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@Riot Purpose of Promotion Series?

Gank Top 4 Succ·1/11/2015, 10:41:41 AM·2 votes·586 views

So I've been in my series to promote to Gold 4 roughly 5 times in the past 2 weeks. Each time, I've had to try my hardest to carry into the series and with great success, yet when it comes to actually playing the series matches I've gotten DCs and players that seem to be having VERY bad games (This is consistent throughout all my promotion series).

While I understand that there's no way for Riot to be able to see the future and determine who's going to feed and stick them in my game (I hope), it got me wondering what the entire purpose of Promo Series are? Most players will grind from 0 LP to 100LP in roughly 5 straight wins, only to be offset by 2 losses that kicks them down. It doesn't make sense to me that you can statistically have over a 50% win rate, but not move divisions SOLELY because of 2 bad games.

Why can we not freely promote/demote divisions without having to go through a set of trial matches where anything bad could happen to the player? It'd both relieve stress and the frustration at being stuck at the ladder just because of two games.

3 Comments

j j1/11/2015, 3:07:06 PM1 votes

Oh you poor soul didn't you know it's to upset you? Shaco Just like decaying and not holding your highest point on the ladder at end rewards etc.

Nauthes1/11/2015, 4:57:12 PM1 votes

I don't mind the promotion series to much. The problem is it is so much easier to get demoted than promoted.

I was thinking maybe add a demotion series?

As it stands now if your a 0LP and you lose then your demoted. But if you at 100LP and you win you still have to go even further to get your promotion!

Thoughts?

Lavaniel1/11/2015, 4:05:20 PM

Riot thinks promotions are a healthy way to climb up to the ladder. However, if you are already winning enough games you should be allowed to move on. I think their only argument as to why Promos are kept is because people who have a normal MMR in their tier (they win maybe 20 LP a game and lose 10 LP) will have an unfair advantage to move up the ladder. Elo hell is existent in Silver league because what used to be Bronze league is now Silver. I have three friends, all of whom started playing the game six months ago and are persistent feeders, who now find themselves placed in Silver II. I can't even escape the clutches of Silver II because of Promos. I do think Promos should exist between leagues, like between silver and gold, because then the system can determine if you are meant to be in that league and not in the one your in. Its absurd that the system tries to figure out "Oh! This person can beat a Silver II player if they are Silver III!" It seems stupid to me, because a Silver player is a Silver player. High Silver and Low Silver are almost the same players. But the bad thing about Promos involve the dreaded Gold Promos. MANY, MANY players will tell you getting from Silver to Gold is literally the hardest thing you will do. My other friend was in his Gold Promos three times. Each time he got placed with people who literally trolled the game. For example, this one guy called himself "Nigga Ass Bitch Cho'Gath". He build an Infinity Edge and was wicked awesome at what he did. But his downside is that he would never stay with the team. We were trying to kill their Nexus, the game that would have gotten him into Gold, and our NAB Cho'Gath was farming red buff. Because he wasn't there, we didn't have a tank or form of CC to hold them back enough while we killed their turret. I think we need to start a petition to eliminate the Promos. Its people like NAB Cho'Gath that make me hate this game.