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Finished Silver 3 last season, then got placed silver 5 and nobody knows why I got placed so high

Killerjays··1 votes·725 views

I know it is normal for people to get dropped a whole rank, in my case, usually it would be from silver 3 to bronze 3. But instead I got placed in Silver 5 with a 4-6 win loss record and everyone I know is jealous/mad at me, what could of possibly happened for me to get placed super high compared to last seasons rank??

Here are my 10 ranked game placements

Game 1: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2696019541/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (0-1) Game 2: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2696711530/231988775?tab=overview (Victory (1-1) Game 3: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2696708623/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (1-2) Game 4: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2697587986/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (1-3) Game 5: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2697616388/231988775?tab=overview (Victory) (2-3) Game 6: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2697653621/231988775?tab=overview (Victory) (3-3) Game 7: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2697681607/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (3-4) Game 8: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2698145425/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (3-5) Game 9: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2698196531/231988775?tab=overview (Victory) (4-5) Game 10: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2699100072/231988775?tab=overview (Defeat) (4-6)

6 Comments

Rester1 votes

You always get placed lower than you were the previous season. It's been a thing for a while.

Killerjays1 votes

Read the actual post, I got placed higher than most people do, usually I drop a whole rank from my previous season's rank (season 6 silver 4 going into season 7 I got placed bronze 4)

but I only dropped from Silver 3 to Silver 5

PhantomGG1 votes

Honestly last year was an actual mess, we had diamonds being placed in silver and plats and golds placed in bronze, no clue what they did to the math last year, but it was by far the worse placements riot had ever done. The community was very outraged about this, and high tier youtubers even made fun of it, showing how easy their ranked games were and one sided they were since they were diamond playing against silvers. My assumption is riot acknowledged they fucked up and heavily modified the way placements functions for the better.

Killerjays1 votes

Oh yeah, I forgot they did a HARD mmr reset last season compared to this season being a soft mmr reset. That really was a bad experience going into my first official season

Mysticman891 votes

It's all mmr based and doesn't actually care about your final rank per se (rank usually catches up to mmr quick enough so it's usually close enough to talk about ranks), so most likely you were silver 3 with a relatively high mmr.

Losing a full tier is more of a rule of thumb so peoples expectations are realistic, but it can vary a few divisions too, again depending on your mmr and the mmr of those who happened to be in your placement matches (you're generally matched with similar mmr people since that's the point, but depending on queue times and/or duos sometimes you can face slightly higher/lower mmr people and it can impact your placement by a division or so).

Killerjays1 votes

I saw a lot of gold 4 people in my matches, and I noticed that my losses dropped me to bronze I mmr, but whenever I won, I would sky rocket back to Silver IV mmr, and it just kind of evened itself out at Silver V.

The difference in play those first 10 games was HUGE compared to the elo I was living at last season for a couple months (Silver IV). So I guess beating gold mmr players was able to get me back to silver elo this pre-season.

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