Why ranked games are soo hard at the begining of the season?

ursachio·Dec 28, 2016·1 votes·586 views

Ok so season 2017 starded a month ago or something .... I was gold in last season and now im silver III. For me ranked games are very hard now!!!!!! Last season i climbed very easy from silver to gold but now im losing a lot. Its because at begin of the season its harder or why?****

6 Comments

MarshbouyDec 28, 20162 votes

Because the ladder has yet to be sorted.

DreadlocksDec 28, 20161 votes

this^ I had 2 plat accs and my main is still silver 4 lol.

dominusxDec 28, 20161 votes

because they aint. elo is inflated as fuck. why do you think most of the top challengers atm usually drop 50-60 places by midseason. Or alot of people in diamond 1 drop to d3-d4 you just need to spam games and get a little lucky and you climb.

Its LiuKangDec 28, 20161 votes

I have at least 4 plat friends, not plat 5 talking mid and upper plat, that got placed in silver or bronze. So you have to be able to beat all of the people that needed to climb higher as well.

Judge StevenDec 28, 20161 votes

All the ranks got shifted down approximately one entire tier (besides masters+ players) because of the reset. Give it another month or two for people to get closer to where they belong and ranked will be back to normal.

VekknaDec 28, 20161 votes

It's not just you, and it's not just that the ladder is compressed around the silver range.

I ended last season around plat 3 and placed into silver 1. Then I failed my series to gold 5 six times, and four of those had 2 free bonus wins.

The simple fact is that the game is horrendously imbalanced right now if we're judging balance by the standard meta. Jungler influence is off the chart. Bot lane gets steamrolled between lvl 6-8. Then everyone rotates mid, so mid has no laning phase either.

But the junglers and top laners keep farming, so you end up mid game around level 11-12 with the winning jungler and top who are level 13-15.

If you're a mid/sup main, you have less influence than you did last season or the season before - unless your jungler snowballs you. In other words, you can play exactly like you did last season, and you will have less impact on the outcome of the game.