A request to add starting as Bronze 5 as an option

Circosys··2 votes·483 views

With the recent start of season 5 it seems more and more players are being placed into Bronze than many of those players expected. Some of these players may have been Silver, or even low Gold. I have personally come to the conclusion that I will most likely be placed in low Bronze. Ok, so why should I play 10 "important" games when I know better players than me are placing low Bronze? Also, with Bronze to high tier rank streams becoming popular, it is really fair to the people who unknowingly play with this people during their prelims as they tank them to purposely get Bronze?

Alright, let's cut to the chase. I suggest adding in the option to start at Bronze 5 at the very bottom of the ladder, or do your prelims and see where you end up. Personally, knowing I am going to get Bronze, I would rather use those 10 games to climb my way back to Silver (or higher, but not likely haha). And it would allow streamers to not tip the scale in a negative way for their team just so they can be placed Bronze. Thanks.

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NoobLearninGame2 votes

Yeah if there are those intentionally losing games when others are doing their best to rise in rank, or to get the highest they can in their preliminaries, and it's just so they can climb the ladder from the bottom, Riot should probably create a means for these people to play at Bronze 5 if they wish without costing other people games.

Serevas1 votes

They actually started punishing people for intentionally throwing games for the purpose of getting bronze intentionally to do a climb stream. As to why they force you to do the preliminary games it's because they want you to have the chance at placing higher, frankly you never know you could get lucky and win all of your games and get placed higher, you could win a lot of them and all, there's always that chance. I went 4-6 in my preliminary matches last season and was certain I'd get bronze, but instead got silver 4. So it's always worth it just on the chance. I do get where you're coming from though on wanting to just get it over with and start the climb instead.

Circosys1 votes

A Vlad my friend played with last night went 8-2 on his prelims and still got Bronze. I think having the option is a good compromise, you don't have to punish players who want to start at bronze and therefore tank a game intentionally, and those who want to try to start higher can do prelims and see where it takes them. I got silver 5 after prelims and I never made it to a promo series, in fact I probably should have been demoted to B1. What I'm getting at is I may have gotten to Silver on luck, and then struggled, and wondered how I earned my way in. Any high tier player want to look at my match history and tell me I should be placed higher than Bronze without sugar coating it? I would rather be honest with myself about my skills, and have that option to start at the bottom and earn my way up.

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