Each 5 game promo series to the next league should come with a free dodge tbh

Honestly, Riot talks about how they don't want ranked games to feel stressful. Some people hate the promo series entirely and while I agree that they do bring some anxiety, I think having them allows us to have perks we'd otherwise not have (grace period games that don't allow you to automatically demote, it being hard as hell to demote from leagues etc).

That said, a 5 game series is what you must play to rank up to the next league. This brings the most anxiety and stress of any other series. With 5 games, there's a lot of shit that can go wrong. Your client could crash (it's happened to a lot of people actually), automatically kicking you out of your series, you could get an extremely volatile champ select that riot often encourages you to dodge (but you can't in this scenario), then the average champ select trolls etc. In normal promo series games to next divisions, this is frustrating too but I only have to win 2 games with 3 games max, which makes it feel less anxious when it happens. But with 5 games, you always get that feeling that each game freaking counts, even if you elect to look at as more opportunities, you still have to win one more game than usual as well.

Some people would say this isn't fair or leaves the system open to abuse for someone dodging if they don't get a comp they don't like. Know my response to that? So what, I think if you've managed to climb an entire tier, you should be awarded a grace game to throw away like that. Not to mention you risk losing your dodge game for something that could still be winnable instead of having it available for the chances of client crashes, bad champ select experiences etc. I'd suspect most people would actually use it more cautiously than that.

So yeah, roit pls