promos are so tedious and unecessary and it literally punishes you for climbing hard. its literally "hey u grinded hard to reach 100 lp, but instead of promoting you, lets give u a 5 game guantlet with the worst possible teammates" carry they said. 0/6 teemo first promo and next game top feeds trynd.
+1
Also remove demotion shields along with this.
Agreed its punishment for playing well.
Dude I decayed out of diamond and in my promos to get back they put me vs at least 4 Smurfs in one game. One of which was a Challenger streamer and the other was fukin yassuo.
Meanwhile half my team was auto filled and zero smurfs.
We had a chance cuz Moe is a dirty inter but the other smurfs hard carried xd. d4 promos actually harder than d3/d2 ones.
Luckily I still made it cuz I went vs hashinshin the next game and he's even more of an inter than Moe is...
Entire promo was unnecessarily difficult and basically rng.
but those team mates mmr were equal to yours..... sooo.....
They should remove it up until Diamond+ tbh. Lower Elo shouldn't matter as much because teammates aren't as dependable.
Agree, promotions are garbage waste of time. And I think it breaks the balance on the elos.
gods please yes. I lost one game and demoted and had to win 5 games in a row to get back to where I was. what a grindy waste of time.
That would also mean removing demotion protection, 1 win you're up, 1 loss you're down.
Stop crying, u don't know what is pain. I just lost 8 promos in a row, and will lose another one probably. Thats real pain and frustration.
I agree, at least between divisions.
Isn't Promos just technically an RNG- "Threshold"?
Like, in the back-end I'd say it works like this: You get to 1000 ELO (just a random number here) and based on whether you get to 1075 (+/- 25 Elo per match) in the next 5 matches decides whether you get to call yourself "Plat" or whether you are going to lose all the Elo collected during these 5 games and more than that.
That basically sounds like Poker to me. Especially if your Winrate is 51% or something even lower, the chance that 3 of these 5 games you are going to play are the winning ones is so low, despite you winning (with a tiny margin yes) more than you lose.
Well, thinking about it this way, it sort of requires you to be an excellent player in your current division to climb up, to make sure you can stuff 3 winning games in there. Seeing it from this perspective makes sense again.
Rigth now Teamfigth Tactics has a more sensible ranked system because of this.
The game is 10 years old, but we still have to deal with the stupid promo thing that doesn't really probe anything.
