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These are not intended to make the climb easier. Players who spike up above their estimated MMR in rank will still receive less LP for a win and lose more for a loss until their MMR catches up to their LP. This is the same as the inverse where you are not at your projected rank for your MMR and you will see higher gains and lower losses.

The changes we made in this patch are so that LP will change less drastically and gains and losses will be smoother and more consistent overall.

You may still see outliers of LP disparity, but overall it should be smoother.

So I know it's not the most visible location (definitely pretty deep in the client), but if you go to the Ranked tab inside the profile, and filter the ladder by "Top Solo/Duo Players" you can spectate games in progress from the top solo queue players if they have a "spectate eye" next to their name.

You just right click on the name and click `Spectate Game`.

Yes

You don’t need to do placements if you were ranked in 2020. Can confirm.

You’re right it’s worded wrong. Ill have the team correct that. You should be able to play in Clash this year if you were ranked in the previous season.

You’re right it’s worded wrong. I’ll have the team correct that. You should be able to play this year in Clash if you were ranked in the previous year.

You can also play if you were ranked last season.

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-2021-clash-check-in/

They are in the awards case in the Clash tab. The profile resets every season.

You can play if you were ranked last season or this season in flex or solo queue.

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-2021-clash-check-in/

You can play if you were ranked last season.

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-2021-clash-check-in/

This is so clean. Love seeing these plays. Props to Lee for the strong peel and delay too.

I'd love to have the team give insight into the tech decisions and architecture. Some of these problems have unique and challenging solutions under the hood.

We have in-flight work to directly improve our detection of these exact behaviors. They're not quite ready for launch yet, but they are showing improvements in test.

Yes, these changes apply to normal queues. The exception is the LP consolation changes.

Preseason Ranked changes testing on PBEHey all, we've activated some of our Preseason ranked changes on PBE for testing in Ranked Solo/Duo queue which means we'll also be enabling ranked on PBE. Specifically, rolling out the following:

• Inter-division promos have been removed. On promo, leftover LP will now roll over into your next division. Inter-division demotion shielding at 0 LP has been removed as well.
• We've also made some matchmaking algorithm adjustments. This won't be super noticeable on PBE due to the small population size and fewer ranked games played per account; we're mainly looking for bugs.
• For those players at Master and above rank, duo queue will be disabled as part of our Apex duo removal feature.

In order to get more exposure on these changes, we've temporarily disabled normal queues. If you want a refresher on these and other Ranked changes we're working on, head to our most recent Ranked blog: ...

We'll be adding some ranked and matchmaking changes in soon as well.

It's not black and white, as everyone has different behavioral thresholds; so yes, what I'm saying is report behavior that you believe is rule breaking if you see it. Don't rely on others to report for you.

Rate of reports is taken into account when analyzing consistent disruptive behavior. If players only think reporting 1 time matters in a game, then they won't feel their individual report matters and will not report. This reduces the rate of reports metric and as such makes it more difficult to identify disruptive behavior through reports that allow us to gain confidence in the action we need to take.

It also will make it difficult to identify players who report consistently well, versus those that report every game (as noted in the article).

Our system takes these into account and we're constantly building on the ingest pipeline to make sure that we're more and more confident when taking action.

Just to clean-up misinformation, that understanding is outdated (3 years old). Reporting players consistently matters. Our systems take into account all reports holistically. As such, if a player believes someone deserves a report, then they should report that person since it feeds the system independently.

Not entirely the same thing, but you can watch challenger games by going to the Ranked tab, filtering by challenger ladder, and clicking on the players with the "Spectator Eye" next to them. This symbol indicates they are in a game and can be spectated.