Auberaun

Originally posted by F0RGERY

They rolled out something on a few minor regions back in April, ran into issues with queue times being broken. Then PBE had a similar issue with queues being broken with the new TFT set.

If I had to guess, I think Quickplay is delayed because there's something messed up with queues in the backend, and they need to solve that first.

Originally posted by HungPongLa

There is nothing special about matchmaking in promo series. They're also being removed for Split 2 this year.

When I hit promos around 70%+ of the time I tend to land a role that is NOT my preferred one, on 1 out of 3 games. So maybe there is something a bit special there? Or is just a coincidence? I think you should always land your preferred role on promos so you can fight your best, but it is too late now since it'll be removed.

Thanks for removing the promos, I think they just make it harder for your mmr to equalize with your visual rank since you gain/lose 0 LP with it. In dota2 you have a certain mmr that you can always see on your profile page, and your visual rank. You land a certain mmr range, you have that rank. No funny +18 -29 business.

Thanks for clarifying a lot of info.

Originally posted by Jaibamon

For my understanding the Champion Mastery Rating also depends on the role you picked. So if you're a great Teemo player, it's relatively easy to get an S Rank if you go Support instead of Top. Of course you have to be good in your role, tho.

Originally posted by kkias

Wow. Thank you for the official clarification.

Regarding demotion, so is it possible to get closer and closer to demotion even when at non-zero LP at divison IV of a rank since MMR is behind the scenes to the visible rank then losing just one game after 0LP suddently demotes? Or does it have to be multiple consecutive losses after dropping to divsion IV 0LP.

Also, while I have you, (since apparently the other commenters find this bit more intriguing)- Is there a short answer or a simple reason why in my case I am overall still winning more games and gaining division (gaining visible rank) but my net LP gain-to-loss (indicating lower MMR than my visible rank) is about -2 to -5? Is this normal?

Anyway, overall this means that that Riot page has falsely claimed that "MMR is a secret". Because by your explanation MMR is basically just derived from win/loss, it is not that much of any sort of a secret.. (with miscellaneous supplementary measures to increase a...

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Originally posted by cartercr

This. Riot doesn’t care because it makes them look good. They don’t give a shit about the rest of us.

Originally posted by MaximumShady

yeah its weird. i think their intention was to let us know diamond wont suddenly be filled with plat players or something like that

Originally posted by OmegaExorcist

What about decay? Will it only be diamond+ or will it extend to emerald? I kinda found it dumb that plat got decay removed, I think it should be back for emerald at the least.

Originally posted by RobDaGinger

Adding another GREEN tier is so funny. Visual clarity when.

Originally posted by turnktail

Just need to be gold by the end of the split/season I believe

Originally posted by EnemySaimo

Are honor requirement still needed for victorious skin? Got bit too silly one game and got from honor 5 to 0

Originally posted by MazrimReddit

I really want master tier to be more prestigious again.

I basically gave up try harding ranked because it was not much of a challenge to stay in it as an old master tier player but impossible to get into grandmaster

Originally posted by Piercingforce

So what happens are 0 lp between divisions? Is it just instant demotion?

Originally posted by Nicky-Santoro

/u/auberaun thank you for removing promotions.

Did you also remove or nerf demotion shields as well? This would, in my opinion, force players to take ranking down more seriously and improve the game quality of games close to ranking up / down.