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For the next Season: stop putting back people to really low elo

Smyrage·1/15/2020, 9:00:00 PM·2 votes·1,268 views

My rank in the previous season fluctuated between Gold 2 and Gold 1 (hardstuck gold lel). In the current Season I started from Silver 4, now currently Silver 3. My promos were unbearable already, lost 8 matches out of 10 due to the worst possible players. I climbed hard just to get out of Silver and finally reach Gold and why do I have to do this again? This might sound arrogant, but personally I couldn't care less about the ranked rewards, I only liked high gold, because I felt that I was playing quality games, even if not every game was a good experience, I saw more reasons to play. Now I'm back to the high bronze/low silver elo again, where every 2nd or 3rd game there is someone inting really hard (at least 1 person) or someone lagging and so on.

Just saying that I will redo this climbing mess again, but if you are reverting my rank back to low Silver once again in the next season, then I will just quit playing the game, because I don't like wasting time only to play either super boring and/or tilting games. In all honesty: why was this rule imposed in the first place? Why can't we just continue, where we left off? Because some bronzies were upset that they are not good enough for reaching higher elos, so instead of them improving, better players are pulled back to their level forcefully?

1 Comments

DemainaNyx1/16/2020, 4:04:00 AM1 votes

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the reason everyone is moved down is because when they reset, they move the Challenger, Grand Master, Master, and Diamond tier players all down to Diamond/Plat-ish. Because of that, all those Plat players would suddenly be facing Challenger players, which is really unfair, so to balance it, all those Plat players are pushed down to Gold, Gold to Silver, etc.

On the positive side though, since you are placed against Silver players, you should win the majority of your early games due to just being more skilled than your opponents, so it helps build up your confidence and makes you feel good about playing.

Now, that said, playing ranked early into the season is always horrible. Everyone starts playing when the new season comes out, even the people who haven't touched the game in months, so you get a lot of players who are rusty as all hell that just unintentionally throw games. Obviously you still have the trolls and inters, but a lot of things are just people making a simple mistake cause they forget how much you need to think in this game.

If you want to minimize the amount of climbing you have to do, it's better to do your first 10 games a few weeks into the season. That way the ranks have settled and you'll actually be facing Silver players rather than facing a Challenger smurf who's avoiding playing his first 10 on his main. I've heard quite a few streamers say they don't play on their main during the first month of the season, and since most have played this game since Beta, they probably know what they are talking about.