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

ChosenOne124·2/14/2018, 12:11:41 AM·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 Solo2/14/2018, 12:53:03 AM2 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.

Sasogwa2/14/2018, 1:03:25 AM2 votes

Completely useless. The mmr for both is entirely separate

Anth8952/14/2018, 12:58:55 AM1 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.

Hellmaximus12/14/2018, 1:14:01 AM1 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.