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I have a total and legit question for riot

1001010001000101·9/16/2015, 11:11:59 PM·1 votes·448 views

Why is Elo Decay for not playing ranked or league at all for a bit a real thing? Like we all know life is great at throwing curve balls all the time so why should I get punished and drop tiers/ranks if something happens where the situation is I can't play much at all for a period of time? I mean even if we kept this "Decay" thing we should at least slow it down a bit i mean in a month or two i went from Diamond 4 to platinum 2 without even playing a single ranked game....Am I the only person that see's something wrong with this or? I'm not trying to be rude or anything i'm just generally curious behind the reasoning we have a system like this?

2 Comments

Jungled9/16/2015, 11:13:46 PM1 votes

It's quite simple actually. When you finish your provisionals at the start of the season and get your SPOT in the ranking system. Other players also get their spot. If you stop playing for a while those players lower than you that are active will eventually take your spot. As time goes on more and more players will over take you and you will be forced to drop (decay) due to your inactivity.

TurquoiseYoshi9/17/2015, 1:58:29 AM1 votes

Did you drop that far in a short amount of time? Because that far a drop has to be a month or two.