Players New To Ranked Shouldn't Start in High Bronze / Low Silver

ESeTyRC·7/21/2018, 6:26:09 PM·7 votes·1,527 views

They should start at the bottom of Bronze.

If Riot wants their game fixed without increasing game times again, here's a place to start.

The discrepancy between players new to ranked and even Silver is too high.

Let them start off lower and climb faster if they win and stay down there if they don't.

If good players using smurf accounts is a concern, then do something about smurfing instead. With the way League is set up right now, those new players are going to cause one-sided stomps anyways.

19 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer7/21/2018, 6:28:34 PM4 votes

Players start around the statistical average because that's what they usually are.

The bottom of Bronze isn't the statistical average.

Pika Fox7/21/2018, 6:38:41 PM4 votes

That makes no sense. Average skill is in silver, so you would start at silver. Makes no sense otherwise.

Vlada Cut7/21/2018, 6:40:24 PM3 votes

They SHOULD start with Bronze V 0 LP if tzey just started and have unlocked ranked for the FIRST time. Provisionals should be there if your account existed in multiple seasons, or at least passed through one season cycle wether the person played ranked or not. Or just get rid of promos and provisional matches and make everyones life easier. Shrug.

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Players start around the statistical average because that's what they usually are.

The bottom of Bronze isn't the statistical average.

It IS statistically average skill for beginners like them. That is why I dislike the ranked system forcing to do provisional matches when punlocking ranked for the first time.

Eons312/25/2018, 10:03:44 AM1 votes

League is a game that has exactly 2 outcomes, Win or lose. As such the AVERAGE is LITERALLY WHERE EVERYONE STARTS. The average could be gold if Riot wanted to start people in gold. The reason its a bell curve is because you can only GAIN or LOSE no between. For every team that loses their is one that wins. Win streaks and loss streaks gain and lose evenly. The reason the average player base is silver is because riot starts people in silver. 5/5 is the average score on a set of placements, which puts you at, you guessed it bronze 1 or silver 5 depending on when those occur. That where the bell curve starts. This means that ALL games in silver to bronze to even gold are horribly screwed to randomization based on who has the new player. Either RIOT admits to having almost NO new players, and admits to going down hill on their game do to poor decisions, or they admit that they are trying to make it near impossible to climb. Its cancer having bad players that cant even cs in my games, but its even more cancer watching them get flamed and struggling to even understand why the enemy zed can w e q them and instagib them without any reaction time. IF you truly want the game to be inviting to NEW players you will move the bell curve to bronze, and have the worst of the worst be nearer bronze 5 and the average be nearer bronze 3 or 2. As of right now, its actually easier to make a new account multiple times and roll the placements to try to win your way outa silver. If a new player cant even cs properly, then how should they beat a person that has mastered EVERYTHING in the game, outside of teamwork. That is what makes a silver silver, they suck at teamwork, or they are literally new to the game and have been shoved into silver unjustly.