LP Ratio. Please HELP1!!

BobaPhatt·Feb 20, 2015·1 votes·497 views

So here's the thing. Last season I was placed Silver 5. Now for many, many reasons... I was dropped down to Bronze 2. The first time because I got so mad I stopped playing for a month and a half. came back and.. yeah. it was bad. This season I didn't play preseason. When I DID play I won 5/10 games pretty hard. I carried as Jinx. THREE of the lost games I carried but we lost by a hair. I got placed Bronze 5. I didn't understand it, but I said W/E. I'll rank up. I got to Bronze 4 pretty easily. But now I'm getting approximately 18 LP per game. And I'm still doing really well. Last game was like 3/5/17 Voli support. Not wonderful but not terrible. But every game this tier I'm getting 18 LP for wins... and -17 to -23 LP per loss.

PLEASE help me understand this. I'm getting so mad that it's taking me forever to climb up.

6 Comments

DreadlocksFeb 20, 20151 votes

short answer: your MMR is higher than your rank.

edit: MMR is lower than rank.

NoMonkuFeb 20, 20152 votes

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short answer: your MMR is higher than your rank.

Don't you mean his current rank is higher then his mmr? Unless the systems changed, you get equal LP earnings, say +/- 20 for a win/loss. If your mmr is LOWER then where you were placed, like your example, it means that you might deserve to be in b5 (mmr wise). Since your win/loss ratio isn't that high, your current rank is close to your mmr, so if you keep winning you should equalize. Your w/l ratio isn't as bad as some people I've seen asking about this lol. Yours is pretty decent.

DreadlocksFeb 20, 20151 votes

Yeah my bad.

Malix FarwinFeb 20, 20152 votes

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short answer: your MMR is higher than your rank.

i think you got that backwards.

i believe if you win 2 out of 3 games your mmr will eventually rise

MalaceXFeb 20, 20151 votes

I don't know why people continue to spread the lies that Riot tells them. The LP gain/loss is mostly random.

As for you being placed in Bronze when you were Silver last season, that's because every player was placed a tier below their previous season rank. Here is a list that shows your placements for this season after provisionals: http://www.nerfplz.com/2015/01/what-did-ranked-really-reset-do.html

Sir YamazukiFeb 20, 20151 votes

LP has nothing to do with how well or poorly you do, it's just mmr. If you keep winning more often, eventually you'll start gaining more while losing less.