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@HeartQueen said in September Happy Thread: @Vaporized said in September Happy Thread: @HeartQueen said in September Happy Thread: if I have a high mmr and winrate in casual, they'll start making it so I'm more likely to win a game. If I play ranked on this account I'm guaranteed Diamond, right? Somehow I don't believe that's how it works. I personally don't know. It's a theory. Basically, some guy was trying so hard to get his friend to grandmaster. His friend was actually good, but they would always get trolls. He said that he stacked with his friend in casuals, and boosted his casual mmr. After that, becoming a grandmaster was easy. It could just be a coincidence, but it's a theory I'm willing to test out myself. I've been having some fun in casuals, but I've also been farming with Lian. I could farm with Viktor and Vivian, but I have SOME standards. I would never stoop low enough to farm with those two. That's basically a joke post - 3 matches in s3... lol That account looked like this in S2. I'm sure if I was to place that account I would end up in gold something. Personally I think the casual MMR is used in some way for initial placement for players who never played rank ever. After that the prior rank is used as well moving forward. Probably there is some sort of weighting of the two after a reset.

So basically, you might place Gold or Platinum initially, but the game would do its best to boost you. By giving you better teammates and putting you against trolls. https://www.reddit.com/r/PaladinsRealm/comments/igtgr2/this_is_the_secret_about_ranked_which_people_dont/

"I learned that your casual overall winrate actually effects your starting rank in ranked... We tested this theory with my friend who allways starts at silvers... We made 2 different accounts. First one was allways looses and always trolls, and second one is allways wins, rarely looses matches, a carryin' killin' machine... Then we made both of them win all 5 of those unranked matches... The one who wins everything (high winrate) started at Platinum 1, and the other one started at Silver 5... Yep... A silver 5 ! Even won every 5 of them...

So, with that knowledge, we started to boost my friends winrate in all casual matches, we gone hard carry mode... And at the start of the season 3, he finally be able to start at the Platinium 1 just like me and I started at Diamond 5... Then, we easily be able to reach Masters with gaining high TP and loosing less... It's like game is wanted to boost us somehow to masters, gives us less problematic teammates and more terrible enemies... I even somehow be able to break my curse of gain less and loose more TP thing... We also be able to gain high winrates in ranked too after this...And skipped many ranks to masters too even we loose some of those matches like 5 or 6 of them.."

It could just be a coincidence, but I'm willing to do anything. My casual mmr isn't the best and neither is my winrate. That's because I do bullshit around in casuals by picking anyone I feel like playing. So now, I'm going hard carry mode into casuals. I'm just going the fuck off with Lian and farming a winrate. I'm curious to see if I'll get better teammates because I do have games where I try my hardest to carry, but it doesn't work. Maybe it'll be an easier climb if I farm casuals.