I'm bad but I'm in Bronze 1???

Naked Bee·5/10/2016, 2:06:42 AM·2 votes·1,072 views

So, I just recently finished my placement rounds (Thank God, I just wanted to be placed in Bronze). I got excited. I figured that LoL ranked mode must be kinda like Smash For Glory, you know. You get to fight people usually about your skill level, and you know, it's just fun. But no. Somehow, I got placed in Bronze 1 with like a 20% win rate, and all my wins were REALLY bad. Here's the thing: I don't want to stop playing ranked so I can get demoted and play weaker people, but I'm not good enough to quite get to silver. Basically, I really don't think I'm good enough to fight Silvers yet. I've played like 4 matches, lost all of them, albeit I wasn't playing my best characters, and since I'm at 0 points, I don't lose any. So, do I just need to get better? Anyone know how to solve this?

Btw, I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to play fun champions, not easy ones.

13 Comments

Mysticman895/10/2016, 2:40:08 AM3 votes

Matchmaking depends on your mmr, not your rank, so don't pay too much attention to ranks.

You're matchmade with/against people the system feels are approximately equal skill to you (on average; things get messy in premades). Just keep playing, and if the system's assessment of your skill is inaccurate, then it'll fix itself in the long run.

Every game you lose, you'll get matched with/against slightly worse players (even if you remain the same rank), and every match you win you'll get matched against slightly higher players. If you go on a big win/loss streak, then the MMR changes get even bigger as the system tries to figure out where you actually belong.

Again, rank doesn't matter, mmr does, so sometimes you may find yourself losing games, but facing higher ranked players. This just means that those higher ranked players have poor mmr's, not that they're actually better. If it's a team of bronze 3's versus a team of silver 5's, then despite appearing unfair at a glance, the match probably actually is fair and each of those silver 5's has a bronze 3ish mmr (or the bronze 3's have a silver 5 ish mmr, or the two teams have an mmr somewhere in the middle of their actual ranks), so in the end it is a fair match.

(Occasionally things get stompy, particularly during placements and while freshly out of placements, since people haven't actually adjusted to their 'true' mmr yet, so really quite good players have low mmr's and quite poor players have relatively high mmr's. Just keep playing and things all shake out though.)

Stained Spear5/10/2016, 2:10:58 AM2 votes

lose like 3 more then you can get demoted, you just need to believe.

Kuma Tyrant5/10/2016, 2:39:22 AM1 votes

Well if you think you aint good enough, play some normals and practice, then when you feel confident go and play some ranked.

Mecha MaIphite5/10/2016, 11:06:51 AM1 votes

This is actually the first time I've seen someone ask for advice on how to rank down

LaserDeathBlade5/10/2016, 11:10:28 AM1 votes

It doesn't matter how good you think you are, your rank comes as a natural result of how good you actually are

Just play whatever you want and your rank will sort itself out.

Leorite5/10/2016, 2:10:38 AM1 votes

Well, what champions are you playing?

Randomonium5/10/2016, 11:20:28 AM1 votes

I think its pretty typical that people get placed above their ability level the first season they play ranked. The default MMR is Silver 5 but most people who start ranked are not Silver 5. Most people I know, including myself, got placed in high bronze/low silver when they first started playing ranked and got their ass kicked for a bit until the game figured out where they are supposed to be. Best thing you can do right now is be really self-critical, analyze why you are dying/losing, and try to learn from your mistakes.

One disadvantage of continuing to play ranked is that you could really deflate your MMR which might make climbing harder once you get better. Its possible to reverse but if you have like 50-100 bad games then it'll take you 50-100 games to repair the damage. If you don't care about rank and just want to face the stiffest competition possible (so that you can learn faster) then I wouldn't worry about it.

Just remember that practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice a free throw wrong 10,000 times then all you are doing is teaching yourself bad habits that you'll have to unlearn later. Same thing is true for league. Focus on practicing the right things, not just playing games to play games.

SaltyKracka5/10/2016, 2:36:43 AM1 votes

Bronze 1 ain't exactly good.