I recently "normalized" according to player support in ranked and am no longer allowed to earn LP like I deserve so I can reach gold. I had reached gold promos 3 times before this happened and yet that doesn't matter to the system as it has decided that it knows where I should be. Now I only seem to earn 16 lp a match and lose 20 a loss with VERY rare occasions being the reverse. This is considered fair for some reason.
I want to know why this is fair.
You went on a losing spree right after you reached a promo series, dropping your mmr and now your lp gains are following?
League of Legends' ranked system is all about consistently winning more than you lose. If you don't, first your mmr will drop, then your visible rank (your lp) will follow (this makes your visible rank more accurate since it doesn't swing as much with random win/loss streaks).
When starting a season the system gives everyone insane mmr gains/losses and then slowly lowers these after every game before stopping to do so after probably like 100 games. This is done so that the system can first make a decent guess of where you belong with a low amount of data to get by. However, after this, you can still easily climb/drop your mmr and therefore visible rank. The system never 'decides' you belong at a certain rank and get you stuck there arbitrarily for the rest of the season.
Basically what happened is there's two systems at play:
So what's happening is that your MMR is actually slightly lower than your LP would indicate. In order to not have the system lie to you and place you at 99LP, hitting your head against the wall until you reach the right MMR, it's guiding your LP gains down a little bit until they line up again.
"Earn lp like I deserve"
you can circumvent the system by getting into promo series (does't even have to be a promo series to the next league) and then dodge until you fail the series.
Then win and get placed back into the series, raising your hidden MMR. Then dodge again to get thrown out of the series (MMR doesn't lower when you dodge, only LP does)
Keep doing that until your MMR and your LP are very very far out of sync, then go through with the series and win it. The system will try to recallibrate where it thinks your LP rating should be. I've skipped entire divisions by using this technique.
Be careful not to do it for too long. RIOT has issued penalties in the past to people who intentionally kept themselves in bronze with diamond MMR. So if you use it, use it sparingly and never for more than a week.
