2 years ago
"Promotion" games
Why? Just why? It's already a grind fest as it is. Relying on grinding your way up to then have to succeed in the next 5 games means the entire grind you've just done is a complete waste of time.
@StevoydIt can be a grind yes. Placement matches are there to get people ahead or where they belong. If you are placed in silver/gold then you just saved a huge time sink in only 10 games. That to me is a good thing not a bad thing.
Promotion games are good imo but not how its done. The "qualification" of being promoted should be if your "skill" is higher than that of your opponents of your current rank, just like demotion should happen if your skill are worse than your current rank. The issue in the context of how amateur apex ranked is played out, especially at lower elos, is that the requirements of a win or 6 kills/assist 3 top 5 involves too much "luck" and various other factors that you, as a solo Q, cant control with your said skill. I am actually struggling to get out of bronze now on my solo Q account, even if I have 2.4 KD and 950 average damage dealt this split. Why? Because I cant carry two randoms that cant do 100 dmg before they die to top 5 placements consistently.
Yesterday, I reached and failed my promos three times during my gaming session between 10 pm and 2 am, last attempt with with 27 kills and assist of the 6 necessary but only 2/3 top 5s. This means ofc that I get a positive RP gain almost every match and reach promos super easily but as soon as I reach promos, I just cant carry my noob randoms to top 5s in 60% of the matches. To do this consistently, you need a consistently well working team. So for bronze-to-silver promotion for instance, I think the promotion requirements should look like this:
1 win
or
6 kills/asssist and 3 top 5
or
20 kills/assist
In other words; if you can get 20 kills and assist in 5 matches, you clearly are good enough too deserve to rank up. We must see solo Q for what it is and reaching top 5 in 60% of the games is a "bad" proof of higher skill that deserve promotion in the context. Perhaps can the requirement be more team based in higher elos like diamond to master promos though