It sounds to me like luck plays a really huge factor in a lot of people's ability to get out of silver/bronze. So wouldn't your chances be maximized by just playing a lot? Eventually you'll get lucky and have a win streak that bumps you up, right?
The Bearded Bard2 votesThe more you lose the less LP you gain, so no, not necessarily. The fun thing is if you win the majority of your games, you can still be stuck in the same bracket forever if you lose the games in the series. So technically you can have a crazy good win rate of like 4:1 and still be the lowest tier.
DeathBurst1 votesNo you can't. If you lose 2 matches in your Promos, you need only 2 matches to get back into Promos, especially if you arrive there at a winrate of 4:1. So once you reach series, you can't stay blocked with a higher than 50% winrate.
ZerglingOne1 votesNo you can't. If you lose 2 matches in your Promos, you need only 2 matches to get back into Promos, especially if you arrive there at a winrate of 4:1. So once you reach series, you can't stay blocked with a higher than 50% winrate.
Yeah, but you can dodge your promo series which drops you out of it and only loses you a little LP, not MMR. Bronzie the Bear was an experiment to exploit the leagues system. A "bronze 5" account that was in...Plat 1 I think? May have even been as high as Diamond 3 at one point, but he'd just dodge his promos every time and keep his rank, despite playing against plats and diamonds.
DeathBurst1 votesWhile technically true, this is relevant neither to OP nor to the comment I was replying to...
Tworie1 votesIt really is luck based. Just gotta keep playing enough games where you go on a lucky streak where you don't have trolls/AFKers/Feeders on your team. You can climb to Diamond with a win rate of 30% if you go on a really long win streak.
Very Hard Engage1 votesyou can carry your games if you play 1 tier above, ie if you're a silver player you can stomp all in bronze, but if you're silver 5 you can only stomp all through about bronze 3 or 2. there is some degree of skill in relation to adjacent tiers.
the worst thing you can do is to continuously play low ranking players, it gives you a false notion of how the game is supposed to be played when if you just land skill shots consistently and farm well you're already in high silver.
grouping as 5 and running down a lane together at 18~25mins is what gets you to gold.
Octavia1 votesno?
LitAF1 votesIf win streaks are possible so are lose streaks
DeathBurst1 votesNo. Because you'll get a corresponding bad luck loss streak before or after, and you'll stay at the same level overall.
Aptest1 votesAssuming ranked works, no.
The reason is this: If you win, you get to play against the winners. If you lose, you get to play against the losers. Since after many games, winning is not about luck, you are not able to win against the winners - let alone have a gigantic win streak - unless you yourself are a winner.
ZerglingOne1 votesGetting out of silver, yes has a lot of luck attached to it. Due to smurfs starting their first matches in silver elo. You get a massive skill range that radically swings games in both directions. You can get that guy that is straight on his way to bronze 5, and the diamond 1 smurf in the same game.
Getting out of bronze, no. That's pretty easy if you're decent at the game.
I got dropped to bronze 2 initially and shot straight up to Silver...2 i think? I maybe dropped 2 games out of 30. Then I started encountering smurf after smurf and complete newbie after complete newbie. Since I dropped out of S2, I have never made it higher than Silver 3 because of mostly bad luck. "I never play ranked" End game: Enemy Zyra posts Twitch.tv account "Diamond smurfin' in Silver" is the stream title. Guy that obviously was banned for toxicity makes new account. Has learned nothing. Fresh 30 that's barely played the game at all.
sketchy11 voteswell statistically speaking, eventually everyone to ever exist who plays league will climb out of bronze
chipndip11 votesShort answer: No.
Your mmr is set at a point, and it's up to you to lose or win to that point. Eventually your lp gain evens out and you can no longer make a profit lp gain just by going 50/50
