Okay so I'm silver 4 but I've only played the 10 games to get me out of placement. So I was thinking I was going to try to play a little more ranked seeing as I have only played 10... Except I don't want to lose my rank. I'm not a very good player and I'm scared if I play ranked I will lose rank. So can someone give me a brief but detailed explanation of gaining and losing rank?
On a side note, don't want any ******* rudeness here.
Thanks.
HEAljvLykd1 votesYou win ranked you gain ~20lp. Get to 100 lp you play best of 3 games to promote.
You lose ranked game you lose ~14lp. Lose a game at 0 lp and you demote.
If you've just joined a league and you're sitting at 0lp, you get five grace games to get away from 0lp.
Wild Wes1 votesSo if I have 1 LP I'm safe until I have exactly 0? Also, can you explain gaining rank a little more because I didn't get that.
HEAljvLykd1 votesSo if I have 1 LP I'm safe until I have exactly 0? Also, can you explain gaining rank a little more because I didn't get that.
Most of the time if you are at 1lp you can lose until you are exactly at 0 before you demote. Sometimes if you have been playing really badly in a lot of your games you will demote automatically at 1 lp.
To gain rank you have to get to 100 points. Once you do, you have to win at least 2 games out of your next 3 to promote to a higher rank.
Wild Wes1 votesGawd this seems really risky for not that high reward (as in easy to lose rank fast but hard to gain rank which is slow). But thanks, I'll probably play a few to see if I can deal otherwise I'll stay at silver 4 forever. :3
DU Baymax2 votesWell what I would recommend for ranked is try to get maybe two champions, and get REALLY good at them. These are the champions you fucking love to death, you main them, you have 300 games on them each and they're the champs you bring out when you want to whoop ass. You have like a 60-70% or more win rate with these champs.
Get two champs like that (preferably in different roles) and try to play them all the time. But you should also be reasonably good at EVERY role, because sometimes you simply won't get the roles you want.
For me, the champion that I main is anivia. I fucking love that bird and my win rate over the last 20 ranked games I've played is 75%. I'm steadily rising in my elo (currently silver 3) I play her every chance I get.
Get a champ like that before you play ranked xD When I first started playing ranked I was not nearly as good as I am now. I got put in silver 4, then fell down to silver 5 and gave up. My win rate with anivia then was hovering around a bit less than 50%. I also made the mistake of thinking I was good at gnar when I was fucking horrible at him. I convinced myself that I was good but we kept losing because everyone else sucked.
BY THE WAY that's another thing, if you're going to improve and get better and rise in ranked you HAVE to be able to recognize when you fuck up. Don't always blame everyone else, sometimes it's your fault. Everyone fucks up, you have to be able to move past it and learn from it rather than stubbornly think it was someone else's fault.
Also, it helps to have the mentality that "we lost because I didn't play well enough". If I have a feeding bot lane, my attitude used to be "fucking gg feeding ezreal we can't win" now my attitude is "Well fuck, I guess I have to carry" It's better to not give up before the game is over, you wouldn't believe how often I've seen games we've come very close to surrendering swing back into our favor and eventually become a victory for us. I almost never surrender in ranked, because believe me, huge comebacks are possible.
AND I know that when riot has those statistics like "kind players win 14% more games" or whatever it is, you think they're probably B.S. But you know what? I found out there's some truth to it. Try to keep your team's morale up and try not to flame someone doing badly, they'll have much better odds of coming back from it and not being useless the rest of the game if you don't flame them.
And ALWAYS remember that it is just a game. TRY to have fun, and know that if you do truly deserve to be better than the rank you're at, you'll get there eventually. AND remember that, while often it will seem like you have idiots for team mates, you're all at the same elo and the other team is probably dealing with the same morons.
OH AND ONE LAST THING
DON'T FORGET TO WARD
EVERYONE should try to keep a pink ward on the map, and when you can get that blue trinket upgrade, GET IT! You can place an infinite number of those things and they NEVER time out, you can keep your entire jungle constantly warded with those things if you're spamming them (which you should be because you can have an infinite number of them) THEY ARE SOOOO GOOD AND ALMOST NO ONE ELSE EVER USES IT IN SILVER, I DON'T KNOW WHY!
xD
good luck in your elo climbing
Wild Wes1 votesI don't have 300 wins in general so I don't think I can do that... But I am a jungle main I love playing Ekko, Nocturne and Rengar (even though I don't usually do well with Rengar). But thank you for the inspirational speech, most people on these forums (not people on this post right here) are rather rude, I appreciate it.
LF Annie1 votesthis is fairly inaccurate. you lose and gain LP based on multiple factors
like my main account is elo clamped, which is basically saying my MMR is lower than my LP, so i lose ~23 lp a loss, and gain about 16 for a win.
the 0 lp thing is right, but consider if you did this: win>go to 17 lp, llose, go back to 0, lose, demoted
your LP gains and losses will be based upon your MMR, performance, and recent match history.
Wild Wes1 votesYeah I understood what the other guy said but now I'm confused again.
LF Annie1 votesthe ranked system measures your skill, and your place differently, if it feels your skill is lower than your place, it will skew rewards/losses to make you go down unless you win enough to bring your skill rating up to your place.
but in general, don't play ranked until you have at LEAST 10 games on every champ, and ~200 on your main 3 champ's. I PROMISE, it is worth the wait.
LF Annie1 votesjust to clarify, that is around 1800 normal games, or 900 normal wins if you average 50% winrate.\
also, play aram, its a wonderful place to learn how to read fights.