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Hey guys, what do i have to do in order to gain more lp

Crystalysk·7/10/2019, 7:46:49 PM·2 votes·2,083 views

this april i came back after almost one year, and started playing ranked just for fun playing literally any champion (never first timing them though).

I had negative win rate obviously since i was still rusty and didn't know how the game evolved (i watch some streams but not so often).

Now i stopped playing random champions and roles and finally have decided to climb properly. Everything went pretty well, got promoted from plat 4 to plat 1 real quick and then my LP gain was something like 23-25 average per win and 13-15 per loss.

Now i recently hit diamond and lost the first 2 games (in one i had an afk and one a guy just griefing another player in my team because of another game - that's ok though sometimes you get the afk and sometimes you win because enemy has one), then i won all my past 4 games and what surprises me is i got 17-17-16-15 LP in this order even though i went from 48% winrate to almost 54% during my climb. I'm honestly wondering if i should keep trying to climb or just let the account there and play something else.

Do I have any chance?

5 Comments

Kai Guy7/10/2019, 8:09:19 PM2 votes

Diamond is looks like its an MMR slowdown for K factor far as I can tell, so LP gains might also be lowered to reflect that.

From the looks of it, you need something like 1-2 division higher MMR to expect Slanted Gains for your LP if it follows similar patterns to the rest of the ladder.

That's my Guess.

K factor is a variable in Elo and MMR used for Account uncertainty. It directly impacts your accounts Elo/MMR Points per match gained or lost and traditionally it lowers for 2 reasons. First is # of games, higher data points lower uncertainty. Second is ladder position, higher Tier proves your able to play at that level so it needs to zero in to prevent lucky breaks making dramatic skill gaps.

Hope that helps.

Do what you enjoy btw. you have chances to climb higher still, it never will lock you out of the ability to climb or sink. It will likely take longer, and even if you do a fresh account there's a very real chance that your just gonna see a slowdown at diamond again due to it likely being a designated location for K factor reduction.

Terozu7/10/2019, 8:04:08 PM1 votes

The higher your winrate the lower your LP gains and the closer you are to your algorithm decided proper rank the lower your LP gains.

Basically you're where the game thinks you should be.

S9 trashseason7/11/2019, 1:14:21 AM1 votes

well if you are a player with good mechanics and game knowledge, play jungle. It is by far the easy way to climb on League of Junglers.

if not, play any other role, and be the first person to do whatever u can to make sure ur jungler wins.