Hard Resets In League of Legends Ranked Games

Greenbanana·Jan 27, 2015·1 votes·831 views

I decided to make this post to hopefully get an answer from Riot about why there is not a hard reset of ranked MMR for the start of the ranked season. From my understanding of the way ranked games work right now is your previous seasons MMR effect your CURRENT MMR for getting points to climb. I'm not sure why it is done this way. If you played the game from S1 and your skills have improved in the game, using previous seasons averages can be damaging to your current skill level. I feel that your Win to Loss Ratio should be built fresh in ranked EVERYTIME the ranked stats reset. It gives a more realistic approach to seeing improvement of your personal skill. Again, I only think this should be done with Ranked MMR not Normal games. I'm sure there is probably a reason for this, I just wanted to read it from the source. Thanks.

4 Comments

AbominateJan 27, 20151 votes

A) It only takes your MMR from the last season, so your S1 MMR means nothing B) A hard reset would send you to silver 5 MMR, you think that displays your skill? Not at all

ValyrianBladeJan 27, 20151 votes

Well theoretically your s2 mmr had your soft reset from s1. Your s3 had your soft reset from s2 which in turn had input from s1. Induction leads to s5 having part of its mmr determined from s1.

Anyways, to the post topic: A hard reset would be detrimental. The first month or so of the season would see diamonds and bronzies in the same game and overall really unbalanced Games. Your individual mmr from placements would become completely random as even a challenger could never hope to carry 4 bronze players against a team of 5 golds And plats. On top of that, your ranking at the end of s4 is still very much so an accurate representation of your skill level at the start of s5. I think a soft reset taking half of your current ranking and adding it to half of the average is more than generous to low ranked players and more than punishing to highly ranked players. Of course, I understand the complaints of people going 9-1 and getting placed in bronze 5... Really I think the system should move you up a lot faster in placements (e.g. You should never play more than 2 matches in the same Tier if you're winning, so at worst 9-1 should be WWLWWWWWWW resulting in B5 B5 B4 B5 B5 B4 B4 B3 B3 B2 for bronze 2, and possibly only 1 match in tiers resulting in b1 or s5 placement).

Anyways, what I think should happen doesn't matter. Riot wants a soft reset to ensure Games are still matched relatively okay while giving people in the dump a chance to improve quickly and people up high need to work hard again (call it incentive to keep playing).

GreenbananaJan 27, 20151 votes

I see what your saying, but honestly the issue is not so much climbing the ladder as much as being held back by it. Like I said there is a point of playing ranked games where I get to winning 5+ games back to back (which you know as a league player is a lot of time spent playing), to end up losing 80% of points earned for one loss is pretty counter productive. Counter productive in the sense of not seeing consistency in wins, and everyone that is anyone knows that no matter what you do you get games with toxic players. Something needs to be adjusted.

GreenbananaJan 27, 20151 votes

I don't know how you figure that. I finished Silver first season gold second and Plat my last 2 seasons and it has done nothing for my current season as far as being positive. A hard reset would not send you straight to silver 5, that would be determined by how you placed in your 10 matches. What I'm talking about is the Amount of points you receive or lose based on previous seasons placements. For instance, this season since the previous season I placed into Plat... all the way up until I hit play I will get 20+ points per win and only lose like 12. At some point I will hit a wall ( like i did the previous season) where I can win 3 matches in a row and get like ~25-30 point....BUT I will lose like 25-30 for 1 LOSS. Only 1 LOSS. What I am saying is that if you are truly getting better at this game and playing better you should have no problem climbing the ladder with no previous stats. A true sign of improvement rather than basing it off an old season. That's why what you are saying does not make sense.