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How do ranked games work?

IISunnyII·12/1/2016, 1:42:37 AM·1 votes·565 views

Currently, I am unranked in LoL, but am considering the possibility of playing some ranked in the near future. I've played for almost than a year now, and I've been following LoL for a bit over 2 years now. I find that in Normals games, I tend to be paired up with anywhere from high-bronze to low-gold players, and I find that I usually perform extremely well as a mastery lvl 7 Rengar main. For this, I believe that I can confident enough in my mechanical abilities as a player and well as my strategic capabilities with regards to strategy and macroplay to be able to at least place low or mid Silver, should I play ranked. The one thing stopping me, however, is that I am as of yet unsure about how ranked games treat unranked players. To the best of my knowledge, I understand that I would need to take part in a set number of placement matches, but I am unsure about how those matches will be set up. If I first start ranked, will I be matched in my first placement match with extremely low-bronze players? Or will it base the players in my matches on my performance in Normals? Will the players I play with increase in skill as I win more placement matches? How will these placement matches determine my starting rank? It is by a calculated judgement of relative skill? Or is it maybe judged simply by win ratio? These are some of the questions I have. Thank you to anyone who wishes to help me with my predicament.

4 Comments

ItsOrval12/1/2016, 1:47:31 AM2 votes

So ranked games usually work by this. Rito gives you the shittiest players on your team, that have 0 map awareness, 0 skill, and will farm cs while you gank them. Every time you get to promos, your main will be banned/picked, and your team will feed. Good luck, have fun.

bad arcade kitty12/1/2016, 1:49:05 AM2 votes

don't play till the season 7 begins (likely in december) or you will be placed lower than you could

first ten placements, the original ones, are precious and important, btw afaik dodging them is free of any hidden elo loss or something, so dodge if your team looks bad

dodging ranked after your placements can bring you some lp loss or will mean that you automatically lose series

apart from that ranked is just like normal draft mechanically, except that you are getting a visible rank

they made a pretty complicated system of leagues on top of the simple mmr/elo to make people feel less stressed, you can read about that on the wiki

Michael70212/1/2016, 1:46:09 AM1 votes

They don't.

Touch My Box12/1/2016, 1:51:15 AM1 votes

I think your first placement is usually mid silver, and then will move accordingly based on your wins and losses. Streaks will move you faster than going win loss win loss.