MMR Should Not Change My LP Gained/Lost

Im The Jayce God·8/28/2016, 7:22:39 AM·1 votes·508 views

I made an account 3 months back, got to ranked, made it to silver 4. But I was stuck in between Silver V and Bronze I for a few months due to losing 23 LP per loss and gaining only 15-17 LP per win. I decided to make a new account, and once I got into ranked, I was placed into Silver V immediately. Every win I got was gaining me 33 LP, and every loss only -9. I was able to climb up to Gold 4, until I got tilted and started losing some games. Now im back at losing 17 LP per loss and gaining 22 per win. Making it incredibly hard to climb the ranks with this. I find it dumb how I see people with 500 wins in silver 1, and yet no matter what they cant get out of it.

I really wish League would just have a set LP gain/loss per rank. Itd make it more fair rather than restarting on different accounts.

3 Comments

FioraWillCarry8/28/2016, 7:38:48 AM1 votes

MMR is the only thing that really matters. On that account where you're losing 23 LP per loss, you could make it to Gold just the same on that one because of your low MMR. You will have a high winrate due to stomping people at a much lower MMR. Eventually your LP gains would increase due to all that winning.

It happened to me when I was struggling in B5/B4. I reached a point where I was gaining something like 11 LP per win and 27 per loss. I even had a stint where I lost 10 games in a row at B5 0 LP. My MMR was fuckin terrible. Eventually I got a lot better and started carrying my games. I climbed straight to Silver. By that point I was gaining 21 per win and losing 19 per loss, that is to say, my MMR normalized for the rank I was placed in.

TLDR; Don't worry so much about LP gains. Just get better and everything would work out. The MMR system is as good a system as one can conceive.

RageQ28/28/2016, 7:40:42 AM1 votes

The thing is, it shows both your teams work and how you're doing. It makes it so you don't just rush into Plat Elo with the same mind set of a Silver Elo player because of a lucky win streak. Your MMR is meant to give you challenge for getting even better at the game, with no challenge comes no reward for getting out of bronze, silver, gold, etc.

Jaunty4118/28/2016, 8:15:50 AM1 votes

The problem with the MMR system is that it doesn't place you with just any other player with the same MMR. If the system thinks you are above where you should be it will place you with other people of a similar evaluation. If you are expected to climb same deal. So you are more likely to get bad players if you are losing, and good players if you are winning. It can create a kind of snowball effect that may be difficult to overcome.