When to do provisionals?

SilkMoon·Feb 1, 2016·1 votes·813 views

Hi I was wondering if when you do your provisionals makes a difference in where you’re ranked. If so, when should I play? Reason I’m asking is that I was silver in season 4 and I started playing ranked towards the end of the seasons and I went 7/3 in my provisionals in season 5 which I did at the beginning of the season and got placed bronze and the climb was a real pain in the butt. Also everyone doing provisionals right now is getting placed in bronze and its reaaaalllly scary because bronze is not a happy place to get stuck in. Someone please explain I’m getting different answers from my friends lol. I already know that eventually when you play enough you’ll get placed back to silver, but I’m kinda terrible at carrying. THANKS :D

7 Comments

DissectionsFeb 1, 20161 votes

I would do them right now before you get stuck with people that are actually under your rank.

SilkMoonFeb 2, 20161 votes

Thanks for your input! But what if I get placed bronze and then I can't climb since I'm facing golds and then I can't climb later in the season because my team will be full of bronze people and I can't carry because I main support? (That's what happened last season T_T)

K54Feb 1, 20161 votes

After a few months, a lot of players will be back up to their normal ranking. The diamond players will be diamond again, the plats will be plats, etc. You could get placed higher if you wait for that to happen or at the very least, it will be easier to get back to silver since all the other silver players will be in silver already. So you will be playing actual bronze players instead of silver1/gold5 players to climb back up.

PrometheSFeb 1, 20161 votes

i'm going to do them when they have real rankings up

dynamic que doesn't seem logical for ranking since you'll have many guys on the same ladder playing totally different games

Pawn of heartsFeb 1, 20161 votes

new years

SilkMoonFeb 2, 20161 votes

As in right before the next season?

Pawn of heartsFeb 2, 20161 votes

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As in right before the next season?

its a joked.

but you should start in the mid season, it will give you time to climb and the state of the game is stable. as for who you are versing I don't know; because riot never official said anything on this case. don't start it too late because you will place in a very bad position even thought you do good in placement match etc.

if you want to reach plate give yourself 3 month in advance, before the season over. if you want to reach gold get yourself 2 month in advance, before the season over. well it depends on how much you play, if you're a casual or hardcore player who play 1 - 10 game a day than that should be enough.

if you play like once a week; you should start as early as possible.

if you really want to climb the ladder all the way to and extreme level like master/ challenger you should start NOW!!!