I was told from friends who play they put you in your first 10 rank promos with bronze/silver and throw you to the wolves (playing against enemy teams consifting of gold,plat and Diamond) and see how you fair, if this is true im never playing rank.
Yaśuo Main2 votesits not actually true, but thats what happens when the game notices you play insanely above the level you were placed at.
Brönze VII1 votesso if I play at gold level before rank, I can be instant gold? on first promo?
Yaśuo Main1 votessorta, if u play at that level and the game thinks you do then yes. sometimes it can get wonky
Mysticman891 votesFirst matches your mmr is very sensitive. You start at 1200ish mmr, corresponding to silver 4ish, and so you'll play players at around that level. If you win that match, your mmr goes up some, so you might play again in a silver 3ish match. If you win again, you'll be in a harder match and so on. If you win all 10 solo, you're likely to be playing with golds at the end.
You can rig things slightly if you have a high mmr friend to duo with so you can play harder matches for greater mmr gains, so for example challenger smurfs sometimes duo with high mmr other smurfs and manage to place plat 5 even on a fresh account. Even in that scenario they won't face diamonds on a fresh account though.
Note that your teammates are going to be of a similar mmr in each match as your opponents, so if you actually are winning those matchs due to your own skill things should remain relatively fair.
Brönze VII1 votesREEEEEEEE
so I need a friend who is not bronze V:Failed
someone I know with higher MMR:Failed
Find a discord and LFG with Gold/Diamond players to DUO:Possibility
VvVVvV1 votesI dont think you can duo a ranked game with a Diamond player as a unranked or bronze, or even silver.....I think its only 1 tier higher or lower.
But i dont duo so i may be mistaken.
Mysticman891 votesAs the other person said, you can only duo with people within 1 tier of your rank (which is treated to be silver for first time ranked people), so bronze-gold. The duoing thing basically requires smurfs who have dodged matches to avoid being promoted past gold, and isn't intended as something you should do, just an explanation for how sometimes you see streamers place really high. Those players are almost always diamond+ though, so will usually be able to hard carry all their matches against gold/plats for an assured 10-0.
I strongly recommend you just solo everything though, at least until you have a solid understanding of what your skill level is. You referred to playing with gold/plat/diamond as being thrown to the "wolves" which makes me think you aren't comfortable playing at a diamond+ level, so you shouldn't be aiming make your placement matches harder.
If you're going solo and just stomping your way through placements and you're like 7-0, then yeah you're probably gold+ material and maybe you would've saved some time by duoing with higher mmr players, but if you're really doing ranked for the first time that is very unrealistic, and you should expect to place mid silver or even high bronze.
VvVVvV1 votesits not true at all.
You are matched according to your MMR.
When you play your very 1st ranked game you will have whatever their starting MMR rating is..whatever that is i dont know. Anyone you are matched with will have similar MMR...no matter if they are Bronze or Silver.
If a player is Silver 5 at 0LP they have to lose a lot of games to get demoted back to Bronze 1.......so even tho they still hold the Silver rank they can have the MMR of a Bronze player and that is why you could get matched with Silvers as a Bronze or unranked.
ive never heard of a player playing their 1st ranked games after hitting level 30 and being matched with Golds and Plats.