PROMO FIX

Aazrak·Oct 9, 2013·24 votes·1,063 views

My roommate has been in a promo series countless times and i've watched a few of the games. For the games that he's lost, it was because of trolling teammates or teammates that just treat it as a regular 5v5 instead of a ranked game. I'm not sure for riots reason for not doing this and I could easily be wrong but from what i've seen riot do for the past two years of playing league and how they program everything i'm sure that they can program league to have teams consisted of players that are only in their promo, and if not then the majority of the players. I think there's enough people playing league around U.S server that can make this possible and i think it will keep league players from dropping league all together cause of teammates that aren't in promo, therefore not taking the match as seriously to try to win. Again i could be wrong and there may not be enough people that get into their series at the same time, or riot has done this, or what have you and if so a logical explanation to this would be appreciated.

14 Comments

GundayMondayOct 9, 20139 votes

I would love this. I'm willing to wait an extra 5-10 mins of matchmaking to make this happen. It took ~10+ promo series to get to Plat III this season. I'm on promo series #6 to break into Plat I right now. I've noticed that I am statistically MORE likely to get matched with less skilled players compared to my opponents ONLY during promo series games (talking silver/gold players against diamond players in some extreme cases). Would love to have a fair playing field for promo matches because right now I freaking hate playing LoL whenever I enter one.

GonseaOct 9, 20133 votes

Queue the guy in promo series with 9 other promo series guys.

Let's the serious game begin.

JackAquaOct 9, 20133 votes

BranrulzOct 10, 20133 votes

Completely agree. I seem to get terrible match makes during the promo.

SpurloveOct 10, 20133 votes

What would everyone consider about a different reporting mechanism when you join ranked games. The reporting would be for those that troll or auto-afk, etc. I realize it would be difficult on Riot, it inherently requires a separate system created to track infractions in ranked vs. infractions in normal play. But, this would allow for certain players to get a day or week ban from ranked play because they don't treat it with the sportsmanlike conduct, thus helping us in our important games. Thoughts?

AazrakOct 11, 20132 votes

Actually that sounds alot easier than what i had initially thought. atleast put in the program that filters players based on their reports. mainly negative attitude, harrasment, maybe afk and grief\feeding. or if anything, code that in with getting teamed up alongside other players in their promo. I may not now how difficult it is to do the programming and coding for league but like i said before, it seems like something that riot can pitch up in the near future. maybe early\mid season 4. real good input.

StarkeyOct 11, 20133 votes

I would have to say I agree with this, but I wouldn't say that it HAS to be with others in promo, but maybe a better thing to do would be to just ease up on how much of a "clamp" you get in promos. What I mean by that is when you are in a promo game you get matched with a little bit lower level people than you and are against people on par or a little higher than you to show that you earn your rank. If they ease up on how harsh it is now people would have a more enjoyable time in promos but still have them challenging like they should be.

Urdnot EntarOct 9, 20132 votes

Yes, so much this. Promos are the most frustrating part (at least in part) because there is no LP gain/loss adjustment based on matchmaking like in the other games; a loss is a loss (not that the LP adjustment is enough, but it helps). This is a brilliant and simple idea to make ranked play much more enjoyable. Everybody upvote and bump this.

Magister RagunOct 9, 20132 votes

I feel like the real problem is we go through Promos too often... Its easy to get bumped down with a short losing streak, and banging our heads repeatedly against a promo series we have already passed once is anti-fun.

GundayMondayOct 9, 20134 votes

Definitely. It's designed to make us play LoL more though. The whole point of it is to give you a sense of progress and create more opportunities to play the game and sink more hours into it. Which is fine, I have a lot of fun doing this. But when the deck is stacked against you (or FEELS like it's stacked against you, which is worse), it's not very much fun.

VakabielOct 10, 20132 votes

Actually in almost every promo series I've been in there has been at least 50% of the team on both sides that were also in promo with me. Everyone had the same amount of investment if they were in the promo but yes, all of them were not and some afk, troll.

The idea is that you are always getting grouped with people just a little bit better than you if I'm not mistaken so you can have a fair shot at moving up. I don't know that Riot could ever create a system that can fix human inclination to troll though.

GundayMondayOct 10, 20133 votes

If you make the queue times a little bit longer with higher standards for player selection, you could.

I don't even care about trolls (actually won a promo with a gangplank adc on my team the other day). My pain is that I'm getting silver/gold duos in my plat promo series laning against plat/diamond players. That lane is already lost no matter how hard you carry.

CourageouslyOct 11, 20132 votes

Wonderful +1

Cameryn KyreNov 21, 20131 votes

You have my up-vote, and my hope, brave forum-goer.

This change would be great...

Also falling 100 LP below Leauge V should demote you... to keep some of that grace buffer but make sure trolls or people content with their League don't just stagnate at Division V and make life hell for the people in I & II of the next League down actually trying.