If you are lower even if you win all placements, whats the point?

Miirik·1/17/2018, 5:04:05 PM·3 votes·325 views

Well?

"You will start lower, even if you win all your placement matches"

then whats the friggin point of placement matches?

6 Comments

Malix Farwin1/17/2018, 5:11:58 PM2 votes

to reduce how low you go?

Escheton1/17/2018, 5:23:40 PM2 votes

Winning increases your mmr, which means you get more LP from wins. Making you climb faster. But you still need to climb, even if its just a division. You can't just coast by. Riot wants an active ranked scene, and they will enforce it.

RenownedWheat421/17/2018, 5:05:12 PM1 votes

Some people start higher.

Eedat1/17/2018, 5:08:18 PM1 votes

To clear out the cesspools that form at every V division

Verxint1/17/2018, 5:19:31 PM1 votes

It's way to artificially increase the sample size the matchmaker has to work with before it assigns you a division. Otherwise your rank and LP gains/losses would swing wildly for your first few dozen games.

hater free zone1/17/2018, 5:55:16 PM1 votes

I only won 3 of my placements but it put me in gold 3 anyway lol