Promos need quality players.

Lil Lewd Witch·Nov 23, 2015·4 votes·468 views

There really needs to be a fix with promos. I know I'm not the only one who's had to put in extra work/lose multiple promos in ranked due to afkers and ragers.

Example, I get decent teams until I hit promos then first game, instantly have a mid wukong who gives up first blood at 3 minutes, then tower dives twice in a row before 10 minutes and gets ganked since he never warded and then afks blaming jungle. and quits the game literally at 10 minutes in only.

For some reason it's like promos put you with the most toxic players in the League, I get you're suppose to earn your promotion but it shoulddn't be 3x as hard and have ragers every single time.

I know I'm not the only one.

7 Comments

alasarcherNov 23, 20153 votes

What you fail to realise, promo is just a regular game for 9 others. Its only important to you. Problem is, since its important match, you remember bad things that happen there. You have to treat it as just a regular match not as a promo, otherwise pressure will be too much for you.

Lil Lewd WitchNov 23, 20152 votes

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What you fail to realise, promo is just a regular game for 9 others. Its only important to you. Problem is, since its important match, you remember bad things that happen there. You have to treat it as just a regular match not as a promo, otherwise pressure will be too much for you.

But it isn't I hear way too often about feeders and afks way more in promos than any other games. Even my experience 90% of the toxic/afk players I get, are when I'm in promotions. And it needs to be fixed instead of just continuing to let toxicity go unanswered. Because the current system is doing literally nothing about it.

alasarcherNov 23, 20152 votes

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But it isn't I hear way too often about feeders and afks way more in promos than any other games. Even my experience 90% of the toxic/afk players I get, are when I'm in promotions. And it needs to be fixed instead of just continuing to let toxicity go unanswered. Because the current system is doing literally nothing about it.

Ye because, when someone get intentional feeder while he is on 57 LP and loses match he will just shake it off (lol taylor swift reference), but when they are 2:2 in promo for gold, and have troll/intentional feeder, it affects them more, so they complain more about that. What will you hear more? "Hey i was on 57 lp and i got troll and lost 13 LP so i ended on 44" or "Hey i was in promo for gold , was 2:2 and i got troll and lost promo"? System is doing what it can, but man, system CANT predict if someone is gonna troll, DC, have bad game. How could system possibly predict?

Take yourself for example:

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2017795436/39903468?tab=overview

1:9 game, you had bad game against probably more skilled Darius player, who later proceeded to obliterate your team, I asume that match wasnt that important to you. Now you had that Ekko in team and Lee who did decently. What if it was their promo and you kinda ruined it? Are they punished by being put in same team with you? Everyone have a bad game, everyone, system cant punish people for that. Asking something to be done about it is just not logical. Makes no sense. Riot doesnt have any technology to predict future that will say: "Ok this guy will feed, and 88M is in promo series,lets not put him in his team."

Ada WongNov 23, 20151 votes

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What you fail to realise, promo is just a regular game for 9 others. Its only important to you. Problem is, since its important match, you remember bad things that happen there. You have to treat it as just a regular match not as a promo, otherwise pressure will be too much for you.

I agree pretty much if you don't treat it like a regular game you get toxic in chat, or flame and then you get into trouble yourself usually.

Also remember not everyone is an intentional feeder just because they give up first blood it happens to all of us some days are bad others aren't, but the problem is the players who rage quit and go AFK that is when I would be pissed and report for sure.

Imagine your first time almost making Gold 5 carrying like all your games only to have them thrown by afk's and trolls happened to me a lot, and almost every series gets thrown I can go through 7 promo losses in a week and be that unlucky however I have hopes for 2016 if I still get to play.

Lil Lewd WitchNov 23, 20151 votes

Both of you are not even reading what Im typing, so.... k.

EvilDustManNov 23, 20151 votes

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Both of you are not even reading what Im typing, so.... k.

They are trying to explain Confirmation Bias to you.

DukuesNov 23, 20151 votes

Idk maybe its from so many people complaining, but I know I have this problem a lot as well. I mean... it took me 8 tries over the last 2 seasons to get Silver 1 from silver 2, and 3 tries in one weekend to achieve it. Then I win 6 games in a row to get into G5 only to go 0-3 in promos. The sad part is, before starting my gold promos I already knew I was going to lose them since it seems to take an average of 3 tries before winning your promos. Did my negative thought of probably going to lose promos but lets give it a try effect my attitude? Perhaps. But in the end I played hard just like I had done in my games to get to that point. Luckily 2 of the games were competitive and close we just ended up losing in the late game.

Confirmation bias or not, from someone who has played a lot of ranked in a similar elo I can tell you I sure lose a lot of promotional series, especially going 0-2. And since I have done so many promos I think of most of them as just a regular games.