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(2024) Why did league put me in gold 2 instantly?

This thread was added on February 02, 2024, with posts from phroxz0n.

Original Post

I just unlocked ranked and I played a good 3 games to unlock a rank expecting bronze or silver but instead they instantly put me into gold 2? I don't understand why, I get flamed so often cause I'm playing against high elo players with diamond and platinum ratings and getting destroyed so often, I don't know what to do

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https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1afcjt6/riot_phroxzon_on_topics_discussed_recently/

Initial Placement Bugs

We've been triaging some bugs where some players' MMR is being seeded in the right place for their first ever ranked game, but their visual rank is seeded too high (often Gold).

This is leading to situations where the player then gets massive negative LP gains until they drop to Bronze/Silver

We think we have a fix though and hope to have it in the next patch

Yeah I was coming in to reply this. It's not happening to everyone, but it is happening to some people. Really sorry about this 😭