Qualifiers

One Of Death·Dec 25, 2013·1 votes·143 views

So for my first qualifier I had an AFK, forcing me to start at bronze V because of that loss.

I look about a month later and see my friend who just hit level 30 who is still really bad at the game, get to somewhere in silver because his team carried him in his qualifiers.

There needs to be a more fair way to put people in the right bracket. I've had to climb out of bronze slowly and painfully, only to get to play with low silver people who are worse players than the high bronze.

Bronze I > Silver V & IV

^ not right

3 Comments

pwndrasDec 26, 20132 votes

Well for starters it currently takes 10 provisional games to determine your placements. So that first game with the AFKer wasn't the sole cause for where you got placed. It was the accumulation of all 10 games you played when you started ranked.

As for your friend well it is the same with pretty much everyone. I mean you are getting matched up with random players of relatively the same mmr so sometimes your team will just be playing better than your opponents. We all have that possibility in each of our games. If your friend is indeed not capable of being at his rank than he will probably fall. And if you see yourself of a player of a higher ranked than you should be able to climb yourself out, which you seem to have been able to do so congrats.

And you have to remember that people in B1 are working to go up to silver whereas those in the lower divisions aren't worried of falling back to Bronze. That is until next season mauahahaha

OzbirtaDec 26, 20131 votes

You can't blame one game of qualifiers for where you got placed. Maybe your friend who is "really bad at the game" is actually better than you, but in different ways that you don't even understand (doesn't get caught out late game throwing games, can position in teamfights). I'm finding a lot of people base "good at the game" on whether they win lane more often than not, and that's only like 30% of what this game is about.

Food for thought

One Of DeathDec 27, 20131 votes

Well I wouldn't say he was bad if I didn't have good reason too. Keep in mind that I've been playing with him before level 30, and he had just hit level 30 for the first time.

The bottom line is that high bronze players are better than low silver players, I'm not really blaming the qualifier that I was placed in, more of the whole idea in general.