Can someone explain LP gain to me?
Ok, I hope I am posting this on the right board. Sorry if I am not but I don't use the forums much. SO to keep this simple I need to know if anyone can tell me how LP gain and loss works. At first I gained 25 lp and lost 10-14. Since reaching silver 2 I ended up gaining 18 lp and losing 16. I figured this was what I think is refered to as "lp clamping" where you need to win more games then loss to advance since lp gains became lower. I was told that since the changes that you couldn't decay below gold that lp clamping was removed from every divisions except diamond and higher. But I accepted it and said I will get to gold if I try hard enough. But now my lp gain changed again. One game is was 18 gain and then 16 loss. Next game I gained 23. I gained 23 again. Then I lost 21. Ok I can still make this work. Then I gained 16 and then I lost 18. Wat? Then I got 23 again and then I lost 25. This was over the course of around 10-15 games. So my question is what is happening? Is LP affected by win/loss only or does scores actually matter?(Although I am sure this is not the case as the lp gain of 16 was in a 14/7/17 Ahri game where as other games with similar stats that were wins gave me 18, 25, or 23) If it helps here are some things I can tell you. I went 8/2 in my placements and was placed silver 5. I was silver 5 last season. The lp gain of 25 and loss of 10-14 happened til I reached silver 2. I skipped silver 4. My win/loss ratio has always been the same since I started doing ranks after placements. I have 48 wins and 42 losses making a total of 92. I usually win 3 games then lose 1 but I also had a 6 game win streak 3 times I believe and I never lost more than 2 games in a row if I remember correctly.Except for twice which was a 3 lost and 4 lost streak.The roles I play in order are mid, sup, top, jg, adc. My mid champs are Annie Ahri Lux Veiger Chogath Gnar. My sups are Blitz lulu Janna leona. My tops are singed Gnar poppy Darius Jax garen Cho annie lee. My jungles are Warwick jarvin Lee amumu shaco. And my adcs are Sivir vayne cait mf and graves. I have not played all of them in ranks this season but I wanted to mention the ones I like and play the most when I have to play that role. I know roles and champs don't affect lp gain but I figured if score and gameplay do then the champs I play and my performance can be a insight into helping me understand my lp gain. I normally perform well doing my roles but I am only an average player at best so I do have many bad games. Thanks for any help you can give me and sorry for writing so much but I wanted to try and explain things clearly.
