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How can I raise my MMR before the system drags me down to Bronze?

Sift and Winnow·1/31/2015, 2:55:58 PM·2 votes·6,576 views

So I've been low gold the past two seasons, went 4-6 in my placements this season and got placed in Silver III. Not the best, but no big deal. I can grind my way up. Well I got this crazy idea that I can play Cassiopeia even though I hadn't touched the champion since season 1/2 and because I wouldn't give up on it and because of a few leavers/ragers/disconnects what-have-you, I went on a ten+ game losing streak and now my MMR is in Bronze 2/3.

I'm in Silver IV.

I gain 10 LP for winning and lose 25 for losing, making it functionally impossible to advance with anything below a 75% winrate, and I'll be the first to admit I can only pull a winrate like that on one champion. Who I play as often as I can already. So despite going even in wins/losses, and despite my current 88% winrate and 4.6 KDA on Morgana, I'm dropping leagues because I can't win enough to overcome the +10/-25 that I'm facing.

On top of that, I have no idea how to play in Bronze. I'm not used to the way people play down here, so does anyone have any tips to getting my MMR up out of Bronze before I actually start playing the way people down here play and become worse at the game than I already am because of the people I'm stuck playing with/against?

9 Comments

Tiax1/31/2015, 2:58:19 PM2 votes

If you truly are a low gold caliber player you will easily climb by playing your best champs, last season I got out of bronze quickly when I was low silver caliber...

BD Wilton1/31/2015, 3:09:51 PM1 votes

When a string of games + the promo, and you'll probably skip a division

Tiax1/31/2015, 3:20:18 PM1 votes

No, find a champ you are interested in and spam them in ranked. Keep going with Cass if you want, though I wouodnt because she is in a weird spot, you will eventually learn them and climb again. Short term elo doesn't matter. It's not about where you at, its about where you going. If you learn a champ you can rely on you will be able to make it back, elo hell won't keep you leagues below where you belong.

fdissht1/31/2015, 3:25:55 PM1 votes

Try to diversify your champion pool? I'm sure with your experience in lol, there are champions you have interests in.

Matthias91191/31/2015, 8:24:51 PM1 votes

If your MMR is already down in Bronze (which it is if you're gaining +10 and losing -25) then you're already functionally in Bronze. It matches you based on MMR, not your division.

You only have to win >50% over time to un-tank your MMR, not 75%+. You'll just have a really hard time staying out of S5 until your MMR climbs back up into the actual Silver range.

Grimspeake1/31/2015, 10:46:17 PM1 votes

play a LOT, ur gonna have to grind the hell out of your ranked games to fix your lp gains/losses. it takes a while my dude but once u get it back to normal youll climb back hella quick

ccseancc1432/4/2015, 5:55:44 PM1 votes

I was silver II last season and I went 4-6 placed in bronze 1. I won my promos to silver 5 and skipped 4 and now im silver III lol. I have like a bronze mmr but get matched with gold kids. My ranked is weird.