What's the point in placements if players are just going to be put in Iron regardless?

Bravejamvel·12/14/2018, 3:58:23 AM·6 votes·2,590 views

Why not just remove placements all together at this point and make everyone start in Iron? I really don't see the fucking point right now, I havn't seen a single smurf not get placed in Iron 1, it's physically impossible to get placed in bronze.

Here is where CoreJJ, A korean Smurf, got placed after going 10/0 in his placements on a new account, he quoted that "He hasn't been bronze in his entire life".

To be honest, these placements are a complete waste of 3-4 hours of a players time. It's just a big "fuck you" to the face.

https://i.imgur.com/TdsUaRC.png

5 Comments

Sex Crazed Eve12/14/2018, 6:37:56 AM1 votes

isn't set up to only put you in iron tier if your account has never been placed before? it seems like it's to disincentivize smurfing.

RAT IN GAME UwU 12/14/2018, 6:39:10 AM1 votes

i don't know how people even complete 10 right now

ive been 30 for days and it's dodge after dodge after dodge after dodge i haven't been able to get into a game for over an hour, people need to start getting actual bans for dodging so much

Strigina12/14/2018, 6:44:40 AM1 votes

Issue: Players smurfing on fresh accounts seed in Iron and climb too slowly. We made a change so new accounts seed in Iron to improve the onboarding experience of Ranked. This had an unintended side effect for some smurf accounts where a player’s rank and MMR could desync (e.g., Bronze rank but playing in Gold or Platinum games), making the climb feel very grindy and unfair. Sorry CoreJJ.

Answer: Starting new accounts with no prior Ranked games in Iron helps avoid new players seeding in Silver and demoting rapidly to Iron or Bronze. The climb for smurfs will a bit more grindy as a result, but at the same time we want to avoid smurfs playing in Gold or Platinum games while still in Bronze. We’ll be accelerating LP gains for these players so their ranks and MMRs stay closer together. After the season starts, we’ll add even more mechanisms—things like the ability to start with some bonus LP after promoting and more aggressive division skipping—to further increase the speed at which these players climb.

Status: In Progress (Target 9.1+)