Wow, that's a lot of insight, didn't expect to learn so much, thanks guys!
So as far as I understand current design doesn't really consider learning curve. For an instance, I usually get back to the game twice a year and naturally at first perform a little bit worse than later in the season due to fact that I have not been playing a game for a long time, so need to get used to it and in addition there was probably a balance patch or something.
My question here is - does the hidden "ELO" resets between seasons?
If so, how the mm for first 10 games, that are to determine your ranking, is calculated?
Obviously these have huge impact as it can put you anywhere from silver to plat.
I'm also asking because this season I was extremely unlucky due to DCs, afkers/leavers and won only 3 out of 10 and that put me in silver 2. I managed to climb up to G2 but somehow cannot get past that and I know, based on multiple previous season, that I can aim for G3/P1.
Thanks JT, you are golden man. That smurfing though, what's the point of tanking your rank only to climb up again? Don't you finish at the same place?
Thanks Trevor, I'm sure most of it is true. Somehow i usually see same faces over and over, also several times was playing with or against players from top 50 and was wondering how is that even possible. The best meme match was against a guy with god of pvp title, who basically 1v2/3 my team at close node, and these guys just kept coming to him and dying there whole match, just like mindless flies into the flame.