You are probably anxious to understand what you can expect in your placement matches and the best score you can achieve. We are here to explain it based on our experience of ranking thousands of accounts.
There are two main factors that determine your rank after you finish all your placement matches. First of all, it’s your last season’s rank. New accounts will have more volatile and faster-changing MMR than older ones. Secondly, it also depends on the type of reset we are dealing with. There are hard and soft resets in League of Legends. The next most important factor for your ranked MMR is the placement results. These are much more important for fresh accounts because your normal games will also influence where you place when you play ranked.
Want to learn how placement works? How many games do you need to play and what’s the highest rating? Read more here.
Older accounts have a history, which makes Riot Games’ job easier. They already have a history of your ranked games, and you have an ELO rating, so they have something to base your placement on. Read about the major factors that will affect your placement for this type of account below.
In Season 15, Riot Games announced that we will be dealing with a hard reset. What’s the difference between the two?
To summarize, a hard reset will punish the majority of the player base by roughly the same factor, regardless of their skill in the previous season. People from mid-Gold to Bronze players are most likely to find themselves in about the same rank, even though ~40% of the player base is usually between those two ranks. Want to see how players are distributed among ranks? Read more here. Only much higher ranks, such as Diamond or Master players, can find themselves in higher divisions at the beginning of a season with a hard reset.
| Your Rank Last Season | Placement After Hard Reset | Placement After Soft Reset |
| Iron | ~ Iron / Bronze | ~ Iron |
| Bronze | ~ Iron / Bronze | ~ Iron / Bronze |
| Silver | Bronze | Bronze / Silver |
| Gold | Bronze / Low Silver | Silver |
| Platinum | Silver | Silver / Gold |
| Emerald | Silver | Gold / Platinum |
| Diamond | Silver / Low Gold | Platinum / Emerald |
| Master | High Gold / Platinum | Emerald 1 / Diamond |
| GrandMaster | Platinum | Diamond 2/1 |
| Challenger | Emerald | Diamond 1 |
As you can see, after all resets, for the apex ranks, the highest rank you can expect is Diamond 1. You can’t be placed higher because Master and above ranks are closed at the start of the season and usually open only after a month or two into the season.
Note that these results are just approximations, everything depends on your MMR at the end of the season.
If you were hard-stuck in Diamond 4 and barely avoided demotion last season, you can expect to be treated as a mid/high Emerald player instead of Diamond. That’s why buying net wins or other boosting before the season ends—or simply winning a lot of games before the reset—makes sense to kickstart your climb in the next season.
Your placement results play a role in your final placement, but they are not as significant as the other two factors we discussed—the type of reset and your last season’s rank. Usually, you can expect a difference of two to three divisions based on your KDA and the number of wins. Note that early in the season, your MMR is much more fluid, so getting a placement boost to guarantee good results is common practice.
Finally, let’s address the elephant in the room: how new accounts are placed and what you can expect when playing on them.
Many players buy unranked or ranked smurfs to wait out volatile early games when matches are not balanced, avoiding frustration from bad placement games and odd losses.
Since Split 2 in Season 14, new accounts require you to play 10 normal matches to start your journey.
Why? This was done to more quickly place smurfs into the smurf queue and prevent them from ruining low-elo games.
The tricky part is that not only do your normal game results—whether wins or losses—play a role, but so do your KDA, vision score, and other unreleased factors. Based on our tests, we’ve concluded that not only do the number of kills and assists matter, but also whom you kill and who kills you. The system pays more attention if you kill a Diamond MMR player than if you dominate a low-skill Bronze player.
We are still uncovering all the caveats of the new system while providing you with the best possible smurfs. Right now, we have accounts in stock from:
All of these are played in full solo mode to guarantee that the person carrying these games is the one playing on the account, not a duo partner. This boosts your MMR, which is why our accounts are the best in the business.
As for expected results from these accounts, keep in mind these are approximations. With the new system, it’s impossible to guarantee a specific rank. If you want to play the normal matches yourself for a more accurate placement, we recommend our fresh MMR Level 30+ accounts, described as BE accounts here.
| Amount of Wins | Expected MMR (Assuming You Win All Placements) |
| 0-4 Wins | Iron 1 |
| 1-4 Wins | Bronze 4-1 |
| 5-6 Wins | Silver 4-1 |
| 7-9 Wins | Gold 4/3 |
| 10 Wins | Gold 2/1 |
Most people will play their placement matches as soon as the new season begins. It’s the first step toward improvement and exposure to unfavorable conditions. However, if you value your time and final outcome, we recommend taking a moment to reconsider your climb. Based on our studies, new accounts climb faster, and you can gain an advantage over your friends by protecting yourself from bad teammates and imbalanced matches early in the season.
