The placement series are messed up.

OrganicT·Feb 10, 2015·3 votes·726 views

Am i alone who beleive that this year the placements series were pure trash? I had to deal with afkers/feeders/verbal abuse during the 10 placements game, i'm usually quiet during my game and i do my stuff, how come during placements, we always get those kind of people ? As result, i won 2 of 10, and dropped from gold 4 to bronze 3... I don't get what Riot is trying to do, but all they are doing currently is ruining people effort to rank up and leave this madness that is bronze.. currently i have problems to pass bronze 1 to silver 5 because people when i get closer to promotions get for some reason, stupid.

All i can say is, this reset was the worst idea and will always be . Really messed up.

4 Comments

GnomeDigestFeb 10, 20151 votes

The funny part to me is this year Riot put out a statement basically suggesting that your previous rank would play a greater role in where your placements put you and therefor the placements themselves shouldnt be as impactful as seasons past. Yet I have watched the reaction from the resets for three seasons now and this one by far looks the most swingy where you have folks that were gold ending up in bronze like the op's case. Being gold 4 suggests that his mmr hadnt plummeted like where some folks just stop caring once they hit gold 5 and live at the bottom of it for the rest of the season.

I wonder if Riots new system is doing what they think its supposed to be doing.

EnvyDragonFeb 10, 20151 votes

I fully agree with everything you said.

My brother went 5 out of 10 and ended up dropping from Gold 5 to Silver 4.

I went 3 out of 10 and dropped from Silver 3 to Bronze 2.

Riot claims this season was a "soft reset" and that we would "probably end up a little lower than last season" but everyone I've spoken to has dropped almost a full league, if not more. Now I'm stuck in Bronze because I'm a support main and you can't goddamn carry from support.

I worked my ass off in Season 3 in an attempt to reach Gold for the Elise skin, but an unreliable internet connection, a full time job, and a last-minute move all made that impossible, so I ended in Silver 2. Did my promos again in Season 4, ended up in Silver 4 - the kind of "slightly lower" they're talking about.

I've since introduced friends to the game, played with them a ton, gotten a LOT more experience than I'd usually get, and yet some bad luck in my placements (including an honest-to-god 3v5) means I drop to fucking Bronze?

To some extent, it's fun to climb the ladder. But artificially dropping my goddamn rank just eliminates all the hard work I did to get that far. This is not a game I'm naturally talented at. It's a game I play because it's fun, and when I want to improve myself, I put in a LOT of effort. Now all the stuff I learned about carrying Silver - directing your team, positioning, working together in teamfights - is completely moot because my Bronze teammates ignore me and I need to somehow win games alone.