Basic Ranked Question: Individual Champion Grades
In addition to wins and losses, is your grade (e.g. A-, B+, C) factored into your placement following the provisional games?
Thanks for the help.
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Not currently. As of right now, grades are just something for you to get feedback on how you did. The only thing they affect is very slightly changing how many champion mastery points you get (mastery points are mostly about whether you win or lose. You get ~250 for losing and ~1250 for winning, and good or bad grades can change that by ~100 in either direction. Meaning the grades do essentially nothing.) Mastery levels in turn have no effect on anything at the moment other than giving you mastery levels visible in your profile and a fancy ribbon to show off in loading screen.
Mastery grades/points/levels -could- be changed to have some effect on MMR or Rank eventually, but Riot has expressed no such intention. If they did make such a big change, it would probably not be during a season.
I highly doubt it does.
Nope, it's just a cool little side quest basically. Personally I like getting to have my main champ show up w/ the little loading icon, and I like being able to play a few games and put some other champs pictures w/ my main on my profile screen. Some people don't like that stuff so for them it doesn't matter, but I think it's kinda a fun visual thing.
I doubt it will ever be included as part of the rank system since the grade is just a stats metric rather than showing skill. There is enough subtlety in league that it is hard/impossible to fully represent skill down to an exact specification. However, the biggest reason you won't ever see this as part of ranked is that it doesn't have any transparency as to what the score represents, and if they tweaked it to represent skill people would start raging like crazy that they "did good" (got the stats right) and lost LP (bc if it counted things like your impact on the team, a couple bad calls and raging at your teammates when you make a mistake could be way worse than a really good KDA and tower or whatever score)