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How Ranked Works

1 800 Cri More·1/29/2018, 2:42:42 AM·2 votes·2,733 views

Hello

Cumulatively I have played over 6000 ranked games. I will explain to everyone how Ranked works.

MMR

Most of the time red side has higher average MMR to compensate for the inherent disadvantage.

MMR decides how much LP you gain/lose per game. If your MMR is higher than the average, you will gain more and lose less LP. If it is below average, you will gain less and lose more LP.

MMR loss is doubled if you are at 0 lp.

Dodging Your dodge timer resets 24 hours after your latest dodge.

Dodging for the first time of a day will give you -3 LP and a 5 min wait queue, you do not lose MMR for dodging.

Every dodge after the first is -10 LP and a 30 min wait queue.

LP Gains LP gains are affected by MMR.

LP gains are higher on blue side compared to red side (because of MMR difference of 2 teams)

LP Losses

LP losses are affected by MMR

LP gains are lower on blue side compared to red side (because of MMR difference of 2 teams)

Promotion If you are division 5 - division 2 of a tier and you reach 100 LP, you need to win 2 out of 3 games in order to promote.

If you are division 1 of a tier and reach 100 LP, you need to win 3 out of 5 games in order to promote to the next tier.

Skipping Division

In order to skip a division, your MMR needs to be MUCH higher than average. A rule of thumb is if you are gaining ~27 LP / game you have a high likeliness of skipping a division

Training Wheels

From Bronze 5 to Gold 1, if you reach promos and fail them, you will receive a free win in your next series.

Demotion

If you just got promoted to a new division, you must lose 3-5 games in a row at 0 LP to get demoted.

If you won 2+ games in a row and then lose all the way to 0 LP and lose 1 game at 0 LP, you will get demoted

If you are division 5 of any tier, in order to get demoted you must lose enough games to make your MMR division 5 of the lower tier. Ex. If you are D5, you must have P5 MMR to demote to P1

If you have any questions feel free to ask

3 Comments

Ratpie1/29/2018, 2:47:29 AM1 votes

Well dang, I was getting 27-29 LP every game won promos and did not skip :(

Rewt1/29/2018, 2:54:35 AM1 votes

The red side disadvantage i feel has been played up too much. I never really notice it. Honestly i prefer Red side most of the time because as a jungler it means that A: Bot lane has the tri brush gank path and B: i get to start blue.

SojaNC11/5/2018, 11:16:10 PM1 votes

If LP gains or losses works that way, why i´m losing 20-22LP and only earn 13-14LP? My MMR is higher than the average btw. I won 4 games in row and I only get from 0 to 54LP, then i lost 2 games and I get to 1LP, with higher MMR. Please I need answer´s, cus the season is ending and I would love to climb litle more.