I can storm standard ranked games easly up to promos but when i get to them i hit a wall where game matches me with every possible cancer shit (afk/troll/feeder) this game has to offer. EVERY FUCKING TIME
Im 100% sure promos are set up to fuck you up as hard as possible, ITS JUST FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE THAT IT HAPPENS EVERY FUCKING PROMO GAME YOU GET.
jaymc11303 votesYour promo games are generally handicapped. You are matched against tougher opponents with weaker teammates. On top of this, as is often the case, many players in a lobby may be up for promos in the same game which leads to a lot of hightened tensions and more selfish actions.
So there's nothing behind the scenes, it's all readily available information that explains it.
You should always duo in promos to lessen the impact of these negative possible factors since you are already handicapped any ways so the duo handicap won't apply.
alasarcher2 votesYou promo games are generally handicapped. You are matched against tougher opponents with weaker teammates. On top of this, as is often the case, many players in a lobby may be up for promos in the same game which leads to a lot of hightened tensions and more selfish actions.
So there's nothing behind the scenes, it's all readily available information that explains it.
You should always duo in promos to lessen the impact of these negative possible factors since you are already handicapped any ways so the duo handicap won't apply.
Thats silly, often when im in promo, i get faced against opponents who are also in promo. Promo game is same as usual game, based on MMR, its only special to you .
jaymc11301 votesThats silly, often when im in promo, i get faced against opponents who are also in promo. Promo game is same as usual game, based on MMR, its only special to you .
That's not how the actual system works, its designed to handicap you in promos to force you to earn the promotion. Its as simple as taking a look at the team collective MMR's of your promo games. Take a look some time and you will see the majority of cases work exactly as I specified.
alasarcher1 votesThats because you are under pressure during your promos, those games are too important for u, so u dont relax enough to play. U dont take risks u would usually take, you are probably more negative to your team, u think every death is lost game. So far i lost only 1 promo long time ago out of 12 i played.
PiVoRx1 votesAnd what my "relax" has to do when my mid laner is afk since game begins?
Pierce The Veal1 votesI actually have tested it. I have tried dodging promos and winning the games after. They continued being easy and winnable, but when I let myself into promos I realized that I would constantly get the people on losing streaks.
jaymc11301 votesI actually have tested it. I have tried dodging promos and winning the games after. They continued being easy and winnable, but when I let myself into promos I realized that I would constantly get the people on losing streaks.
This is a common climbing technique used by experienced players who understand MMR+ manipulation and how to achieve skips with win streaks. Its far easier to climb using this technique at times to simply skip the handicapped matches. You can even do like LiveYiOrDieHard and dodge every time you are up for promos and mix in an occasional loss to stay in a particular ranking. He's a legend, platinum MMR but dat bronze ranking because he intentionally keeps the account from ranking up. Still playing vs plats, but the displayed rank does not reflect the skill level.
Pierce The Veal1 votesThis is a common climbing technique used by experienced players who understand MMR+ manipulation and how to achieve skips with win streaks. Its far easier to climb using this technique at times to simply skip the handicapped matches. You can even do like LiveYiOrDieHard and dodge every time you are up for promos and mix in an occasional loss to stay in a particular ranking. He's a legend, platinum MMR but dat bronze ranking because he intentionally keeps the account from ranking up. Still playing vs plats, but the displayed rank does not reflect the skill level.
Yeah that's what I used to do, then I just let myself promote. Now I honestly feel bad because the system seems to handicap me in promos, so I'm just gonna go back to dodging promos to raise my mmr ridiculously high.
PiVoRx1 votesThis, if I would go and check the ratio of how many games where actually "normal" fair matches to free loses it would be around 1/2.
Pierce The Veal1 votesThis, if I would go and check the ratio of how many games where actually "normal" fair matches to free loses it would be around 1/2.
Yeah that's what I've seen.
I know that I promoted directly from silver 5 to silver 3. But I've never had matches as hard as those promos and the following few games after which I demoted to silver 4. After that I found that my promo luck was still horrible. If you play and win a promos, odds are a losing streak might follow. If you play and lose a promos, depending on how high your MMR is it seems to also potentially set off a losing streak. Not because of tilt, no, but rather because you seem to have suddenly been placed in low priority games or something.