New season, new changes coming to the Rift!
Mark “Scruffy” Yetter addressed the potential changes in ranked system heading to the upcoming season in today’s dev blog, highlighting that LP gains and losses will be “slightly smaller on average.” These would ensure that the ranking system is more accurate, especially with the removal of inter-division promotional games.
“We’re planning to do a smaller ranked reset at the start of the season so you stay closer to the rank you’ve achieved this year, and removing divisional promotion series makes people climb faster, and benefit more from a win streak,” Scruffy said. “In order for the ranking system to stay accurate, we needed to tone back the amount of LP gained per win.”
The Riot Dev also clarified that the ranks of the participants will be inflated due to a smaller ranked reset as well as there are no divisional promo games. By increasing and decreasing players’ LP at smaller increments to ensure the ranking system is consistent and accurate. Since Riot made several “internal changes to the ranked system” in patch 10.24, many players started complaining about extremely low LP gains and drastic losses. Riot’s Support Twitter made it clear that the “weird LP gains… should normalize” after playing a few games.
And Scruffy claims that “necessary tuning and fixes” has been undertaken so that everything will be smooth for the season reset in January. Although it is the preseason, before the next ranked season begins, players can still climb the ladder and improve their MMR to a better placement.
League of Legends Season 11 will be kick off in January 2021, enabling the removal of promo games, ranked-informed matchmaking and more precise ranked seeding for smurfs.