Riot, what's the deal with promos???

Kosm1K·3/18/2018, 11:58:51 PM·37 votes·2,153 views

Every time I'm in promos I get the 0/10 botlane, the toplaner that throws a fit over not getting ganks and decides to follow the jg throughout the game. Practically every single time I'm in promos it feels like a coin flip to see if i get an actual competent team, or people that are tilted off their asses and just want to fight and lose. Every season it gets more like this, every season the climb is harder thanks to teams like this. Am i just expected to solo carry them to prove i'm worthy of going up a division? Seriously what is going on

38 Comments

haaaaaaalp3/19/2018, 12:07:22 AM19 votes

Don't know if you have been paying attention but every game is a coin flip between whether you get actual competent team or players who are tilted off their asses. Promos are just like any other game.

Echo 4193/19/2018, 12:14:55 AM16 votes

silver is like ( holy crap can my team respond to pings .... why is the adc always in mele range .... where is our jungler and why is it a urgot)

Leaf on Bush3/19/2018, 12:08:40 PM5 votes

Maybe its time to blame the players and not the game. The matchmaking cannot predict if somebody randomly decides to throw a game or suddenly plays so bad that it looks like he would throw/troll games. Inconsistent player performance is the problem. Maybe there was a dude who played top lane to plat and read on the boards that ADC/support has way more influence and requires no skill/knowledge, so he proceeds to play botlane thinking that he could do so at plat level. But he has no clue about match ups and what to expect, because too lazy to actually learn first. Result: insane amount of mistakes and bad plays, no chance for the team.

Another issue is autofill, not autofill per se but players who can only play one role and refuse to learn other roles for the cases when they get filled. And let's make this clear, you will get auto filled and you just have to deal with it. Period. You have to learn all roles anyway, because you can't get teamwork if you don't understand how the other 4 work. So maybe they dodge, which would then be the more reasonable decision if you absolutely can't play your assigned role, but then you also often get player that are like whatever I just play this and they are then essentially doing what I said first, randomly throwing games, because of refusal to learn.

Don't expect the matchmaking to fix that, it's the players and their attiude. Stop giving them excuses! They need to stop and learn their fucking roles!

The more team focused the game becomes the heavier this behaviour will impact games, because you just have to rely on decent team mates to some extent. Basically players that don't want to learn no longer have a place in League of Legend, they are toxic for the game. Incompetence destroys the game.

Echo 4193/19/2018, 3:01:38 AM4 votes

my advice is just an opinion of mine, follow the summoner code and do what you can to ward and ping effectively depending on your position. as a Shaco main ill tell u [slayer-pantheon-thumbs] NEVER GIVE UP , DONT FLAME AND OPEN MID , DONT AFK AND DONT TALK TO FLAMERS! [sg-kiko]

Fuhrer Usagi3/19/2018, 12:17:48 AM3 votes

So essentially silver. I hate silver. You can play the best of your ability and win your lane,but your team will probably feed or your jg doesn't help leading to you losing anyway. So fustrating. At this point I would rather be in bronze than Silver.

ViciousSummoner3/19/2018, 3:37:28 AM3 votes

Rito gains sustenance off of your tears. They're secretly reptile people who have existed for billions of years and have continuously harvested the sorrow and agony of other creatures to continue to live.

Right Arm Strong3/19/2018, 3:29:48 PM3 votes

Simple, you won 4-5 games in a row to get in promos and rito drags you down to 50% wr so next 3-4 games will be cancer.

Just Fight3/22/2018, 2:04:53 AM2 votes

This is getting EXTREMELY annoying! 4th game in ONE DAY! Where I have trolls who go AFK and start flaming before level 3. I literally get 20 LP then lose it right away because of this over the past 2 days. I'm about to give up. Oh I'm 5-0-1? Bot lane is 0-15 before 10 minutes...

Fack you Brad3/19/2018, 2:47:33 AM2 votes

I feel like the superstition that when you go on a win streak, you go on a loss streak to maintain the 50% WR plays a role because ideally we go on a win streak and get into promos, and then the loss streak hits :(

Disasta6663/19/2018, 8:09:26 PM2 votes

riot doenst do shit to fix there broken matchmaking and they even ahve the audacity to put out posts about there mathcmaking games shouldnt be a coin flip and if someone is bad to the point were the 0/10 just in lane phase they should automatically get demoted riot has to do something because rranked isnt even competitive anymore. they are more worried about reworking champs instead of fixing there game

SparklingLama3/19/2018, 11:34:04 AM1 votes

JUST had this last night. Can post games that prove Top and Bot on one game feeding and the other Jungle and Top feeding. I honestly dont get how i get matched with pathetic garbage players ever promo but when its just for LP grinding up i dont get dumbasses. Took three weeks off to maybe play again normally but this garbage game isn't throwing anything convincing.

Echo 4193/19/2018, 12:52:25 AM1 votes

really its about moderating your salt lvls

come off a bad game ? go watch something to make u smile.
i live in gold and i do it in around 20 games sense ses 1 diamond 3v3s the stress isnt worth the toxicity

Saezio3/19/2018, 12:09:33 PM1 votes

A tip is to always play your promos with a duo and always during either school hours or times kids don't play. You would be amazed at the games difference between saturday afternoon and wednesday morning.

ÀIpha3/19/2018, 2:13:17 PM1 votes

Same dude, Same. I failed promos into plat 4 almost 3 times in a row due to feeding bot lanes. 0 6 caitlyn, last season diamond lol. Karma who died 11 times ect. Obviously it's just bad luck but I swear it's only when i'm in promos.

Kairoptra3/19/2018, 2:16:24 PM1 votes
Danni Chimes3/19/2018, 2:45:30 PM1 votes

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Every time I'm in promos I get the 0/10 botlane, the toplaner that throws a fit over not getting ganks and decides to follow the jg throughout the game. Practically every single time I'm in promos it feels like a coin flip to see if i get an actual competent team, or people that are tilted off their asses and just want to fight and lose. Every season it gets more like this, every season the climb is harder thanks to teams like this. Am i just expected to solo carry them to prove i'm worthy of going up a division? Seriously what is going on

Real talk though

GripaAviara3/19/2018, 12:29:08 AM1 votes

I dont know really, had 8 fucking promos like this in a row at S3 for S2. That's 16 games. 1 of them i was the problem, but the others there was 1 lane at least that went on feeding rampage. I was hit by desperation and almost made me unistall the game. But then had a very hard game, lucky won and got away. I dont know what the fucks wrong with promos

Dukues3/19/2018, 4:09:39 PM1 votes

I get this in 2/3 of my games so don't see your point lol. Jk yea I hate promos but meh their just more games.... this games mming never been good doubt it every will be. God this game so boring these days hate myself for still playing it.

Echo 4193/19/2018, 12:12:50 AM1 votes

in promos i always pick a busted champ and rock it hard , dont ever expect help cause league players have a memory of goldfish... il get to gold being greedy.

UnoGetGoldELO3/19/2018, 6:38:45 AM1 votes

You´ve to stop looking at promos as something special and play just like anyother ranked game , ranked anxiety is whats holding many if not most people back from performing at their usual level.