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Bearded Elder29905 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:34 Fusilero wrote: Business as usual? Totally a ploy to get Europeans to watch NA LCS. lol might be. 10 placement matches? It will take me whole week to get them played, since I'm playing like 1-2 games daily :\ | ||
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chalice
United States1945 Posts
On January 18 2014 02:29 TheYango wrote: That's the point though. He's not interested in average MMR gain per time, but average MMR gain per game. Ranked isn't a time investment when you're not playing it. to me, having a strong enough desire to increase your MMR that you schedule your gaming around it seems incongruous with an apparent desire play ranked as little as possible. unless you actually don't want to play ranked, i would assume that most people have their gaming time limited by the time available in each day and not playing for a month isn't going to magically allow them to play more games in the following month. | ||
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On January 18 2014 01:08 chalice wrote: so if you have two guys of equal skill level both starting at 1200 mmr with a goal of reaching 2000 mmr, in what possible scenario do you see the guy with a month head start not reaching the goal first? all your getting from not playing at the beginning of the season is a decrease in variance which will be easily counteracted by the increased number of games played. You're maximizing the gains from your placement matches. If you start now and play a few games there is the chance that after wins you start running into diamond 1/challengers. You then lose those games and settle at an elo that is lower than it would be otherwise. It's true that the month won't make much of a difference if you play a lot of games all year. But if you want to play only a few it will make getting to where you should be a bit faster. | ||
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Bearded Elder29905 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:38 chalice wrote: to me, having a strong enough desire to increase your MMR that you schedule your gaming around it seems incongruous with an apparent desire play ranked as little as possible. unless you actually don't want to play ranked, i would assume that most people have their gaming time limited by the time available in each day and not playing for a month isn't going to magically allow them to play more games in the following month. Personally, I did S3 placement the day it was available, and remember those 10 games being some pretty awful games and not very fun. So this time around I'm going to wait a week. It's not necessarily about minmaxing your MMR gains, there's also the whole scenario of I just don't want to deal with that crap. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:38 chalice wrote: to me, having a strong enough desire to increase your MMR that you schedule your gaming around it seems incongruous with an apparent desire play ranked as little as possible. It's actually totally in line with the attitude of someone who hates playing ranked but wants to have as high of MMR as possible for the purpose of internet dick-waving contests. Which probably describes the majority of people who play ranked. | ||
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nafta
Bulgaria18893 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:41 739 wrote: BTW is Akali being ever played nowadays in high mmr games? Or she just got nerfed hard and she's getting zoned by everyone mid/top lane ? She is decent.Played vs some guy called best akali euw today he played rather well and she was really strong. | ||
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Ethelis
United States2400 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:41 739 wrote: BTW is Akali being ever played nowadays in high mmr games? Or she just got nerfed hard and she's getting zoned by everyone mid/top lane ? If you don't get wrecked in terms of XP (or lose by 40+ cs or some other horrible amount) you can usually take a dump on anyone at lvl 6 with your jungler (2v1 duh, but a really good amount of 2v2s as well imo). Definitely playable but not "hidden OP" or anything. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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Kyrie
1594 Posts
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chalice
United States1945 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:43 TheYango wrote: It's actually totally in line with the attitude of someone who hates playing ranked but wants to have as high of MMR as possible for the purpose of internet dick-waving contests. Which probably describes the majority of people who play ranked. yeah i guess when you consider how large the market for elo boosting services is, there really are a ton of people who care more about what their ranking is than how good they are at actually playing the game. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On January 18 2014 03:43 TheYango wrote: It's actually totally in line with the attitude of someone who hates playing ranked but wants to have as high of MMR as possible for the purpose of internet dick-waving contests. Which probably describes the majority of people who play ranked. Or someone who only a game or so a week and wants to be in the rewards without having to grind for it. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On January 18 2014 04:27 Goumindong wrote: Or someone who only a game or so a week and wants to be in the rewards without having to grind for it. If someone is serious about rewards, they should be serious about earning it. but that's just me | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On January 18 2014 04:33 jcarlsoniv wrote: If someone is serious about rewards, they should be serious about earning it. but that's just me Didnt you sneak into d5 like a week or 2 before rewards kicked in? Lol | ||
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
On January 18 2014 04:36 wei2coolman wrote: Didnt you sneak into d5 like a week or 2 before rewards kicked in? Lol And he worked like a motherfucker to do so.  | ||
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Kinie
United States3106 Posts
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The_Unseen
France1923 Posts
On January 18 2014 04:41 Kinie wrote: I'm probably gonna hold off on doing my placements until I can duo with someone, and after the initial rush of players looking to get back into ranked occur. All these reports and posts about trolls and DCs is pretty discouraging. To be honest, my 9 placement games (yeah 9, not 10, because EUW didn't want me to get my ranking apparently) were full of cool people, less rage than usual and pretty good play overall, which led me to add guys to my duoQ list, which is big for a day | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On January 18 2014 04:39 AsmodeusXI wrote: And he worked like a motherfucker to do so. Dude were you watching that stream? That was the most bullshit promotion series EVER. Soniv deserved challenger for that shit. | ||
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komokun
France343 Posts
This shit is hilarious, was plat1 last season. I win first two games against people of my elo bracket (plat1- d3). Third game champion select... I get matched with Nip Hyrqbot and skt t1 haydal premade (who's that?), another d1 and a d5 kennen. Funniest thing is we lost with that kennen flaming and crying for gank constantly before minute 5. The guy dies 1vs1 to nasus before our jungle finishes his red xD. Ofc he kept feeding/raging really hard after that. Gg even challenger can't carry toxicity. Overall people are much more nervous and I haven't seen this much flame since the good ole bronze days. Ended up in plat 2, I guess I was kinda lucky. Not that it matters, as others said you eventually end up where you deserve within 50 games anyway. | ||
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