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The League of Legends<\/a> ranked experience is one that many players struggle to find joy in. Becoming “hard-stuck” or trapped in “ELO hell” are terms used to describe players who find themselves unable to climb due to the terrible net gain of LP they receive after winning a match. <\/p>\n

The amount of LP you receive after winning a match is determined by your hidden MMR rating. And, if this drops too low, you could find yourself gaining a low amount of LP for a single win while losing double that for a single loss (making it almost impossible to climb). <\/p>\n

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League of Legends Season 14 will start on January 9, 2024. (Picture: Riot Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has led to many top players creating “Smurf” accounts with fresh MMR to dominate lower-rank players and quickly climb the ranked ladder. <\/p>\n

After a Reddit post outlining the above frustrations gained traction, Riot Iksar responded<\/a>, stating the following:<\/p>\n

“We’re going to be making a number of significant changes to matchmaking and ranked over the course of the year — mostly in the background. Ideally there is no reason to create a new account to get to your ‘actual’ rank and if you make a new account to smurf — we can detect that and place you into accurate matches so quickly that creating smurf accounts feels like too much work for the amount of games you get to smash people.”<\/p>\n

Hopefully, these changes come to the game sooner rather than later and allow players to climb to the ranked ladder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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