Placements Bypass Option

Rich Batman·1/29/2018, 12:45:50 AM·7 votes·715 views

So here's a thought. Could we get a button when you are starting placements (or even part way through), that just says "Place me in bronze V" ? I understand most people wouldn't use this, but for people like me who suck and always do horrible in placements, it is simply a way to save myself 10 games where I will get placed into B5. This would be a fantastic feature in my opinion.

EDIT:

As some have pointed out, this would enable others to go back to bronze, then climb. So, I will amend my earlier statement with the caveat that you must not have been higher than silver the previous season. This should satisfy the issue pointed out up to this point.

30 Comments

Warios1/29/2018, 1:03:12 AM4 votes

No thanks, really would rather not see some diamond with a smurf set himself in B5 for the fun to climb, ruining peoples games as he/she moves up.

Edit as per requested: I stand by my stance that I do not believe this should be an option, due to the ability to abuse it by higher skilled players to troll weaker new players.

Victory Machine1/29/2018, 2:05:47 AM4 votes

Read the edit. Also, these points are slightly invalid because of two reasons.

Firstly, no one enjoys the climb that much. Why would I do that and ruin my account? If the MMR was so good, they will climb out almost immediately anyways. But they just make a smurf and preserve their main.

Secondly, making a smurf to do this is trivial. So why would anyone good do this with a main when they can just make a smurf, throw placements, and then end up there anyways? If they enjoy the climb as much as previous comments imply, they will simply do this anyway. There is no additional protection for this and this doesn't exacerbate the problem that ALREADY exists further.

TranceButterfly1/29/2018, 2:20:02 AM3 votes

I disagree with the first two comments. As Victory Machine pointed out in his update, it would be trivial to ensure that this was not abused. I can also speak from experience on the feeling of wasting my life playing ten games when I could start climbing instead. Placements don't provide a very significant opportunity to improve rank for players who are in or close to bronze, so for them playing ten placement matches is virtually a waste of time.

Rasdaan1/29/2018, 7:02:07 AM1 votes

I vote "not at all" for the reason that bronze would probs get flooded with even more smurfs.