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Season 9 in a Nutshell and what it's causing.

Illabethe··9 votes·1,463 views

[img]https://i.imgur.com/s63jwJ9.png[/img]

See this? This account ended Season 8/Preseason Mid Silver.

Each role placed Bronze II-I

I have went through ONE Top Promo and ONE Support Promo.

I want you to look at my win rate.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=illabethe https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/243999882

If you want to see more.

I'm basically an account in Bronze I ....... who is just slaughtering everyone else there.

Even with a 69% Win rate, I'm only getting 19-27 LP a Win. (One game had 27. Most 19-20)

I've mentioned this in a few threads today, but I thought maybe a picture might illustrate a bit more.

For the record, I'm a Season 6-8 Diamond II who has a secondary account that just spams "Fill" on his smurf to try to learn new champs or occasionally play with a few friends, and find new ways to play old champions. I generally let my "Average" play float around high Silver-Gold on this account, so gaining isn't a problem, but by now I should be harassing High Silver/Golds, not Bronze....... Notice the 48 games in ranked and barely half a rank gained?

5 Comments

TheUrbanKitsune1 votes

Yeah, ranked is just fucked overall rn, tbh. The placement thing is pretty normal-- I personally started a whole rank down from my previous seaon's rank at the beginning of provisionals and so did pretty much all of my friends. So that much is to be expected, rank resets. What isn't ok is the SUPPPER low LP gains that I'm seeing tons of people complain about. It just doesn't make sense why they're so low for some people.

Illabethe1 votes

I haven't seen "Low" LP gains yet. But I'm also beating the average. Occasionally..... specifically where I am Supporting, I'm getting 26-27 LP a win.

And, I'm also Queuing "Fill" which gives me more LP for a Splash (5-6 vs 3 if you choose a role), so my bars are filling up faster than the average player.

If they are getting low LP, I'm pretty sure their overall win rate is negative. They're just telling you their main.

The biggest problems I find are simply this:

-Something they claim to be fixing in 9.4: When you reach 100 LP via Splashing, Promotions are NOT unlocked. You have to win another game to get there. That means if you play more than one role, expect to have to toggle 120 LP effective for a Promotion, not 100.

-The fact 4-5 roles takes so long to raise all of them. I'm easily Plat I on jungle, Diamond II on support, and Diamond IV on Top, Diamond III on Mid. My main account is only Plat IV -III right now. Do you realize how long that climb is going to be when it's competitive? My win rates up there are only about ~ 52-57% depending on the role, so leveling 4 ranks is insanely hard. This low account at 69% is skittles compared to that.

TheUrbanKitsune1 votes

I haven't seen "Low" LP gains yet. But I'm also beating the average. Occasionally..... specifically where I am Supporting, I'm getting 26-27 LP a win. If they are getting low LP, I'm pretty sure their overall win rate is negative. They're just telling you their main.

Yet. I was getting on average 28 LP up until i hit my promos into Plat 3. I skipped Plat 3 and went right to Plat 2 after winning like 5 games in a row. And for no reason my LP gains shifted down to around 22 LP, despite having not lost any games recently and having around a 67% win rate. They've gotten even lower recently since I've hit Platinum 1, around 18 LP per win and -18LP per loss, though I still maintain an above 50% wr.

My friend is facing a similar issue, but he has it even worse. He's a high diamond level ADC main and has been only receiving around 15LP per win at Diamond 4 for no apparent reason.

So many people on the boards are talking about it.

There's no way its a coincidence.

-The fact 4-5 roles takes so long to raise all of them.

Hard agree on this. The LP issues combined with the new position ranks is just awful. Makes it not worth trying to climb on anything other than your main role, honestly.

Illabethe2 votes

I have a theory that maybe not raising other roles is WHY your LP is diminishing. Maybe the system drags down the main's LP if there is too large of a gap between nonmain and auxilery roles. Too bad we can't experiment on this front without really risking account status.

TheUrbanKitsune1 votes

Thats actually a really interesting idea. I wouldn't be surprised.

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