Why does Silver 5 have to be the worst ELO to get out of?

Kyoia·2/21/2017, 10:23:43 AM·4 votes·2,040 views

I started this season in bronze 3 and climbed to silver 5 with a 60 percent winrate. Now I'm having games where half my team is bronze 4/ unranked and the enemy team is silver 2/3. Is my winrate up to this point causing my MMR to be so inflated that I have to solo carry games to win? I'm also getting autofilled MUCH MUCH more than I did during the time I was climbing out of bronze. Why can't riot start everyone at Bronze 5 if they've never played ranked before and calibrate from that number? I've had more unranked people in my silver 5 games now compared to ALL of the games I played in bronze.

WHY RIOT WHY.

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Chønklord2/21/2017, 10:28:46 AM2 votes

I feel you. I was S2 a week ago, then got a bunch of trolls/feeders/afk'ers and generally idiotic people that give up within 5 minutes. Now I'm S5 and its hell. I keep getting to S4, then demoted.

grug2/21/2017, 10:37:28 AM1 votes

probably because silver 5 is the easiest division to get into l0l.

i was 0-10 placements on an account in season 5 and 6, and got placed silver 5 both times.

This season i tried playing azir with a completely new level 30 on 290ms ping for 10 games of placements, unfortunately i lost them all because the champ is very difficult to play with high ping. The result of the placements was silver 5 lol.

BALDG1VEN BOOMER2/21/2017, 3:40:45 PM1 votes

It's how ranked is suppose to be you're going to have win and lose sprees because the system is designed to make you stay a float at a 50% win rate.

PS "I have to solo carry to win" is a bad mentality you should get yourself out of.

worldHD122/21/2017, 6:09:02 PM1 votes

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I started this season in bronze 3 and climbed to silver 5 with a 60 percent winrate. Now I'm having games where half my team is bronze 4/ unranked and the enemy team is silver 2/3. Is my winrate up to this point causing my MMR to be so inflated that I have to solo carry games to win? I'm also getting autofilled MUCH MUCH more than I did during the time I was climbing out of bronze. Why can't riot start everyone at Bronze 5 if they've never played ranked before and calibrate from that number? I've had more unranked people in my silver 5 games now compared to ALL of the games I played in bronze.

WHY RIOT WHY.

It's because the beginners wich are fresh accounts they all are like 75% Low Silver, they need to win only 2 - 3 games in placements to get Silver 5 or 4 so they dont have the player experience and the game knowledge better.

Bronze > Low Silver (5 - 4 - 3) . A bronze player means that he isn't doing that well or he has a "last season MMR". Silvers are 75% or even higher full of beginners and last season golds and rarely beginners who climbed from bronze to silver .

Believe me or not, Silver 5 / Silver 4 and Silver 3 is easier to get than Bronze :)

Quepha2/21/2017, 6:17:17 PM1 votes

Bronze 4 players say Bronze 5 is the worst elo to get out of Bronze 3 players say Bronze 4 is the worst elo to get out of Silver 4 players say Silver 5 is the worst elo to get out of Plat 2 players say Plat 3 is the worst elo to get out of Challenger streamers say Diamond 1 is the worst elo to get out of