Does Riot remove your Ranked placing if you ask them?

ryona··1 votes·598 views

I've been so happy since I've been relieved of this game for almost ten days now but maybe as a result of too much commitment, some part of me is deeply afraid to just let my Ranked placing decay.

If you send a request to Riot, can they just remove you from it? As in if you were considering to ever come back, you would have to do the placements again and have your MMR sliced in half as consequence.

10 Comments

Leylania1 votes

I don't think they'll do that as it would screw up the matchmaking pretty hard. Suddenly a diamond player would be playing with silvers because he lost half of his mmr through the reset

Kantala1 votes

Or worse yet, every challenger youtuber doing constant bronze 5 to challenger runs.

Quil Evrything1 votes

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Or worse yet, every challenger youtuber doing constant bronze 5 to challenger runs.

i would love tos ee that. it would be very informative. you rarely see "b5 to ..." stuff. only "unranked to.." usually

Kaioko1 votes

Decay is only a worry if you're at Plat or higher. You are however if you consider that your placements on their own never get you past gold (then it's averaged with your old MMR) it really won't make a difference if you get a rank placement reset or not

usul12021 votes

Afaik they will not. However, decaying in elo does not effect your mmr, so when you come back you should be gaining like, 27-30 lp per win, and will quickly jump back up into diamond range

Kei1431 votes

Unless you are in Plat5+, your Ranked status will not decay.

If you are Plat5+ and your rank will decay, your MMR will not, so it will make it easier for you to climb back up to your desired rank.

Chermorg1 votes

I do not believe they will remove your ranked placement - your ranked decay does not necessarily mean your MMR will decay, and I'm 95% sure that there isn't a single person at Riot that can edit an account's hidden MMR. It basically sounds like that's what your asking - for them to just decrease your MMR so you won't be against super good players when you return.

Regardless, I am less sure but still over 50% sure that they neither will nor can edit or remove your rank - the most they may be able to do would be to revert rank/MMR to a backed up point (they would only do this in case of a hack/compromise, however, and I am still not sure they can even do that).

HalcyonDweller1 votes

That is unfortunate, because I took a 4 month break from league a while back and when I came back it was miserable to play for over a month. It's super unfair to players who take breaks to just match them at the same MMR they had when they stopped playing.

Chermorg1 votes

Well, to be fair, if your skill had actually dropped, you'd be quickly moved by the LP system (you would've seen yourself losing up to 29-30 LP per loss and winning only 12-15 per win) down to your new skill.

Basically that would mean that your skill wasn't as bad as you thought it was after your break :P

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Unfortunately I play only normals so I have no LP to show me what might have happened. But yeah, at least it is supposed to be able to adapt if you start playing worse. I just wish it had been faster than a month.

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