

Blu Avenger2/4/2016, 6:14:05 PM2 votes

This is the most stupid logic I have come across, of corse people should feel aggrieved. What you idiots and the idiots at riot don't understand is that this game has so many factors, and mmr is based on such a weak system which only determining factor is win/loss. A lot of peoples complaints was the fact they have to play 10 placements games to be put in bronze anyway. Stop trying to justify wrong, the only way we are going to get a decent reliable system is if we pressure riot into change. Halo 2 had one of the best most competitive rank systems and something like that needs to be implemented, this game is big now to have such a degenerate ranking system.

Dukues2/4/2016, 6:29:31 PM2 votes

Players just like to bitch. If their losing its everyone else fault but their own.

supersonic22/4/2016, 6:38:12 PM1 votes

does anyone play amumu or udyr

Alunnite2/5/2016, 1:51:15 PM1 votes

I'm fine with this reseting thing. I got places in B2 last night which was higher that I expected. What I don't understand is how I went 7/3 and there is a guy also in B2 with me how lost 9 games pretty hard and didn't have much impact on their winning game. Then a friend got the same win/loss and got placed in S3. It's not that I did badly in my games either. I think I got mostly S- ranks, and a few A ranks. Obviously my losses gave me lower ranks but my performance and impact on the games was solid. Plus at least one placement was lost because of an AFK troll.

Like I said I placed higher than I thought I would, but it seems so inconsistent.