Friendly Reminder: Do your Ranked Placement matches!

Deep Terror Nami·Sep 11, 2015·5 votes·1,289 views

The season's end is not far off, so if you've been avoiding Ranked all season (or maybe haven't been around long) you've still got all the time you need to do your Placement matches. If you're unsure how they work or are nervous about doing them, here's some info that may help;

There are 10 provisional matches
After playing all 10 you'll be given a rank based on how much MMR you got from your wins
More wins obviously means more MMR and a better placement
If you've never placed in Ranked before this season, you have fresh MMR and will likely be placed in Silver
If you have been Ranked before, your prior MMR will affect your placement.
We all lose some MMR with each new season now.
If you had very low MMR before, you will probably be placed lower than you were last season.
MMR is the keyword. Not rank, MMR. If your MMR was high you might even get promoted from where you were last season.
Bronze to Gold ranks do not have LP decay. Once you place, you don't have to play at all if you don't want to; your Rank will not drop at all before the season ends.

That's basically all I have to say. It's a mere 10 matches. If you are unranked, just do them. If you've never been Ranked before you'll probably get into Silver, and that's an automatic border and icon (Bronze doesn't get a border). Gold+ gets a skin too.

Concerning the MMR soft reset between seasons, if your MMR is low (you are losing more LP than you gain per match) you have all the time until next season begins to raise your MMR so that you aren't placed in a lower division next season.

Information on Ranked Play and MMR here; https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/204010760-Ranked-Play-FAQ https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752954-Matchmaking-Guide

If you've been playing Ranked already, you can get a visual rough estimation of where your MMR has been going on third party sites like Lolking and op.gg (they don't have your real MMR, just an estimation); http://www.lolking.net/ http://na.op.gg/

2 Comments

5000000000000000Sep 11, 20151 votes

Do you have any tips for an unranked noob? I practiced in draft pick, but are there any other differences in ranked compared to draft pick normal?

Deep Terror NamiSep 11, 20151 votes

As for how the matches are set up, no, it's just Draft Pick.

Concerning the kind of play you'll encounter, people tend to take Ranked seriously more often than they do Normals, so you'll usually get better teamwork and less troll picks (usually, not always).

Since it is Draft Pick, try to be comfortable in each role. Not "carry every role", just know at least how to not feed and what your job entails, and have a couple champions you'd be ok using in them (you don't want to be forced into a role you have no champion experience for so you just pick a meta one you've never used).

Getting nervous about a Ranked match is pretty common, especially when you haven't been playing them. Just remember that in the end it is no different from a Normal match.