How effective is it to boost your ranked league by playing in normals?

ChosenOne124·Feb 14, 2018·1 votes·363 views

Two seasons ago, I was in Bronze III.

After being horribly frustrated trying to escape Bronze as a support main, I didn't complete my placements last season and just played normal draft games as support.

This season I got over the whole Bronze experience and decided to do some ranked. After winning 6/10 of my placements (all support), I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in Silver V, meaning that I got promoted three leagues without having to risk promos with bronze players.

I'm pretty sure winning 6/10 placements isn't the only reason I got promoted that far, so my performance in last season's normals must have been good.

How effective is it to try to get ranked boosts by not playing ranked games? Promotion series are kinda annoying.

9 Comments

Dope SoloFeb 14, 20182 votes

Is escaping bronze as a support main even possible? I don't believe you'll be able to win enough games until you've switched to a hypercarry, and can push your 3+AFK to victory against the enemy hypercarry +3 +feeder. I don't really know, I just started actually, but all of a sudden it seems possible.

FullmuteAll playFeb 14, 20181 votes

Say hi to free support elo from Bronze (to make it fair though I climbed from Bronze 1)

Dope SoloFeb 14, 20181 votes

Now it makes sense.

ChosenOne124Feb 14, 20181 votes

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Is escaping bronze as a support main even possible? I don't believe you'll be able to win enough games until you've switched to a hypercarry, and can push your 3+AFK to victory against the enemy hypercarry +3 +feeder. I don't really know, I just started actually, but all of a sudden it seems possible.

That's why I gave up on ranked. The issue isn't the adc. You don't need more than a peanut in your head to follow up a support Blitz, Thresh, or Nautilus. The issue was the fact that either top or mid would feed during my promos and knock me back to Bronze III.

I didn't do Brand support in ranked, thought thinking on it now I spammed it in normals against other Bronze players.

SasogwaFeb 14, 20182 votes

Completely useless. The mmr for both is entirely separate

Anth895Feb 14, 20181 votes

Normals don't affect placements. Every season ranked has a reset. This brings people closer to the average. The average is somewhere between silver 2 and 4. You winning 6 placement games +should be gaining some from the reset is why you placed silver 5.

ChosenOne124Feb 14, 20181 votes

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Normals don't affect placements. Every season ranked has a reset. This brings people closer to the average. The average is somewhere between silver 2 and 4. You winning 6 placement games +should be gaining some from the reset is why you placed silver 5.

How do they determine who your placement matches are with? I assumed they just used your normals MMR

UmioFeb 14, 20181 votes

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How do they determine who your placement matches are with? I assumed they just used your normals MMR

That makes no sense, im bronze, i have 50% win rate in norms and im usually against silver/gold/plat - the mmr average for me in these games is usually 1200-1300.

I played flex this season, won 9/10 games playing solo and placed bronze 5

Hellmaximus1Feb 14, 20181 votes

It's because you seeded later on in the season rather than at the start, if you played during the first 1-3 weeks you'd run into extremely good players and get stomped on, but since you finished seeding during the time everyone mmr returned to normal levels and you played vs bronze instead of silver/gold/smurf you were able to place in silver from your performance in those games.