Riot Should Offer an "MMR Reset" To Players Who Want it.

SUCC Ghast·2/7/2019, 8:56:35 PM·2 votes·776 views

This is my main account, ended Silver 4 last season. I won 6 of my placements in a row, then lost two, got placed Bronze 1. That sounds fair right? My alternate account, ended at Gold 4, right off of my placements last season. Now this supposedly means that based on a ten game performance, i am a gold 4 player according to Riot's MMR system. So why is it that my increased performance is restricted by the "Placement Cap" based on the previous year?

It feels like smurfing but in an even more unfair way, because its forced

3 Comments

ZephyrDrake2/7/2019, 9:08:50 PM3 votes

you always place either lower or at the same rank as you did in the previous season. It's always been like this. Also they added brand new tiers in iron and grandmaster. Bronze this season is pretty much Silver last season so yeah, you essentially ended up in the exact same spot you were last season. There is no more "5" in any tier so no Bronze 5, Silver 5, Gold 5... etc, etc. What happens if you would have ended Silver 5 when there is no Silver 5 anymore? you drop down.

woodvsmurph2/7/2019, 9:16:20 PM2 votes

You can't compare this season placement with last season for multiple reasons.

positional rank
new lower tier added - this shifts everyone's starting placements lower unless they basically win out or only lose one of the last 2 games of placements possibly

ex: I have ended season in gold 5-gold 3 past 3 seasons. I have started new ranked season around bronze 3-bronze 1. This season due to everyone dropping, I'd rank/predict my end of season placement somewhere around silver 1 to gold 4 depending on if I was one of the better low gold elo players or not. Thus, my placements should put me in bronze 4 or bronze 3... possibly lower depending on how well or poorly I did in them with an emphasis on the first few games. It's like the first few games decide if you're targeting at iron, bronze, silver, or gold and the later ones are deciding... are you bronze 4, bronze 3, bronze 2 or bronze 1 for placements. Basically the focus narrows later into placement matches, so if you lose match 1 or 2 but win rest, you'll place lower than if you win out until one of last 2 matches even though your record is the same.

WeeWeeBojangles2/7/2019, 9:09:42 PM1 votes

nope sorry stay in bronze plz