season 13 had a lot of tier jumps
1. lp base +- was 15 to 25 but every 100 points the skill gap was big so high tiers got insanely inflated, now emerald+ starts at +20
2. when emerald came the tier distribution changed, the old solo‑queue players basically got a color shift, roughly +400 points
3. promotion matches between numeric tiers and color tiers were removed so the wall between tiers fell a lot. before you needed like 30 wins in a row to climb a tier, now a dozen wins changes your color
all those perks were in season 13‑2, then from 13‑3 they started easing them and by around 14‑3 it was pretty much fully eased
back then master had 30k players, diamond top 5%, emerald top 20%; now master is 14k, diamond 3.5%, emerald 11%, so it’s kinda normalized
Season 13-2 << this was the season that got all the benefits I mentioned, fr the most inflated season in Summoner's Rift history. Season 13-3 kept some of that momentum because of the previous season's ranks, but now that a year has passed, everyone's finally back to their actual rank.
ah also promotion matches are gone but demotion protection is the same as before so getting demoted was fucking hard now if you drop 3 points you get demoted like 83lp straight away but before you could survive a loss at 0 once
color demotion used to not happen even after like 10 losses now after 4~5 losses you get demoted
season 13 had a lot of tier jumps 1. lp base +- was 15 to 25 but every 100 points the skill gap was big so high tiers got insanely inflated, now emerald+ starts at +20 2. when emerald came the tier distribution changed, the old solo‑queue players basically got a color shift, roughly +400 points 3. promotion matches between numeric tiers and color tiers were removed so the wall between tiers fell a lot. before you needed like 30 wins in a row to climb a tier, now a dozen wins changes your color all those perks were in season 13‑2, then from 13‑3 they started easing them and by around 14‑3 it was pretty much fully eased back then master had 30k players, diamond top 5%, emerald top 20%; now master is 14k, diamond 3.5%, emerald 11%, so it’s kinda normalized
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