How many games do i need to lose to drop from D5

YSM·May 2, 2017·5 votes·24,397 views

Hey, I'm about to be diamond 5 and i'm wondering how many games i need to lose to drop? Because i want to play allot when im diamond 5 and i dont want to risk being demoted because of it... Thanks

12 Comments

Mysticman89May 2, 20174 votes

As with every other tier, theres no set amount of losses to get demoted. Getting demoted depends on your mmr compared to the average for that division. If you're secretly faker and cruised up to diamond 5 with 80% win rate and have a challenger mmr, then you could probably lose dozens of games at D5 before being demoted. On the other hand if you just barely scraped into D5, then it'd probably only take a dozen or so straight losses.

In practice if you have any business at all being diamond 5, you're not going to be demoted though. Getting demoted tiers generally requires an MMR ~1 full tier worth below what you're expected (e.g. plat 5 mmr to be demoted from D5). While lose streaks happen, they're usually just a handful of games, and then theres some wins which offset your mmr losses somewhat, so as long as you're at least legitimately upper plat skill level you're unlikely to fall from D5.

YSMMay 2, 20171 votes

Thanks i was just worried because i thought i only needed to lose 3 games or so to drop

Mysticman89May 2, 20171 votes

Presumably if you freshly got to D5, you have roughly a D5 MMR, so it's not that rough.

If you spend at lot of time at D5 going W-L-L-W-L-L-W-L-L... etc your mmr will slowly lower however, and once it's low enough a single loss at 0LP can be enough to cause demotion. (The key point being that it's MMR based, and not losses-at-0LP based as people occasionally think.)

Very Hard EngageMay 2, 20171 votes

you get 10 protected matches after you go up to d5. after that if your elo falls below the plat 5 level you get axed.

YSMMay 2, 20171 votes

If you lose one of the protected matches will ur mmr drop as well? thanks

Very Hard EngageMay 2, 20171 votes

yes, your MMR is always at stake when you play ranked.

Mysticman89May 2, 20171 votes

Your MMR drops from every lost match, including matches you're shielded from demotion. It increases on every won match though, so you shouldn't need to worry much unless you have a winrate well under 50%, which is improbable if you made it to D5.

chipndip1May 2, 20171 votes

Plat 3*

Danny DeVitoMay 2, 20171 votes

You will get a warning message from the client if you are in danger of demotion from a tier due to low MMR.

Noreply StonerMay 20, 20171 votes

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You will get a warning message from the client if you are in danger of demotion from a tier due to low MMR.

how many game u have after the warning ? just 1 lost and you´re down ?

Mig89Mar 6, 20181 votes

Im pretty sure the warning is a "your next loss will demote you" warning. It happened to me two years ago when i fell from gold to silver. It took like a huge lose streak to happen though