What Is the Point in Promotional Series?

Troy242621·Jun 18, 2015·3 votes·310 views

What is the reason that Ranked players must win an arbitrarily chosen number of significantly weighted games to advance in rank?

Why can't it just adjust your rank when your MMR is on-par with other people of the appropriate rank? This seems to archaic. I mean, it isn't ELO Hell, but it sure feels like regular old Hell.

Having a 60% win rate and still losing promos repeatedly due to AFKs and trolls just sucks. Yeah it's statistically less likely to happen to you but we all know it happens. Champ select troll? Doesn't matter. Dodge and you lose the promo match. This is just silly and completely unnecessary.

I have got to ask, is there a legitimate role that these actually fill anymore, other than to upset players and empower trolls?

The system already uses an algorithm to determine appropriate opponents to face, surely they can use a similar function to determine rank,...

6 Comments

Troy242621Jun 18, 20151 votes

I'm really curious to hear the defense of the current system. It's entirely possible I'm overlooking something but right now it just seems to empower trolls. I love Ranked, and I meet some awesome people there, but this experience I've had recently completely sapped my will to play for the rest of the day.

KazaashiJun 18, 20151 votes

Since you have to prove you belong in the higher rank by competing the Promo series, this system allows you to lose 5 games after the series before getting demoted.

Otherwise you'd just bounce up and down in Rank and that would be super annoying, stressful, and disheartening at the silver/bronze, gold/silver, gold/plat, plat/diam thresholds.

Troy242621Jun 18, 20151 votes

Same thing can be accomplished from MMR-based grading rather than judgement based upon an arbitrarily decided number of games.

Troy242621Jun 18, 20151 votes

SwiftKitten88Jun 18, 20151 votes

i honeslty would like ot know this as well.. i can see the need for a promo's the FIRSt time you reach a rank.. but i have had to reach silver 4 NINE times this season... im tired of having to win 5 more games in a row to make up for 1 loss at 0 lp

Troy242621Jun 18, 20151 votes

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i honeslty would like ot know this as well.. i can see the need for a promo's the FIRSt time you reach a rank.. but i have had to reach silver 4 NINE times this season... im tired of having to win 5 more games in a row to make up for 1 loss at 0 lp

Hell I'm tired of reaching my promo series with a nearly flawless win spree then being trolled out three times. I don't mean allies having a bad game, I don't mean the enemy team having superior players overall, I mean flagrantly trolled.

Hell even champ select trolls go from costing me 3 LP to costing me an entire third (Or fifth) of a series. There has to be a superior alternative.

I could get over the flaws if I could see a legitimate reason to keep them. Why can't it just recognize you have a 70% win rate in Gold I, maybe it's time to move you to Plat I instead of making you win 3/5 games in a series. It's so mind-bending. It's an arbitrarily chosen number of games that for no logical reason mean disproportionately more than any other game.