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Low LP gain with high WR/MMR

AnaalneBanaan·3/4/2020, 9:25:34 AM·1 votes·2,040 views
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So i've been grinding rank recently and at first it was going amazing, had a 14 game winstreak, but then it kinda evened out and am getting a balanced amout of wins/losses, (around 64% winrate) with no big losing streaks or no problems being "stuck" in a rank. My question is however, with a 64% winrate and mmr that is plat III-plat II, why would I still gain only 18lp. It's not just the game that i linked, I lose 18 LP in a loss-game and haven't gained above 18 when that big winstreak ended. It's fairly obvious that I'm doing well enough in my games with participations/vision score/teamfights/objectives, etc. that i should be getting at least 22-24lp per game, just wondering if anybody can answer what the issue might be or is it another fuck-up from Riots ranking system?

3 Comments

Bulshlaka3/4/2020, 9:43:20 AM1 votes

you can butcher your mmr by losing few games

this happened to my flex climb i lost 4 games in a row and dropped 10 lp in gains

you shouldn't care about this tho as much this just means it will be easier for you to keep the 60%+ win rate for longer if this didn't happen you'd reach like d3 lets say and then stay at 50% win rate until like d1 which is much worse for your mmr than anything else

The Magnificent3/4/2020, 9:44:11 AM1 votes

18 is pretty good. From my experience the higher you climb less LP gains you get,

Also another reason could be because riot recently made LP gains lower for high win rate accounts to prevent smurfs from climbing as fast making it less enjoyable or whatever the reason is idk but this could be it.

AnaalneBanaan3/4/2020, 10:06:06 AM1 votes

Alright, appreciate the input. I guess it's just an unrewarding system somewhat, but I understand why they want to avoid smurfs from gaining insane LP.