The rank system needs to be changed!

Aaaandy·Aug 1, 2019·1 votes·705 views

Since RNG is a big factor in this mode, sometimes sht happens and there is nothing you can do about it. The current MMR system made things much worse. I was in Dimond 4, when I win I got 30+ lp but when I lose, I lose 60+ lp. Yesterday I got demoted to platinum 1 so today I was trying to climb back up. I got 1st place twice and 3rd place once and my lp was at 99... Unfortunately, the next game I got 8th place. I lost 66 lp! It felt really really bad. I spent the whole day practicing different builds on my second account, now it means nothing. I don't know how this makes sense. I have played over 100 games now, my MMR should be somewhat close to my actual rank. Even if my MMR is a bit lower than my rank, it still doesn't make any sense losing twice amount of lp when I lose. In comparison, when you lose a 5v5 rank game, even if your MMR is lower than ur actual rank, you will only lose slightly more lp than you win. I don't understand why they made TFT rank this way.

It really needs to be changed.

3 Comments

ToadwartAug 1, 20192 votes

It takes 2+ first place wins to recover from an 8th place loss.

There are times you dont get any LP from 4th place either.

The system is pretty bad considering the amount of RNG thats baked into every aspect of the game.

SubdueAug 1, 20191 votes

If the same rules for demotion that apply on Summoners Rift apply to Tft that means you went on a massive lose streak to drop from Diamond 4 to Platinum 1. On SR, you need to have Platinum 5 MMR to drop from Diamond 5 to Platinum 1. This lower MMR would explain sudowoodo disproportionate gains and losses in LP.

Edit:

Yea, you got promoted and then lost 7 of the next 11 matches at 0 or near 0 LP, which means your MMR was dropping fast. And i'm guessing these weren't small 5th place losses either.

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AaaandyAug 1, 20191 votes

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If the same rules for demotion that apply on Summoners Rift apply to Tft that means you went on a massive lose streak to drop from Diamond 4 to Platinum 1. On SR, you need to have Platinum 5 MMR to drop from Diamond 5 to Platinum 1. This lower MMR would explain sudowoodo disproportionate gains and losses in LP.

Edit:

Yea, you got promoted and then lost 7 of the next 11 matches at 0 or near 0 LP, which means your MMR was dropping fast. And i'm guessing these weren't small 5th place losses either.

https://lolchess.gg/profile/na/aaaandy

From what I remember, there are 2 times at most out of those 7 losses I actually got 8th place. Also in those 11 games I won 4 of them, it should even up my MMR a little bit, right? I get that my MMR is lower than my current rank, but the gap is not massive. So it is reasonable to lose slightly more lp, but twice as much? Also, because of the RNG factor in this mode, the MMR would be much less stable compared to MMR in SR, especially in the short term. Therefore, there should be a delay for MMR to affect lp gaining or losing to balance out the short term instability. However, we don't get that in TFT.